Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with Notes on Their Distribution Economic Value, Native Names, Etc., Etc. / By J. Medley Wood and Maurice S. Evans, Volume 1
Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with Notes on Their Distribution Economic Value, Native Names, Etc., Etc. / By J. Medley Wood and Maurice S. Evans, Volume 1
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... of the Volume. Bennett & Davis, Printers, 345, West Street, Durban. 1902. PLATE 251. Pentanisia Variabilis, Harv. var latifolia (Fl. Cap. Vol. 3, p. 24). '-Natural Order, Rubiacee. A perennial plant having several or many stems, rising from a thick tuberous root, the root straight, bent, forked or branched, -1 inch in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... of the Volume. Bennett & Davis, Printers, 345, West Street, Durban. 1902. PLATE 251. Pentanisia Variabilis, Harv. var latifolia (Fl. Cap. Vol. 3, p. 24). '-Natural Order, Rubiacee. A perennial plant having several or many stems, rising from a thick tuberous root, the root straight, bent, forked or branched, -1 inch in diameter. Stems erect or declined, simple, or branched, 6 to 18 inches long, terete, subquadrangular or compressed, reddish-brown at base, green upwards, densely pilose with long white hairs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, stipulate, varying in shape from oblong to linear-oblong, acute at apex, rounded at base, margins entire, ciliate, veins promi-" nent beneath, visible above; densely hirsute with long white hairs; 1 to 2 inches long, 3 to 10 lines wide; petiole very short, to 1 line long. Stipules broadbased, the rounded base occupying the whole space between the opposite petioles and connected with them, then cut above into from 3 to 6 bristle-like teeth which are often of unequal size; 2 to 3 lines long. Inflorescence of terminal, long peduncled, many flowered, head-like, much abbreviated spikes. Flowers blue to lilac. Calyx gamosepalous, tube very short, limb, 5-lobed, 1 to 3 of the lobes elongated, linear-subulate, the remainder minute; the longer one 3 to 3 lines long. Corolla gamopetalous, salver-shaped, tube slender, puberulous externally, internally pilose; 6 to 7 lines long, limb 5-lobed, lobes oblong, apiculate, 2-lines long. Stamens 5, inserted a little below throat. Ovary 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Style 1, filiform, stigma bifid, lobes linear. Fruit a didynamous, subglobose capsule, covered with numerous white bristles; 1-lines long and wide, 2-seeded. Habitat: Natal: All over the Colony. Drawn and described from specimens ...
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, wear to the edges and spine, some light marking, slight skew, ex. Ref. library book with a plate to the front pastedown no stamping, a little foxing on the end papers, the contents are clean and the binding neat and tight, the book is in very good... Hardback. Vol. I 81 [5] pages with 100 plates; vol. 4 part I unpaginated [2] plates 301-325 each with a page of description; vol IV part II similar format plates 326-350; vol. V part I similar format plates 401-424, a heavy volume that may require extra shipping to overseas., 27.5 x 22.5cm.
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