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* PENTAS carnea. 
Flesh-coloured Pentas. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CINCHONACEA. $ HEDYOTIDEA. 
PENTAS, Benth. Calycis tubus brevis turbinatus; limbus profundé 
5-fidus, laciniis angustis insequalibus, glandulis 1-2 interdum in sinubus 
adjectis. Corolle tubus elongatus ; faux campanulata intus barbata ; limbus 
patens, 5-fidus, laciniis ovatis glabris sestivatione leviter imbricatis. Stamina 
5, infra faucem inserta. Filamenta brevia. -Anthere lineares. Discus epi- 
gynus crassus. Stylus filiformis, apice bilobus. Capsula subglobosa, apice 
libera, acutiuscula, loculicidé bivalvis, valvis bifidis. ^ Semina numerosa. 
Benth. in Bot. Mag. t. 4086. 
P. carnea; folis ovatis v. ovali-oblongis acutis basi cuneatis pilosiusculis, 
corolle tubo calyce multoties longiore, styli ramis elongatis, capsule 
valvulis parte adnata vix brevioribus. Benth. l. c. 
Sipanea carnea, Hort. 
We learn from Sir W. Hooker that tliis is supposed to be 
a native of Africa, within the tropics, and that it was intro- 
duced by Mr. Jacob Makoy, of Liege. 
It is a soft wooded shrub, of a grey aspect, with strongly 
furrowed leaves, and terminal cymes of delicate flesh-coloured 
flowers. Specimens of it have been lately exhibited to the 
Horticultural Society by Mr. Ayres, from the collection of 
James Cook, Esq. of Brooklands, and by Mr. Glendinning of 
Turnham Green. The accompanying figure was made last 
September, from a plant in the possession of Messrs. Rol- 
lissons. 
Judging from these we should say that it will prove a 
plant well worth cultivating ; with a bad foliage certainly, but 
with flowers that more than compensate for it by their deli- 
* So named by Mr. Bentham from re»rac, “a number five," in allusion 
to the parts of the flower being in fives instead of fours. 
