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SPRENGELIA INCARNATA. FLESH-COLOURED 
SPRENGELIA. | | ; 
De eee ee ee 
Clafs and Order. 
PeNTANDRIA Monocynia, 
Generic Charaéter. 
Cal. 5-partitus, perfiftens, Cor. 5-partita. Stam. receptaculo 
inferta. Cup/. 5-locularis, 5-valvis: diflepimentis ¢ medio val- 
vularum, placentis columne centrali adnatis. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
SPRENGELIA ‘ucarnaia ; antheris connatis barbatis, caly- 
cibus coloratis, foliis longe acuminatis. Brown Prod. 
P: 555+ 
SPRENGELIA incarnata. Smith's Tra€?s, 272. te 2. et in AG. 
Stockh, anno 17945 p. 260. 2. 8. Bot. Repof.2. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. 1. p. 833. Hort, Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 320. Epit. 45. 
The Sprencetta incarnaia is a very ornamental flowering 
fhrub of fmall ftature, firft defcribed and figured by Sir James 
Ep. Smitu, in the TranfaGtions of the Royal Academy of 
Sciences at Stockholm, and afterwards in Englifh, with a figure 
from a living fpecimen, in a volume of traéts relating to natura! 
hiftory, naming it in honour of Curistran Conran SpreEn- 
GEL, Profeflor of Botany at Halle. 
The flowers, which are very numerous, are produced at the 
extremities of the fhort branches, and are of long continuance. 
The calyx and corolla being much alike, and the lacinia of 
the latter, which are nearly white, with a pink tinge, exact! 
alternating with the fegments of the calyx, of a deeper ro 
colour, give a brilliancy to what might otherwife be confidered 
as rather an infignificant flower, thse 
