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Cluytia alaternoides. Narrow- 

 leaved Cluytia. 



Cta/jr and Order. 

 Dioecia Gynandria. 



Generic Character. 



Masc. Cat 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petaIa. Neil, glandulofum. 

 Slam. 5, rudimento piftilli columnari inferta. Fem. Styli 3. 

 Cap/. 3~locularis. Sem. 1. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CLUYTIA alaternoides g foliis feffilibus lineari-lanceolatis 



acutis, floribus axillaribus folitariis. V/illd. Hort. 



Berol. 50. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 419. Mart. Mill. 



Ditl. Perfoon Syn. 2. p. 636. 

 CLUTIA alaternoides ,- foliis feffilibus lineari-lanceolatis, 



floribus folitariis erectis. Sp. PL 1475. Reichard 



4. />. 286. 

 CLUTIA foliis feffilibus. Hort. Cliff. 500. 

 TITHYMALUS arboreus yEthiopicus mezerei germanici 



foliis, flore pallido. Pink. Aim. 369. Phyt. t. 230. 



Willdenow, in his Hortus Berolinenfis, has given a figure 

 of the female of this fpecies; ours reprefents the male plant. 

 The Alaternoides of Commelin, quoted by Lin n.eus as 

 a fynonym of this plant, more probably, as Willdenow ob- 

 ferves, reprefents Cluytia daphnoides. Nor do either of the 

 figures., quoted from Bur-mann, belong to this fpecies; fo 

 that, except the very indifferent one of Plukenet, we do not 

 know that any reprefentation has been before given, but that 

 ©f the female plant by Willdenow. 



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