Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack].

  • William Jack
Date:
[1820]
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Credit: Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    leaflets ovate, acute, broad at the base, tiervosfe, pur¬ plish, twice as long* as tiie peduncles, the upper one eiect, the lower reflexed and bent down by the droop* ing flowers. From within the upper leaflet of the in¬ volucre spring two erect folioles, which are twice a9 long as the involucre, obovate, attenuated below into straight flat deep purple petioiar ungues, acute at the apex, pale colored with purplish nerves. Perianth su¬ perior, of a dark purple color, campanulate and some* what ventricose, rather contracted and three cornered at the mouth where it is also striated, limb six-parted, somewhat reflex, laciniae hyaline, oblong, broad, ob* tuse, the three interior tines larger. Corolla none. Sta¬ mina six, in the bottom of the perianth and opposite to the laciniae. Filaments broad at the base, arching upwards into a vaulted cucullus within which the an¬ thers are concealed. Anthers adnate, two lobed. Style thick, shorter than the stamina, with six prominent angles. Stigma flat, umbilicate, orbicular, six raved, three alternate sinuses deeper. Berry ovate, six angled one celled, seeds numerous, attached to three parietal receptacles. Ohs. This approaches to T. integrifolia, Cutt. Mags t 1488, but is a much larger plant, and is abundantly distinguished by the two leaved involucre, the long e- rect leaflets within it, and tire flowers drooping to one side.