C 1526 ] 



Pterospermum suberifolium. Cork- 

 leaved Pterospermum. 



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MONADELPHIA DoDECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Gz/. fimplex, 5-partitus. Cor. 5-petala. Stain, 20, quorum 

 5 fterilia. Q/>/~. lignofa, 5-locularis. Sem. alata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



PTEROSPERMUM Juberifolium ; foliis oblongis acuminatis 



apice fubdentatis. fVtlUL Sp. PL 3. p. 728. 

 PENT A PETES fuberifolia ; foliis ovatis repandis. Sp. PL 959,. 



Amoen. Acad. 1. />. 407. Mart. Mill. Diet, n. 1. 

 PENTAPETES fuberifolia; foliis oblongis repandis apice 



finuatis acuminatis fubtus incanis. Cavan, Dijf. 3. p. 130. 



*• 43- / 2. 

 PTEROSPERMADENDRUM fuberis folio angulofo fubtus 



incanQ, floribus albis. Ammann Comm. Petrop. 8. p. 215. 



/. 14. 



We have not heard that this fine fhrub has ever produced 

 flowers in this country before laft Auguft, at which time, under 

 the management of that experienced cultivator Mr. Fordyce, 

 8 bloffomed in the very choice collection of rare plants at 

 Bayes-Water, belonging to Madame la ComtefTe de Vamdes, to 

 whom this work has been frequently indebted, as was its original 

 author, for her kind patronage on ieveral other occafu 



Willdenow defcribes the flowers as growing in terminal 

 few-flowered racemes; in our plant they were axillary and foli- 

 ta ry; according to Prof. Ammann, they grow from the axils of 

 «ie leaves and the extremities of the branches, one, two, or 

 three together. The nectaries or five barren filaments are much 

 longer than the fertile ones, as in P. acerifolium (No. 620) but 

 ar e not elub-fhaped as in that. 



Native of the EaftJndies, and requires to be kept in the 



