PLATE CCXXXI. 
C E R B E R A A II O U A I. 
Oval-leaved Cerhera, 
CLASS Y. ORDER 1. 
PENTANDRIA AIONOGFNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Flowers contorted. Pulpy feed-veffel, onc- 
feeded. Bloffom fonnel-fliaped. 
See Plate 130, Cerhera undulata, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Cerbera foliis ovatis, acutis, lacin: 
dulatis; calycis foliolis reflexi 
Cerbera with egg-fhaped, pointed leaves; feg- 
ments of the bloflbra w aved; leaflets of the 
cup reflexed. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Erapalement. 
2. A Bloflbm cut open, the Chives in their place. 
3. The Seed-bud. Shaft and Summit; with the fummit detached, magnified. 
The oval leaved Cerbera is a native of the continent of South America, in Brazil and the other pro¬ 
vinces within the tropics; therefore, muft be treated as a tender hothoufe plant. It is increafed by 
cuttings, delights mod in a rich foil, and flowers in July, or Auguft. It is faid to acquire the height 
^ten feet, in its native clime, but, with us, it feldom attains to three; becoming a handfome, bulhy 
fhrub. The flowers have a faint fmell, as have moft of this natural order; the whole plant is replete 
with a whitilh juice, of a moft deleterious quality; and the wood when rubbed emits a difagreeable 
^our. Ihe fruit is confidered by the Indians as a deadly poifon again# which there is no antidote. 
(^r fipre was taken from a plant in the Hibbertian Colleaion, Clapham. Introduced to England, 
(or rather cnlUvatcd about that period) fays the Kew Catalogue, by IVIr. Miller, in the year 1739- 
