[ 1639 J° 
JACQUINIA AURANTIACA. ORANGE- 
FLOWERED JACQUINIA. 
Cla/s and Order. 
PentAnpria MonocyYnia,. 
| Generic Charadfer. 
Cor. 10-fida. Stamina receptaculo inferta. Bacca 1-fperma. 
Specific CharaGer. 
JACQUINIA aurantiaca ; foliis obovatis lanceolatifve acu- 
minatis pungentibus. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. v. 2. p. 6. 
Desc. Stem fhrubby, tomentofe. Leaves alternate, obovate, — 
and lanceolate, terminated with a ftiff pungent mucro, fhining, 
pale underneath, rigid, margin thickened. Flowers in a terminal 
few-flowered raceme: Pedicles alternate, longer than the flower, 
thickened upwards ; with a minute draéfe at the bafe of each. 
Calyx five-cleft: fegments rounded, hollowed, clofely em- 
bracing the tube of the corolla. Corvi/a faucer-fhaped: tube 
longer than calyx, thick: /imé ten-cleft: lacinia in two feries, 
alternate, outer row larger and more rounded. Stamens five, 
inferted into the receptacle : filaments thick, united half-way from 
their bafe: anthers exferted, two-lobed. Germen ovate, one- 
celled, with a fingle ovulum: flyle fhorter than filaments: figma 
capitate. 
This curious fhrub is a native of the Sandwich Iflands, 
where it was difcovered by our friend Arcuinatp Menzies, 
Efq. Introduced to the Kew Gardens, in 1796. Flowers 
moft part of the fummer, and as late as November. 
Our drawing was taken at the fine colleétion belonging ta 
the Comtefle Dz Vanpes, at Bayes-Water, 
