wxrii divisis trajectus0 Acfienta pilosiuscula per Jhcitm internam perianthti 

 paulo oblique insert a 9 sessilia, numero indefinita y ovatia, briennea^ polita^ 

 facie rectm$cula> dorso gibbosa*, utrinque obscure marginata f margine Jheici 

 pauhdum evidentiore : pericarpium corneum non fragile Semen cavitati 

 achenii conforme, ascendens* kilo pericarpii cicatrici Jeri opposite; test ft 

 tetter a duptici*, exterior e pallidA brunnea> tenaciy interior e tenuhsimH alirida ; 

 inter has duas ab kilo ad chalazam depressam percurrit vascuhrwn series 

 (raphe) tenacissima, ab ipsa chalaza longitis producta inter ntargines approxi~ 

 matos cotyledonum* Embryo komotroptiSy orthotropus, exalbuminosus ; coty- 

 ledones alba f carnosa<> quinquies convoluta, dorso placenta opposito ; radi- 

 c«1e intra bases cotyledonum, ungue lat& brevi inserta, obconica 9 exorhixa p 

 majusculup apice obtusa, bast truncata : gemmula vix conspicua in centro bam 

 radiada depressiusculo* Land ley MSS. 



Calycanthus fertilis differs from C. florldus, with which 

 it is often confounded in the gardens, in having flat scabrous 

 .oblong leaves with an acumen, in being glaucous and nearly 

 naked beneath, and in the colour of its almost scentless 

 flowers. From C. Iwvigatus the same characters equally 

 distinguish it. It is right, however, to observe that the 

 young leaves of the present plant have nearly the form. of 

 C. Icevigatus. We do not feel disposed to alter Walter's 

 excellent name of fertilis for that of glaucus, which ori- 

 ginated with Willdenow, and which has no pretensions to 

 be retained; Andrews's figure, which every body cites 

 to this, seems to us decidedly Calycanthus Icevigatus. 



Native of the southern states of North America, and 

 introduced, according to Hortus Kewensis, in 1806 by Mr. 

 Lyon. 



^ M. de Jussieu in his elaborate dissertation on Moni- 

 mleae published in the 14th volume of the Annales du Mu- 

 seum, has not suffered the affinity of Calycanthus to that 

 order to escape his notice. Without however absolutely 

 forming a new order for the genus, he has only hinted at the 

 propriety of so doing, when more individuals may have 

 been discovered to increase it. But we cannot help think- 

 ing, that when plants have such decided characters as the 

 present, and when there is so little uncertainty with respect 

 to their situation, it is much better to establish even a soli- 

 tary individual as the type of an order, than to leave it 

 amongst the mass of imperfectly known genera, which 

 necessarily must always be appended to every natural sys- 



It is presumed that the characters given above are 

 abundantly sufficient to distinguish Cdlycarithect, not only 



