No. 681. 
PLUMERIA TUBERCULATA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This genus was named by Tournefort in 
honour of the celebrated Father Plumier. 
He was of the religious order of Minims, 
and a most enthusiastic lover of botany. 
He went at the charge of Louis XIV. three 
times to the West Indies, and died in 1704, 
aged 58, leaving an immense number of ex- 
quisite drawings of plants by his own hand, 
a few of which were published at the king’s 
expence, and some more afterwards by John 2 
Burmann, at Amsterdam. 
Our present species is a native of St. 
Domingo, whence seeds were first brought 
to this country by our friend Dr. Hamilton. 
It flowered in the month of August, being 
about four feet high: the blossom is with- 
out scent, the leaves are of a rigid consis- 
tence, and pubescent beneath; the branches 
are beset with little rough knobs, which in- 
crease in size after the leaves fall, and give 
the plant a rugged appearance. 
It requires the stove at all seasons, and 
may be increased by cuttings: the soil 
should be loam and ag 
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