PLATE CCCLXXX. _ 
ACHYRANTHES PORRIGENS. 
Divaricating Achyranthes. 
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SLASs Vv... ORDER L 
_PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
| ESSENTIAL GENERIC Pa Ore, 
Fiores incompleti, inferi. Calyx 5-phyllus. : 
Corolla 0. Stigma 2-fidum. Semina 
5-leaved. Corolla none. Summit 2-cleft. 
solitaria, Seeds solitary. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
AcuyYranTHEs, foliis oppositis, lanceolatis, AcHYRANTHEs, with leaves opposite, spear- 
Spicis ovatis, acutis, Jacq. Hort. Scheent. 
shaped, ‘and egg-shaped sharp- eet 
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spikes. 
Descriptio. Suffrutex ramulis distantib ibus 
ovata, breviter petiola ete ven oe , supra pallide viridia 1 lente pubescentia; subtus pallidiora 
magisque pubescen es dichotomie-paniculati, est, capitulis ovalibus, persistentibus, 
ante et post exsiccationém 1 lee purpureis pulchellisque, ut in GomphrenA perenni, 
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1. A flower 
‘ 2. The empalement mi MesiGed. 
3. The blossom magn ifie 
_ 4, The same cut/ope 
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COIIDI 
ACHYRANTHES porrigens was introduced into this , fro) e year 1802, by Mr. 
Woodford of Vauxhall ; but its native coun t 
a fine plant in the collection of J. Vere, ¢ 
treated as a hot-house plant of the more hardy 
well in rich” earth, and flowers freely in - 
Our figure was taken from 
n Gore; 3; where it is considered and 
o the a of 2or 3 feet. Thrives 
FLoweEnrs incomplete, beneath. Empalement — 
canescentibus. Folia opposita, elliptico- . 
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