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ROXBURGHIA GLORIOSA. GREEN- 

 FLOWERED ROXBURGHIA. 



f »♦ ft ft » ♦ $ ♦ 4 $ & $ $ $ . 'ft fr 



Clafs and Order. 



OCTANDRIA A^ONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-petala. A&7. foliola 4, lanceolata, 

 medio petalorura inferta, conniventia. Anthers geminas e bafi 

 folii ne&arii dependentes. Cap/, l-locularis, 2-valvis, poly- 

 fperma. Sem. receptaculo fpongiofo inferta. 



Specific Name and Synonyms, 



ROXBURGHIA Gloriofa. Perfoon Syn. 1. p. 412. 

 ROXBURGHIA gloria/bides. Roxb. Corom. 1. p. 29. /. 32. 



Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 348. Willd. Sp. PL 2. p. 321. 

 ROXBURGHIA viridtfiora. Smith Exot. Bot. 1. p. 111. /. 57 . 

 UBIUM polypoides. Rumpf Amboyn. v. 5. p. 365. /. 1 29 f 



In confiderlng Roxburgiiia as belonging to the clafs 

 Oclandria, and in the whole generic character, we have followed 

 Dr. Roxburgh's own account, which has been adopted by 

 Willdenow and Persoon, as alfo in the new edition of 

 A 1 ton's Hortus Kewenfis; at the fame time we fufpett that the 

 very different view taken of this genus by our friend Dr. Sm ith, 

 may be more confonant to nature. 



What is above denominated calyx, Dr! Smith confiders as 

 corolla, and the four petals as filaments, bearing fo many anthers 

 on the inferior part of their infide, crowned with an appendage, 

 the netlary of Roxburgh. To this part the 1 aft-mentioned 

 author defcribes the anthers as being attached, and hanging 

 thence pendulous, one on each fide the longitudinal feptum, 

 that divides the petal or filament in the middle ; while Dr. 

 Smith confiders each filament as bearing one anther only, 

 having its lobes fcparated by the projeBing ieptum. We have 

 not had an opportunity of examining a fufhcient number of 

 flowers in all their different ftages, to afcertain how this matter 

 flands. Before maturity, the deep violet coloured anthers ad- 

 here 



