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GYNANDRIA MONANDRL. 
Native of the West Indies, first noticed 
by Plumier, and afterwards by Jacquin, 
who found it in Martinique, growing on 
trees, in thick woods. Its height is about two 
feet ; the flowers are produced at the ends; 
they are delicate, of a bright purple colour, 
and with us appeared in March. We re- 
ceived our plant from Mr. Miller, of Domi- 
nica, and have preserved it in the stove, 
potted in vegetable earth. It appears to 
be slow of increase, like the most of this 
favourite class of plants. ‘ A common 
spectator, when he sees a rose or other 
flower or fruit-tree, thinks he hath seen 
all, or the chiefest part; but it is the se- 
cret unsearchable motions and operations 
of the vegetative life and juices within, by 
which the beauteous flowers and sweet 
fruits are produced, and wonderfully dif- 
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