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ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



high, and B. americana growing to the si^e of an apple-tree with 

 a trunk as thick as the human body. 



Brunsfelsia, Sw. (char, reform.). — Calt/x brevissimus, urceo- 

 latus, profunde 5-dentatus. Corolla hypocraterimorpLaj car- 

 nosa, tubo gracili, cylindrico, calyce 4-12-ies longiore, fauce 

 paulo infundibuliformi, limbo valde expanso, obliquOj ad 

 medium S-fido^ lobis insequalibus, carnosis^ rotund atis, undu- 

 lato-crispatisj subreflexis, inferiore majori, 2 superioribus mi- 

 noribusj sestivatione valde imbricatis, maximo exteriori. Sta- 

 mina 4, didynaraa, inclusa; filamenta sursum incrassata et 

 incurva, 2 breviora inferiora et lobo majore opposita : anthercs 



V oblongse, sub-bilobaj, sub-biloculares, lobis transversim latiori- 



bus et confluentibusj rima marginali 2-valvatim hiantes, hine 



pseudo-1-loculares. Ovarium conicum, sessile, glandula basali 



fere obsoleta, aut nulla, 2-loculare, placentis carnosis, valde 



prominulis, dissepimento utrinque adnatis, multi-ovulatis. 



Stylus gracilis, filiformis, longitudine tubi corollas, apice in- 



crassatus, interdum sfubincurvus. Stigma clavatum, 2-labia- 



tum, lobis rotundatis, semi-globosis, glandula magna viscosa 



prommula interposita. Di^pa magna globosa, calyce pai-va 



patente suffulta, epicarpio carnoso; putamen cartilagineum, 



mdehiscens, rarius in valvulis 2 separabile. Semina plurima, 



ovata, compressa, subreniformia, testa tenui fragili, minute 



scrobiculata, integumento^ membranaceo, angulo basali chalaza 



fiisca notato. Embryo iu albumiue carnoso arcuatus^ hetero- 



tropus, cotyledonibus ovatis, compressis, accumbentibus, radi- 



cula tereti 2-plo latioribus et 3-plo brevioribus. — Arbores An- 



tillani, foliis alternis, integris, ohlongis, siepius nitidis ; floribus 



speciosis, solitariis, vel paucis, subcymosis, terminalibus, corolla 



flava vel pallide ochroleuca. 



1. Brunsfelsia americana, Sw., DC. Prodr. x. 200. 



2- undulata, Sw., DC. Prodr. x. 200. 



3- nitida, Benth., DC. Prodr. x. 201. 



^' , ; violacea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.792.— Subglabra, foliis ' 



lanceolato-cllipticis, utrinque acuminatis, subundulatis, supra 

 glabris mmute punctato-rugosis, subtus pallide glaucis et pube 

 glanduloso-prmnoso vestitis, apice utrinque, costa, nervisque 

 subtus prommubs,rubro-violaceis; floribus subsolitariis corollse 

 It , ^""^"f"^ ^^^^^lato-crispato, flavo, tubo ochroleuco calyce 



12-lb-ies longiore.— In Antillis, v. v. in hort. Kew. cult. 



The leaves of this species are 8 inches long, 2| inches broad, 

 on a thick and deeply channeled petiole less than half an inch 

 '? l!K' ^^ peduncle is i inch long, the calyx 21 to 3 lines, 

 clett half-way into five obtuse erect teeth with ciliate margins • the 



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