DIDYNAMIA ANOIOSPKRMIA. 



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BoL Reg. ^.244? 



D. Plumieri. 

 Ell^sia frutcscens. Br, 262, t, 29./. 1. 

 Jasminum folio integro. SL 2. p. 97. 

 Prickly Duranta.* Alton. 



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CLERODENDRUM. 



Personatiio. Lin, — Vitices. Juss, 

 Verbeiiacenc. Juss, An. du Mas. Brown 



thus. 



Siphonmi' C. foliis verticillatis eloogato-lanceolatis 



glabriSj pedunculis axillaribus coryin- 

 bosis, tubo corolise longissimo. Sprcng, 



Sy,st, 2, p, 758. h 



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* This plant, although commonly called Prickly Duranta, is 

 not always fouud so. Browne describes it " qnandoque spinosa/' 

 altboiig-h in his plate he represents it with thorns; and, accord- 

 ing to Willdenow, " variat caiile spinoso ct inernii, foliis serratis 

 et jntegerriniis.'* The Duranta in Barbados more commonly 

 occurs unarmed, and with a leaf quite entire; but 1 have seen 

 it with pretty long thorns, which are hardened Ilower stalks, and 

 on the same plant leaves entire and serrate. The Duranta 

 EUisiais exhibited in the Bot. Mug-, with spines and a serrated 

 leaf, and is certainly less like the Duranta as it occurs in Bar- 

 bados than the plate in Bot. Reg\ of Duranta Flumicri. I cannot, 

 however, persuade myself that D. Ei!i>sia and D. Plumieri are 

 distinct species. 



