Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club Volume 5-6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...bracts very thin, the longest 1 cm. long, tapering, lancelinear; pedicels rigid, erect, 1-2 cm. long; calyx 8 mm. long, lobed nearly to the base, sharply many-nerved, the lobes lanceolate, tapering from the base to a pungent apex, rigid; corolla little exceeding the calyx; capsule not more than half the length of the calyx, bright green. Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (I729a). BIGNONIACEAE. Lundia / Bureau in Baill. Adansonia, 8: (1867-68) 279. Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1672). Leaves slightly thicker and more reticulate than in Spruce's 4489. LUNDIA PHASEOLIFOLIA Sp. n. Glabrous; branchlets red, striate, the internodes 5-7 cm. long; petioles 3-6 cm. long, slender, striate; leaflets 3, the petiolules.5-2 cm. long. the terminal more than twice the length of the lateral, blades 6-10 cm. long, 4-5 cm. broad, the base cordate, the lateral slightly inequilateral, tl1e apex long-acuminate and acute, membranaceous and thin; bright green, the primaries about 5 pairs, prominent beneath, venation slightly and coarsely reticulate; panicles axillary and terminal, short and broad, the peduncles mostly shorter than the petioles, the slender pedicels about 5 mm. long; calyx of a little deeper yellow than the corolla, . long,5 mm. broad, campanulate, the margin truncate and obscurely sinuate; disk annulate, inconspicuous; corolla puberulent without, 4 or5 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, not strongly 2lipped, the mouth scarcely oblique; stamens reaching a little beyond the middle of the corolla, the anthers red-brown, pilose, the thecae divaricate; style about equalling the stamens, the stigma lozenge-shaped, broader above; fruit not seen. Between Tipuani..."