SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

The herbarium specimens upon which this publication is based were placed at the author’s disposal by the Directors of the Herbarium of the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens (B) and the Leiden National Herbarium (L), to whom the author expresses his best thanks for their kind help.

Ano: 1938

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/524900

Myoporaceae

Shrubs, trees, or prostrate plants. Leaves spread, rarely opposite, entire or toothed, exstipulate. Flowers ♀, zygomorphic, rarely almost actinomorphic, small, axillary, solitary or usually in clusters of 2,3 or more. Calyx and corolla 5-lobed. Stamens 4, rarely 5, in pairs of unequal length, inserted on the corolla-tube and alternate with the lobes. Anther-cells opening lengthwise, confluent at the apex, usually forming a single reniform cell after dehiscence. Ovary superior, not lobed, 2—10-celled with 1 ovule in each cell, rarely 2-celled with 2 ovules per cell. Style simple entire or obscurely notched at the apex. Drupe 2—10-celled. Distr. Ca 35 spp., largely in Australia, 1 species in E. Asia, further in the Pacific, Rodriguez Isl. and Mauritius.

The genus Alangium in the Netherlands Indies

Ano: 1948

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/532698

The present revision comprises, besides the Alangia of the Netherlands Indies proper, also those of the Malay Peninsula, North Borneo, and Eastern New Guinea. The materials examined were kindly put at the author’s disposal by the Directions of the following herbaria: B = the Herbarium of the Botanic Garden, Buitenzorg. BD = the Herbarium of the Botanic Garden, Berlin—Dahlem. BM = the Herbarium of the British Museum of Natural History, London. Br = the Herbarium of the Botanic Garden, Brisbane. E = the Herbarium of the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. G = the Herbarium of the University, Groningen. K = the Herbarium of the Botanic Garden, Kew. L = the National Herbarium (Rijksherbarium), Leiden. M = the Herbarium of the Bureau of Science, Manila. NY = the...

Ano: 1935

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/524597

Aceraceae

Trees or shrubs, buds with many perules. Leaves decussate, petiolate, entire, palmate or pinnate, appearing simultaneously with the flowers or later, exstipulate. Inflorescence racemose, corymbose or spicate, terminal with 2-4 leaves, or rarely terminal or axillary without leaves. Monoecious or dioecious, flowers actinomorphic, ♂ and ♀, ovary in the ♂ fls more reduced than stamens in ♀ fls. Calyx and corolla 4-5-merous. Stamens 4-10, mostly 8, hypogynous or perigynous. Disc extraor intrastaminal. Ovary superior, 2-celled, laterally flattened, each cell with 2 ovules. Fruit a samara, splitting into 2, rarely 3, winged usually 1-seeded parts. Seed without endosperm, radicle elongate, cotyledons foliaceous, or thickened, plicate, involute or flat. Distr. Ca...