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CLUYTIA PULCHELLA. BROAD-LEAVED | — 
CLUYTIA. 
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Class and Order. 
Diaccra GyNANDRIA. 
Generic Character. 
> Masex: Gal: 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala. Nect. gland i i 
Stam. 5, rudimento pistilli columnari inserta. i saencaite 
Fem. Cal. et Cor. maris. Styli 3. Caps. 3-locularis. 
Sem. J. (Clutia, Borrn. Lin.) 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Civytia pulchella ; foliis petiolatis ovatis acutiusculis glabris, 
floribus (subquinis) axillaribus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 88) 
Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 423. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 636. 
Houtt. Nat. Hist. ed. Belg. v. 6. t. 36. 
Civutia pulchella ; foliis ovatis integerrimis, floribus laterali- 
bus. Sp. Pl. 1475. Kniph. Cent.2, mas. Gert. Sem. 2. 
p. IVT. €, 107. f. 5. : a ee 
Frurex ethiopicus, portulace folio, flore ex albo virescente. 
Comm. Hort. 1. p. 177. t. 91. 
This genus was first established by Borruaave, in his 
Catalogue of the Leyden Garden, in honour of Oureer 
Civyt, Professor of Botany in the University of Leyden. 
According to the fashion of the day, his name was latinized 
to Aucrrius Crutiws, whence the genus was called by Borr- 
HAAVE, CLuTIA; and was so continued by Linnazus and — 
others. We. believe the late Mr. Dryanper, in ArtTon’s 
Hortus Kewensis, was the first to write the name Cruyris, 
which is not only conformable to the rule recommended, of 
spelling the name of the genus, as near to that of its proto- 
type, 
