have ftill continued to unite it with Brenonra, from which 
its habit, two-cleft calyx, and downy feeds, combine to feparate 
it. We fhould not lay much ftrefs upon its never having ' 
more than two fertile ftamens, had this been the fole difference; 
though, in the artificial fyftem, this circumftance neceflarily 
removes it into a different clafs. It muft be allowed however 
that this feparation is doing the fame violence to -nature, as 
the removal of Salvia and Ziziphora from their near relatives 
Dracocephalum and Thymus. Such are the imperfeétions of all 
artificial arrangements. 
Our fpecific chara€ter was framed to diftinguifh it from 
Bicnonta /ongifima of Jacquin, the only congener of our 
plant that we are acquainted with, which may be charaéterifed, 
Caratra Jongifima foliis oblongis undulatis. The Japan 
plant above quoted does not appear to be different from the 
American fpecies; and B. tomentofa, another native of Japan, 
does not belong to Cara.pa, having a five-cleft calyx and 
different feed-veffel and feed. - 
The Catatea, which Caressy fays was firft difcovered by 
himfelf and brought to Carolina, where-it was afterwards much 
cultivated on account of its beauty, has been long an inha- 
bitant of our gardens, being introduced by the fame Botanift 
about the year 1728. In fheltered fituations, if the foil be 
moift and rich, it thrives freely and formsa very handfome tree,. 
but where expofed to the north-eaft winds is apt to be greatly 
disfigured by the perifhing of the ends of the fhoots. It bears: 
the {moke of large towns better than moft trees; the largeft 
fpecimen we have ever feen grows in the garden belonging to the 
Society of Gray’s-Inn. : 
A native of the banks of the Ohio and Miffiffippi. Flowers 
with us in july and Auguft, but we have never known it 
to produce feeds. : 
Our drawing was taken from a very fine tree, growing ™ 
the garden of -Grancer, Efq, in Exeter. 
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