﻿PLATE DXIX. 

 COMMERSONIA ECHINATA. 



Bristly-fruited Commersonia. 



CLASS V. ORDER V. 

 PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Five Chives. Five Pointals. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Calyx monophyllus, 5-partitus. 

 Corolla. Petala 5, linearia, bas 



Nectarium 5-partitum. 





Stamina. Filamenta 5, 



petalorum. Antherae 

 GEKMENglobosum, villosum. Styli 5, breves, 



approximates. Stigma globosum. 

 Capsula dura, setacea : setis longis, pilosis, 



5-locularibus : loculamentis dispermis. 

 SEMiNAovata. 



Chives. Threads 5, very short, at the base 

 of the petals. Tips nearly round, and small. 



Seed-bud globular and villose. Shafts 5, short, 

 and approximating. Summit headed. 



Capsule hard and bristly. Bristles longhand 

 hairy, 5-locular 



Seed6 ovale. 



THE PLATE. 



The petals and honey-cups. 

 A petal and chives, magnifies 

 Seed-bud and pointals. 



This fragrant plant was named by Forster after Commerson, the celebrated botanist, who iCCG ^^ 



in his Voyage round the World, and explored the coasts of Brazil and Buenos Ayn»* ^ 



Streights of Magellan, and the Islands of Otaheite, New Britain, Bouro, Java, and theMaunn _, 



the space of seven years, and returned to France with a herbarium of above 30©0 species, 



which were many new genera ; all whi< - , are preserved in the ii ^ ^ 



' A Nat0 ^ ][ him sent to Linnaeus, and are no 



possession of 1 1 f tne Linnaean Society. Our drawing was made from a F ^ 



« nl) < ne at present in the kingdom) in the hot-house of A. B. Lambert, esq. Boyton House, ^ 



£ onn8 !UL ll the second year from seed, in great abundance, and con j|| 



summer, during the warmer part of which it was extremely fragrant ; wbicfl ^ ^.^ 



valuable addition to our collection of stove plants. The flowers for several weeks P^J^ from 



on; in which the short stamina are completely ; ex* » ^j* 



J. As a remedy for this, Mr. Lambert introduced a hive of bees into the not-no^ ^ 



soon produced tne desired effect, as in three or four days after the germens began to s^ mUC j, 



ot the leaves vanes exceedingly, particularly whilst the plant is young, coming son* ^ 



broader and with two side lobes ; which has been mistaken by some for a different spec.*' ^ & 



CT«y part of the plant is villous. Rumphius infc 



Commersonia grows to a tree in the Moluccas, and is so plentiful 



deal-, that the bark is manufactured into matches 5 and that the bruised 



the bampacca, which is considered by the natives as one of the sweetest flowers 



*"— Caledonia, and other Islands in die South Seas. 



of Ambovna, Ne< 



v some tor a ainc^»- -r x ^ u* 

 in his Herbarium Art***^* '* 

 lti ful that its wo^i-nco^ 



