. 7 Poms 
guage oe Pore ies, 
THUNBERGIA FRAGRAN | 
. _ Twinine 
JERR 
Claey and Order. — 
~ Dipy NAMIA Axcrospenwta. 
tise Character 
Cal. duplex: exterior diphyllus: interior 12-dentatus. 
* Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Tuuneercta fragrans ; foliis cordatis aguminatis basi sub- 
. angulato-dentatis, caule scaudente. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 
Se > P- 388. fier: Ken; ed. alt. A p. 66. Mart. Mill. 
- he 2, 
Perseteesis fragrans. Roxb. Corom, i p. at. 4 a” , i: 
=? 63, * js 
THUNBERGIA iar has a climbing 
in the Bast Tadiee reaches thi 
Ear] foe we have never — it exceed that of a few feet 
The aes are cp fern g nor have we observed any oe 
ce in any part of the plant ; but Dr. Roxeurem in his 
nts of the Coast of Coromandel,” states positively, ‘that. 
= the plant possesses a pect liar and agreeable fragrance, and. _ 
the beauty of its flowers, although no , entitle it toa 
place in the flower-s n;” so tha i absurd notion, pre- 
vailing among the I Fen ed sage a perhaps in 
the Botanist’s Repo ository, the hat Dr. Roxguren gave it the 
1e of ans, e where it grew was sweet 
pana not so, seems to be entirely void — 
> heat of a tropical sun see we. 
