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Rectptaculum Columt 



Plura orbiculata compreffc 



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This little plant was found in Clarendon 



ceptacuh obi': que adnata 

 ipju lev poftmn. 



it has 



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der flalk, emits 



but a few branches, and ieldom rifes above ten or twelve inches in height 

 bears its tiowers 1a ipikes at the extremities of the branches. * 



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ACISANTHERA 1. EreBa ramefa, ramulis quadratic follolh Irinerviis 



ovato-crenatis, oppofitis ; fortius Jingulartius ad alas 



altemas. Tab. 22. f. 1. 



The branched Akif anther a. 







Periantium. 



Monopbyllum ventricofum pragnatts, ore profunde quinqu n- 



t a turn. 



Corolla 

 Stamina. 



Piftillum. 



Pentapetala, petalis obverfi ovatis, fauci calicis infertis. 

 Filamenta decern, *oix aqualia, declinata, corolla breviora j 

 antherae oblonga> fagittata & fubarcuata, verfdtiles. 

 Germen fubrotundum calice tedium & coronatum j ftylus brcvis 

 fmplex y itigma acutum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda bilocularis, binis placentulis referta. 

 Semina Plurima parva fubrotunda, placentulis affixa. 



This plant grows in the paftures eaftward of Luidas, and feldom rifes above 

 fourteen or fixteen inches in height. The ftem is pretty firm and fquare, and 

 emits a good many branches towards the top 3 the leaves are fmall, and remarkable; 

 and the tiowers rife fingle from the alternate ate, or bofoms of the leaves. 



Mr. Ehret's delineation does not anfwer exactly to this defcription, which was 



taken from the plant while frefh ; but this, I fuppofe, may be owing to fome va- 



riation, or defeft in the fpecimen. 



SAMYDA i. Fruticofa foliis nitidis cordatis, levijjime crcnatis% rudi mentis 



mollibus rubentibus ; racemis tenuioribus alar ib us. Tab. 23, 





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The flirubby Samyda^ with waxen rudiments ; Or the 



Cloven-berry Bufh. 



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Periantium Monopbyllum color atum, campanulatum, in quinque partes ova t as 



ultra medietatem feci urn, 



Corolla, Alia nulla. 



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Stamina. Filamenta erecla brevia e pelve calicis orta \ in aliis o£lo, 



novem, in aliis decern \ rudimentis totidem, varus: interpoftis j 

 antheras ovata caduca?> filamentis tantum concefa. 

 Piftillum. Germen globofum in fundo calicis ftum ; ftylus brevis fimplex ; 



ftigma crafiufculum, obtufum. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula carnofa fubrotunda unilocularis trivalvis t tribns li- 



neis nota ; valvis mat ur it ate refexis, & a rcccptaculo co- 



lumnare pulpofo recedentibus. 



Semina Plura nidulantia, receptaculo pulpofo ercefo perffenti immerfa. 



SAMYDA 2. Foliis ovatis cum acumitie, frutlibus plurimis tninoribus con 



fertis. 



Arbor baccif era foliis oblongis acuminatis. Slo. Cat. 173. & H. t. 2 11. 



The fmaller Samycia, or Cloven-berry Bufh. 



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