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HE NATURA 



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TOR 



Both thefe fpecies are com 



c. 



mong the bu£hes in th 



Town and King/ton : the latter feems to be only a variation of the other 



ds about Spanijh 



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ACHIRANTHES i; 



Caule 



genicuh 



o 





bus 



ere Bo, folii 

 appendicib 



Itift 



ypofitis, fp 



Achiranthes caule erec7o i calicibus re/lexis jpica apprefjis. L. Sp. PI 



B) 



Zeylonicum Bur, Th. Zey. & Centaurium ciliare minus > &c. Pk 



8 



f. 





An, Scoru Cadelari. H. M. P 



79 



The larger Achira?ith 





qumqu 



lac 



rgtflas ereclo-patentes ad 



Periantium Monophyllum in auinaue 



bafim feclum. 



mm mm 



Neclarium ? Efiiperiori parte calicis, bafim verfus, afjiirgh appendix e ft 



Corolla Nulla 



aliquot aduncis format 'a , qua. Jiorem & calicem refedl 





Stam 



Filament a quinque in orbem p 



Piftillum. G 



ereBo-patentia ; anthers fimpl 



calicis di mi dice longitudi 



ftilus /implex Jlaminibus bre 



ftigma ob 



Pericarpium. Capfula membranacea fubrotunda unilocular is laciniis calicis 



tecla 



NJ 



Semen TJnicum oblongum cylindraceum 



ACHIRANTHES 



ippendicibus bife 



2. Folii s ovatis, floribus Jpicatis, 



The fmaller Achira?tthes. 



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Both thefe plants are very common about the Crefce?ice ; 

 appearance of a Blitum, and feldom rife above two feet, or two feet and a half 

 from the ground. 



they have much the 







RAUVOLFIA 



Rauvolfia. L. G. H. C. & Sp. PI 



Fruticofa folii s verticil/at is ienuifjime villofii 



Th 





e 



bby Rauvolfia.) with the leaves difpofed in a verticillated order 



town, of King ft or 



This little fhrub is very common in 



Savannas about 



d feldom rifes above three or four feet from the ground j the ben 



black, and fu 



ies are fm 

 and the leaves very beautifully covered with a light dow 



which is hardly perceptible to the naked eye. The w 

 and. more or lefs. of a del 



flirub 



full of milk 



NERIUM 



Sarmentofum, foliis oblon 

 iubo foris fauce amplit 



ippofitis fubtu 



Th 



e mar 



Nerium 



This plant rifes by a weakly trunk, to the height of four or five feet, and throws 

 out a few long, flender and flexile branches, that ftretch to a confiderable diftance 

 from the main ftem. 





NERIUM 2\ Sarmentum foliis nitidis ovatis venojis, pedunculis longis ra- 



mofist floribus fauce ampliatis. 



The larger Savanna-flower, 



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4 



This 





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