Images Dated 25th January 2011

47. Flowers of Datura and Humming Birds, Brazil

Datura arborea, Linn., is a native of tropical America, and is commonly cultivated in other countries, as it grows like a rank weed. It is better known in English greenhouses under the name Brugmansia arborea, Pers. See 132, 227, and 689 The leaves a

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87. Group of Brazilian Forest Wild Flowers and Berries

Lying in front, on the left, is a head of the handsome orange-red Amarantacea (Gomphrena officinalis, Mart.) ; above it a Melastomacea in fruit ; the azure-blue flowers of a Stachytarpheta; the crimson flowers of a species of Physocalyx, &c. ; and on

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