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Salmea scandens. Climbing Salmea, 



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CYass anrf Order. 



SyNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA i^QUALIS. 



Generic Character. 



Calyx imbricatus. Recept. paleaceum, conicum. Flosculi 

 tubulosi, hermaphroditi. Semina compressa, biaristata. Aristce 

 persistentes. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Salmea scandens; caule scandente lasvi, foliis ovatis acumi- 

 natis integerrimis calicibus cylindricis. Decand. Hort. 

 Monspel. p. 141. 



Salmea scandens. Brown in Lin. Soc. Trans. 12. p. 1 12. 



Bidens scandens ; foliis oppositis ovatis acuminatis integerri- 

 mis, caule scandente fruticoso, floribus oppositis panicu- 

 latis. Sp. PL 1167. Reich. 3. 706. Hort. Cliff. 399. 



Bidens frutescens. Mill. Diet. ed. 7. 



The Bidens scandens of Swartz and suffruticosus of 

 Brown's History of Jamaica, according to M. Decandolle, 

 belongs to a different species. Salmea scenvkns has leaves 

 quite entire, somewhat undulated, but not at all serrated at 

 the margin. 



Most of the true species of Bidens are annual, and perhaps 

 all of them herbaceous, differing entirely, not in habit only, 

 but in many of the generic characters from our plant, which 

 has an imbricated, not an equal calyx ; a conicle, not a flat 

 receptacle ; a compressed, not a square, seed. Salmea is a 

 genus intermediate between Bidens, Melananthera, and 

 Eupatorium, and is named by M. Decandolle in honour of 

 the Count of Salm-Dyck, the genus before assigned to him 

 by Cavanilles beingthe sameas theSANSEViERAof Thunberg. 



This plant, though possessing few attractions, having 

 neither beauty nor fragrance to boast, yet never having been 



before 



