i ithe, sciog off ayy 54 
pres 
PLinta Pepuncutara. Frere ee 
iB Peers Puinta. a | 
so donseiohibc eek 
5 Clafs and Order. 
‘IcosanpRIa Monocynta: 
- Generic Charatin: 
Cale 4. {. 5-partitus. Potala 4- ~5s Drupa fapera, falcata. | 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
PLINIA pedinculata floribus” Aegeapcialn’ pedanculatis : fta- 
minibus receptaculo infertis. Linn. Mant. p. 243. 
PLINIA pedunculata floribus a i sci ! 
é Suppl. 253. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 166. | 
MYRTUS brafiliana. Sp. Pl. 674. , 
EUGENIA uniflora. Sp. Pl. 673. oe 
PHILADELPHUS? arlene foliis myrtinis, nae op- 
= _ pofitis, ramulis gracilibus, pedunculis bipartitis ala- 
ibus. Brown Fam. 240. The == Ae ee 
ys 
The Plinia Hissar, in its foliage oii owen; bears a 
great refemblance to fome varieties of the Myrile, ‘of which 
genus Linn «vs, following others, at firft made it a fpecies 3 
_ on this account it may be deg in a certain degree, as an 
ornamental plant, it is moreover a very rare one: its flowers 
_ yield a confiderable fragrance, much, like that of the Orange 
— bloffom, 
Teo native of the Braaile; ‘aia alfo of Jamaica, ac- 
= cording to Dr. Brown, and others: was cultivated here by 
—— MILLER, in 1759. 
__ Our drawing was made January 18, 1799, from a plant in 
the tan ftove of the Apothecaries Garden at Chelfea, which ~ 
has been there a great number of years, and is now become a 
{mall tree, covered every year with a prbdfufion of bloffoms, | 
which in fome feafons have been followed by fruit. | 
The branches of this tree are flender, and covered with Pe 
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