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SOULANGIA* rubra. 



Med Soulangia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Riiamne.e Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 



Botany, p. 113.) 



? I SOULANGIA. — Calvx tubo obconico ovario adnato. Petala cucul- 



ft/ 



lata. Stamina inclusa, antheris reniformibus unilocularibus. Discus epi- 



gynus, pentagonus, carnosus. Ovarium calycis tubo adnatum et cequaJe, 



triloculare. Stylus simplex. Fructus inferus, areola magna superiils notatus, 



/ tricoccus. Semina podospermio brevi carnoso sufFulta. — Adolphe Brongniart, 



memoire sur les Rhamnees, p. 70. 



S. rubra; ramis pubescentibus, foliis ovato-linearibus acutis supra glabris 



lucidis subtiis incanis margine subrevolutis, capitulis terminalibus multi- 



floris lanuginosis foliis longioribus. 



S Phylica rubra. Willd. reliq. in R'dmer et SchulteSj 5. 491. De Cand. 



prodr. 2. 37. 



Frutex sempervirens, foliis superiorities sensim minoribus. Calyx exths 



lanuginosuSy intus lateritius. Petala purpurea. 



A native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence its 

 seeds were received a few years since by Messrs. Rollisson 

 of Tooting, by whom the specimens here figured were com- 

 municated in December last. 



i It is a hardy greenhouse plant, extremely neat in its 



\ foliage, and rather pretty when its brick-red flowers, nestled 



in down, make their appearance. 



Very near Soulangia thymifolia, from which it differs 

 chiefly in its branches being more downy, and its flowers 

 much larger and more woolly. 



We have specimens from the Cape of Good Hope, for 

 which we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Reeves. 



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Named by Mons. Adolphe Brongniart in compliment to the Chevalier 

 Soulange-Bodin, the spirited proprietor of the Jardin de Fromont, near 

 Paris, an establishment justly celebrated in the annals of French Horti- 

 culture. 



