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 Fabricia laevigata. Smooth Fabricia. 



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r4?/i tf?/<tf Order, 



Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charabler. 



Cat. 5-fidus, femifuperus. /Vta/rf 5, feffilia. Stigma capitatum. 

 Capfula multilocuiaris. Sew. alata. Smith. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



FABRICIA laevigata; foliis alternis. 



FABRICIA laevigata; foliis obovatis alternis glaucis, dentibus 

 calycinis triangularibus. JVilld. Sp. PL 2, p. 951. 

 FABRICIA laevigata. Smith. Tranf. Lin. Soc. 3. £. 265. 

 G<ertn. fern. 1. p. 175. 



The genus Fabricia was flrft eftablifhed by Gartner, who 

 has given an excellent figure of the fruit, and has been con- 

 firmed by Dr. Smith in the 3d volume of the Tranfaclions 

 of the Linnean Society. The petals have fhort ungues and 

 are not, as defcribed by Gsertner, entirely feffile. The lamina 

 of the petals are nearly orbicular and undulated at the margin. 

 The lacinias of the calyx are reflected upon the germen and 

 Jemiorbicular, not triangular, at leaft in a recent flate, though 

 ln drying, the rolling of the fides inwards fometimes gives 

 them that form. The leaves though perfectly free from pubef- 

 c ence in their adult ftate, when they firft appear are clothed on 

 their under furface with fine filky hairs. 



This fhrub has been twenty years in this country, but we have 

 not heard of its having flowered any where; the fpecimen 

 from which our drawing was taken, bloomed laft May in the 

 botanic garden belonging to the Dublin Society, whence it 

 was kindly tranfmitted to us in a recent ftate, by Dr. Walter 

 ^ade, of the King's and Queen's College, Profeffor of 

 Botany, 



