Identifier: floralcabinetmaIIIKnow (find matches)
Title: The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Knowles, G. B. (George Beauchamp), 1829-1852 Westcott, Frederic, -1861 Baxter, W. Henry, former owner. DSI Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI Bradbury & Evans, printer Day & Haghe, printer of plates
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Gardening
Publisher: London : William Smith
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e quoted, will it agree. We have,therefore, considered it to be a distinct species, and from the very pleasing smellof the inflorescence, which much resembles that of the Florentine orris-root, wehave given it the specific name suaveolens. Our drawing was made from a plantin the collection of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. Itis a native of Brazil, and was received from that country through the kindness ofE. W. Fry, Esq., to whom the above establishment is deeply indebted for valuableimportations of plants at various times from the same country. For its culture it requires stove heat, and is very easily managed. It shouldbe potted in loam peat and sand. When the plants are grown to a sufficient size,they can be forced into flower by being kept without water for some weeks, andafterwards having a regular supply, with an increased degree of heat. Thegeneric name is formed from cuxP7, a point; its specific name suaveolens, fromthe Latin, alludes to its fragrant smell.
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179 BEGONIA BARKERL (Mr. Barkers Begonia.)LINNEAN SYSTEM. _ .„ „ NATURAL ORDER. No 135 MONCECIA POLYANDRIA. BEG0NIACE<3E. GENERIC CHARACTER. Begonia (Lin.) Masc. Corolla nunc 0, nunc tetra-petala. Calyx polysepalus 4—9 ; sepalaplerumque (non semper) insequalia.—Fcem. Corolla nunc 0, nunc tetrapetala. Styli 3 bifidararius multifida. Capsula triquetra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma. Male. Corolla sometimes wanting, sometimes 4-petaled. Calyx many-sepaled, from 4 to 9 ;sepals mostly, not always, unequal.—Female. Corolla sometimes none, sometimes 4-petaled.Styles 3, bifid, rarely many-cleft. Capsules 8-sided, winged, 3-celled, many-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. B. Barkeri; acaulis; foliis basi insequaliter cordatis, obsolete lobatis, acutis, supra glabrisnitidis, subtus hirsutis; scapo longissimo piloso; floribus masculis, dipetalis cymosis, cymadichotome ramosissima; petalis obovatis, subtus pilosis; antheris linearibus, longitudinaliterdehiscentibus. Stemless; leaves unequa

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