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Journal
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of ZoologyYear
1829Volume
v. 1 (1829)Page
Page 164Species
Coordinates: [611, 1148, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "common"=>["Cinnamon-leaved Dioscorea", "Yam", "Cinnamon-leaved Dioscorea, Yam", "flowering plant", ""], "scientific"=>["Dioscorea cinnamomifolia", "Discorea cinnamomifolia", "Dioscoreae"]; Coordinates: [178, 471, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "common"=>["blank", "", "flowering plant", "epiphyllum cactus"], "scientific"=>["blank", "cactus alata", "Cactus alata", "", "epiphyllum"]; Coordinates: [611, 299, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "common"=>["blank", "", "plant", "epiphyllum cactus"], "scientific"=>["blank", "cactus alata", "Cactus alata", "", "epiphyllum cactus"]Inscription
Coordinates: [234, 548, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "text"=>["flowers, numerous upon the joints, solitary in each crenature, small, and not unlike those of the Rhipsalis tribe.", "Distinct mid-rib running through the centre of these, and bundles of vessels forming lateral thickened nerves or ribes, and extending in a curve, whose convexity is uppermost to the crenatures.", "Calyx of three small, oval, concave, brownish, scariose leaflets, but gradually becoming larger and more petaloid, and passing almost insensibly into the... petals", "Five pale yellowish-green spreading petals; tube none.", "Stamens numerous, inserted within the united bases of the calyx and corolla", "stigmas four, or generally five, linear, recurved, pubescent, white", "Germen, nearly shperical, pale green and smooth.", "Filaments rather longer than the corolla, and white", "Anthers didymous, yellowish white.", "Style filiform, as long as the stamens."]Drawing
Coordinates: [0, 0, 505, 161, 258, 326], Details: "keywords"=>["botany", "cactus", "plant", "Botany", "flowering plant", "description", "joints", "flat stemmed"]; Coordinates: [0, 0, 75, 327, 252, 330], Details: "keywords"=>["botany", "cactus", "plant", "Botany", "flowering plant", "description", "joints", "Cactus", "flat stemmed"]; Coordinates: [0, 0, 479, 1027, 278, 330], Details: "keywords"=>["botany", "plant", "yam", "cimnnamon-leaved dioscorea", "Botany", "flowering plant", "male", "Dioscrea cinnamomifolia"]PageID
2259218Classification No
13Image Scale
0.360268
