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CyRILLA PULCHELLA. SCARLET-FLOWERED q 
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Clafs and Order. 2 
DipyNamia ANGIOSPRMIA, 
= Generic Charaéfer, 
Cal, fuperus, 5-phyllus. Cor. declinata, infundibuliformis. 
-Limbus planus, 5-partitus, fubzequalis, Rudimentum fila- 
menti quinti. Cap/. femibilocularis, — : 
S pecific Charaéfer and Synonyms. 
CYRILLA pulchella. L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. t. 71. 
COLUMNEA ereéfa. Le Lamarck encyel. 2. p. 66. 
BUCHNERIA coccinea. Scop. infubr. 2. p. 10. t. 5. : 
ACHIMENES minor eretia fimplex, foliis crenatis ovatis 
3 -oppofitis vel ternatis, floribus petiolatis fin- 
gularibus ad alas. Browne Fam. 271. t. 30. 
fe. 
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_ After receiving various appellations, this plant has been 
finally named Cyrilla, by Monf. L’Heririzr, in honour of 
Dominico Cyritto, M, D. Profeffor of Medicine at Naples, 
and author of Plante rariores regni Neapolitani, &c. Cyrilla 
racemofa is referred by Swartz to the Genus Jtea. ; 
This beautiful exotic is a native of Jamaica; Dr, BRowNE- 
found it near Hope-River, in the lower mountains of Liguanea; 
he recommends it to be cultivated as'an ornamental ‘plant, 
fays that it thrives beft in a cool gravelly foil, well furnifhed 
with moifture, and intermixed with a rich foil; to this country” 
it was introduced by Mr. Witi1am Forsyru in 1778, and 
is now very generally cultivated in our ftoves; it will not 
fucceed ina green-houfe; but, provided it has a fufficient de-- 
gree of heat, there is no difficulty attends its culture; it throws 
out from its roots abundance of fquamous fhoots of a fingular 
appearance, by which it is readily increafed, Se 
It flowers from Auguft to O@tober. 
