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MANDEVILLA SUAVEOLENS. SWEET-SCENTED 
MANDEVILLA. 
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Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Dieynta: 
( Nat. Ord.—Apocynez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx pentaphyllus, imbricatus, erectus, intus annulo 
pectinato auctus. Corolla hypogyna, campanulato-infundi- 
buliformis, fauce tuboque esquamatis, limbi 5-fidi laciniis 
subequilateris. Stamina 5, basi corolle tubi inserta: an- 
there in conum circa stigma conniventes, apice membra- 
nacee. Ovarium biloculare, polyspermum. Stylus unus; 
stigma conicum, a latere 5-foveatum, basi campanulatum 
5-lobum, apice bicuspidatum. Annulus hypogynus 5- 
lobus, carnosus. Fructus ..... —Frutex Bonariensis (7?) 
volubilis, foliis petiolatis membranaceis, stipulis pectinatis, 
racemis secundis axillaribus multifloris. Lindl. 
Specific Name and Synonym. 
MANDEVILLA suaveolens. 
Manvevitta suaveolens. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, ¢. 7. 
I had long possessed specimens of this plant in my Her- 
barium, where I had referred it to Ecurres ; and having 
received recent flowering ones from the Horticultural Society 
of Edinburgh, from which the accompanying figure was 
taken in October, 1839, I was on the point of publishing it 
as an Ecurres when the plate above quoted appeared, where 
Professor Linptey has constituted of it a new Genus, under 
the name of Manpevixna, in compliment to Henry Joun 
Manpevitze, Esq., H. B. M. Minister at Buenos Ayres, 
“ to whom we are indebted for the introduction of this and 
many other interesting plants.” He considers it to differ 
from 
