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DIOSMA PULCHELLA. BLUNT-LEAVED 
“* DIOSMA. 
Seeaeaksk se aeaeakak skal aleak sk ake 
Clafs and Order. 
PenTANDRIA MONOGYNIAs 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cor. 5-petala. Neéaria 5 fupra germen. Cap/. 3 f. 5, coalite. — , 
Semina calyptrata. Tan : : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
_DIOSMA pulchella ; foliis ovatis obtufis glandulofo-crenatis, 
floribus geminis axillaribus. Sy/. Veg. 239, 
~DIOSMA pulchella ; foliis ovatis glandulofo-crenatis glabris, 
floribus axillaribus geminis. Thunb, Prod. 43. 
Willd. 1. 1140. 
‘HARTOGIA pulcheila. Berg. Cap. 69. Sy/t. Nat. p. 625. 
SPIR AA capenfis fpicata ferpylli follo margine quafi per- | 
forato. Raj. App. 249, u. 67. * ee Fe, 
Linnaus, in the twelfth edition of the vegetable kingdom 
in his Syftema Nature, had adopted the divifion of the genus 
Diofma, propofed by Bercius; feparating fuch as had the 
male and female flowers diftiné and only three capfules, under 
the name of Hartogia: and this fpecies, though it agreed in 
the latter refpe& only, was united with the new genus. But 
Linnaus foon found that in this polymorphous genus, there 
~ were no charaéters then difcovered, fufficiently flable to ground 
a diftin@ion upon; and in the thirteenth edition of the 
Syftema Vegetabilium he again reduced the whole under 
Diofma. = ; 
_ Diosma pulchella is a very beautiful little fhrub, producing 
Its lively flowers in great profufion throughout moft of the 
fummer. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, requiring only 
to be proteGied from froft. Introduced into the Kew Garden 
by Mr. Francis Masson, in 1787. Our drawing was made 
at the moft extenfive colleétion of Meffrs. Lez and Kennepy, 
