sz E. oium MONOGYNIA- Salicoggin: 2 
rol... Siigma large, and lise ipii turbinate, size of anclivey - | 
smooth, when ripe yellow, three-celled, three-valved. — Seeds a few, 
etaboth, bright deep red, with a partial ragged aril of the same colour, 
| —Embryo simple, sub-lanceolate, furnished with both pee and” 
vitellus.* APCD > 
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CUT CUUSALICORNIA. Schreb. gen. N'ia 000078 
| Calyx gibbous like an aril lining the inside of th the; cavities of the 
fructifieation i in the joints. Carol 1 noue. Seed one. z 
E S brachiata: Ro na 1 
. Perennial, erect; branches. numerous, Fede joints . clubbed. | 
Sota cylindric. Flowers senepicpont. mW d 
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‘This seems an. dE plant; x nor can I collect what Dr, 
d Konig thought it was. Itisa small, generally erect, perennial species, 
growing plentifully on such low, wet, salt ground as is overflowed by. 
tlie spring tides. Flowers all the year round. It should be compar- 
ed with 5. herbacea. e 
= Stems generally. erect, woody, about as thick as a. goose-quill, - 
though sometimes at the base as thick asthe little finger; from twelve. - 
to y eighteen inches dea Branches — d ami numer“ — 
+10 January 1816 I sevaived roots. of this most eharminz species from Mr. Smith 
at | which produced blossoms i in the Botanic Garden in October the follow- 
ing year. Yt differs from H. coronarium, in regard to its flowers, which are 
about one third smaller, having the inner segments of the corol Jinear-clavate, the 
fissure of the lip narrow with straight sides, and its base contracted into alinear. — 
claw, They partake not only of the yellow colour of those of Michelia Champaca, be i 
possess. even the peculiar fragrance of the latter, only inaléss powerful and there” 
fore more grateful degree. Tn statüpé and leaves both spevies are-alike, =) 
‘Phe following quetation should be added to H> angustifolium, p. | li. — Edwards's, 
Bot, Regist, n. 157.— zNotwithstandjng the opinion which this di tinguished bo nist. 
has. expressed I am Ted to suspect that H. coccineum of Sir J. E. Smith (Reess new 
Cyciopedia, im loco) isa distinct. species, of which I have examined the original 
drawing, left by my inestimable friend and preiemnan dec Buchanan. “ar 
Botanic Garden at SEEEN, W. E x 
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