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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA Monoeynia, 
Generic CharaGer. 
Contorta. Follicnlt 2ere€ti. Semina nuda. 
oS Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
VINCA yofea caule frutefcente erefto, foliis ovato oblongis, — 
3 petiolis bafi bidentatis, floribus geminis feffilibus. — 
Linn, Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 252. Aite — 
Jf ae RED, ©. 45 p.-206: a 
VINCA foliis oblongo-ovatis integerrimis, tubo floris lon- 
giffimo, caule ramofo fruticofo. Mill. Icon. 86. 
_ The Vinca rofea was firft cultivated in this country by M 
Puirip Mitver in 1757, he obferves that it deferves a place 
in the flove as much as any of ‘he exotic plants we have in 
England, becaufe the ‘flowers are very beautiful, and there is 
_ aconftant fucceffion of them all the fummer. | 
The following account is extraéted from his Di€tionary. 
““ This plant grows naturally in the Ifland of Madagafcar, from 
“ whence the feeds were brought to the’ Royal Garden at Paris, 
*‘ where the plants were firft raifed, and produced their flowers 
“the following fummer; from thefe plants good feeds were 
“obtained, which were fent me by Mr. Ricuarp, gardener 
“ to the King at Verfailles and Trianon. It rifes to the height 
“of three or four feet ; the branches which when young are 
“ fucculent become ligneous by age: thefe flowers which ap- 
_ “pear early in the fummer produce ripe feeds in the autumn. . 
___ “ This fort is propagated by feeds or cuttings in the ufual 
“ways unlefs the fummer proves warm thefe plants fhould not 
__ “be placed abroad, for they will not thrive if they are expofed 
to cold or wet, therefore during the fummer they fhould be 
_ “placed in an airy glafs-cafe, and in winter they muft be 
_ “removed into the flove, where the air is kept to a temperate 
“heat, without which they will not.live through the winter im 
England. © Mill. Dig. ° Re 
_ _ There is a variety of this plant having white bloffor 
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The flowers do not always grow in pairs, — 
