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PERGULARIA odoratisslma. 



Sweet-scented green Pergularia; or Chinese Creeper. 



PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



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Nat. ord* Apocine^. Jussieu gen* 140* Div* II* Germen duplex. 

 Frucfcus bifollicularis* Seminajpapposa. 



Asclepiade^e* Br&von in mem. Wern* ioc* 1. 19. ZhV* £ 



AsCLEPtADEiE VeRJE. 



PERGULARIA* Cor. hypocrateriformis, tubo urceolato. Corona 

 staminea 5-phylIa, foliolis compressis apice indivisis, intds lacinulfi auctis. 

 Antherm roembrana terminate. Mas$£s poUinis erectae, basi affix®. Stigma 

 mulicum, Folliadi ventricosi, ]«ves. Semina comosa* Ptantie votuotlet* 

 Fob latiuscula* membranacea* Cyma interpetiolares* Flores Jlavetcentet 

 odoratUsimi. Patria ignota: in dhinB et IndiS Orientali ob fioret suaveo- 

 lentet cult** Brown Ioc. cit. SI. 



P. odoratmima. folus cordatis acuminatis, calycibus tubo corollae bretiori* 



bus. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2* 2* 83, 

 Pergularia odoratissiraa* Smith ic* pict* 16; (exdus* Lour. J Andrews** 



reposiU 185. 

 Pergularia to men tosa. Lin.mant*5S; (tantiim tnodb quoad descrtptionem ) * 

 Flos siamicus, Rumph. amb* auctuar* 7- 58* t. 26. Jig* I* 



Mr, Brown observes that u the only certain species of 

 this genus are the present and minor ; P. purpurea. Vahh 

 and japonica* Thunb. may belong to it. P. edulis of Thun- 

 berg (prod* cap.) is probably very different. When Lin- 

 naeus established the genus in his Mantissa, he certainly 

 meant his character to apply to PEitcuiiARiA glabra, of 

 which he had a specimen in his Herbarium, and which 

 is the Flos Pergulanus of Rumphius; but unfortunately 

 this plant does not belong to the order of Asclepiad&e, but 

 to my first section of Apocinew* The character of Linnaeus 

 was no doubt chiefly taken from a plant of P* odoratissima*, 

 that had flowered in the Upsal Garden, and which he con- 

 founded with the Asclefias cordata of Forskael, an error 

 long since pointed out by Sir James Smith in his very 

 accurate and satisfactory account of P. odoratissima in the 

 Icones Pictse," 



To the above remarks we shall subjoin Sir J. Smith** 

 amended history of the present species, as given by that 

 learned botanist in Rees's Cyclopedia. 



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