Governor of the Antilles. Its Englifh appellation denotes 
ufe to which it is frequently applied in the Weft-Indies, an 
Jacourn remarks that a hedge made of this plant, efpecially 
when mixed with Parxinsonra aculeafa, forms the moft 
beautiful fence imaginable; indeed few flowers have bee 
defcribed in more enraptured language. Although long fince 
widely diffufed through the Weft-India ifles, and frequently 
found of fpontaneous growth, it is doubtful whether it 
originally indigenous there. Licon fays exprefsly that it was” 
imported into Barbadoes from the Cape de Verd Iflands. It 
is cultivated through all the tropical countries of the Eaft, 
efpecially wherever any Chinefe are fettled, by whom it is 
called the Peacock’s Creft. Was introduced into Holland 
from Amboyna about the year 1670, and cultivated in Chelfea_ 
Garden, by Sir Hans Stoang, in 1691; but as it cannot be 
preferved out of the ftove, nor propagated except by feeds, it 
muft ever remain a rarity in our northern climes... 
The flowers are faid. to be fweet-fcented; but the whole 
plant, when bruifed, diffufes a difagreeable fmell, very like 
that of Savin, which it appears to refemble in virtue, being — 
confidered, in the Weft-Indies, as a powerful emmenagogue. 
Our drawing was made from a fine plant which flowered in 
the colleétion of the Comteffle pz. Vannes in July laf. 
Swartz has thought proper to unite Porncrana with 
Cs Aiptnta, in which he has been followed by W1LtLDENOW 
and our Martyn ;. but, notwithftanding thefe authorities, We 
are deterred from adopting this change, by obferving that, 
according to the accurate Gartner, the feed-pod of C#s- 
AupiN1A Sapam is one-celled, which in our plant is divided by 
a tranfverfe feptum between each feed; and in refpeét to the 
form of the flower, Porncinta feems to have a nearer affinity — 
with PARKINSONIA, , 
