‘OR DICOTYLEDONER 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. " 
NATURAL ORDER, RUTACEZ. 
THALAMIFLOR2, Artificial divisions OCTANDRIA, 
OF to which MONOGYNIA, 
DECANDOLLE. _ A this Plant belongs. or LINNEUS. 
No. 152. 
GENUS. Correa. Smirn. Caryx peer te cut quadri- 
lobus. PrTALA quatuor, valvatim in tubum appro a partimve coalita. 
Stamina Geto, Petals Squats aut exserta, sate breviors fisdem opposita, 
latatis OvaRta 
quatuor, imposita gynophoro brevi in ambitu staminifero et quasi octolobo, 
dense stellatim pilosa. Styxr quatuor in unum coaliti, Joes. ge equali quadri- 
lobo a _Faverus quadri- capsularis. Fru CEs: Fo OLIA Oppo ats, 
popnnin d 
gut flores, pube stellata dense congesta tomentosa. Smiry: Exotic 
sities 
SPECIES. Correa purcHen (R. Brown.) Forts ovatis obtusis 
undulatis wena ‘ubescentibas, siiaiiie cylindricis ventricosis, calycibus 
abbreviatis trune 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUs, CorREA. CALYX cup-shaped, nearly 
entire, or four-cleft. PrTa.s four, arranged in the manner of valves, 
either close together or joined in part into an apparently monopetalous 
corolla. STamens eight, equal to the petals or longer, four of them 
opposite to the petals being shorter than the others; the filaments 
smooth’ and filiform, or dilated above the base; the anthers oblong. 
Ovaries four, placed on a short stalk which bears the stamens on its 
circumference, where it is as if eight lobed, and covered with thick 
stellate hairs, StTyLes four, joined into a single one, which terminates 
in a regular four-cleft stigma. FrRvuiT consisting of four capsules. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, CORREA PULCHELLA. A SHRUB 
about six feet high, branched, branches round, of a rusty colour. 
LEAVES opposite, coriaceous, persistent, shortly petiolate, ovate, cor- 
date at the base, obtuse, undulatory at the margin, the upper ones 
slightly denticulate, when first unfolded clothed on both surfaces with 
a stellate pubescence, which is lost as they become older. FLOWERS 
solitary or twin, drooping, of a beautiful rose or salmon colour; pedun- 
cles longer than the petioles of the leaves. Catyx globose, truncate, 
