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EUPHORIA verticillata. 
W horled-flowered Euphoria. 
PE WERT RUE 
POLYGAMIA MONŒCIA. 
Nat. ord. SAPINDACEE. 
EUPHORIA Juss.-—Cal. 5-dentatus. Petala 5, medio intús subvillosa 
reflexa. Stamina 6-8. Ovarium didymum. Stylus 1. Stigmata 2. Car- 
pella 2, indehiscentia, 1-locularia, intús pulposa, uno sepé abortivo, altero 
superstite sphærico coriaceo, Semen 1. Cotyledones crasse, sæpè confer« 
ruminafté.——— Arbores ; foliis pinhatis, fructuum pulpá sepids eduli: Decand. 
prodr. 1.611... | 
E. verticillata ; foliis simplicibus obovato-lanceolatis. 
Scytalia verticillata. Roxburgh. Hort. Beng. 29. 
Cortex adultus viridis, novellus cinnamomeus. Folia alterna, breviter 
petiolata, obovato-lanceolata, glaberrima, basi auriculata. Flores racemoso- 
paniculati, albi, rubescentes. Calyx albus, 5-phyllus, sepalis inequalibus, 
imbricatis, ciliatis, interioribus majoribus cucullatis. Petala 5, ovata, refleza, 
extra discum cyathiformem inserta; suprà basin squamula ciliata aucta. 
d. Stamina 8, intra discum inserta, basi monadelpha. . Rudimentum ovarii 
Jiliforme, staminibus brevius, $. Ovarium didymum, distylum, basi glandulis 
8 intra discum suffultum, carnosum, ovulis solitariis horizontalibus. Stigma 
parvum, ovatum, ciliatum. 
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Whether this is really a species of Euphoria, it is impos- 
sible, in the absence of its fruit, to ascertain; that it is the 
Scytalia verticillata of Roxburgh, we know from the cir- 
cumstance that the very plant from which our drawing was 
taken was brought to England from the Botanie Garden, 
Calcutta, in 1822, by Mr, John Potts, for the Horticultural 
Society, in whose Garden, at Chiswick, our drawing was 
made, in February last. 
A tender stove plant, native, according to the Hortus 
Bengalensis, of the Moluccas. In the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta, it forms a shrub, flowering in the rainy season, 
from June to October, and ripening its fruit in the hot 
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