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Embothrium Sericeum. Silky 

 Embothrium. 



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C/j/> d«J Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charafier. 



Cat o. Cor. 4-petala. St am. limbo petalorum inferta. i^/- 

 liculus polyfpermus. Sem. alata. 



Specific Charafter and Synonyms. 



EMBOTHRIUM fericeum ,- foliis ternatis integerrimis revo- 

 lutis fubtus fericeis, fpica [racemo potius] 

 recurva, fru£tu tuberculato. Smith New- 

 Holt. i. p. 25. /. 9. 



EMBOTHRIUM fericeum. mild. Sp. PL 1. 539. Bot. Rep. 

 t. 100. Ejufdem Rec. 33. 



EMBOTHRIUM cytifoides : caule fruticofo, foliis ternatis 

 feffilibus ovato-oblongis, apice cufpidato, 

 limbo revoluto. Cav. Ic. 4. p. 60. n. 426, 

 t. 386. 



A native of New-Holland, in the neighbourhood of Port- 

 Jackfon, and at prefent one of the mod common of the ihrubs 

 from that country. Its flowing flexile branches give it a pic- 

 turefque appearance and it flowers readily, producing a fuc- 

 ceflion of bloffoms during the greater part of the fummer. 

 Dr. Smith makes three varieties, ours appears to be his minor, 

 and the fame that he has figured in the New-Holland Botany, 

 but with us the margins of the leaves are much lefs rolled 

 back, and the leaves on the younger branches do not conftantly 

 grow by threes, but this latter circumftance feems to be owing 

 to their not coming out at the fame time, one leaf arriving 

 nearly at its full fize, while the fecond is juft making its ap- 

 pearance, , 



