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~HAMELIA PATENS. SprEADING, SCARLET 
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Class and Order. 
PENTANDRIA Monoeywia, | 
Generic: Charticter:: 
Cor..b-fda.. Bocca: blodilarid,: infra, polyapbriaay >: 
Specific Character and Synonyms, 
Hamensa patens ; racemis terminalibus coloratis; foliis ter- 
nis villoso-pubescentibus. Swartz Obs. pi 77. Willd. 
Sp. Pl.1. p. 980. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.1. p. 3734 Sm: 
Exot. Bot. 1. p. 45. t. 2A. 
Hametua patens; racemis patentibus. Sp. Pl. 246. Ex- 
cluso synonymo Plumieri. Jacg. Amer. p. 72. t. 50. 
Hameua patens ; foliis subtus tomentosis, tubo corolle 
cylindrico. L’Herit. Sert. Angl. p. 4. 
AMELIA patens ; ramis sulcatis, foliis ternis quaternis ob- 
longo-lanceolatis pubescentibus, floribus cymosis se- 
cundis. Flor. Peruv. 2. p. 68. t. 221. f. a. 
Hamexuia coccinea. Swartz Prodr. p. 46. 
Dunamenia patens. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 203. Roém. et 
Sch. Syst. Veg. 5. p. 265. 
Perictymenum aliud arborescens, ramulis inflexis, flore— 
corallino. Plum. Ic. p. 212. t. 218. f. 2. 
a 
This genus was named by Jacguin in honour of H. L. 
Dunamet pu Monceav, author of several works on trees and 
piso pie subjects, and Prrsoon, correctly enough, 
ged the name to Duname.ia, as more consonant to 
that of the author; but as the genus has been generally 
wn by the name of Hamexiia, or Hamers, we have 
ght it right to retain the latter. 
Descr. hes rounded, clothed with a soft pubes- 
cence, of a deep red colour. Leaves growing by sig 
