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hills ; flowering in the beginning of the hot season. See the 

 second species. 



Limonia ; a genus of the class Decandria, order Monogynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one-leafed, three 

 or five clef I, acute, very small, permanent. Corolla: petals 

 three to rive, oblong, obtuse, upright, spreading at the tip. 

 Slamitia : tilamenta six to ten, awl-shaped, upright, shorter 

 than the corolla; antherae linear, upright. Pistil: germen 

 oblong, superior; style cyliiidric, length of the stamina; 

 stigma headed, flat. Pericarp: berry ovate or subglobose, 

 three-celled; partitions inembranaceous. Seeds: solitary, 

 ovate. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: five-parted. 

 Petals: five. Berry: three celled. Seeds: solitary. The 

 species are, 



1. Liiiioniu Monophylla ; Simple-leaved Limonia. Leaves 

 simple ; spines solitary ; trunk irregular, with, a smooth green- 

 ish ash-coloured bark ; branches numerous, very irregular ; 

 racemes short; corolla four or five-petalled. Native of Coro- 

 mandcl in the forests on the coasts, where it grows to a small 

 tree, though ohener found in the state of a large shrub. 



2. Limonia Liicida. Unarmed : leaves simple; peduncles 

 axillary. Native of the Island of Mallicolla in the South 

 Seas. 



3. Limonia Trifoliata ; Three-leaved Limonia. Leaves ter- 

 nate ; spines in pairs ; spines stipular, longer than the petiole. 

 This has the appearance of an orange-tree, with flexuose 

 branches. Jussieu says the whole tree is smooth, the height 

 of a man in the stove, with a trunk the thickness of a human 

 arm, covered with a brownish ash-coloured hark, very much 

 branched ; the branchlets alternate, spreading; flowers sweet- 

 smeHing, on very short peduncles, axillary, in pairs, or three 

 together, slowly succeeding each other; corolla and tilamenta 

 white; fruit red, very soft, the size of a hazel-nut; pulp 

 colourless, very sweet, with a slight taste of turpentine. It 

 is a native both of China and Cochin-china, where it is much 

 cultivated both for its beauty and fragaiice, as well as the 

 pliancy of its branches. Burinan says it is also a native, of 

 Java. 



4. Limonia Pentaphylla; Five-hared Limonia. Unarmed: 

 leaves commonly quinate ; leaflets oblong, entire ; trunk 

 scarcely any, with an ash-coloured bark ; branches numerous, 

 nearly erect ; flowers white, very fragiant. This is an elegant 

 fragrant shrub, very common in most uncultivated lands in 

 Coromandel ; but chiefly under large trees, where birds have 

 dropped the seeds: it flowers there all the year. The whole 

 plant, when drying in the shade, diffuses a pleasant permanent 

 scent; the flowers are exquisitely fragrant ; and birds eat the 

 berries greedily. 



5. Limonia Acidissima. Leaves pinnate; spines solitary. 

 This tree is said to atv.iin the height of thirty feet, with a 

 trunk ten inches in diameter: the leaves and fruit have the 

 smell of Anise. Native of the East Indies. 



0. Limi-nia Arborea. Stem arboreous, unarmed; leaves 

 quinate ; leaflets linear, serrate. The berries are eaten by 

 birds; and tin: flowers are equally fragrant with those of llie 

 fourth sort. These two agree in habit : the sorrate leaves are 

 the cfeicf distinction. Native of the mountainous pails of the 

 Circars, where it grows to a middle-sized tree, with a large 

 branching head. 



7. Limonia Crenulata. Leaves alternate, fascicled ; leaflets 

 two or three pairs, with broad-winced petioles ; spines soli- 

 tary; flowers white, small, fragrant, collected in small um- 

 bels or racemes, over various parts or the bnnchleU. Native. 

 of Coromandel, on the low lands near the coast. It is there 

 11 shrub, but in the mountains it grows to a middle-sized tree ; 

 Uowvring in the hot season. 



