PLATE DLXXXV1I 



CORCHORUS ? JAPONICUS fore plena 



Japanese Corchorus with double fowers. 



CLASS XIII. ORDER I. 



POLYJNDRIA MONOGYNU. Many Chives. One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolia 5-petala. Calyx 5-phyllus, deciduus. 

 Capsula plurivalvis, loculamentosa. 



Blossom of 5 petals. Cup 5-leaved, falling off. 

 Fruit with many valves, subdivided. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Corchorus capsulis rotundis glabris, foliis du- 

 plicato-serratis.— Flora Japonica, p. 217 . 



Corchorus with round smooth capsules, and 

 the leaves doubly sawed. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The pointals. 



This elegant shrub is amply described in the Flora Japonica of Professor Thunberg, who found it 



about Nagasaki. Miaco 



figured he particularly specifies 



totally adorning the country about Miaco. In Houttuyns Pflanrensystem, vol. vii. plate 54, there is 

 also an engraving of it. The single-flowered has not yet been introduced to this country. 



The 



of blossoming is in early spring : but it does not appear to confine itself to that season, as we have been 

 favoured with fresh specimens at various seasons from April to October j and we may therefore safely 

 predict its being long a favourite with cultivators. The flexile twigs statred with blossoms look at a 



1 • j. 1 f • . l»f « t - 



All the flowers that we 



suppo 



have seen are from 5- to 8-gynous j which, with the singular form of the capsule, makes us consider it 

 as a very doubtful species of Corchorus. The Japanese name is Jamma Buki. 



Our figure is taken from specimens communicated by Mr. Milne of Fonthill, who informs us that 

 his plant now growing in the conservatory is ten feet high. We first observed it in bloom early last 

 spring at Messrs. Colville's, and in several other collections during the summer, but smaller both in 

 flowers and leaves. 



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