Volume 9 — PLATE DLVII. PERIPLOCA AFRICANA. African Periploca.
Reading edition
CLASS V. ORDER II.
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Five Chives. Two Pointals.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Contorta. Nectarium ambiens genitalia, filamenta 5, exserentia.
Contorted. Honey-cup surrounding the stamens. Threads 5, standing out.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Periploca foliis ovato-acutis, pilosis: floribus corymbosis: caule volubili, hirsuto. Willd. Sp. Pl.
Periploca with ovate-pointed hairy leaves: flowers corymbose: stem twining and hairy.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement. 2. The outer part of the blossom. 3. The tubular part of the same detached. 4. The same spread open. 5. One of the lobes of the nectary surrounding the parts of fructification. 6. Seed-buds, chives, and pointals, magnified.
The Periploca Africana is at present a rare plant to the gardens, although, according to Donn’s Catalogue, it has been introduced to this country as long ago as the year 1726. There are several figures of it among the older botanists, but not one that does it any justice, as an ornamental green-house plant, which it undoubtedly is, and continues in bloom almost from June till January.
Our figure represents the entire plant, just as we received it from Messrs. Whitley and Brames.
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