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APPENDIX. 



inserta, imo fornicata, crassiora et pubescentia, superne fili- 

 formia, glabra j anthera erectse, oblongse, cordatee, apice atte- 

 nuatse, connectivo dorsali imo affixae, 2-lob«, lobis parallele 

 adnatis, antice rima longitudinali debiscentibus. Ovarium 

 ovatum, disco parvo carnoso lobulis 2 prominentibus dissepi- 

 mento oppositis insitum, 2-loculare, placentis valde incrassatis 

 dissepimento utrinque adnatis, multi-ovulatis. Stylus fili- 

 formis, apice inflexus. Stigma clavato-bilobum. Bacca magna, 

 ca]yce aucto membranaceo sufFulta, 2-locularis. Semina plu- 

 rima in pulpam nidulantia, reniformia. Embryo teres, in al- 

 bumen carnosum bemicyclico-arcuatus, cotykdonihus semite- 

 retibus, radicula angulo basali spectante fere duplo longioribus. 

 Herbse perennes in Europa Australi indigent, acaules, radice 

 crassa, carnosa, folia radicalia, conferta, petiolata, basi atte- 

 nuata, integerrima, undulata ; pedunculi radicales, conferti, uni- 

 fiori, apice incrassati. 



Mandragora officimlis, Linn., Plor. GrKC. tab. 232: Wabers 

 Rep. iii. 104. > i^ > 



Mandi 



Mandragora 

 id. 105. 



Mandragora 

 Walp. id. 10 



Walp 



The above generic character is formed in great measure from 

 a plant I had an opportunity of examining in its living state, 

 probably M. microcarpa. Its leaves are numerous, spreading, all 

 radical, lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, and decurrent on a 

 thick fleshy purplish petiole ; they are undulated and somewhat 

 sinuous on the crenulato-dentate margin, rough on both sides 

 with several small tubercles bearing minute articulated hairs • 

 the very fleshy broad midrib, and about seven pairs of promi- 

 nent pinnate nerves, with intermediate reticulated veins, are 

 clothed with rather short articulated pubescence ; they are about 

 10 inches long, exclusive of a petiole of 2 inches, and 3 inches 

 broad. Several peduncles spring from the base of the petioles ; 

 they are erect, pubescent, thickened above, about IJ- inch long 

 and 1 -flowered. The calyx consists of a short campanular tube 

 2 hues long, with five equal narrow hnear acuminated erect seg- - 

 ments, each 4 lines long ; the corolla is tubular, somewhat funnel- 

 shaped, about 6 Hues in length, and 4 lines in diameter in the 

 mouth; the lobes of the somewhat oblique border are oblong, 

 overlapped at base, tapering and obtuse at their summit, of a 

 pale blue or lilac colour, each marked with three parallel ner- 

 vures and numerous anastomosing veins, and are slightly ex- 



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