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CEDERA PROLIFERA. PROLIFEROUS CEDERA, 
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Clafs and Order. 
SyNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA SEGREGATA. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Calyces multiflori. Corollule tubulofe, hermaphrodite et una 
alterave feminea ligulata. Recep’. paleaceum. Pappus paleis 
* pluribus. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
CEDERA prolifera ; foliis lanceolatis ferratis reflexis. Willd. 
Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2392. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 184. Thunb. 
Prod. 169. Perfoon Syn. 2. 498. 
CEDERA prolifera ; foliis lanceolatis oppolitis ciliatis utrinque 
glabris. Linn. Suppl. 391. Sy. Vegetab. 796. Martyn Mill. 
Diét. n. 1. Lam. Illufir. t. 720. 
BUPHTHALMUM Capenfe; foliis oppofitis lanceolato-linea- 
ribus recurvis denticulato-ciliatis, calycibus acute foliofis, 
caule fuffruticofo. Sp. P1274. Amen. Acad. v. 6. p. 104. 
Berg. Cap. 297. 
The genus CEpera, fo named by Linnzus in honour of 
the late Dr. Gzorce Curistian CEper, profeffor of Botany 
at Copenhagen, to whofe management the firft part of the Flora 
Danica was intrufted, is a fmall greenhoufe fhrub, native of the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
This plant affords a good example of the order of Polygamia 
Jegregata of Linn zus, the head of flowers confifting of a num- 
ber of compound flowers, colle&ted together on a common 
receptacle and furrounded by a common calyx or involucrum. 
‘The partial calyxes each contain feveral tubular hermaphrodite 
florets, with females in the circumference; but what is re- 
markable, is that only thofe female flowers, which form part of 
the outer circle of the common head of flowers, put forth a ligula, 
thus making the common head a regularly radiated flower. 
Introduced into the Kew Garden in 1789, by Mr. Francis 
Masson. Flowers in May and June. Propagated by cuttings. 
Our drawing was taken in June 1810, from a plant communi-— 
cated by Meffrs, Loppices and Sons. : 
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