451 
CHIMONANTHUS fragrans: 8. grandiflorus. 
Large-fiowered Japan Allspice. 
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ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CALYCANTHEZ. Lindley supra vol. 6. fol. 404... 
CHIMONANTHUS. Stamina subrqualia, petti, 6 exteriora 
fertilia, maturitate basibus connatis faucem operientia. Frutices (Japonie) 
ramis virgatis. Flores axillares, solitarii, odori; flavescentes, intüs purpu- 
rei. Lindley suprà vol. 5, fol. 404 in nota ad calcem peg. — - 
Chimonanthus fragrans. Lindley MSS. 
Calycanthus precox. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 718. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1120. 
Hort. Kew. 2. 220. t. 10. ed. 2. 8. 282. Curtis's magaz, 466. 
Obai s. Robai. Kam > amen. Mir 878. t. 879. 
(B) grandiflorus; flonbus subrotundis majoribus: laciniis patentibus: exteri- * 
rs nane margine crispatulis. Lindley MSS. . 
(2). Frutex virgatus. Rami oppositi, virgati, impubes, cortice pallid? brun- 
neo scabrello; ad nodos tumidi. Folia opposita, brevitèr petiolata, rigida, 
lanceolata, acuminata, plana, integerrima, scabra, venis primariis precipud 
subtüs pilosiusculis, supra atro-viridia niténtia, infra pallidiora. Flores 
post folia, odoratissimt, axillares, subsessiles, sohtarii, cernui; bractem 
numerose, pilose, brunnec, imbricate, superiores sensim majores, demim 
transeuntes in perianthium: foliolis impubibus, imbricatis, basi in tubo con- 
matis, exterioribus ovalibus, concavis, obtusis, margine plano sew crispatulo, 
amen? lutescentibus, semidiaphanis, interioribus uxgwiculatis, sensim minori- 
bus, crassioribus, coccineis albi: aculatis. Stamina fauce carnosá inserta, 
numero variabilia, sepissimé 10, tum serie duplici; 5 exteriora fertilia, 
Jilamentis carnosis pilosiusculis, foliolis intimis breviora, ultra anthoras pos- 
ticas, ellipticas, adnatas, biloculares, longitudinalitér dehiscentes, lutes- 
centes, medio semiseptiferas, producta: pollen sphericum; interiora toti- 
dem paulo breviora, filiformia, pilosa, equalia, stylorum longitudine. Sta- 
mina plura utriusque seriei quandóque superadduntur, sed hec vel manca vel 
sità irregularia. Ovaria (germina) receptaculo carnoso in basi tubi sessilia, 
unilocularia, impubia : ovulis duobus, verticalibus, adscendentibus, i 
citissime obliterato ; styli totidem, filiformes; stigmata simplicissima. Fructus 
oblongus, & tubo perianthii incrassati, velutinus, laciniis is cicatrizatus, 
fuscus, staminibus persistentibus carnosis basi connatis (an semper?) coro- 
natus, sapore terebinthino. Achenopses 1 v. 2 (5-6 ex Kempt.), oblonga, 
brusnea, nitida, basin versüs pilosa, cornea. Semen solitarium adscendens ; 
testa papyracea, pallid? brusnea; raphe crassa rectilinea axi ad- 
versa; aza orbicularis. Embryo CALYCANTH1. Lindley MSS. 
« Under the article CALYCANTHUS fertilis in vol. 5. fol. 
404, I have proposed to distinguish the CALYCANTHUS præ- 
cox of Linnæus as a separate genus, by the name of Cumo- 
nanraus. ‘The propriety of this measure has been con- 
firmed by my subsequent observations. It differs very ma- 
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