Richard Salisbury

“ In all similar publications which have hitherto appeared, not even excepting the most respectable, a considerable portion of each page has been filled with useless repetitions of the classes, orders and generic characters of the sexual system. No one who pretends to the least knowledge of the science is without the Genera Plantarum of Linne, nor any one who is solicitous to gain deeper information, without that of Jussieu. ”

“ Torus or receptacle yellow, projecting into 3 melliferous lobes to which the corolla adheres. Pericarpium before impregnation yellowish green, not so long as the tube, 3-angular with rudiments of 3 intermediate angles, 3-locular, smooth. Style yellowish green, reaching to about the bottom of the anthers, erect, triangular, smooth. Stigma yellow, large in proportion to the style, somewhat funnel-shaped, divided into 3 thick recurved wedge-shaped lobes furrowed on their upper side. ”

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“ Filaments 6, inserted in the orifice of the tube, decurrent, yellowish green with white edges, erect, quite smooth; those 3 which are opposite to the inner divisions of the limb wedge-shaped and bearing anthers; the other 3 considerably larger, elliptic-wedge-shaped, hollow, barren. Anthers yellow with paler edges, 3 lines long, inserted at the base where they are 2-fid, quite erect, broad-linear, deeply emarginated at the top, 2-locular, 4-valved, splitting rather towards the inside. ”