﻿PLATE DXXXIX. 

 CALY CAN THUS FERTILIS. 



Fruitful Allspice. 



CLASS XII. ORDER VIII. 

 1COSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Many Pointals. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 oli« coloratis. Corolla || Empalement tiled : leaflets coloured. Blosst 

 Styli plurimi. Stigmata glandu- j none. Shafts many. Summits glandul; 



Semina plurima, intra calycis partem Seeds many, within the fleshy part of t 



rntam. }| CU p. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 



ICalycanthus with twiggy branches nearly up- 

 right. Leaves ovately lance-shaped, and 

 pointed. Flowers fertile. 

 Native of North America. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A flower divested of the leaflets of the cup. 



2. The same cut open, to show the seeds. 



Thi» fruitful species of Calycanthus has not yet been figured by any author we know of, but has been 

 described by two: first by Walter, in his Flora Caroliniana, under the title of C. fertilis; and after- 

 wards by Michaux, in his Flora Boreali- Americana, under the appellation of C. ferax, synonymous 

 appellations equally good : and we see no reason why it should have been altered from fertilis, if even 

 for the better, unless that had been a very bad specific title. It is a native of the high mountains of 

 Carolina, in North America, and was introduced by Mr. Lyons in I8O7. Our figure is from a plant 

 in the collection of the Marquis of Blandford. 



