A Voyage to New Holland eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 137 pages of information about A Voyage to New Holland.

A Voyage to New Holland eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 137 pages of information about A Voyage to New Holland.

Table 3 Figure 2.  Alcea Novae Hollandiae foliis angustis utrinque villosis.  The leaves, stalk, and underside of the perianthium of this plant are all woolly.  The petala are very tender, 5 in number, scarce so large as the calix:  in the middle stands a columella thick set with thrummy apiculae, which argue this plant to belong to the Malvaceous kind.

Table 3 Figure 3.  Of what genus this shrub or tree is is uncertain, agreeing with none yet described, as far as can be judged by the state it is in.  It has a very beautiful flower, of a red colour, as far as can be guessed by the dry specimen, consisting of 10 large petala, hoary on both sides, especially underneath; the middle of the flower is thick set with stamina, which are woolly at the bottom, the length of the petala, each of them crowned with its apex.  The calix is divided into 5 round pointed parts.  The leaves are like those of Amelanchier Lob., green at top and very woolly underneath, not running to a point, as is common in others, but with an indenture at the upper end.

Table 3 Figure 4.  Dammara ex Nova-Hollandia, Sanamundae secundae Chysii foliis.  This new genus was first sent from Amboina by Mr. Rumphius, by the name of Dammara, of which he transmitted 2 kinds; one with narrow and long stiff leaves, the other with shorter and broader.  The first of them is mentioned in Mr. Petiver’s Centuria, page 350, by the name of Arbor Hortensis Javanorum foliis visce angustioribus aromaticis floribus, spicatis flameneis lutescentibus; Mus.  Pet.  As also in Mr. Ray’s Supplement to his History of Plants now in the press.  This is of the same genus with them, agreeing both in flower and fruit, though very much differing in leaves.  The flowers are stamineous and seem to be of an herbaceous colour, growing among the leaves, which are short and almost round, very stiff and ribbed on the underside, of a dark green above, and a pale colour underneath, thick set on by pairs, answering one another crossways so that they cover the stalk.  The fruit is as big as a peppercorn, almost round, of a whitish colour, dry and tough, with a hole on the top, containing small seeds.  Anyone that sees this plant without its seed vessels would take it for an Erica or Sanamunda.  The leaves of this plant are of a very aromatic taste.

Table 4 Figure 1.  Equisetum Novae Hollandiae frutescens foliis longissimis.  It is doubtful whether this be an Equisetum or not; the textures of the leaves agree best with that genus of any, being articulated one within another at each joint, which is only proper to this tribe.  The longest of them are about 9 inches.

Table 4 Figure 2.  Colutea Novae Hollandiae floribus amplis coccineis, umbellatim dispositis macula purpurea notatis.  There being no leaves to this plant, it is hard to say what genus it properly belongs to.  The flowers are very like to the Colutea Barbae Jovis folio flore coccineo Breynii; of the same scarlet colour, with a large deep purple spot in the vexillum, but much bigger, coming all from the same point after the manner of an umbel.  The rudiment of the pod is very woolly, and terminates in a filament near 2 inches long.

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