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* RONDELETIA odoráta. 
7 Sweet-scented Rondeletia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CINCHONACEE. 
RONDELETIA, Plum.—Calycis tubus subglobosus, limbus 4-5-parti- 
tus, lobis oblongis linearibusve acutis persistentibus. Cor. tubo cylindrico vix 
apice subventricoso, limbo patente 4-5-lobo, lobis subrotundis ; anthere 4-5, in 
apice tubi incluse, sessiles. Stigma bifidum. Capsula globosa, calyce coro- 
nata, bilocularis, ex apice dehiscens in valvulas 2, seepids apice fissas, undê seepé 
4-valvis videtur, nunc loculicido-rariăs septicido-dehiscens. Placente centrales. 
Semina plurima, minima, ovato-angulata, seepé 2 tantüm in loculo maturescentia. 
— Arbusculs aut frutices omnes ex Americd. Folia plùs minis petiolata aut 
subsessilia. Stipule deltoideg aut lanceolato-lineares, utrinque solitarie, 
indivise, interdüm intüs hirsute. Pedunculi azillares, sepiüs trichotomi, 
interdùm in paniculam corymbosam terminalem dispositi, raris tri- imo unt- 
flori. DC. prodr. 4. 406. 
R. odorata ; foliis vix petiolatis ovatis aut subcordatis acutiusculis, suprà sparsè 
scabris, subtus pallidioribus in nervis tantum scabris, corymbis terminalibus. 
D, €, 1. c 
R. odorata. Jacq. Amer. t. 42. p. 59. Linn. Sp. 1671. 
R. coccinea. Quorundam. 
R. speciosa. Hort. | 
Obs. Os corolla cyatho brevi integro munitum, characterem dat aucto- 
ribus recentioribus pretervisum. 
The accompanying drawing was made in the hothouse 
of Messrs. Loddiges, in December, 1834. The plant more 
usually flowers three months earlier ; it requires to be kept 
in a stove, and by no means-exposed to cold even in the 
ERREI. s N | 
* « So named by Plumier after Guillaume Rondelet, à physician and m 
ralist, bom in 1507, died in 1566. He is principally known for his works în 
Alge and Fishes. Rabelais ridiculed him under the name of Rondibilis. He 
is accused of having given a horrible proof of his love for anatomy, in dissecting 
his own son.” — De Theis. 
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