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Linum TRIGYNUM. THREE-STYLED FLAX, 
JHE HHH bet ioe io ie 
Clafs and Order. 
PeENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, 
Generic Chara@fer. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Cap/. fuperior 6—10-valvis, 
loculis totidem. Sez. folitaria. - 
Specific Charafter and Synonyms. | 
LINUM frigynum ; foliis alternis ellipticis acutis fubinteger- 
| rimis, ftylis tribus, capfulis fex-locularibus. Smith 
Exotic. Bot. p. 31. t. 17. 
LINUM trigynum. Roxb. Hardwicke in Afiat. Refearches, v. 
6. Pp. 357. Donn Hort. Cant. p. 64. 
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The firft notice we have of this beautiful fhrub is from 
Colonel Harpwicxg, in his narrative of a journey to Sirina- 
8ur, above quoted, where it is faid to be well known in the 
gardens at Cawnpore and Lucknow by the name of Gul- 
Afhurfee, and to be a native of the higheft mountains be-— 
tween Nataana and Adwaanee. Dr. Smitx publifhed a figure 
of this plant in his Exotic Botany for February 1785, and in- 
otms us that it flowered in the ftove of the Right Honourable 
HARLES Grevitie, at Paddington, the preceding Decem- 
t. It has fince found its way into many colleétions about 
ai Communicated to us both by Mr. Wurttey, and Mr. 
ALIsBury, of the Botanic Garden. Mr. Donn, of the firft 
ority in thefe matters, confiders it as a greenhoufe fhrub, - 
and fays it flowers in July and Auguft. We have feen it gene- 
Y In ftoves, producing its bloffoms in November and De-. 
~ yee Their natpral feafon in the Eaft-Indies is in March 
pri . : ‘ 
. There is fomething in the habit of this fhrub, which, befides 
ving only three ftyles, and above all its.ftigmas being 
lobular, would lead us to doubt if it be a real Linum; 
a We have had no opportunity of examining the fruit, by 
ch the queftion muft be decided. 
