PLATE CXXVII. 



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MINUM 



Slender-Jlemed 



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E. 



a mine. 



CLASS 



11. 



ORDER 



I. 



DIuiNDRlA MONOGYNIJ. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GEXERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx, Perianthium monophyllum, tubula- 

 tuni, obloiiguni; ore quinquedentatOj erec- 

 to; perfiftens. 



Corolla monopetala, hypocraterlformis; tubus 

 cylindraceus, longusj llmbus quinquepar- 

 titus, planus. 



Stamina. Filamenta cluo^ brevia. Anthera^ 

 parvse, intra tubuiii corollae. 



PiSTiLLUM, Germen fnbrotundum. 



filiformls, longitudine ftan^inum 

 bifidum. 



Stylus 

 ^tiorma 



Pericarpium. Bacca ovalis, glabra, bilocula- 

 ris feu bicapfularis. 



Semixa duo, magna, ovato-oblonga, arillata, 

 hinc convexa, inde plana. 

 Ols, Flgura floris acuminata et obtufa variat. 

 Bacca in aliis fimplex, in aliis dicocca. 



Empalement. Cup one- leaved, tubular, ob- 

 long; five-toothed at the mouth, and up- 

 right; remaining. 



Blossom, one petal, falver-fliaped; tube cylin- 

 drical, long J border five divifions, flat. 



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Chives. Threads two, Ihort. Tips fmall, with- 



in the tube of the blofi^om, 

 PoiNTAL. Seed-bud roundifli. Shaft thread- 



fhaped, the length of the chives. Summit 



two-cleft. 



Seld-vessel. Berry oval, fmooth, two-celled 

 or two-capfuled. 



Seeds two^ large, oblong egg-fliaped, each in 

 its proper feed-coat, convex on one fide, 

 and flat on the other. 

 Ol'S. The flower varies in its character of ta- 

 pering to a point, or in being blunt-ended. 

 In fome the berry is fimple, in others dou- 

 ble-feeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Jafminum petiolis follorum geniculatlsj foliis 



ovatis, oppofitis, nitidis, fimplicibus; flori- 



bus umbellatis; laciniis corolla obtufis, 

 undulatis. 



1 



Jafmine with the foot-ftalks of the leaves jointed j 



egg-fhaped leaves, growing oppofite, flun- 

 ing and fimple] flowers grow in umbels; 

 the fegmenls of the bloflbm are bluntand 

 waved. 



1- The Cup. 



REF-ERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



2, 

 3. 



k Bloflbm fpread open, to expofe the fitaation of the Chlves< 

 The Shaft and Summit. 



4. A ripe Berry. 



5. The fame cut tranfverfely,. to filew the cells and feeds. 



The plant here figured, we confider as a diftina fpecies from the J. fimplicifolium of Foracr, whicb 

 he defcribes as a native of the Friendly IHes, in the South Seasj and likewlfe from the J. oblongum of 

 Bnrman, which is given (but witli a query) as a fynonlm to the J. fimplicifolium of the former Au- 

 thor by WiUdenow, in his Sp. Plant, p. 38, Part I. In the year 1792, the feeds of this plant jrerc 

 received by Mea'rs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, with the Bignonia pandorana, and many others, 

 communicated by Colonel Paterfon, then commanding a detachment ftationed for a time on Norfolk 

 Ifland, where it is native. To the gretn-houfe it is a confiderable acquifition, either for a climber. <x 

 otherwife, as it is rarely without blolfoms from July, till the end of November; being rather more 

 tender than many of its congeners, which are in general deftined to that ftatlon; it fhould be placea 



xtare, 



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IS the moft congenial to its growth ; and it is increafed by cuttings, made in the month of Marc 

 from 12 to 20, according to the fize of the pot, under a fmall bell-glafs, in the before-named 



and plunged either ia the bark-bed of the hot-houfe, or in the heat of a common hot bed. 



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