PLATE CCXXIII. 



CLUSIA FLAVA. 



Yellow -Jlo'-xered Balfar,:- Tree. 



CLASS XXIIL ORDER L 

 POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Various difpofitions. Upon one plant. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perlantbium imbricatum; foliolis ron- 



cavis, petfillentibus, exlerioribus gradatim 



minoribus 

 Corolla. Petala 4, 5, 6, fubrotunda concava, 



cralFa, cochleata. 

 Stamina. Filamenta plura, fimplicia, corolla 



breviora. Antherae limplices, apicis lateri 



adnatae. 

 PisTiLLUM. Germen ovato-oblongum. Stylus 



nullus. Stigma stellatuni, planum, obtu- 



fum, perfittens. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula ovata, fulcis exerata, 



locularis, valvis turn radiatim dehil'centibus. 



Semina numerofa, ovata, pulpa obtecta, affixa 

 receptaculo columnari, angulofo. 

 01 s. Numerus in parte fructiis ditfert a qua- 

 tuor ad duodecim proporlioiie obfervata in 

 ftigmate, valvulis, loculis, &c. Floies alii a 

 parte mafculina, alii a feminina fteriles funt. 



Empalement. Cup tiled; leaflets concave, re- 

 maining, the outer ones gradually fmalk r. 



Blossom. Petals 4, 5, 6, roundilli, concave, 

 thick and iliell-like. 



Chives. Threads many, fimple, (horter than 

 the blollom. Tips fimple, growing to the 

 fide of the point. 



PoiNTAL. Seed-bud oblongegg-fiiaped. Shaft 

 none. Summit fiarred, fiat, obtufe, re- 

 maining. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule egg-fliapfd, ftrongly 

 furrowed, celled, the valves burfling into a 

 flarred form. 



Seeds numerous, egg-fiiaped, covered with pulp, 

 fixed to an angular, columnar receptacle. 

 Oh. The number in the parts of the fruit 

 differs from four to tvAclve, according to the 

 proportion oblerved in the tummit, valves, 

 cells, Jcc. Some of the flowers are tterile 

 with refpeirl; to the male organs, and others 

 with refpeft to the female ones. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Clufia foliis aveniis; corollis tetrapctalis, luteis. 11 Balfam Tree with veinlefs leaves; blolToms with 



li four petals, and yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower complete. 



2. A petal ihewn from the infide. 



3. A petal lliewn fideways. 



4. The Pcintal and Chives, one Chive detached, magnified. 



5. The Pointal cleared of the Chives, the Seed-bud and Summit detached and magnified. 



The Balfam Tree is a native of all the Weft India Iflands, and has been defcribed by Plumier, Sloan, 

 jacquin, Browne, &c.; but no good figure of the plant, according with our ideas, has hitherto been 

 given of it. The C. rofea, V. alba, and C. flava of Jacquin, the tliree various fpecies, are faid to grow 

 to different heights, in the difteient Iflands; which we are led to think, are but varieties of tlie fame 

 plant. Linn;eus has taken them up as fpecies, upon his authority; although Jacquin himf'elf allows, 

 that the one I.e denominates. /?(7!'a, varies in its blotroms to red and white. This plant does not grow 

 to above the height of eight or nine feet, in this country, and feldom flowers. Our figure was taken 

 laft year in September 1801, from a plant in the Siepney Collection. Miller fays it was cultivated by 

 him in IJfiQ, and had been introduced by Mr. Parker, of Croydon, in Surrey, from Barbadocs. It is 

 readily propagated from cuttings, and thrives in rich, dungy earth. A flight miflake occurs, in the 

 quot:ition from Browne, in Martyn's Edition of tlie Did:ionary; where, the petals are d( f'cribcd as 

 fcrew-thaped; Browne has it, " cochleata," or fhell-fhaped, a moft expreflive term for the thape of 

 these petals. 



