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Chironia Angustifolia. Narrow- 

 Leaved Chironia. 



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Oafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Cbaraclcr. 



Cor. rotata. PijL declinatum. Statn. tubo corolla infidentia. 

 Anthers demura fpirales. Per. biloculare. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



CHIRONIA angufiifolia : fruticofa glabra; foliis linearibus 

 patentibus, calycibus ovatis claufis, corollis glu- 

 tinofis : laciniis cuneatis cum acumine. 



The flower of this fpecies very much refembles that or 

 Chironia dccujfata t No. 707, but the fegments of the corolla 

 are more wedge-fhaped with a longer acumen ; they are as in 

 that covered with a clammy mining balfam ; the tube is longer, 

 extending considerably beyond the calyx, which is oval, not 

 globofe, with iegments that connive at the points ; the leaves 

 are long and linear, of a dark green, without the leaft pu- 

 befcence, as is every part of the plant. Raifed from Cape 

 feeds by Mr. Whitley at Old-Brompton ; is one of the 

 moil beautiful of the genus, flowers freely during the fummer 

 months; requires the fame treatment as'CHiRONiA/^/'^ 

 No. 37, of which perhaps both this and decujfata may be the 

 offspring, changed by culture ; the form of the calyx is how-' 

 ever fo materially different, being in fruticofa open, not con- 

 tracted at top, that they may probably be really diftinft. 



