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DrosMA UNIFLORA. ONE-FLOWERED 
— DIOsMA. : 
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-Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MonocGynla. 
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Generic Charaéter. 
Cor. 5-petala. Nearia 5, fupra germen. Capf. 3. fr be a 
coalite. Sem. calyptrata, ee 
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Specific Charaffer and Synonyms. 
DIOSMA uniflora foliis ovato oblongis, floribus folitariis — 
. terminalibus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 287. Sy. 
Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 239. Ait. Kew. v.16 
“Ds 276. ae ; 
CISTUS humilis zthiopicus, inferioribus foliis rofmarini 
fylveftris punétatis, ceteris autem ferpylli fubro- 
tundis, flore carneo. Pluk. mant. 4g. t. 342-f¢ 5+ 
The Dio/ma uniflora another native of the Cape, that never 
failing fource of vegetable riches, was introduced to the Royal 5 
_ Garden at Kew by Mr. Masson inthe year 1775, it flowers 
in our Green-Houfes from April to June, and is ufuadly pro- 
pagated by cuttings. . “oe a ee ee 
This plant forms a fmall bufhy fhrub, the leaves are thickly _ 
and irregularly fet on the,branches, quite up to the flowers, 
which ftand fingly on their fummits, and are larger than thofe — 
of any other known fpecies of. Diofma, expanding as we have 
’ found on trial beyond the fize of half-a-crown, which the 
bloffom does in our figure, though it will not appear to do fo 
to the eye of moft obfervers; they are without fcent, the calyx 
is large and continuing, ¢ompofed’ of five ovato-lanceolate 
leaves, reddifh on the upper fide, and if viewed from above 
_-vifible between the petals; the petals are five in number, much 
larger than the calyx, and deciduous, of a white colour with @ 
ftreak of red running down the middle of each, furface highly 
_ glazed, the {tamina are compofed of five fhort filaments, white 
and flightly hairy, broad at their bafe and tapering gradually 
to a fine point, by which they are inferted into the hind pa 
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