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large, resembling coloured bractes. Corolla long 
and tubulous, border recurved. Stamina ex- 
serted, inserted near the base of the tube. Cap- 
sule roundish, at length opening with 2 valves 
in a contrary direction to the double dissepi- 
ment. Seeds winged, transversely arranged 
upon the receptacle. A 
A small tree, with entire, opposite and stipulate leaves; 
panicle terminal; fascicles from 4 to 5-flowered; flov 
rather large. Nearly allied to Cinchona, differing more 
by the Aabit than the character of the fruit, which when 
quite mature is distinctly bipartile in the line of the dis- 
sepiment, after the manner of Cinchona, the partition is. 
therefore not contrary to the valves, but a continuation - 
of their margin, proceeding inwards to the receptacle or - 
axis of the capsule; the fruit of Pinckneya is in fact 2-cell- 
ed and 4-valved, the seed-vessel never completely open- 
ing before the destruction of the tenaceous integument 
_ Which surrounds it. © x 
Srecies. 1. P. pubens. In Sphagnose swamps from - 
Carolina to Florida. Near Savannah in Georgia, &c. usu- 
ally not far from the sea-coast—Hitherto there is but 1 
Species discovered. Its bark appears from the taste and 
appearance altogether similar to that of Cinchona, and is 
probably medicinal. The monstrous and finely discolour- 
ed bracteiform segments of its calix, of a pink red, ren- 
der it highly ornamental, but it does not long survive its 
“transplantation in Europe; it would probably thrive bet- 
- better in bog-soil, on the margin of an aquarium supplied 
with artificial heat. : a ; 
211, CHIOCOCCA. Brown. L. ot ee 
Calix 5-toothed. . Corolla funnel-form, equal. 
_ Berry compressed, didymous, 2-seeded, inferior. 
< reet or scandent shrubs; leaves opposite, entire; flows 
ers axillary, racemose or solitary. . ; 
. Specizs. 1. €. racemosa. On the sea-coast of Flori- _ 
—Of this genus there are 2 other species; 1 im Peruy 
another discovered by Forster in the Society and 
islands of the a ss se 
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