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*PENTAS carnea. 

 Flesh-coloured Penias. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Cinchonace^e. § Hedyotide^. 



PENTAS, Benth. Calycis tubus brevis turbinatus ; limhus profunde 

 5-ficlus, laciuiis angustis insequalibus, glandulis 1-2 interdum in sinubus 

 adjectis. CorollcE tubus elongatus ; faux campanulata intus barbata ; limbus 

 patens, 5-fidus, laciniis ovatis glabris sestivatione leviter imbricatis. Stamina 

 5, infra faucem inserta. Filamenta brevia. Antherce lineares. Discus epi- 

 gynus crassus. Stylus filiformis, apice bilobus. Capsula subglobosa, apice 

 libera, acutiuscula, loculicide bivalvis, valvis bifidis. Semina numerosa. 

 Benth. in Bot. Mag. t. 4086. 



P. carnea; foliis ovatis v. ovali-oblongis acutis basi cuneatis pilosiusculis, 

 coroUse tubo calyce multoties longiore, styli rarais elongatis, capsulse 

 valvulis parte adnata vix brevioribus. Benth. I. c. 



Sipanea carnea, Hort, 



We learn from Sir W. Hooker that this is supposed to be 

 a native of Africa, within the tropics, and that it was intro- 

 duced by Mr. Jacob Makoy, of Liege. 



It is a soft wooded shrub, of a grey aspect, with strongly 

 furrowed leaves, and terminal cymes of delicate flesh-coloured 

 flowers. Specimens of it have been lately exhibited to the 

 Horticultural Society by Mr. Ayres, from the collection of 

 James Cook, Esq. of Brooklands, and by Mr. Glendinning of 

 Turnham Green. The accompanying figure was made last 

 September, from a plant in the possession of Messrs. Rol- 

 lissons. 



Judging from these we should say that it will prove a 

 plant well worth cultivating ; with a bad foliage certainly, but 

 with flowers that more than compensate for it by their deli- 



* So named by Mr. Bentham from TrevTac, " a number five," in allusion 

 to the parts of the flower being in fives instead of fours. 



