Botanical description of the Benjamin tree of Sumatra / [Jonas Dryander].

  • Dryander, Jonas, 1748-1810.
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[1787]
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Credit: Botanical description of the Benjamin tree of Sumatra / [Jonas Dryander]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the ftenjamin Tree of Sumatra*. DESCRIPT I O. Rami teretes,. tomentofi. Folia alterna, petiolata, oblonga,. integerrima, acuminata, ve- nofa, fupra glabra, fubtus tomentofa, palmaria. Petioli teretes, ftriati, canaliculati, tomentofi, breviflimi. Racemi axillares, compofiti, longitudine fere foliorum. Pedun- culi communes tomentofipart tales alterni, paten tes, to¬ mentofi. Pedicelli breviflimi. Flores fecundi* Calyx campanulatus, obfoletiflime quinquedentatus, extus to- mentofus, linea longior. Petala quinque, (bafi forte connata) linearia, obtufa, extus to- mento tenuiflimo cinerea, calyce quadruplo longiora. Filamenta decern, receptaculo inferta, petalis paulo breviora, inferne connata in cylindrum longitudine calycis, fuperne infra antheras ciliata. Antherre lineares, filamentis longi- tudinaliter adnatae, iifque dimidio breviores. Germen fuperum, ovatum, tomentofum. Stylus filiformis, fta- minibus longior. Stigma fimplex.
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