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O f the Decandria, or Vegetables that have ten Fila 



- ments in every Flower. 





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Of fuch as have ten Filaments and one Style in every Flower. 



N. B. We place thofe that have their Filaments, in an erect and regular poli- 

 tic*), before the reft. 



ARBILUS I. Foliis cordato-ovatis nitidis pinnatis, Jloribus racemofis, cortice 



fcabro. 



The Barbilus, with pinnated leaves, or Baftard Iron-wood. 



Periantium Parvum campanulatum, quandoque quadrifdum, quandoque 



quinquefidum. 



Corolla, Vel tetrapetala, vel pentapetala ; pet alls parvis lanceolati 



gini interiori calicis ajfixis. 

 Stamina. Filamenta vel oc7o t vel decern, comprejfa latiufcula eredfa, 



calicis 



therae p 



fundo 



Piftillum. Germen ovatum; ftylus brevis /implex; ftigma obtufiufculum 



fubrotundum. 

 Peiicarpium. Capfula trilocularis 



bin is reft 



fngulis loculamentis feminibus 



This tree is very rare in J 



I have feen it only once in the woods 



the 



back of Bull-bay ', where it grew to a confiderable fize, and mounted to the height of 

 about forty feet. The trunk is generally ftraight, and covered with a rough furrowed 

 bark ; the 



b 



wood is of a light brown call,, with a free porous 



v 



good timber-wood 



and tops are fmooth 



a 



nd 



, and is thought 

 femble thofe of 



the Mahogany tree pretty much. I have examined a great number of the flowers of 



tree, and found them fo equally divided between the two clafles, that I was 



this 



for 



tainty 



time in doubt which to refer 



the format 



of the fruit feem 



have I placed it now with any cer- 

 (hew it more nearly allied to this 



It feems to be very nearly a-kin to the Trichilia, tho' the filaments are not connected 



CUPHEA i. Ereffa foliolis oblongo-ovatisy oppofitis; Jloribus fpicatis termi- 



nalibus. 



The fmall ere& Cuphea, with the. flowers difpofed in ipikes. 



Periantium Monophyllum tubulatum color atum ad imum, ab altero later e, pro- 



minulum ; tubus angujlus aqualis, ad faucem leniter ampli- 

 atus y recurvus, villofus, quinque crenatus. 

 Pentapetala, petalis obovatis y unguibus tenuibus fauci calicis ad 

 crenas infer t is. 



Filament a decern brevifjima, etubo orta, in fauce libera; antherae 



globofce, corolla coloris. 

 Germen oblongum calice inclufum ; ftylus fimplex longitu dine fere 





CoroM 



Stamina. 



Piftillum. 



Jlaminum j ftigma obtufiufculum. 





Pericarpium. Capfula membranacea oblong a unilocular is. 



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Semina 





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