flowered in the fame perfe&tion, as it did laft Summer at Mr, 
Wooprorp’s, at Vauxhall, where our drawing was taken. It 
had been turned out. of a pot the preceding Spring into a_ 
border of bog-earth in the confervatory, which was kept very — 
moift. Flowers in Auguft and September. —~ | oS 
_ The name of Gordonia was given it in honour of the late 
Mr. James Gorpon, .a»very celebrated cultivator of rare 
plants at Mile-End, by Mr. Exxis, who fettled the genus from 
a fpecimen which flowered at Benyamin Bewicx’s, Eig. at 
Clapham, in the year r769. = edie 
It cannot be eafily propagated except from feeds imported — 
from America.-* ° iar ae ed ms 
_ In the Hortus Kewenfis, this tree is placed in the clafs 
Polyandria; and both Profeflor Martyn and Swartz agree, 
that it rather belongs to this clafs than to that of Monadelphia, 
in which W1LtpeNnow has néverthelefs rétained it, and in our 
_ Opinion very properly, as it is there in company with Sru.artia 
and Camexura, with which, particularly the former, it appears 
to have a natural affinity. According to the conceptions of — 
different obfervers, the filaments may be faid to be united at 
their bafe into a flefhy annular body, orthis ring may be re- 
garded as an elevation of the receptacle to which the filaments 
are attached, or as a neCtary, or a-gland, but as it differs fo 
little in its fubftance from the filaments themfelves, except in 
being more fucculent, it may be fairly confidered to be formed 
_ by the coalefcence of thefe. The ‘calyx, confifting of five 
round, concave leaves, is covered externally with a filky 
down, which, extending beyond the edges, gives it a ciliated 
appearance; and the two outermoft of the petals, partaking a 
the fame filkinefs, are likewife minutely fringed, efpecially the — 
emterior One of wall. sts eee 
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