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DurANTA Extxisia. Prickty DurRANTA. 
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Clafs and Order, 
DipyNAmria ANGIOSTPERMIA. 
~ Generic Charaéler. 
Cal. 5-fidus, fuperus. Dyupa 4-fperma. Nux 2-locularis. 
~ Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms. 
DURANTA Ellifia ; calycibus fru@tefcentibus ereAtis. Sp. Pl. 
888. /Villd. 3. p. 380. Facq. Amer. 187. ¢.176. f. 77. 
Facq. Pié?. 92. t.179. Hort. Vindob. 3. p» 51. ¢%. 99. Hort. 
Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 59. Swartz Os/. 247. _ 
ELLISIA frutefcens quandoque fpinofa, foliis ovatis utrinque 
acutis ad apicem ferratis, {picis alaribus. Brown Fam. 262. 
| = 2 jel. : “iy 
JASMINUM folio integro obtufo, flore czruleo racemofo, 
fruétu flavo. Sloane Cat. ¥am, 169. Hi. 2. p. 97. 
Three fpecies of Duranra are recorded in Wi1LLpENow’s 
edition of the Species Plantarum; but it is even doubtful 
whether all of them are not mere varieties of the fame, The 
branches in the fame fpecies are deferibed as being fometimes 
befet with thorns, but often not; -the leaves as fometimes quite 
entire, at other times fawed at the edge ; and Swarrz remarks, 
that the calycine laciniz of the fruit, Jacgurn’s mark of dif- 
tinction, are found to be both erect and twifted on the fame 
branch. In our plant, which agrees wi h Jac 
Ellifia, no fooner had the flower dropped, than the teeth of the 
calyx began to twift together. | 
‘Two kinds, one with thorns and the other conftantly without, 
are however ftill cultivated in our colleGtions, and are probably 
the fame fpecies as defcribed by Puitre Mitxier. The leaves 
of the /mooth are larger and’ more coarfely ferrated and the 
branches more rounded than in the prickly Duranta. 
Native of South-America and the Weft-Indies, and treated 
with us as a ftove plant. Mrzier, by whom it was cultivated 
before the year 1739, remarks, however, that it does beft when 
expofed to the open air in mild weather, and fays he has pre- 
ferved it through the winter without artificial heat, Propagated 
by feeds; or by cuttings, which ftrike readily. 
Communicated by A. B. La MBERT, Efq. from his colle&tion 
at Boyton, where it was raifed from feeds received from Mexico. 
