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. 1885 Excerpt: ... and called cladodes.) Occasional attempts in this house have been made to cultivate specimens of Welwilschia mirabilis, one of the most extrahalf-way between the Equator and the Cape, in 1859. It has a dwarf woody trunk, seldom rising more than a few inches above the ground, with a diameter often of several feet, and ...
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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. 1885 Excerpt: ... and called cladodes.) Occasional attempts in this house have been made to cultivate specimens of Welwilschia mirabilis, one of the most extrahalf-way between the Equator and the Cape, in 1859. It has a dwarf woody trunk, seldom rising more than a few inches above the ground, with a diameter often of several feet, and a single pair of leaves, usually torn to ribands, which spring from the margin of the trunk and persist through the lifetime of the plant, which, it is estimated, may reach 100 years. The plant has been recently introduced in a living state. It is related botanically to the Pines and Firs (Coniferce), and is remarkable as presenting, associated with the simplest type of structure in its vegetative organs, a more complex form of flower than we find elsewhere in the group. Specimens are exhibited in Museum No. I. contributed by Dr. Welwitsch, J. J. Monteiro, Esq., late of Loanda, and others. Where also may be seen, representing another remarkable plant which it is impossible to cultivate, on the ground floor, a large model in wax of the enormous parasite of the Malayan Archipelago, Rafflesia Arnoldi, discovered by Dr. J. Arnold, in 1818, on Sir Stamford Raffles' first journey from Bencoolen into the interior of Sumatra: --Tig. 4. Welwitschia mirabilis. Much reduced. To the left, a detached flowering branch. ordinary of vegetable productions. The Welwitschia was discovered by Dr. Welwitsch in South-Western Africa, about 'But here (Sumatra, on the Manna River) I rejoice to tell you, I happened to meet with what I consider as the greatest prodigy of the vegetable world. I had ventured some way from the party, when one of the Malay servants came running to me with wonder in his eyes, and said, " Come with me, sir, come 1 a flower, very large, be...
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