Author: Colla, L. [A.]
Title: Mémoire sur le Melanopsidium Nigrum des jardiniers, et formation d'un genre nouveau dans la famille des rubiacées.
Description: Paris, Lebel, 1825. 8vo (20.9 x 14.1cm). 16 pp.; one folded engraved plate. Original printed wrappers. = A rare work, by the Italian botanist Luigi Aloysius Colla (1766-1848). It describes and illustrates a new tree or shrub, Viviania psychotrioides. Offprint from the Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Paris. Signed by the author on the cover, being a dedication to the Swiss botanist Jacques Denys (also: Denis) Choisy (1799-1859). Some foxing on the plate and text, otherwise very good. Stafleu and Cowan, 1169.

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