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PLATE XVIII. 
CORREA ALBA. 
White Correa. 
CLASS 
VIII. 
ORDER I. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadriden- 
tatum, campanulatum, erectum, perfiftens. 
Coroira. Petala quatuor, oblonga, concava, 
api exa, marginibus craffis. 
Filamenta ofto, ere€ta, filiformia, 
Pistizrum. Germen turbinatum, fuperum. 
Stylus filiformis, longitudine ftaminium. 
Stigma obtufum. 
Pericarrium. Capfula coriacea, lanata, qua- 
 drilocularis, quadrivalvis. 
Semina quatuor, folitaria, fubrotunda. 
SPECIFIC 
Correa, foliis fubrotundis, fupra tomentofis, fub- 
tus lanigeris; floribus terminalibus, qua- 
ternis, albidis. 
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Empatement. Cup of one leaf, five-toothed, 
bell-fhaped, upright, and-permanent. 
Brossom. Four petals, oblong, concave, reflexed 
at the end, and thick at the edges. 
Cutves. Eight threads, upright, thread-fhaped, 
and fixed into the receptacle. 
Pointat. Seed-bud turban-fhaped, and above. 
Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the 
chives. Summit blunt. 
Seep-vesser. Capfule leathery, and woolly, 
four cells, four valves. 
Seeps four, folitary, and nearly round. 
CHARACTER. 
Correa, with leaves nearly round, downy on the 
upper furface, woolly on the under furface; 
flowers terminate the branches by fours, 
and are white. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
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1. The Empalement. 
2. The Chives, and Pointal. 
. 3. A Thread, and Tip, (magnified.) 
4. The Shaft and Summit, (magnified.) 
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Correa is a native of Port Jackfon, in New Holland, and commonly termed a Botany-bay plant: 
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raifed in the year 1793, from feeds which were given by Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. to J. Vere, 
Efq. of Kenfington-gore, and from a plant in whofe colleétion our figure was taken. It receives its 
generic title from Mr. Jofeph Correa de Serra, a native of Portugal; a gentleman of very diftinguithed — 
_ talents as a man of fcience in general, and botany in particular. Of this genus there are as yet but 
few fpecies difcovered; the Alba grows to a fhrub of the height of four or five feet, woody and tough; 
3 both ftem and leaves are covered with a thick flannelly fubftance, particularly the under fide of the 
___ leaves, which gives the whole plant a whitith appearance. It continues to flower through the months 
= of April, May, and June; may be 
; ‘plant, and thrives beft in peat earth 
propagated eafily by cuttings, fhould be kept as a hardy 
