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CAROLINEA MINOR. LeEsseER CAROLINEA. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
MoNADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Calyx urceolatus truncatus. . Filamenta ramofa. Stylus lon- 
giflimus. Stigma 6-partitum. Cup/. lignofa, 1-locularis, poly- 
fperma, of ee 
Specific Charailer and Synonym. — 
CAROLINEA minor ; foliis feptenatis; foliolis elliptico- 
oblongis utrinque acutis, pedunculo calyce 
Jongiore, petalis decoloribus. 
BOMBAX Carolinoides. Donn Hort. Cant. p.156. 
We received this elegant fhrub from Meflrs. Loppices 
and Sons, under the name of Bomsax Carolinoides, an ap- 
pellation given it by Dr. Anperson of the Botanic Garden at 
St. Vincent’s, who was induced to refer it to that genus becaufe 
its feeds are enveloped in a fine brown cottony fubftance. But 
it is fo exa& a reprefentation in miniature of CaroLinea 
infignis, the fame truncated calyx, linear flefhy petals, and 
fingularly branched filaments, that we cannot confent to feparate 
it from that genus, and refer it to Bomsax, with the other 
fpecies of which it has fo much lefs affinity ; even though it 
fhould be found that the feeds of Caro.inea princeps and 
infignis have no cottony or other analogous envelope ; of which 
however we cannot find any certain proof, 
Caro inea minor differs from infignis not only in fize, the 
latter being a very lofty tree, but in the relative length of the 
peduncle, nearly twice that of the calyx, which in ijfignis is 
hardly fo long, though the calyx in the latter is more than 
fifteen, but in the former only about five times fhorter than 
the petals. The petals in our plant are green on both fides, 
in infignis, according to Swartz, they are of a bright red 
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