Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the Plants Found in the Peninsula of British India, Arranged According to the Natural System, Volume 1
Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the Plants Found in the Peninsula of British India, Arranged According to the Natural System, Volume 1
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...stipules large, foliaceous, auricled and stem-claspmg: racemes terminating every branch, very long: bracteas small, lanceolate, 2-3 together: flowers in pairs or threes: legumes ascending or nearly erect, 5-5-jomted, notehed on both sutures, hispid with short hooked hairs; joints orbicular, tumid in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...stipules large, foliaceous, auricled and stem-claspmg: racemes terminating every branch, very long: bracteas small, lanceolate, 2-3 together: flowers in pairs or threes: legumes ascending or nearly erect, 5-5-jomted, notehed on both sutures, hispid with short hooked hairs; joints orbicular, tumid in the middle when mature: seeds oval, compressed, with the hilum at one of the narrow ends.--DC. prod. 2. p. 336; Wight! eat. n. 788.--D. dichotomum, DC. l. c.--D. Roxburghii, Wall.! L. n. 5716.--Hedysarum diffusum, herb. Madr.!; Willd. sp. 3. p. 1180; Spr. syxt. 3. p. 312.--H. dichotomum, Willd. l. c.; Spr. l. c. p. 314.--H. quinqueangulatum, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 355; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 398.--H. auriculatum, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 355/ in E. I. C. mm. tab. 1619. We ean pereeive no difference between Roxburgh's two species, nor between these and the two described by Willdenow, and have therefore united them all. Sprengel's Hed. Roxburghii, judging from the character given, appears to be very distinct, but we eannot determine what it is, the legumes being unnoticed. +-+-+-Legumes straight or nearly so on both sutures: joints 2-3 times as long as broad, truneated at both ends. 700. (9) D.recurvatum (Graham: ) shrubby: branches spreading, recurved, clothed as well as the raceme with short adpressed hairs, angled; young shoots triquetrous: leaves bifarious, trifoliolate; leaflets ovate or oval, glabrous above, pubescent beneath: stipules lanceolate, acuminated: racemes terminal, drooping before the flowers expand, afterwards very long (1-2-feet): bracteas lanceolate surrounding several smaller setaceous ones: flowers several together: legumes narrow-linear, straight on both sutures, clothed with short hooked hairs; joints more than twice as long as...
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