10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELASTOMACEOUS»
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1
The London Journal of Botany: Containing Figures and ...
Garrya Fadyena is here abundant ; Vaccinium meridionale holds a conspicuous
place, laden with fruit, superior in size and flavour to that of Vac- cintum Myrtillus,
the Blaeberry of Europe. A charming Melastomaceous plant, with solitary scarlet
...
Sir William Jackson Hooker,
1844
2
The Floriculture Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening
Lemonia spectabilis, B. R. 1840- 59 A very desirable and free-flowering
Rutaceous plant, with crimson blossoms. Lasiandra petiolata, B. M. 3766 A
showy Melastomaceous plant. Leonotis nepetaefolia, B.M.3700 A tall growing
coarse species.
3
Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany
Numerous Myrta- ceous and Melastomaceous fruits are eaten, but few of them
possess any great excellence ; perhaps the best are the Guayabas, which belong
to various species of Psidium. A Melastomaceous tree sent from San- tarem, with
...
Sir William Jackson Hooker,
1853
Numerous Myrta- eeous and Melastomaceous fruits are eaten, but few of them
possess any great excellence ; perhaps the best are the Guayabas, which belong
to various species of Psidium. A Melastomaceous tree sent from San- tarem, with
...
Sir William Jackson Hooker,
1853
5
Hooker's journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany
They were supposed to be an hypertrophy of the cellular tissue ; and I am
confirmed in the view I then took by a very similar appearance presented by the
leaves of a Melastomaceous plant (Pleroma vimineum, Don.) observed by Mr. J.
Smith ...
6
Annals & Magazine of Natural History
The elegant Melastomaceous genus, called Sonerila by Roxburgh, forms the
subject of the forty-fourth article. The species figured is the Sonerila tenuifolia, Bl.
The natural relations of this genus were at first strangely misunderstood.
Mistaking ...
Sir William Jardine,
1844
7
Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society
A very handsome, dwarf Melastomaceous plant, one of those sent to the Society
by Mr. Weir. It had bronzy green leaves, with a satiny lustre, marked with several
rows of white pearl-like spots, and was very finely grown. Special Certificate.
Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain),
1865
8
Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes
Numerous Myrtaceous and Melastomaceous fruits are eaten, but few of them
possess any great excellence; perhaps the best are the Guayabas, which belong
to various species of Psidium. A Melastomaceous tree sent from Santarem with
fruit ...
Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace,
2014
... canes and bamboos twenty feet tall, gray-barked, red-leafed cinchona trees
and brilliant-flowered Melastomaceous shrubs. The lantana, Cherokee rose,
passion flower, prickly-leafed ferns and the wiry-stemmed grass Chusquaea
clamber ...
10
An encyclopædia of plants;: comprising the description, ...
To the former it is recommended by the singular Melastomaceous plants which it
contains, the curious Michauxia, and the Jeffersonia, remarkable for its capsule,
which opens like a snuff-box. To the gardener it possesses irresistible attraction,
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John Claudius Loudon, Mrs. Loudon (Jane), George Don,
1836