OBBOH 



PLATE CCXXXI. 



CERBERA AH QUA I. 



Oval-leaved Cerbera. 



CLASS V. ORDER L 

 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



CoNTORTA. Drupa monofperma. Corolla in- .i Flowehs contorted. Pulpy feed-veffel, onc- 

 fundibulil'onnis. leeded. Bloir>in fannel-flMped. 



II See Plate VAO, Cerlera undulata, Ful. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Cerbera foliis ovatis, acutis, laciniis corolloe un- 11 Cerbera with egg-fliaped, pointed leaves; feg- 

 duladsj calycis foliolis reflexis. nients of the blollbiu waved j leaflcU ol the 



II cup reflexed. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Bloffom cut open, the Chives in their place. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit; with the fummit detached, magnified. 



The oval-leaved Cerbera is a native of the continent of South America, in Brazil and the other pro- 

 vinces within the tropics; therefore, muft be treated as a tender hotboufe plant. It is iiicreafed by 

 cuttings, delights moil in a rich foil, and flowers in July, or Auguft. It is faid to acquire the height 

 often feet, in its native clime, but, with us, it feldom attains to three; becoming a haiidlome, budiy 

 flirub. The flowers have a faint fmell, as have moll of this natural order; the wi)ole plant is replete 

 with a whitifti juice, of a mofi; deleterious quality; and the wood when rubbed emits a dil'agreeable 

 odour. The fruit is confidered by the indians as a deadly poifon againft which there is no antidote. 

 Our figure was taken from a plant in tl;e Hibbertian Colleftion, Clapham. Introduced to England, 

 (or rather cultivated about that period) fays the K.ew Catalogue, by Mr. Miller, in the year I73y. 



