PELRAT®  COCES NAS. 
“DOMBEYA ERY FHROXY LON. 
Saint Helena Red-wood. 
MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Threads united. Twelve Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
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CLASS. X¥1. ORDER VI: | | 
Caryx duplex, exterior 3-phyllus deciduus. EMPALEMENT double, outer 3-leaved decidu- 
Corolla 5-petala. Stamina 10—20, quo- ous. Corolla 5-petalled. Chives 10 to é 
rum 5 sterilia. Stylus 5-fidus. Capsulz 20, of which 5 are sterile. Style 5-cleft. 
5, coalitz uniloculares, 1.s. polysperme. Capsules 5, conrad one-celled, 1- or 
many-seeded, - ) 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. : 
Domseya, foliis ovatis acuminatis cordatis, - Domsrya, with ovate acuminated heart- 
subtus tomentosis reticulatis, pedunculis — | shaped leayes, downy and reticulated — 
subtrifloris, floribus pentandris. beneath, peduncles about 3-flowered, and 
pentandrous flowers. 
Domseya Erythroxylon. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3.725. | 
Pentaretes Erythroxylon, foliis cordatis subcrenatis subtus tomentosis: Tugoso-reticulatis, floribus 
subumbellatis decandris. it. Hort. Kew. 2. 438. 
Atcma arborea, populi nigre foliis, prona parte albicantibus, flore amplissimo rubicundo. Pluk. 
Mant. 6. t. 333. f. 1. | 
Descriretio. Frutex dumosus; ramulis, petiolis teretibus, paginis inferioribus pie pedanduiis 
calycibusque tomentoso-canis, et ferrugineo dense punctulatis, Folia alterna, petiolata, cordata, ie ae 
subintegra, supra perviridia, utraque venosa, subtus obsolete reticulata. Flores malvacei, spe- 
ciosi. Calyx duplex, exterior minutus, 3-phyllus, foliolis subulatis, sesquilinearibus, superior 
5-phyllus, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis. Petala 5, alba, retuse cuneata, venosa, basi uno 
latere, gibbosa, imbricata. Stamina, filamenta 10, atra, patula, quorum 5 sterilia, czeteris du- 
plo longiora. Anthere@ erectz lutez. Stylus teres, albus, 5-fidus, antheras superans. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
The empalement. 
One of the petals. 
The chives and pointal. 
. The chives spread open. 
e pointal and seed-bud. 
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Tue handsome plant here represented is a native of Saint Helena, and is known by the name of Saint 
Helena Red-wood. Although introduced into this country by Sir Joseph Banks in the year 1772, it is at 
this time one of our very rarest and most desirable of hot-house plants. Mr. Aiton enumerates it in 
the Hortus Kewensis, but marks no time for its flowering; which therefore, we must suppose, but 
seldom occurs. Our specimen was obligingly sent us by T. Evans, esq. from his fine collection at 
‘Stepney in June 1803, and we last month saw it beautifully in bloom at the honourable Charles 
Greville’s, Paddington. 
In the colour of its flowers, and in other particulars, it appears to vary. Plukenet calls thera rubicund : 
ours were white : and in the extensive herbarium of A. B, Lambert, esq. we have examined a Saint 
Helena specimen with purple flowers, and Jess hoary but more reticulated leaves, which wanted the 
minute ferruginous spotting so abundant upon ours. It is propagated by cuttings in the usuai way, 
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