The genera of plants : a fragment containing part of Liriogamae / by Richard Anthony Salisbury.

  • Salisbury, R. A. (Richard Anthony), 1761-1829.
Date:
1866
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    Trillium. J. L. Paris. J. L. Euthyra. Paris poly phy 11a. Sm. In Nepal.. This small Order appears to me a very distinct one, especially from Smilaceoe, to which Mr. R. Brown joins it. Esdra is so named and characterized by having all its Organs both of Vegetation and Repro- duction strictly sessile; even its Anthers, which stand erect round the Stigmata have scarcely any Filaments ; and its Leaves are varie- gated like those of Erythronium. In Trillium on the contrary the Flower is always pedunculated; this Genus contains several Species, ! and Stylosum of Nuttal, is probably sui Generis. In Paris the | 4-8-nary number prevails, and I have seen 5-10-nary; its Petals are considerably narrower than the Calyx, though of the same colour; its Filaments at last become black and succulent like the Fruit; and the Rachis of its Anthers terminates in a long Mucro. Euthyra hardly differs from Paris, and Sir J. E. Smith has joined them in Rees’ Encyclopedia; but it has a capsular Fruit splitting into 4 ; valves, and Styles united at the base; it has also two whorls of ! Leaves, 8 or 10 in each, petiolated and linear-lanceolate ; its caly- cine Leaves exactly like those below, and these often 4 inches long: this Plant grows wild in Nepal, and specimens of it have been sent to Europe by Dr. Wallick in great abundance. Ord. 12. Androsyne^:. Petala 6, lanceolata, interiora paulo latiora. Filamenta 6, recep- taculo inserta, cuneata. Antherse filamento confluentes et longiores, in conum cohaerentes, hirtae, foraminibus 2 terminalibus introrsum oblique truncatis Pollen ejicientes, Rachide angusta nec producta. Perianthium superum, 3-loculare, scariosum, 3-valve. Stylus gra- cilis, usque ad foramina Antherarum attingens. Stigma minutum, obsolete 3-lobum. Semina numero indefinita, erecta, oblonga, septis 2-plici serie inserta, eaeterum ignota omnibus in nostro specimine ab Insectis erosis. Frutex in Ins. Nicobar. Caulis volubilis, acu- j leatus, forte perennis. Folia alterna, sessilia, longissime cuneata, basi | cordata, dorso plus minus aculeata; Nervi paralleli isthmis paucis transversis, nec Smilacum. Flores in rudimentis ramulorum axil- j laribus terminates, 1 -rii, nutantes. Bractece nullce. Androsyne Gracilis MS. avr]£ vir aw una. An insulated Genus, which I think must be placed here in a natural series, and connecting Roxburghia with Paridece. It grows wild in the Nicobar Isles, and I am indebted for a small branch of it here figured to William Marsden Esq. late Secretary of our Ad- miralty. It has twining prickly Stems, but whether perennial or not is uncertain, long attenuated Leaves more or less heartshaped at I their base and prickly underneath; solitary Flowers terminating I short axillary branches, approaching to those of Roxburghia, from which it differs in its 6-petalous Corolla, simply wedge-shaped Fila- ments, Anthers rough with short pubescence, coalescing into a Cone,