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Bauera Rubiotdes. Madder-Leaved 

 Bauera. 



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Oafs and Order, 



ICOSANDRIA DlGYNIA. 



Generic Char after. 



Cat. inferus 8-fidus. Cor. 8-petala. Cap/. 2-Iocularis. Sem m 

 plurima. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



BAUERA rupioides. And. Bat. Repof. t. 198. 



Desc. Stalk fhrubby, 3 — 6 feet high, branched. Branches 

 oppofue, patent, rigid. Leaves ternate, oppofite ; giving the 

 appearance at firft fight of fix leaves growing in a whprl : 

 Leaflets lanceolate, ferrate, rugofe-veincd, naked. Peduncles 

 axillary, longer than the leaves, at firft erect, afterwards fre- 

 quently drooping. Calyx inferior, one-leafed and growing to 

 the germen, deeply divided into eight flightly toothed, lanceo- 

 late fegments, reflexed, pcrfiftent. Corolla rofe-coloured, 

 eight petaled, but one is frequently deficient : Petals lanceolate, 

 concave, patent, quite entire. Filaments many, fhorter than 

 petals, attached to the infide of the calyx, not to the receptacle, 

 wherefore this plant belongs to the clafs Icosandria, not to 

 Polyandri a, where it is referred in the Botanift's Repofitory. 

 Anthers yellow, roundifh. Germen roundifh, fomewhat flat- 

 tened, emarginate. Styles two, filiform, divergent. Stigmas 

 acute. 



A handfome flowering fhrub, without fcent. Tafte of the 

 leaves bitterifh, fubaftringent, not unlike Chinefe Tea. 



This plant, a native of New-Holland, received the above 

 name in honour of the two Bauers, natives of Germany, 

 both very eminent botanical draughtfrnen in the employ of this 

 country ; the elder brother at the Royal Garden at Kew, the 

 younger now on a voyage of difcovery in the South-Sea. The 

 trivial name is derived from the refemblance which it bears, 

 efpecially in its young (late, to a Rubia, not a Rub us, as 

 Mr. Andrews, with his ufual accuracy, would have it. Flowers 

 through the greateft part of the Summer. 



Our drawing was taken at Mefirs. Grimwood and Wykes's, 

 Kenfington, where, we are informed, it was firft raifed in this 

 country. May be increafed by cuttings. 



