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~Browa iia Demissa. SPREADING 
BROWALLIA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
DipyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. limbus 5-fidus, equalis, patens: um- 
bilico claufo gntheris 2 majoribus. Cap/. 1-locularis. 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 
BROWALLIA demiffa ; pedunculis omnibus folitariis axil= — 
— laribus, a 
BROWALLIA demiffa. Willd, Sp. Pl. v.93. p. 339. Hort. 
Cliff. 918. #.17. Hort. Upf.179. Kuiph. Cent. 
8. 2.17. Sabb. Hort. Rom. 2. t.100. Mart. | 
Mill. Dif, Hort. Kew. 2. 358. Meerburg 
ee Icon. 15. Gart. Sem. 1. p. 246. t. 53. : 
DALEA. Philof. Tran/. n. 452 isi Se 
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__ Mr. Purirp Mitre received feeds of this plant, gathered 
in the neighbourhood of Panama, from Mr. Rosert Mitiar, 
_ and propagated it in the Phyfic-Garden at Chelfea, in 1735- 
He gave a fpecimen of it to the Royal Society, under the 
‘Tame of Datea; but Linn£us, to whom he communicated 
feeds, named it Browautra, in his Hortus Cliffortianus, in 
commemoration of J. Browatxius, Bifhop of Aboa, who 
had defended the fexual fyftem againft S1ecrsBEck.  - 
_ There are only two known {pecies of this genus. The other 
_isfigured at No. 34 of this work, and has been for feveral 
years common in our gardens; but this fpecies though firft 
Introduced, we believe, has been long entirely loft in this 
country. Our plant was raifed in the garden of Mr. Vers, 
from feeds received from Prof. WiLLDENOW. ‘ih 
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