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CAMERARIA DUBIA. DOUBTFUL 
CAMERARIA. 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MOoNOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaé?er. 
Contorta. Folliculi 2, horizontales. Semina membrane pro- 
pri inferta. | 
Specific Characier. | : : 
CAMERARIA dubia; foliis ovato-lanceolatis fubundulatis, 
corona corolle decemfida: laciniis alternis brevioribus 
obtufis. 
We received this fhrub from Meffrs. Lop pieces and Sons, in 
Auguft laft, who informed us that it isa native of the Eaft- 
Indies. We do not find that it has been any where defcribed, 
and not having feen the fruit, it is not poflible to determine 
with certainty to what genus it properly belongs. From its 
great fimilarity to Cameraria Jutea of WititpENow,—C. 
TLamaquarina of Ausxer (Pl. Guian. t, 102.) we areledtocon- 
fider it as a congener of that plant. The habit is nearly the = 
fame; the flowers grow in a few-flowered umbel on a fhort 
peduncle, from the fork of the divided branches, juft in the 
fame manner ; but differ in having a larger corolla with afhorter 
tube, not contracted upwards. The moft material difference, 
however, and which makes an uncertainty with regard to the 
genus, is that the corona or ne€tarium is a procefs of the corolla 
itfelf, apparently independent of the anthers; whereas in /usea 
the anthers are attached immediately to the bafe of the corona, 
which part is confidered by Ausver as filaments bearing the 
anthers at their bafes. 
It is an evergreen fhrub, requiring the heat of the ftove, 
