Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-house, and the Stove, are Accurately Represented in Their Natural Colours ...1828 |
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acuminate acute Amentum Anthers apice axillary base BLUMENBACHIA bractea branches Bread Fruit brown CALCEOLARIA Calyx Cand Capsule Cardoon caule Character and Synonyms Class and Order colour cordate corolla cultivated Curtis Walworth CYCAS CYCAS circinalis cylindrical DESCR downy Edinburgh erect ERIOSTEMON extremity female flower filaments filiform five fleshy floribus foliis Genus Germen glabrous Glasgow Botanic Garden GRAHAM green hairs hairy Hort inches long Labellum laciniis lanceolate leaf leaflets leaves less magnified linear lobes loculis Male margin MONOGYNIA nearly numerous oblong ovate pale paler pedicels Peduncles perianth petals petiole Pistil PITCAIRNIA plant Pollen Pollen Masses Prodr Pub by Curtis pubescent purple raceme receptacle rounded roundish Scape seeds segments Semina serrated sessile shew side Sir JAMES SMITH slightly spatha Specific Character specimens spreading Spreng Stamens stem Stigma stove Style subulate Syst terete terminal TRACHYMENE tube upper Veget Willd yellow
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Page 2 - The tree is liable to be attacked by a fungus, which, vegetating in the woody part, without changing the colour or appearance, destroys life, and renders the part so attacked as soft as the pith of trees in general. Such trunks are then hollowed into chambers, and within them are suspended the dead bodies of those to whom are refused the honour of burial.
Page 3 - Europeans find it serviceable in cases of diarrhoea, fevers, and other maladies. The fruit is, perhaps, the most useful part of the tree. Its pulp is slightly acid and agreeable, and frequently eaten ; while the juice is expressed from it, mixed with sugar, and constitutes a drink, which is valued as a specific in putrid and pestilential fevers.
Page 2 - ... it often happens that the profusion of leaves and of drooping boughs almost hide the stem, and the whole forms a hemispherical mass of verdure, 140 to 150 feet in diameter, and 60 to 70 feet high. The wood is pale-coloured, light, and soft, so that in Abyssinia, the wild bees perforate it, and lodge their honey in the hollow, which honey is considered the best in the country. The negroes on the western coast, again, apply these trunks to a very extraordinary purpose.
Page 3 - ... gruel. The Mandingoes convey it to the eastern and southern districts of Africa, and through the medium of the Arabs, it reaches Morocco, and even Egypt. If the fruit be injured, it is burned, the ashes being mixed with rancid palm oil, and serving for soap. The flowers are large, white, and handsome, and on their first expansion, bear some resemblance, in their snowy petals and violet mass of stamens, to the White Poppy (Papavtr somniferum).