Page:Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register.djvu/69

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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.




Plate I.Chrysorhoe nitens. 1. a flower just expanding, with the bracts about to fall off; 2. a view of an entire expanded flower; 3. an anther; 4. a section of the ovary, with the stamens adhering.
Plate II.—A. Verticordia insignis. 1. a vertical section of a flower without the sepals and petals; 2. a stamen.
B. Hedaroma latifolium. 1. a single flower; 2. a section of a part of the upper portion of a flower, seen from within; 4. a stamen; 5. a vertical section of an ovary.
Plate III.—A. Beaufortia purpurea. 1. an entire flower; 2. a petal with one of the phalanges of stamens; 3. an anther; 4. a transverse section of an ovary; 5. a vertical section of the same.
B. Calytrix aurea. 1. a filament; 2. the ovules with the cord to which they adhere, and a portion of the lining of the ovary.
Plate IV.Nuytsia floribunda. 1. a set of bracts; 2. an entire flower.
Plate V.—A. Atelandra incana. 1. a stamen; 2. the calyx; 3. the pistil.
B. Gastrolobium cordatum. 1. a calyx; 2. a longitudinal section of the ovary.
Plate VI.—A. Conostylis setosa. 1. a vertical section of the flower and ovary.
B. Anigozanthos humilis.
Plate VII.—A. Laxmannia grandiflora. 1. a flower with its bract; 2. the corolla; 3. the latter split open to shew the stamens; 4. a vertical section of an ovary; 5. a seed.
B. Johnsonia hirta.
Plate VIII.—A. Caladenia longicauda. 1. a view of the inside of the labellum.

B. Diuris filifolia. 1. a side view of the labellum.

C. Thelymitra villosa. 1. a front view of the column.
Plate IX.—A. Borya scirpoidea. 1. a perianth, magnified; 2. the pistil; 3. a transverse section of the ovary.

B. Macdonaldia Smithiana. 1. a flower magnified.

C. Macdonaldia antennifera. 1. the column magnified.