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DIOSMA amoena. 

 Circular-petalled Diosma, 



PENTANDRIA MONOOYNIA. 



Nat, ord. Kutacea. Jussieu gen. 269. Dw, IIL Genera Butaceii 



affinia* 

 DiosMEJE. Srovmgen. revn, in FHnd, voy, 2* 646. 

 DIOSMA. S^qtrd vol b.fol 366. 



IHv. Adenandra. Stamina bancormtd brevi amnexa: 5 ahema iterilia: 



&fertUia ajnce appendiculata. Witld. enum. 1. 256, 

 D. anwna, foliis oralibus glabris, petiolis e^andulosis^ floribus sessUibus 



ramorum umbeUato-proliferonim seorsim tenninalibus ; petaloruio laminia 



imbricatis orbiculatis cum mucrone mai^neque Isevi. 

 Biosma amcena. Loddiges's hot. cab. n. 161. 



Vmtex erectus, prolifero^ramosfis; rsmiplurimi^axiUares, perintervaUa 

 amnraximatif adscmdentes, teretea, villosi, Jhribm tenus foUon^ apice pro' 

 iiferthramuloHt ramulis pluribus brevibus^ foiiosist successive uniflorijeris, 

 nmbellato-approximatis. Folia coriacea, crassiusculaf crebraf sparsa^ pa^ 

 tentiaf int^'vaUis hngiorat eUiptica, utrinque attenuata, obtutiuscula, ^ 

 wtciff circitir longa latitudine duplo minore v> ultrdj nuda, opaca^ enerma, 

 disco subtus glauca cum or& glanduloso-punctaidcosidque unediA obsoletd sub- 

 ins virenie, floralia 2 opposUa calgci subtefisa subovata acutiara dUata: pet. 

 linearUohUmguSf appressus, decurrens, muUoiiis brevi&r folio, intOs plcanu^ 

 Flores sessiks, erecti, roseo-aUncantes, inodori, uneiam cited transversi^ tur- 

 binato-rotati, snhtia rubro^lucentes* Cal. turbinato-patens, foHis (^^^ali- 

 bus proximiorUms oppositisj obvaliatus, corolla bis terve brevior, punctatuSf 

 viruH'Tuber, segmentis ovatis ciliatis acumine brevi obtusiusculo. Corv. pet. 

 agualia^ unguicutato-orbiculata cum mucrone, margine hem, plied medid 

 verticali; laminis imbricaio^contiguis ; unguibus angwHs, subulatis, rubris, 

 erectis, dtstantUms, terferh brevioribus caigce, Stam. coronas crassiari &-MtB 

 viridi germen cequanii insistentia, erecta, distantia, pilosa: fil. 5 altema 

 castrata duph longuyra, petatis opposUa, subulato^Uformia, apice rubro et 

 appendicis lutescentis cerini rudimento imtroTso terminata; cdia 6 antherifera 

 crassius subuhtta^ erecto-incurveseentia, antheris vix €Bqtfalia ; anth. majus- 

 cttte inttors'B, oblongce, ustutato-rufescentes, supra busin receptaculi lati antici 

 toculorum a^fiiaca, appendice ovata-rotundo compUto cerino luiescente mobili 

 tpsis 3plo minare exms ctmvexo intOs concavo cum glanduld lucidd prominenU 

 in disco ex arrecto post anthesin reirofrangendo articulaio-pr<£fixa^ : pollen 

 ochroleucum. > Germ, ovato-rotundum viruk gtandulis creberrimis sessilibus 

 stipiiatisgue pustulatnm: stylus viridis, columellaris, staminibus compktis 

 €equalis, 5-striatus, e decurvo arrigendus, ^tipDhte depresso penticolli viridis* 



simi^ apiculatus. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope, and said to have been 

 introduced about 1798; though not recorded in any of the 



Catalogues of our gardens. 



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