On the Proteace of Jussieu Author:Robert Brown General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1811 Original Publisher: R. Taylor Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Hab. In Africâ Australi. D. Niven. (v. s. in Herb. D. Hib- bert.) Dksc. Frutex erectus, simplex? FoliaS -- 4-uncialia, laciniis tere- tiusculis, callo apicis obtuso. Pedunculus terminalis, scapi- formis, saepè infra racemum 8 -- 10 uncias aequans, bracteis paucissimis. Racemus scapoplerumque brevior, 8 -- 10-florus. Pedunculi partiales capitulo longiores, basi dilatatâ, cum processu scutelliformi racheos articulati. Capitula magni- tudine avellanae, globosa. Calyx semuncialis. Nux undique pubescens, pedicello brevissimo, glabro, rugoso. 9. NIVENIA. Paranomus. Salisb. Parad. Char. Gen. Calyx quadrifidus, aequalis, totus deciduus. Stigma clavatum, verticale. Nuœ ventricosa, nitens, sessilis, basi integrâ. Involucrum simplici serie tetraphyllum, quadti- florum, fructiferum induratum ; Receptaculo plano epaleato. Habitus. Fructices. Foliasparsa, inferiora bipinnatijidaßliformia; superior, in quibusdam, indivisa, plana. Involucra in spicam rariàsve capituluni terminale digesta, sessilia, bracteâ unica subtensa. Flores purpurascentes. This genus is published by Mr. Salisbury : his primary generic character does not indeed at all differ from that which he has given to Mimetes ; in his account of Inflorescence, however, it is evident he understood the genus nearly as I have here proposed it : I should therefore have adopted his name had it appeared to me tenable; but I am disposed to believe that he will, on reconsidering the subject, see the propriety of relinquishing it; for the irregularity or unusual structure, which (if I understand him) he says exists " tot partibus ...« less