FORKED-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 389 



GoHDONiA Lasianthus, Willd. Sp. PL voL iu. p.' 840. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 

 voL ii. p. 451 MoKODELPHiA PoLTANDBiA, Linn. 



This beautiful small tree is met with in Georgia, South Carolina, and 

 Florida, in moist lands near the coast, and never fails to attract the eye 

 by its beautiful blossoms. The twig from which the drawing was made 

 was procured from the garden of Mr Noisette, who liberally afforded 

 me all the aid in his power for embellishing my plates. The leaves are 

 evergreen, lanceolato-oblong, shining, and leathery ; the flowers white, of 

 the size of the common garden-rose, and placed on long peduncles ; the 

 capsules conical and acuminate. 



