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glabrls. Folia versiis apices ramulorum sparsa, sessllia, ovalia, inteo-<»r- 

 rima, acuta, glabra. Flores terminales, aggregati, sessiles, pliuimi, gla- 

 bri; brnctene inter folia et flores, lanceolat?e, acuminatae. Corolln i 1. 

 3 lineas longa: tubo lineari, i 1. 2 lineas longo : Inciniis corollne cor- 

 dato-ovatis, obtusis, tubo climidio minoribus. Stain. tluor. ordin.. Stis^jna 

 submuricatum. — Conf, de cetero descriptionem optimam Illustrissimi 



TlIUNBERG. 



AfTmitatem ejus cum D. rotundifolia Forst. et indica Linn. supra 

 indicavimus, infra de affinitate ejus cum D. sinensi Lam., cui proxima, 

 loquemur. 



In D. odora Thunb. milla intcr bracteas et flores folia observavi- 

 nius. — i Figura, quam dedit Illustriss. Banks, bona utique est et formam 

 laciniarum corollae bene reprassentat. 



Antequam iiguram D. odorne in Bot. Magaz. Vol. XXXVIII 

 nobis videre contigit, credidimus , D. odorani japonicam in Europa 

 nondum cultam fuisse, at figura citata flores repraesentat cum laciniis 

 corollae cordato-ovatis ut in genuina ; adnotationes insuper Auctoris me 

 tam dubium fecerint, ut vix judicare audeam, an iigura ad D. odornm 

 1. siiiensern pertineat. Observationes ex opere citato heic aiferre volui- 

 mus*). Conf. de cetero, quod infra de D. sinensi loquemur. 



*) "The flowers in our Plant are consideraLly largcr and morc colonred than repre- 



sented in the figure given us in the exotic Botany or in that of Jacquin. The 



former circumstance has heen prohahly owing to the niore frec admission of air 



and light, the latter we shall attempt to account for. It appears to us that in 



its natural state the capitulum ©f flowers is entirely sessile in the hosom of the 



leaves, which are more crowded at the extremities of tlio hranches; and thnt 



there are no hractes or smaller floral leaves, or in some instances a few inm.edi- 



atly -under the flowers. In our Tlant there were only two or three leaves sniol- 



ler, hut exactly similar to the others; the fiowers grew from a globular receptficle 



on very short hairy pedicles, the place of their insertion heing marhed on the 



receptacle with a double ring, the outer one having a ciliated edge. But when the 



flowering is deferred hitter in the spring or avtificial heat is applied from the 



ptants heginning to shoot, the capitulum of flowers is pushed forward, upon a 



sort of peduncle, from which many young h^avcs are put forth. These have hecH 



described as bractes, we coasider theai as inore or less peffcct leaves, tbe con- 



