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Identifier: vegetablekingdom00lind (find matches)
Title: The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Lindley, John, 1799-1865
Subjects: Plants -- Classification
Publisher: London : Bradbury and Evans
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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Fig. LXV. 92 CYTINACEiE. (Rhizogens, Cytinus, L. Hypocistis, Toiirn.Hydnora, Thinib. GENERA. Aphyteia, L.Hvpolepis, Pers.Phelypcea, Thunb. Numbers. Gen. 4. Sp. 7. Hyobanche, Spamn.Thyrsim, Gled.Thismia, Griff. Fungales.Position.—Rafflesiacese.—Cytinace^.—BalanophoraceBe.BromeliacecB ?
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Fig. LXVI. Iia. LXVII. Fig. LXVI. - A plant of Hydnora Africana. Fig. LXYII.—A longitudinal section of it.—Ferd. Bauer. Rhizogens.J RAFFLESIACEiE. 93 Order XXVIII. RAFFLESIACE^E.—Patmaworts. Rafflesiacese, Endlicher Melekmata, p. 14. (1832); Gen. x\\. Meisner, p. 367; R. Brown in Linn Tra)is. 19. 241, DiAGNOsrs.—Stemless and stalhless ; flowers 5-parted, sessile on the branches of trees,solitary, with anthers opening by pores, and innumerable ovides groioing over parietalplacentce. Stemless plants, consisting merely of flowers growing immediately from the sm-faceof branches, and immersed among scales ; flowers hermaphrodite, or dioecious. Perianth superior, globose or campanulate ; the hmb5-parted, with the segments imbricated ordoubled mwards in aestivation ; the throatsurrounded by calli, which are either distinct1 or run together into an entiie rmg. Column(synema) hypocraterifomn or sub-globose, ad-hering to the tube of the perianth ; anthersnumerous, distinct, or somewhat
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