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- Maenouia acuminata. Brive Maeno or 
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Class and Order. 
4 x 
Potyanpria Poryeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal, 3-phyllus. Petala 6-9. Capsule bivalves, imbri- 
cate. Sem. baccata, pendula. : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
~ Macnoura acuminata ; foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis. 
Spec. Pl. 756. Willd. 2. p. 1257. Hort. Kew. ed. 
alt. 3. p. 331. Lam. Encycel. 3. p. 674. 
Macyotia acuminata ; foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis 
__ subtus pubescentibus. Persoon. Syn. 2. p. 93. 
AGNOLIA acuminata; foliis ovalibus acuminatis subtus 
pubescentibus, petalis obovatis obtusiusculis. Pursh. 
Amer. Sept. 2. p. 381. 
Maenoria flore albo, folio majore acuminato haud albi- 
ante. Catesh. Car. Append. p. 15. t. 15. Gronov. 
Virg. Ato. p. 82. | 
Siete 
The first account that Mr. Caresry received of this plant 
Was from a specimen sent hizn by Mr. Crayton from Vir- 
$mia, being a branch of the only tree known in that 
_ Country ; and it was probably from this dried specimen, 
that the figure in his Natural History of Carolina was 
taken; and it appears to us that the flower was made out 
ftom one of Maenouia glauca, prc, Pg! unlike that of 
Sur plant. Caressy informs us, that Mr. Joun Bartram of 
Pensylvania afterwards met with several in that country, 
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