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Class and Orders... ¢o)6 oo ana 
MonapetpuiA Poryanpria. 
Generic Character. 
_ Flores umbellati involucrati. Involucrum (polyphyllum, 
Inequale). Cal. simplex, 5-phyllus, 1-bracteatus. Petala 
5, convoluto-clausa. Stam. 25-in tubo corollifero connata, 
uorum 5 sterilia. Germen 5-loculare, oligospermum. 
lus 1. Stigmata 5. Lanpxey. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
-Asmrarma Wallichii. Lindl. Collect. Bot. 14. Bot. Reg. 
691. De Cand. Prodr. Syst. Nat. 1. p. 500, 
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_ This very beautiful plant, said to grow to a large tree, 
but whigh Rowerl in our stoves at the moderate height of 
afew feet, belongs to the natural order of Malvacee of 
Jussieu; and to the division proposed by Mr. Roserr 
Brown, in the Appendix to Firxpzr’s Voyage: to be sepa- 
rated into a distinct order, under the name o jacee. 
This separation has been adopted by De Canpoxxz in his 
Prodromus, who has inserted Astrara in his fifth division | 
or tribe of the order, the Dombeyacee. 
This fine plant was introduced into Kew Garden from 
Calcutta, by Dr. Waxzicn ; : but its — oo try is not 
positively ascertained, though supposed to be Madagascar, 
from be oer is though that it was brought to the 
Mauritius, and thence to Calcutta. — 
Our drawing was taken at the garden of the Horticultural 
Society at Chiswick, in June last, from a plant presented 
fo the Society in 1823, by Witiiam Townsenp it 
