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Allamanda Cathartica. Willow- 

 Leav'd Allamanda. 



CAz/i <3«i Order. 

 PentaKdria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Contorta. Cfl/>/L lenticularis erefta echinata l-locularis po- 

 lyfperraa. Semina bractseata. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



ALLAMANDA cathartica. Linn. Mant. p. 214. Suppl. p- 

 165. Syji. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 252. 

 Ait. Kew. V. 3. p. 489. 



ORELIA grandijlora. Aubl. Guian. p. 271. /. 106. 



This beautiful flove plant [a native of Cayenne and Guiana, 

 where it is faid to grow by the fides of rivers) was introduced 

 to this country in 1785, by Baron Hake*; it has fince flowered 

 in many of our collections, ufually in June and July. 



Stem or trunk flirubby, upright, climbing to a confiderable 

 height ; bark of the old wood pale brown, of the young wood 

 green and fmooth ; leaves generally growing four together, 

 fometimes only two, and thofe oppofite, feflile, fmooth, and 

 glofly above, paler green beneath, the midrib on the under- 

 fide evidently villous, veiny, veins as in Plumeria, termina- 

 ting before they^reach the margin, chewed difcovering little 

 tafte ; flowers very large, produced even on young plants, 

 of a fine yellow colour, and fomcwhat fpicy fmell, not terminal, 

 but growing from the fides of the branches, fometimes fingty* 

 more frequently three or four together, Handing on fhort 

 footftalks ; calyx compofed of five leaves, lanceolate, fmooth, 

 unequal, fhort compared with the flower; corolla mono- 

 petalous, funnel-fhaped, tube nearly Cylindrical, limb dilated 

 below and bellying out, on the infide ftriped with orange- 

 coloured veins, above divided into five ferments, which roll 



* Ait. Kenv. 



* over 



