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 Dais Cotinifolia. Cotinus-leav'd Dais, 



Clafs and Order, 

 Decandria Monogynia. 

 Generic Characler. 

 Involucrum 4-phyllum. Cor. 4 /. 5-fida. Bacca i-fperma. 

 . Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



DAIS cotinifolia floribus quinquefidis decandris. Linn. Syfl. 

 Vegetal, ed. 14. Murr. p. 403. Spec. PL p. 556. 



DAIS laurifolia. Jacq. ic. collet! . 1. p. 46. 



The Dais cotinifolia is an ornamental Green-houfe Shrub, of 

 the deciduous kind, and though it appears from the Hortus 

 Kewenjis to have been introduced by Mr. James Gordon, of 

 Mile-End, in 1776, is yet a great rarity with us, and only to 

 be found in fome of the firft collections. 



Its fcarcity,* and confequent very high price, is attributed 

 to the Nurfery-men's not having yet discovered the means of 

 propagating it freely. 



Meffrs. Grimwood and Co. of Kenfington, have fome 

 very fine plants of it, which flower every year in the months 

 of June and July, but as yet have produced no perfecl feeds, 

 which they may be expected to do when grown older; fuch 

 having been known to ripen them in Holland. 



It is a native of the Cape, and appears to have been long 

 poffefTed by the Dutch, as its Generic Character taken from 

 D. V. Royen, is printed in the Genera Plantarum of LiN' 



Nius in 1764. 



There are only two known fpecies, and they vary in the 

 number of their Stamina, and divifions of the Corolla. 



