This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...calyx tubular deciduous. DC. Prodr. 9, p. 281. Six&apobe; Prince (Ic. Ined. Kew).--Distbib. Java. Scarcely differs from C. bicolor. The leaves are often rhomboid or crenate at the base, the peduncles very short not decurved. Order CVII. BIGNONIACE . (By . B. Ciarte.) Trees (Nyclocalos a large climber, Amphicome a herb) ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...calyx tubular deciduous. DC. Prodr. 9, p. 281. Six&apobe; Prince (Ic. Ined. Kew).--Distbib. Java. Scarcely differs from C. bicolor. The leaves are often rhomboid or crenate at the base, the peduncles very short not decurved. Order CVII. BIGNONIACE . (By . B. Ciarte.) Trees (Nyclocalos a large climber, Amphicome a herb). Leaves opposite, rarely whorled (in Amphicome alternate), 1-2-3-pinnate or sometimes undivided. Panicles or racemes terminal, rarely on short lateral branches; bracts inconspicuous; flowers showy, hermaphrodite, irregular. Calyr gamosepalous, campanulate (in the Indian species), valvate, spathaceous or 2-5-lobed. Corolla tubular-ventricose; mouth 2-lipped; lobes 5, subequal or slightly unequal, bilabiately imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, rudiment of the fifth often present (5 subequal in Oroxylum); inserted at the point where the corolla-tube is suddenly swollen; filaments linear, glabrous or hairy only at the base; anthers 2-celled, included or rarely shortly exserted; cells elliptic or narrowly oblong, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, parallel or divaricate. Disc usually cnshion-like or annular. Ovary subsessile, 2-celled; style long glabrous, stigma of 2 elliptic lobes; ovules in many rows (in Amphicome in 1-2 rows) grouped in a double series in each cell, anatropous. Capsule mostly elongate, loculicidally or septicidally 2-valved; septum in fruit enlarged, deciduous together with the placenta. Seeds compressed discoid (rarely subtrigonous) prominently winged, exalbuminous.--Species 450, in the tropics of the whole world, a few in the warm temperate zones of both hemispheres. Herb. Leaves alternate, 1-pinnate 11. Amphicome. Large climber. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate 1. Nyctocalos. Tree. Leaves opposite, 2-3-...
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
