PLATE DLXXVIII. 



M 



LA 



D 



FU 



Fig. 



Spreading JEgiphila. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 4-dentatus. Corolla 4-fida. 

 mibifidus. Bacca bilocularis, 

 sperm is. 



Stylus se- 

 loculis di 



\ 



Cup four-toothed. Blossom four-cleft. Shaft 



cleft half-way down, 

 cells two-seeded. 



Berry two- celled, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



,/Egiphjla foliis ovato-lanceolatis, longe acu- 

 minatis, utrinque glabris ; paniculis diffusis 

 axillaribus et terminalibus ; staminibus tu- 

 bo vix excedentibus, stylo longissimo. 



jEgiphila with oval-lanced, long pointed leaves, 

 smooth on both sides; panicles spreading, 

 axillary, and terminal -, stamens scarcely 

 longer than the tube, and shaft very long. 



,EGIP 



JLi XX 



% 



VATA. 



Inversely Oval-leaved JEgiphila 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Fig. 2 



JEgiphila foliis obovatis acuminatis, utrinque 

 glabris ; paniculis axillaribus et terminali- 

 bus ; pedicellis calycibusque minute pubes- 

 centibus. 



jEgiphila with leaves inversely oval, pointed 

 and smooth ; panicles axillary and terminal 5 

 flower-stalks and calyxes minutely pubes- 

 cent. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 



1. The empalement. 



2. A blossom spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal, as it appears in the opening buds. 



4. The same when fully expanded. 



This very natural genus was established by Jacquin from the Bois Cabril of the Creoles in Martinico, 

 a shrub, the young shoots of which are greedily sought for and eaten by their cattle, particularly goats, 

 whence the name (in English) Goatwood ; and which Jacquin, following the botanical canon, ele- 

 gantly turned into iEgiphila. With this species the celebrated Swartz has conjoined the Knoxia of 

 Browne's Jamaica and Manabea laevis of Aublefs Guiana, and added two more species, M. foetida and 

 M. tnfida, discovered by himself; and Willdenow has yet further augmented it with the Manabea vil- 

 losa and arborescens of Aublet, and the Nuxia of Lamarck : the last, however, we consider as a very 

 doubtful species That fine collection of plants from the West Indies, introduced in 1S07 by lord 

 beaforth, and by him presented to A. B. Lambert, esq. and which we have already so often quoted, 

 has brought to our knowledge two more species, which we have denominated diffusa and obovata, from 

 what appeared to us to be their most prominent features. Both shrubs are natives of the West Indies, 

 and were sentto us in flower in August 1808. They are propagated by cuttings, and have not yet 



ripened seeds m England, but produce flowers annually in abundance durir~ ^~ u " " f T "'" and 



August. 



