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Periantium Monophyll 



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Stamina. 

 Piftillum 



quinque lacinias ovatas jeftim 

 Monopetala, in quatuor vel quinque lacinia 

 bafim fere feci a. 

 Filament a novem brevi 

 Germen Jubrotundum p 



xpanulatum, ultra medietatem in quatuor vel 



ad 



theras cordate ereflce 



ginuld 



'olatd inclufu 



ftylus brevis fmplex ; ftigma trilobum, tripartitum, obtufi 



Pericarpium. Bacca trilocularis, tribus feminibus oblongis, fol 



re- 



This mrubby tree is very common in Sixteen-mile-walk, and rifes generally 



the height of twelve or fou 



feet 



It feems to ha 



a near 



fembl 





to the Locuf -berry tree, which we have placed among the Malpigia j but it is really 

 very different, for the parts and difpofnion of the flowers are entirely peculiar. The 

 filaments rife from the bottom of the flower, juft about the germen, and are not 

 fo long as either the petals, or the cup. 



The flower-tops are rather fo many bunches compofed of fimple fpikes, rifing 

 gradually one above another; but each of the flowers are fupported by a fubuiated 



ftipul 



or ear, while young 



We have called th 



by the name of Volha 



perpetuate the memory 



of that famous botanift j having ranged the fhrub that ufed to go under that deno 



with the Clerodend, 



of which it is a fp 



MELANIUM i. Herbaceum reclinatum, foliolis ovatis oppofitis, fori bus fin- 



gularibus ad alas alter nas. 



The reclining Melanium^ with iingle flowers, 



Periantium Monophyllum tubulatum, adimum, ab altero latere, prominulum j 



tubus rectus aqualis, ore in fex crenas feBus. 

 Corolla Hexapetala, petalis oblongis fauci calicis adnatis. 

 Stamina. Filamenta novem vel 06I0, cum rudimento unius vel alterius, bre- 



via, incequalia, inferne tubo adnata ', antherae cor data infauce 



calicis ftce. 

 Piftillum. Germen oblongum intra calicem ft urn-, ftylus fmplex long itu- 



dine fere Jlaminum; ftigma acutum. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula membranacea oblonga unilocularis. 

 Semina Pauca (tria inter & Jena) placentulis propriis adnata. 



I found this vegetable among the cane- pieces in Capt. Fuller's eftate at Luidas 



but a weakly plant, and grows generally with a (lender ftem well fupplied with 



branches towards the top. The whole plant has a difagreeable (harp fmell, which 



motile and lefs 



is mo 



approaches much to that of the G#/«ftz-Henweed, b 



perceptible when placed clofe to the nofe. I had frequent occafions to obferve the 



fmell 

 greeable be fid 



f this plant while it was under examination, but never found any more dif 



of the Guinea-Henweed. The leaves and fl 



very 



much like thofe of the Parfonfa, as well 



difpofi 



d make of the cap 



frlae, b 



plant does not branch fo much 



has it any thing of this fi 



I am at a lofs whether to place it among theEnneandria or Decandt 

 of the flower-leaves feems to clafs it with the former. 



the numb 



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