 | William Roxburgh - 1832 - 726 pagina’s
...four inches. The thread which forms part of the Linnaan specific character of corypha umbraculifera, is sometimes present, sometimes wanting, at best such...feet in height, so that the height of the whole tree, form the ground to the top of the spadix is now about fifty feet. Primary branches alternate, round,... | |
 | William Roxburgh - 1832 - 706 pagina’s
...upper sicte deeply channelled, the sharp margins armed with numerous, short, strong, dark-coloared polished, compressed spines. Spathes just as numerous...feet in height, so that the height of the whole tree, form the ground to the top of the spadix is now about fifty feet. Primary branches alternate, round,... | |
 | 1837 - 524 pagina’s
...feet long, and covered with strong spines at its edge. Roxburgh describes the spadix as decompound, issuing in the month of February from the apex of...ovate panicle, of about twenty or more feet in height. The fruit is the size of a crab-apple, wrinkled, dark olive, or greenish-yellow. The leaves are used... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 586 pagina’s
...feet long, and covered with strong spines at its edge. Roxburgh describes the spadix as decompound, issuing in the month of February from the apex of...forming an immense diffuse ovate panicle of about 20 or more feet in height. The fruit is the size of a crab-apple, wrinkled, dark-olive, or greenish-yellow.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 630 pagina’s
...feet long, and covered with strong spines at its edge. Roxburgh describes the spadix as decompound, issuing in the month of February from the apex of...forming an immense diffuse ovate panicle of about 20 or more feet in height. The fruit is the size of a crab-apple, wrinkled, dark-olive, or greenish-yellow.... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1870 - 394 pagina’s
...from 5 to 10 feet long, and covered with strong spines at its edge. Roxburgh describes the spadix as supra-de-compound, issuing in the month of February...forming an immense diffuse ovate panicle of about 20 or more feet in height. The fruit is the size of a crab-apple, wrinkled, darkolive, or greenish-yellow.... | |
 | Albert Fytche - 1878 - 402 pagina’s
...The flower is not unlike that of the Yucca or Adam's needle in shape, but very much larger. It issues from the apex of the tree and centre of the leaves, forming an immense ovate panicle of about twenty feet or more in height, and is a very grand object. The first bursting... | |
 | Albert Fytche - 1878 - 400 pagina’s
...flower is not unlike that of the Yucca or Adam's needle in shape, but very' much larger. It issues from the apex of the tree and centre of the leaves, forming an immense ovate panicle of about twenty feet or more in height, and is a very grand object. The first bursting... | |
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... to 10 feet long, and covered with strong spines at its edge. Roxburgh describes the spadix as decompound, issuing in the month of February from the apex of the tree and centre of the leaves, forming an immense diffuse ovate panicle of about 20 or... 