Limosella ; a genus of the class Didynamia, order Ansjio- 

 spermia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: utrianth one- 

 leafed, five-cleft, upright, sharp, permanent. (,V?v//a: one- 

 petalled, bell shaped, upright, equal, five-cleft, acute, small ; 

 divisions spreading. Stamina: filamenta four, upright; of 

 which two are approximated to the same side, shorter than 

 the corolla; a ntheraj simple. Pistil: germen oblong, obtuse, 

 two-celled ; style simple, length of the stamina, declinate ; 

 stigma globose. Pericarp: capsule ovate, half involved by 

 the calls, one-celled, divided below by the partition, twd- 

 valved. Srcds: very many, oval; receptacle ovate, large. 

 ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Culix: five-cleft. Corolla: five- 

 cleft, equal. Stamina: approximating by pairs. Capsule: 

 one-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. The species are, 



1. Limosella Aquatica; Common Mudwort, or liastard 

 Plantain. Leaves lanceolate; root annual, throwing out 

 naked cylindrical prostrate runners, which take root at their 

 extremities and form new plants; flowers small, radical, on 

 simple flower-stalks, which become inflexed, as the fruit 

 ripens. Native of most parts of Europe, in muddy and gra- 

 velly places liable to be flooded, and where water has stood 

 during the winter. It flowers from July to September. 



2. Limosella Diaudra. Leaves sublinear. This has the 

 same habit as the preceding, but is only one-fourth of the 

 size: hence it is one of the smallest plants we know. It 

 increases by very short runners. Found by Koenig on the 

 coast at the Cape of Good Hope. 



Linconia; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Digynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth interior, four- 

 leaved ; leaflets ovate, permanent ; the inferior opposite pair 

 shorter. Corolla: petals five, lanceolate, sessile, upright; 

 nectary a dell impressed on the bottom of the petal, begirt 

 beneath by the margin. Sfamitta: filamenta five, al-shaped, 

 margined upright, middling; antherae obtuse, sagittated with 

 nutant gaping auricles. Pistil: germen half inferior, with 

 respect to the corolla; with respect to' the cnlix, superior ; 

 styles two, filiform, striated; stigmas simple. Pericarp: cap- 

 sule two-celled. Seeds: two. Obsene. The perianth might 

 perhaps be taken for bractes; and then the flower would be 

 entirely superior. ESSENTIAL CHAR ACTKU. Petals: five, 

 with a nectareous excavation at the base ; capsule two-celled. 

 The only known species is, 



1. Linconia Alopecuroidea. Leaves scattered in a sort of 

 whorl, five or six together ; subpetioled, linear, three-sided, 

 blirtish, shining, an inch long, rugi'cd at the angles ; the upper- 

 most ciliate. This is a shrub with wiind-like branches, which 

 are few in number, and determinate, irregular from the base 

 of the fallen leaves, as in the fir tree; flowers -at it:< ends of 

 the branches, not however in bundles, hut se|i;i.a'i, lateral, 

 sessile, the length of the Itaus; corollas icnacii.us, flesh- 

 coloured, or white. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in 

 watery places among the mountains. 



Linilera; a genus of the class Hexandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Cati.i : none. Corolla: 

 petals six, ovate, obtuse. Stamina: filamenla six, many 

 times shorter than the corolla; anther* minute. Pistil: 

 germen ovate, smooth, superior; style upright, railter shorter 

 than the corolla; stigmas two, reflex. Ptrittirp: capsule 

 two celled. SeKt,i: nndescrib'Ml. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Corolla : six-pelailed. -The only known species is, 



1. Lindera Umhrllata. Leaves aggregate at the ends of 

 the branchlets, pttioled, oblonsr, acute, entire, above green 

 and smooth, underneath pale and vilioie, HII inch long; 

 petioles scarcely a line in lenlh, villoM- alum- : stem hrubby, 

 loo-e; branches and branchlets alternate, flcM..> a e, smooth, 

 spieading very much; flowers terminating in it simple many- 



