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Nanpina DomgsTica. GARDEN NANDINA. 
Ba ee eae ee er ee 
Cla/s and Order. 
HeEXxANDRIA MONOGYNIAs 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal. polyphyllus imbricatus. Cor. 6-petala, Bacca fupera, 
1-lécularis, difperma. Sem. menifcoidea. 4 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
NANDINA domeflica. Syf?. Veg. 944. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 230. 
= Thunb. fap. 147- Eju/d. Nov. Gen. Pl. 1. p. 14. 
Gert. Fru. 2. 69. t. 92- f- 3- Banks Icon. 
Kempf. t. 13, 14- 
NANDSJOKF, vulgo Natten vel Nandin. Kempf. Amen. 
P- 77% | 
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The Nandina is cultivated both in Japan and China; in the 
Ormer country it is feen in every little garden about the 
houfes, but whether for ornament only or that any particular 
ufe is made of it, we are not informed. Ata diftance, fays 
2MPFER, it has a reed-like appearance, many fimple ftems 
Ptinging up from the fame root, which are branched towards 
the top only, and terminated with a pyramidal panicle of red — 
tries, the fize of a pea. The ftems are fhrubby, the fize of 
the finger or thicker, and clothed with the fheaths of the 
leaves, in the manner of the Polygonez of JussiEu but this 
author does not refer it to any of his natural orders. 
The leaves are alternate, and the footftalks very remarkably 
compounded, the divifions branching off nearly at right angles ; 
at the lower ones more efpecially, the joints are {wollen into 
akind of globular bulbs. The feeds are of an uncommon. 
ape, being convex on one fide and concave on the other ; 
MPFER compares them to what are called in the fhops 
tab’s-eyes, Se 
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