672 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Calycanthus. 
nal, lower leaves petioled, three-parted, and ternate, with 
segments divided above, they are sessile, ternate and 
simple; stamens twenty; seeds smooth. 
A native of Bengal, where it appears in shady places 
during the cold season. Root fibrous, annual. Stem 
erect, above very ramous, smooth, piped, about one and 
a half or two feet high. Leaves below petioled, three-part- 
ed and ternate, with leaflets divided above, sessile, ter- 
nate and simple, with leaflets linear-lanceolate ; all are 
smooth on both sides, Stipules membranaceous, Flowers 
terminal, and from the divisions of the branchlets forming 
nearly an umbel, small and yellow, Ca/yx spreading, 
alittle woolly outwardly. Nectaries, about twenty- Seeds 
~ sesgjle on a cylindric receptacle, oval, laterally compress- 
ed, with a pointed top. 
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CALYCANTHUS. Schreb. gen. n. 870. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx imbricated, squamous ; corol many- — 
petalled. Germs several, one-celled, one-seeded ; attach 
ments inferior. : 
©. precox. Willd. 2.1120. Bot. Mag. 466. 
- Leaves opposite, from lanceolate to ovate, oblong ; flow- 
ers axillary, solitary, sub-sessile ; inner petals smaller. 
Obai. Kempf. amoen. 878. t. 899. 
From China this sweet smelling, rigid shrub has been 
received into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it 
blossoms during the months of December, January and 
February, at which time it is nearly destitute of leaves, 
for they are deciduons in Bengal during the cold season. 
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