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repand, ferrated, or quite entire. An examination of feveral 

 fpecimens from different countries, has not enabled us to find 

 characters furfkiently permanent to diltinguifh them. The 

 Weft-Indian variety, which ours is, is generally defcribed as a 

 fhrub of (even or ten feet in height, producing great quantities 

 of fine fcarlet flowers, which, according to Bkown, feldom 

 bear perfect fruit in Jamaica ; but at Carthagena, Jacquin 

 tells us, almoft every flower is fucceeded by fruit, which, 

 if deprived of its pulp and dried in the fhade, may be 

 tranfported in a vegetating flate to any part of the world, 

 Thefe feeds, according to his obfervations, grow very readily, 

 and at Vienna the young plants raifed from them frequently 

 bear flowers the firft year. This being the cafe, it is furprifing 

 that fo beautiful a fhrub mould be fo feldom feen to ornament 

 our ftoves. The Sebeftenes of the fhops, long fince negle&ed 

 in this country, though referred by Linnaeus to this plant, 

 were more probably the product of Cordia Myxa. 



The Wanzey of Bruce, a native of Abyffinia, or at lead 

 generally cultivated there, though given as a fynonym to this 

 plant by Willdenow, can hardly belong to it. It is a much 

 loftier tree, bearing fnow-white flowers, and in other refpecls 

 differs fo materially that we conclude it mull be a diftinft 

 fpecies. 



Our drawing was taken in July 1801, from a fine plant in 

 the colle&ion of the Dowager' Lady De Clifford, at Pad- 

 dington. It is propagated by cuttings with difficulty, but if 

 care was taken to procure feeds from abroad, there would, 

 according to Jacc^uin, be no difficulty in obtaining this very 

 ornamental ihrub. 



