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The order in which I have now enumerated them accords, as 

 nearly as can be, with their natural affinity to each other ; but 

 they belong to various clalTes in the artificial fyftem of Linnxus, 

 according to which I fliall now give their generic charafters. 



I. IMBRICARIA, 



Jungia. Gartn. Sem. v. I. 175. /. 35. y. 5. 



Pentandria Monogynia, next to Efcallonia. 



Chah. GKii. Petala 5. Stigma capitatum. Capfula calycetecla, 

 bilocularis, polyfperma. 



Gaertner fufpedted this might not be a difl:in£l genus from the 

 Efcallonia of Linn. Suppl. which he had never feen. But it differs 

 effentially in having a capfule inflead of a berry, not to mention 

 many other particulars. See Plant. Ic. ex Herbaria Linnaanoy tab. 30 

 Gf 31. 



In the unripe germen Gartner found 2 cells, but of thefe one is 

 often abortive. This is an inflance, among many others, of the 

 propriety of confidering the fruit in an early ftate, when we form 

 generic charadlers, as the natural number of the parts is often mofl: 

 certainly to be learned in that ftate. By this rule, the Linociera of 

 Schreber will, if I miftake not, be found not diftinct from Chionanthus. 



Gaertner mentions two fpecies of his Jungia, of which I have 

 received one from New South Wales — that reprefented in his plate. 

 In my fpecimens, the upper leaves, calyx, and petals, are crenate, 

 which he has not exprefTed, but which is an additional mark of its 

 affinity to Efcallonia, the leaves of which are more or lefs ferrated; 



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