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SOULANGIA* rubra. 

 Red Soulangia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat, ord. Riiamnes Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, 'p. 113.) 



SOULANGIA. — Calyx tubo obconico ovario adnato. Petala cucul- 

 lata. Stamina inclusa, antheris reniforraibus unilocularibus. Discus epi- 

 gynus, pentagonus, carnosus. Ovarium calycis tubo adnatum et sequale, 

 triloculare. Stylus simplex. Fructus inferus, areola magna superius notatus, 

 tricoccus. Semina podospermio brevi carnoso suffulta, — Adolphe Brongniart, 

 mimoire sur les Rhamnees, p. 70. 



S. rubra; ramis pubescentibus, foliis ovato-linearibus acutis supra glabris 



lucidis subtus incanis margine subrevolutis, capitulis terminalibus multi- 



floris lanuginosis foliis longioribus. 

 Phylica rubra. Willd. reliq. in Romer et Schultes, 5. 491. Be Cand. 



prodr. 2. 37. 



Frutex sempervirens, foliis superioribns sensim minoribus. Calyx extus 

 lanuyinosus, intus lateritius. Petala purpurea. 



A native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence its 

 seeds were received a few years since by Messrs. Rollisson 

 of Tooting - , by whom the specimens here figured were com- 

 municated in December last. 



It is a hardy greenhouse plant, extremely neat in its 

 foliage, and rather pretty when its brick-red flowers, nestled 

 in down, make their appearance. 



Very near Soulangia thymifolia, from which it differs 

 chiefly in its branches being more downy, and its flowers 

 much larger and more woolly. 



We have specimens from the Cape of Good Hope, for 

 which we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Reeves. 



J. L. 



* Named by Mons. Adolphe Brongniart in compliment to the Chevalier 

 Soulange-Bodin, the spirited proprietor of the Jardin de Fromont, near 

 Paris, an establishment justly celebrated in the annals of French Horti- 

 culture. 



