Cal. 5-fidus, infundibuliformis, exterior 2-phyllus. Petala 5 
— which Micrer, who cultivated it about the year 1773, alfo 
: afferting, from the experience of | thirty years, that plants 
raifed from its feeds have conftantly differed from thofe of 
: the ulmifolia ; this is our plant, which on his authority we have 
f 
are fhewy, but of fhort duration, and are remarkab 
leav'd Turnera, its foliage however does not anfwer to the 
> figures indeed are fo fimilar that they look like copies of each - 
 Martyn's Cent. there is given a very excellent figure of what 
“> Sd 
TurNeErRA ANnGuSTIFOLIA. NARROW- 
EAV’D TURNERA. | 
1 ate ale sls, ala sie sis sis. sb Saks als stp ale ate als ld of 
pe Seale ape ake sie sleskealenale ak ale ake se ale ale sleet 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA ‘TRIGYNIA, 
Generic Charaéfer..  ~ = 
calyci inferta. Stigmata multifida. Cap/: 1-locularis, 3-valvis. 
3 Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
TURNERA angufiifolia floribus feffilibus petiolaribus, foliis 
_ lanceolatis rugofis acuminatis. Mill, Dis ed. 
7 6. 4to. ~ S , 
TURNERA Frarelceni folio longiore et mucronato. Mart. 
Cent, 49: 42-49." : : 
This plant here reprefented is generally known to the 
Nurferymen about London as the Yuruera ulmifolia, or Elm- 
name, nor to the figures of the plant as given by Marryn in 
ent. Pl. and Linnavs in his Hortus Clifortianus, which 
other, thefe reprefent the true elm leaf; on the fame plate of _ 
a 
he confiders as another f{pecies of Turnera, vide Synon. and 
defcribes as a diftin& {pecies, under the name of angujfifolia, 
given as a {pecies, though *‘LInN2Zus regards it as a variety. ; 
PLumMier gave to this genus the name of Turaera, in _ 
honour of Dr.-Witttam Turner, a celebrated Englifh 
Botanift and Phyfician, who publifhed an Herbal, black letter, 
folio, in 1568. $ Mee 
The prefent fpecies is a native of the Weft-Indies, and is 
commonly cultivated in our ftoves, where it rifes with a 
femi-fhrubby ftalk, to the height of feveral feet, feldom — 
continuing more than two or three years; young plants 
generally come up in plenty from feeds {fpontaneoufly f{cattered, — 
fo that a fucceffion is eafily obtained. ee 
It flowers from June to Auguft. se 
Its foliage has a difagreeable fmell when bruifed; its flowers 
growing out of the footftalk of the leaf. 
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