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Corchorus japonicus, var. /3. flore pleno. 



Double-flowered Japan Corchorus. 



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C/<j/} #wd Order. 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Characler. 



Cor. 5-petala. Cal. 5-pbyllus, deciduus. Cap/, plurivalvis, 

 loculamentofa. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CORCHORUS japonicus ; capfulis rotundis glabris, foliis 

 duplicato-ferratis. Thunb. Jap. 227. Willi* 

 Sp. PL 2. p. 1218. 



«. flore fimplici. 



TEITO vulgo Jamma Buki. K<emp. Avian. 844. 



(3. flore pleno. Bot. Repof. 587. 



JAM MA Buki altera. K<emp. Am<en. 845. 



CORCHORUS flore pleno e Japonica. Hottuyiu Linn. Pfi- 

 Syji. 7. p. 245. /. 45. /. 2. 



The Corchoru s japonicus^ though of very late introduction, 

 is likely to be foon common, as it increafes very faft by fuckers 

 which the roots throw up in numbers, and (Hikes mod readily 

 from cuttings. At prefent it is treated as a greenhoufe-, fome- 

 times as a ftove-fhrub, but will probably be found fufficiently 

 hardy to bear the cold of our winters in the open air as well 

 as the Ophiopogon japonicus (No. 1063) which likewiie 

 grows fpontaneoufly about Nagafaki. 



The fingle-flowered variety has not, to our knowledge, 

 been ever feen in Europe : that with double flowers was in- 

 troduced into the Kew Gardens in 1805, by Mr. William 

 Kerr ; from whence it has already fpread into raoft 01 tne 

 principal colle&ions about London. It is cultivated both in 

 Japan and China as an ornamental fhrub. . , 



Our drawing was taken from a fmall plant communicate 

 to us by Mr. Devey, Florift, in the King's-Road, Chellea, 

 in Auguft laft ; but its more natural feafon of flowering ap- 

 pears to be in the fpring : in Japan it blooms in February 

 and the following months. 



