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BRUNFELSIA AMERICANA. AMERICAN 
: BRUNFELSIA. 
He dese oh 2k aly eae eae Seseae ako ale. ae * Ne le 
Clafs sas Order. 
~DIpyYNAMIA AANGIOSPERMIA, =- . 
_ Generic CharaGer. 
Calyx 5- -dentatus, anguftus. Coro/le tubus longiffimus. Capf. 
unilocularis, poly{perma: conceptaculo carnofo maximo. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. a 
BRUNFELSIA americana: foliis ellipticis, acuminatis, 
_ olis longioribus, corolla tubo ereéo, lim 
integro. Linn, Syfi. Nat. Gmel. p. 929- 
eas os ed. 14. Murr. p.231. Ait. Kew 
ee - p. 340. Swartz. Ob/f. Botan. p. oe 
: 3 4. Sig. 2. a 
BRUNFELSIA flore albo, fru€tu croceo molli. . 
| Gen. .12. ic. 65," 2 
CATESBEA? fruticofa, foliis plipheoovaile floribu 
gularibus. Brown Fam. 141. 
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PLuMisr gave’ to this genus of plants the name of B 
felfia, in honour of Orno Brunrexsivs, who at a -yery 
early period, 1530, publifhed figures of plants in wood, which 
have been generally admired for their fuperior excellence. 
Till lately the prefent plant was confidered as the only kno 
fpecies, but another has lately been added by Prof. Swart 
_ who informs us that the Brunfelfia americana inhabits the 
_ mountainous parts of Jamaica, where it forms a tree from t 
- to fifteen feet high; in his Odferv. Botan. he gives a min 
defcription of it, and obferves that the flowers are extr 
fragrant. It was late in the prefent funmer, when we | 
plant here figured flowering in Mr. Corvitt’s” 
fragrance to us was {carcely perceptiblé : its bloffoms are lar 
and fhewy, about the fize of thofe of the Allamanda cat. 
figured tad. 338, but of a much paler yellow, inclining to 
phur colour; thefe are produced during moft of the eines 
months, and frequently in pairs. 
This fhrub has long been cultivated in this. country" . 
Mr. Mriixer defcribes it in his Di€tionary; in Linn2£08. 
works, fo late even as Murray’s edition of the Syh Peg. i 
flands under the clafs Pentandria. 
It is ufually increafed by layers and cuttings. 
* By Mitere in 1739+ 
