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~ the corolla instead of four, 
PLATE CCCCXXXVI. 
CORRHA VIRIDIFLORA. 
Green-flowered Correa. 
CLASS VIIl ORDER I. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx monophyllus, quadri-dentatus. Corolla EMPALEMENT one-leafed, four-toothed. Blos- 
petala quatuor. Stamina octo, Germen som four-petalled. Eight chives. Seed-bud 
superum. Capsula quadrilocularis. Semina above. Capsule four cells, and four seeds. 
quatuor. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
CorrZa, foliis oblongis, oppositis, undulatis, ~Corr#a, with oblong opposite leaves, waved, 
stellatim hirsutis, supra viridibus, subtus and beset with divers starlike specks ; green 
ferrugineis : foliis junioribus conniventibus, on the upper surface and rusty beneath: 
flores dum parvos obscurantibus, qui postea the younger leaves connive together, and 
emergunt ex axillis folioram, et dependent. obscure the flowers when young, which 
Corolla viridis, leviter punctata, petalis afterwards emerge from the axille of the 
adhzrentibus in forma cylindrica, Rami leaves, and hang down. Blossom green, and 
Oppositi, ferruginei, lightly dotted, the petals adhering in the 
form of atube. The branches are opposite, 
and rusty, 
enn 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
The empalement. : 
A blossom detached from the cup, 
A flower spread open. 
One of the longest chives, 
One of the shorter ones, 
Seed-bud and pointal. 
Seed-bud magnified. 
2 ae So Poe 
Tuts green-flowered Correa is by no means so desirable a plant as the alba, but is the only addition to 
this genus as yet in cultivation with us, and as such deserving notice. It has been- already figured in the 
Exotic Botany of Dr. Smith, but very imperfectly, as it is there represented with only two divisions in 
and six anthere instead of eight—a deficiency we have not met with: and al- 
though we have examined a number of livin 
those characters essential to the genus, 
t not a striking feature in every species of this genus, 
Our figure was made from a plant in the collection of 
