C 821 3 



KlTAIBELIA VlTIFOLIA. VlNE-LEAVED 

 KlTAIBELIA. 



Clafs and Order. 



MONADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



CaL 2-plex : exterior 7, feu g-fidus. Capful* in capitulum 

 quinquelobum glomerate l-fpermae. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



KlTAIBELIA vitifolia. Willi. Nov. Atl. Berol. 2. p. 108. 

 /. 4. /. 4. Walift. et Kitaib. PL Rar. Hung. 

 1. ^.29. /. 31. 



This plant, of which there is only one known fpecies, was 

 found in Hungary by Mr. Kitaib el, joint author with Count 

 Waldstein, of that excellent work in folio, Plant* Rariores 

 Hungari* t in honour of whom the name was applied by Prof. 

 Willdenow. In its native foil, rich and moift, it grows 

 feven or eight feet high, but we have not feen it with us reach 

 near to that height. The leaves are efteemed to be an ex- 

 cellent vulnerary, and as the whole plant abounds with an 

 infipid mucilage, fo common in the natural order of Malvaceae, 

 it is probably a fafe and ufeful application to wounds in ge- 

 neral. We received a fpecimen of this (at that time) very 

 rare plant, from Isaac Swain son, Efq. of Twickenham, in 

 September 1803, an< * another in Auguft 1804, from Thomas 

 Furly Forster, jun. Efq. Hackney; from which lad our 

 drawing was made. 



It is a hardy herbaceous perennial. 



