PLATE CCXV. 
EMBOTHRIUM SALIGNUM. 
Willow-like Embothrium. 
CLASS IV. ORDER I. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Catyx nullus. Cor. tetrapetala. Stamina limbo Empalement none. Blofl. four-petalled. Chives 
es petalorum inferta. Folliculus poly{permus, inferted into the limb of the petals. One- 
Sem. alata. celled-pod, many feeded. Seeds winged. 
See EMBOTHRIUM sERIcevM, Pl. C. Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
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t ninervis, utringue 
one nerved 
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glaberrimis ; umbellulis axillaribus; corollis _ very fmooth on both fides ; the fmall umbels 
- fubalbidis. of flowers grow from the infertion of the 
leaves into the ftem ; bloffoms whitith. — 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
t. A flower complete, with the fummit relieved from the petals, magnified. 
2. The fame with the fummit yet reftrained by the petals, 
3. One petal with the tip, magnified. 
_ 4, The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified, 
_ Tats Genus, if we may judge from what we already poffefs, amounting to 6 {pecies, promifes to furnith 
an ample feaft for Botanitts; for we have no doubt, but the {pecies are as numerous as of any one from 
New Holland. The Willow-like Embothrium makes a 
the leaves are not fubjeét to damp, and the ftem acquires th 
May, and from the manner in which the leaves rather fall downwards, from their infertion, leaving the 
» at their bafe, it has a very picturefque appearance, as the whole 
_ tings, made about March, or April, and placed in the heat of the Hot-houfe, or a cucumber frame. 
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Our figure was taken at the Hammerfmith Nurfery ; where, it was firft raifed from feeds, in the year 
