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HAMELIA* ventricdsa 



The King- Wood Tree. 



PENTANDRIA MONOG YNIA. 



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Nat. ord. RuBiACE.^. 



HAMELIA Linn. — Calyx parvus, 5-fidus. Corolla tubulosa, ob- 

 longa, 5-gona, limbo 5-fido. Stamina 5, medio tubi inserta; anther cb 

 oblongse. Stigma obtusum, sub-5-gonura. Bacca oyata, sulcata, apice 



retusa et coronata, 5-locularis, polysperma, seminibus minutis.- Frutices ; 



folia plerumque 3, verticillata ; flores corymboso-cymosi terminales. Juss. 

 mem. mus. 3. 398. 



H. ventricosa; corymbis terminalibus axillaribusque, corollis campanulatls 



ventricosis, foliis lanceolatis glabris ternis quaternisve. 

 Nerio affinis arbor versicolore materie, lauri folio lucido, flore pentapetaloide 



sulphureo amplo. Sloanejamaic. 2. 63. t. \83. f. 2. 

 Campanula arborescens, foliis ovato-acuminatis verticillatim ternatis, sti- 



pulis acuminatis interpositis, capsulis quinquelocularibus. Browne 



jamaic. 166. 

 H. ventricosa. Swartz prodr. 46. /. ind. occ. 1 . 446. Willd. sp. pi. ^.9Sl. 



Ait. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 375. Bot. mag. Spreng. syst. 1. 765. 

 H. grandiflora. L'Heritier Sert. angl. 4. t. 7. Ait. Kew. ed. 1. 1. 229. 



Paradisus Londinensis, 55. 



Arbor, ramis glabris, subtetragonis. Folia lanceolata, membranacea, 

 petiolata, glaberrima, ternatim quaternatimve inserta, stipulis subulatis. 

 Corymbi terminales, patentes, glahri. Calyx subrotiindus, 5-dentatus. 

 Corolla lutea, infundibular is , ventricosa, basi gibba, limbo erecto, plicato, 

 5-Jido. Antherse lineares, scepiits exserta. 



A handsome hot-house plant, growing vigorously, and 

 flowering in abundance in nearly all the summer months. 

 It is a native of Jamaica, where it becomes a large tree. 



• This genus has been named in honour of Henry Louis Bnhamel 



celebrated 



researches in vegetable physiology are the most pertect model oi paut 

 investigation and accurate deduction with which Botanists are acquamted. 



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