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POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA. Snowy 
PoINseETTIA. : 
| of Class and Order. 
Monazsta _Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Evuprnorsiacea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Involucrum monophyllum, androgynum, basi 5-loculare, 
extus appendiculatum, nectariferum. Flores pedicellati, 
-nudi; masculi bifariam in singulis loculis, monandri; foemi- 
nei solitarii, germen trilobum, ovulwm solitarium singulis 
lobis. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
4 Pornserria* pulcherrima. Graham in Edin. New Phil. 
. Journ. March, 1836. 
Evpnorsia pulcherrima. Willd. Herb.! 
| Evprnorsia Poinsettiana. Buist MSS. 
By whom this truly splendid plant was communicated 
D to WILLDENow’s Herbarium, I am not informed, but it was 
again discovered by Mr. Pornserre in Mexico, and sent 
by him to Charleston in 1828, and afterwards to Mr. Buist 
: of Philadelphia, who has within a very few years brought 
| together a choice collection of plants, equally creditable to 
his enterprise, and promising, as a point from which will be 
diffused a greater knowledge of the vegetation of North 
America. From Mr. Buist it was brought by Mr. James 
M‘Nag, to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and to several 
other establishments in this country, in November, 1834, 
and from the information communicated by him it has since 
been imported into other British collections from Mr. Buist’s 
— It flowered twice with us last year, but too imper- 
ectly to allow of its being figured. It subsequently flowered 
with Dr. Nem, Canonmills, and again with us this month 
(February, 1836). Nothing can be more ornamental in 
the stove. The rose-like whorls of bractee which eo 
nate 
lip 
* In compliment to Mr. PornsETTE, who rediscovered the plant, and 
"gave occasion to its introduction in a living state into Europe. 
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