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PLUMIERIA ACUMINATA. SHARP-LEAVED 
PLuUMIERIA. 
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Class and Order. 
PrentanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—ApocineEz.) 
Generic Character. 
Contorta. Calyx quinquepartitus, obtusus, minimus. 
Corolla infundibuliformis, tubo longo sensim ampliato ; 
limbo quinquepartito, erecto-patente, laciniis ovato-oblon- 
gis, obliquis. Filamenta e medio tubi, antheris conniven- 
tibus. Styli vix ulli, stigmate duplici acuminato. Folliculi 
longi acuminati, ventricosi, patentes aut deorsum flexi, nu- 
tantes. Semina numerosa, oblonga, membrane majori 
ovate (crenato-dentate) ad basin inserta, imbricata. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Piumteria * acuminata; foliis planis cuneato-lanceolatis 
acuminatis, cymis terminalibus multifloris, corolle lim- 
bi laciniis oblique ovatis obtusis. 
PLUMIERIA 
* So named in honor of one of the most distinguished Botanists of the 
seventeenth century, CHARLES PLUMIER (hence PLumreRra and not 
Piumenrta is the right orthography), a French ecclesiastic of the order of 
the Minims, who undertook no less than three different voyages to the West 
Indies, and was about to be sent on a fourth when he died at Cadiz of 
pleurisy in 1704, in his fifty-eighth year. The principal works we have 
from him are his ‘‘ Description des Plantes de l’Amérique, a folio, with one 
hundred and eight plates a4 outline drawings made by PLUMIER himself; 
chiefly consisting of Ferns, Peppers, Aroidez, and Passion-flowers. — This 
appeared in 1693, and was followed by his “ Nova Plantarum Americana- 
rum Genera,” in quarto, in 1703, and contains one hundred and three new 
Genera. The Ferns of his first book were afterwards republished, with 
many additional figures, in his great and very useful work, “ Traité des 
_ Fougéres, &c., de Amérique, which appeared in 1705, with one hundred 
and seventy-two excellent plates. Many of his drawings were half a century 
after his death published by J. BuRMANN in the “ Plante Americane a C. 
Plumier selecte et a J. Burmanno edite, in fol., 1755.” It would appear 
also that Father PLumieR, in the ‘‘ Journal des Sciences” in 1694, first 
showed that the Cochineal was of animal and not vegetable nature. See 
_ Sir James E. Smiru’s Memoir of PLumrer in Rees’ Cyclopedia, for much 
‘more interesting information relative to this distinguished Botanist and 
excellent man. 
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