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Passerina Grandiflora. Great- 

 Flowered Passerina. 



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Clafs and Order. 



OcTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 (.\il. o. Cor.* 4 -fi da. Stamina tubo impofita. <S>w. 1. corticatum. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



PASSERINA grandiflora glaberrima, foliis oblongis * acutis 

 concavis extrinfecus rugofis, floribus terming 

 libus feffilibus folitariis. Limu SuppL PL p. 22* 



The Pajferina here figured, diftinguifhed from all th< 

 other known fpecies by the large nefs of its flowers, is 

 defcribed in the Suppl. PI. of the younger Linnaeus, but 

 not enumerated in the Hortus Kezvenjis of Mr. Aiton : it il 

 indeed a plant recently introduced to this country from the 

 Cape ; we faw it laft Summer in great perfe&ion, at Meffrs, 

 Lee and Kennedy's, Hammcrfmith ; it forms a fmall neat 

 fhrub, fomewhat like the Phylica ericoides, is a hardy green- 

 houfe plant, flowering in May and June, and incrcafed without 

 difficulty from cuttings. 



