PLATE CCCELY: 
: BEA PIN N 7 ieee 5 
Winged-leaved Leea. 
a 6 © LASS YY.  ORDERZE 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _ Five Chives. One Pointal. 
(GENERIC CHARACTER. 
CaLyx, Perianthium monopby Hum, campanu-— aii Vuwariure ee Cup one leaf, bell-fhaped, 
latum, <a quinquedentatum, per- |} leathery, five-toothe d, sate ibd 
fiftens.....27° & . : 
CoroLia monopet: a; 3 -tubus longitudine caly- || Bxrossom one petal ; sti Jength of the cup; 
og ‘eae. laciniis border five-cleft, equal; nts bagged. 
ae. 
he infide of the 
ol oll adnatum, co- Honey -cup fixed to the bafe oft : 
ere tum, urceolatum, _ bloffom, by the half fhorter than the blof- 
poetny lobis emargi natis. - fom, erect, pitcher-thaped, five-cleft; ; lobes 
- ~ notched at the end. 
‘Sramina. “Filamenta quingel: ferta bafi ex- Cuives. Five threads inferted into the oie 
teriori Rape fs Anthere ov: verfatiles. of the bafe of the i i Tips e ss 
e : fhaped, verfatile. ae 
Mien vew. Germen fubg lobotial se eiyios fim- Pornran. | Seed-bud almoft ‘globular, PAS 
plex, n neGario brevior. adienigg obtufum. fimple, fhorter than the honey-cup. Sum- 
mit blunt. 
vine. eg 
a. 
t. Berry orbicular, flattened, five- 
1 foliis iis impari-pinnatis, oppofitis; ane le 
glabro ; racemis angulatis, angulis one and oppofite; ftem round and fmooth; 
ulatis, branches ae angles waved. 
‘ Ge (a a SA MITA EER 
rt Leea with wing leaves terminated by an odd 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 7 
eCup, natural fize. 
Bloffom. 
3, A Flower complete, fe age 
loney 
Leza and Aquilicia have, of la been confidered as not poffeffing fufficient effentially differing cha- 
raéters to conftitute two genera, at To he So has been loft in Leea. Our prefent fubject is a fpecies 
of the former Aquilicias, is mentioned by Gaertner, who fays, it approaches A. ee a oted = 
fambucina ; to which indeed it has much atte, but ” differs in having oppofite, not alte ribé 
: leaves rather rough and the ftem fmo oth. It is a native o 
to make it t flower; is See fhrubby, oa is increafed by cuttings. 
om a fi icated to us by Aylmer oper eg ee) sa 
om Dr, 1801, under the name of Leea cr a is 
whch is a native of Africa, and has be Te long i in ae of our etetions of hot-houfe d ages: = 
the higheft {tate of cultivation, under the care of Mr. Hoy, in that of his Grace the Duke of N 
eetlend, Sion Honfe, near Brentford. 
