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the Gascrheta: excepting that j it is ier | in the evening beféied 
the flower opens, fo late, mdeed, that its blowing, unlets par- 
ticularly attended to, might efeape obfervation, before morning 
it clofes, changing i in decay to a deep rich orange. 
In ftri&t propriety, this plant ought, perhaps, to be made a 
new genus of, according to what is at prefent’ known of the 
genera Ocnotbera and Gara; as more fpecies of each are 
difcovered, they may “poffibly be found to ran into each other; 
it is poflible alfo, that other plants. may be found with fruéti- 
fications fimilar to the one here figured, in that cafe there will 
be no hefitation in forming them into a new genus. . : 
_ Should this plant be found too tender to bear our ordinary 
frofts in the open air, ftill, as it readily ripens its feeds in fuch 
fituations, it may be raifed yearly from feed, and regaraca = as - 
a tender, annual, as well asa greenhoufe plant. . 
In the open border it flowers. i in Semmens in the green. 
| houfe more early, 
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