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PLAT E CLXVII. 
NSFELSIA UNDULATA-.- 
~~ Waved-flowered Brunsfelsia. 
BRU 
| CLASS XIV. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMLA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, campanu- 
atum, quinquedentatum, obtufum, mini- 
"mum, perfiftens. 
CoroLa monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus 
longiffimus, fubincurvus; limbus planus, 
, quinquefidus, obtufus, 
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, breviffima. An- 
there oblonge, ereéte, filamentis dorto 
affixe 
Xa, 
Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum, parvum. 
Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi. Stigma 
craffiufculum. 
PERICARPIUM, Capfula extus baccata, globofa, 
unilocularis, bivalvis. 
Semina plurima, comprefla, hinc convexa, inde 
angulata, punctato-fcabra. 
Recepracutum fundo capfulz adnatum, pale- 
aceum; paleis coadunatis, apice fubulatis, 
femina diftinguentibus, 
SPECIFIC 
Brunsfelfia foliis lanceolato-obovatis, utrinque 
$ pa- 
acuminatis, petiolis breviflimis 3; tubu 
rum incurvatus, laciniis limbi undulatis, 
ORDER UW. 
Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 
EmpaLement, Cup one leaf, bell-fhaped, five- 
‘toothed, blunt, very {mall, remaining. 
Biossom. One petal, funnel-fhaped ; tube ve 
long, rather curved; border flat, five-cleft, 
btuf 
obtufe. 
Cuives. Four threads, very fhort. Tips ob- 
long, upright, fixed by the back to the 
threads. 
PortnTaL. Seed-bud roundifh, fmall. Shaft 
thread-fhaped, the length of the tube, Sum. 
mit rather flefhy. 
SEED-VESSEL, Capfule on the outfide a berry, 
n the other, roughly punétured. 
of the capfule, 
y; chaffs joining at the bafe, awl fhaped 
at the point, feparating the feeds, 
CHARACTER. 
Brunsfelfia with leaves between lance and in- 
verfely egg-fhaped, tapered to both ends, 
footftalks very fhort; tube a little incurved, 
the fegments of the border waved. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The tube of the blofiom cut o 
the Chives. 
3. The Pointal and Seed-bud. 
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Tue Genus Brunsfelfia 
edited in 1530 a Botanical work with 
) prefent plant 
about Mareh, is very {weet {cented, and is eafil 
in “a — 1784, by Mr. Elcock f, 
merfmith. Our drawing. was made from 
thould be planted in rich earth, 
y propagated 
rom the Ifland of Barba 
a plant in the Clapham Colleétion, in March 1800, It 
pen, ‘to thew the infertion and chara@er~ 
named, in. honour of Otho. Brunsféls a monk, the firft who- 
gures, it contained 238 plates) has undergone a very 
deed, it appears 
h 
fingular that Father Plumier, from 
ave committed. fo great an overfight, as to. 
{port of nature, in plants of this 
Gen. and Spe. Plant. and of the Sytt. 
: a capfule; rather than.a 
his reafon, that it fj plits determinately, by a future, 
y are all natives of the Weft India Iflands. The 
B. maculata is but little known 
by cuttings, 
d 
oes, to Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, Ham- 
