RAUWOLFIA TERNIFOLIA. 'THREE-LEAVED 
s Ravuwo.rla. 
RRR KER EEE REE RR 
Class and Order. 
PentranpriA Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Contorta. Cal. minimus, 5-dentatus, persistens. Cor. 
infundibuliformis, tubo cylindrico basi globoso; fauce 
esquamata, barbata. Germina 2, comnata basi annulo hy- 
pogyno cincta. ‘Styli 2, connati. Stigma subcapitatum. 
Drupe due, connate, uniloculares, monosperme. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Ravwotria ternifolia ; foliis verticillato-ternis oblongis a- 
cuminatis glabris, floribus interpetiolaribus subcorym- 
bosis. Kunth Syn. Pl. equinoct. 2. p. 298. Humb. 
et. Bonpl. Pl. Aiquin. 3. p. 131. 
Ravworria ligustrina ; foliis ternis oblongis acuminatis 
glabris, racemo terminali, ramis dichotomis. Herb. 
Willd. Roem. et Sch. 4. p. 805. 
Ravuwotrta ternifolia is one of the plants collected in 
South America by those learned and indefatigable travel- 
lers Messrs. Humgoxipt and Bonpranp, and described, but 
not figured, in their Plante equinoctiales novi orbis. Our 
drawing was taken at the garden of the Horticultural Soci- 
ety in July last, from a plant sent to the Society by Mr. 
Carry from the Botanic Garden at St. Vincent’s, in the 
West Indies. 
Being 
