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Brownea cocciNEA. Scarlet-flowered 

 Brownea. 



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Class and Order. 



MONADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Leguminos^i. ) 



Generic Character. 



Bracteolce 2 connatae vaginam bifidam constituentes. 

 Sepala 5 concreta in calycem 5-fidum coloratum, tubo per- 

 sistente, lobis longis saepe varie cohaerentibus. Petala 5 

 unguiculata. Stam. 10 — 15 in vaginam hinc longitudina- 

 liter fissam monadelpha. Ovarium stipite calycis adnato 

 instructum, stylo filiformi. Legumen uniloculare poly- 

 spermia acinaciforme compressum. Semina ovata fibris 

 fungosis obvoluta. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Brownea* coccinea ; foliolis 2 — 5-jugis ovali-oblongis acu- 

 minatis, floribus fasciculatis, ramis petiolisque gla- 

 bris. D C 



Brownea coccinea. Jacq. Amer. p. 194. t. 121. Willd. 



Sp. PL v. 3. p. 715. Be Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 477. 



Spreng. St/st. Veget. v. 3. p. 75. 



Few 



* So named in compliment to Dr. Patrick Bkowne, an eminent 

 Naturalist, and Author of a History of Jamaica. Born in Ireland, in the 

 county of Mayo, in 1720, he was sent to Antigua when only seventeen years 

 of age ; but the climate disagreeing with him, he returned to Europe in 

 less than a year's time, and studied Physic, and especially Botany, first at 

 Paris, afterwards in Leyden, where he took his Doctor's degree, and formed 

 an intimacy with Gronovius, and commenced a correspondence with 

 Linn^us and other distinguished Naturalists. He then practised Medicine 

 for a short time in London, and went again to the West Indies, first to 

 Antigua, and afterwards to Jamaica, where he spent his time in collecting 

 and preserving specimens of the plants, buds, and shells of that fertile island, 



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