C 55° ] 

 Samyda Rosea. Rose-Coloured Samyda. 



Clafs and Order. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYN1A. 



Generic CbaracJer. 



Cat. 5-partitus coloratus. Cor. o. Necl. campanulatum fta- 

 miniferum. Cap/, intus baccata, 4-valvis, 1-locularis. Sem. 

 nidulantia. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



SAMYDA rofea : floribus dodecandris aggregatis, foliis ob- 

 longis obtufiflimis fubferratis utrinque pubefcen- 

 tibus. 



SAMYDA Jerrulaia. Bot. Repof. pi. 202. 



GUIDONIA ulmifolio flore rofeo. Plum. Gen. 4. ? 



This beautiful flowering fhrub is a native of the Well- 

 Indies, and confequently requires the heat of the bark ftove 

 to bring it to any perfection in this country, where it is very 

 ornamental, producing its fine red flowers in abundance along 

 the flexile pendent branches. 



It is certainly a very diftin£t fpecies from the Samyda 

 ferrulata defcribed and figured by Jacquin, in the fecond 

 volume of his Colle&anea, which has acute leaves finely ier- 

 rated, and folitary flowers different in fhape as well as colour. 

 It was fent to this country by Dr. Anderson, from the 

 Botanic Garden at St. Vincent's, and has been fome years in 

 the very fine collection of rare exotics poffeffed by Mr. Evans, 

 at Crombie-Row, Stepney, where our drawing was taken. 



By Dr. Anderson it was called Samyda pubefcens, a plant 

 apparently unknown to Botanifts of our day, and as the iy- 

 nonyms quoted by Linnaus (which certainly have no affinity 

 with this) are referred to other plants by Profeffor Swartz; 

 we were inclined to fuppofe that he might be right, bu 

 Dr. J. E. Smith having kindly examined the Linnean Her- 

 barium, informs us, that there is no fpecimen fimilar to 011 

 drawing there, and, from a critical examination of the wno 

 genus, is inclined to believe that it is the Guidonia « 

 folio flore rofeo of Plumier, which Linnaeus appears to hav 

 confounded with the Guidonia ulmi folio flore mvco 01 

 fame author, his Samyda ferrulata. 



