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PLATE CLXXVI. : 
CHAS AVA CA PPAROIDES. 7 
ae: Caper-like Crateva. 
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ee Aes Xt ORDER. 
DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER.  Schrel. Gen. Plant. Vol. I. p. 320. 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifi- 
dum, deciduum, bafi planum ; laciniis pa- 
tentibus, ovatis, inzequalibus. ; 
Corotra. Petala quatuor, oblonga, unguibus 
tenuibus, longitudine calycis, divifuris in- 
ferta. 
STA MINA. Filamenta fedecim vel plura, fetacea, 
corolla breviora, Antherze erecte, oblonge. 
PistiiiuM. 
Pericarpium. Bacc 
ma, pedicellata, 
Semina plura, 
lantia. 
2? carnofa, globofa, maxi- 
unilocularis, bivalvis. 
fubrotunda, emarginata, nidu- 
» ‘ SPECIFIC 
Crateva foliolis elipticis, glabris ; floribus um- 
bellatis, terminalibus, luteo-viridibus, petalis 
giffimis, apicibus crifpis. 
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EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, four-cleft, falling 
off, flat at the bafe; fegments fpreading, 
ego-fhaped, unequal. 
Sica: fous petals, oblong, claws flender, 
the length of the cup and inferted into the 
divificns. : : 
Cuives. Threads fixteen or more, like briftles, 
fhorter than the bloffom, Tips erect, oblong. 
Poinrar. Seed-bu -fhaped and 
very long foot-fialk, egg-fhaped. Shaft none. 
Summit fitting on the feed-bud, headed. 
SeED-veEssEL. A Berry? flefhy, globular, large, 
with a foot-ftalk, one-celled, two-valved, 
SzEps many, roundith, notched at the end, dif- 
‘fed in pulp. 
CHARACTER. 
Crateva with eliptical, fmooth leaflets; flowers 
w in umbels, terminal and yellow green; 
petals very long, crifped at the ends. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLA‘TE. £ 
1. Shews the Pointal, part of the Chives, and three Petals of the bloffom ; a few of the Chives, one ©: 
th 
e Petals, and the leaves of the Empalement, being removed, the better to exhibit the ftructure 
of the bl : 
2. The Pointal, complete, — 
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a native of Sweden, we are indebted for this fpecies of Crataeva; by whom 
it was brought to Great Britain, on his return from Sierra Leone, in the year 
1795. Asa native of that 
burning clime, it will not endure our winters, without the protection of the hothonfe; to which, asa 
climber, it is a confiderable ornament, both in foliage, and flower; the flowers coming, in gee 
i much later, as we believe, this is the firft time.its bloffoms 
by cuttings; but, to give the plant 
n a border, prepared of old rotten dung, fandy 
m the tan-bed by a partition of boards, fufticiently 
ftrong to fupport the earth, upon the removal of the tan. This method of treating many of the tropi- 
! the common Caper, 
_ neceffary to their produ@ion of flowers in this co 
>» = friends, with the fi 
_ the fole poffeffor. 
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gh a native of the fouth'of Europe, has been found 
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the above manner; in the Stepney colleGtion ; from 
 urbanic, and indefatigable proprietor, T. Evans. Ef 
Our figure was taken from a plant, treated in 
whence, through the kind indulgence of theta 
- we are in hopes of gratifying our gens 
gures of a number of plants, new to this country; and of which he is, at pre 
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