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PLATE CLYIIL 
CORDIA SEBESTENA. 
: Rough-leaved Cordia. 
CLASS V. 
ORDER I. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Canyx. Perianthium monophyllum, tubulatum, 
apice dentatum, perfittens. 
CoroLra monopetala, infundibuliformis; tu-. 
bus patulus, longitudine calycis; limbus 
erecto-patens, fectus in quinque (quatuor 
vel fex), lacinias obtufas. 
Filamenta quinque, fubulata. An- 
there oblong, longitudine tubi. 
PisTILLuM. min 
tum. Stylus fimplex, longitudine ftami- 
- num, fuperne bifidus, laciniis bifidis, Stig- 
mata obtufa. 
-Pericarriu. Drupa globofa, acuminata, ca- 
lyce accreta 
Semen, Nux fulcata, quadrilocularis. 
SPECIFIC 
__ Cordia foliis oblongo-ovatis, fcabris; floribus 
‘ ndris, 
miniatis, crifpis, hexandr 
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and {preading, cut into five (four or fix) 
obtufe fegments. 
Five threads, awl-fhaped. Tips ob- 
long, the length of the tube, 
PointTat. Seed-bud roundith, tapered. Shaft 
fimple, the length of the chives, two.cleft 
at the upper part, fegments two - cleft. 
Summits blunt. 
wg tes pulpy, globular, tapered, growing 
ecu 
Seep. A furrowed, four-celled nut. 
CHARACTER. 
Cordia with - oblong egg-fhaped rough leaves; . 
owers deep orange colour, crumpled, and 
with fix chives, 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Emp ] 
; alement. 
a 2. A Bloflom fpread open, with the Chives in their place. - 
6. The Pointal and Seed-bud. ae 
_ As it fhould feem a determined principle in the infcrutabl 
_ the greater humiliation of our very limited underftandings; that no eff 
perfect; fo muft we be content [ 
of a fyftem decidedly defective; yet certainly, the beft we have to 
_ hending a number of {pecies, but muft be 
re 
€ arrangement of nature’s productions, to 
ort as emanating folely from 
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b ftrained in its clafs or order, for the introduétion of one, or 
» the plant is retainéd under the Genus fo charatterifed. This difquifition is the 3 
natural refult of our examination of the prefent plant, which, although the chives are fix, is placed 
