TOURNEFORTIA. 



iS A^'hi'te v.'ith fine clofe down, and furnidied with very pro- 

 Vninent ribs. Iiiflorefcencc, Jloivers, and fruit, much hke 

 the two foregoing. The Jli^ma in all has a long conical 

 point. 



20. T. tomentofa. Climbing Downy Tournefortia. Mill. 



Didt. ed. 8. n. 5. Poiret n. 12 Leaves heart-fliaped ; 



■downy beneath. Stem twining. Segments of the corolla 

 awl-ihaped ? — Difcovered by Mr. Robert Millar, near Car- 

 thagena, in South America. The twining ^Zitoj reach to 

 the height of ten or twelve feet. Leaves two inches long, 

 and one and a quarter broad near their bafe, very downy 

 beneath, on very (hort footjlalks. Inflorefcence apparently 

 like the laft. Floivers fmall, dirty-white. Berries juicy, 

 with two, three, or four feeds. We gather from Miller's 

 account, our only authority, that this plant comes very near 

 our laft, of which it may poiTibly be a variety ; yet the 

 haves fcem to be of a broader figure, and their footjlalks 

 fhorter. 



21. T. ferruginea. Climbing Rully Tournefortia. La- 

 marck Illuftr. n. 1882. Poiret n. 13 "Leaves fomewhat 



heart-fhaped, acute ; villous beneath. Stem lomewhat 

 climbing. Young branches very hairy." — Native, of Hif- 

 paniola, where it ts known by the name of Knllaba. Allied 

 to 7'. •volubllis, but its branches are lefs elongated and trail- 

 ing ; its leaves and young (hoots very much more hairy, or 

 fliaggy, with iliff, ftraight, rully-cploured hairs, equally 

 remarkable on the footjlalhs, and ribs at tlie backs of the 

 leaves. The latter are pointed, thick, harfh above, downy 

 beneath, a little fringed at the margin, dark green, two or 

 three inches long and one broad. Their footjlalks ftraight, 

 very ftiort. FloiverJlaJhs much branched, hairy, divided 

 into fhort fpikes. Flowers fmall, imilateral, with a rough 

 hairy calyx, and a fhort tubular corolla. Poiret. 



22. T. fcabra. Rough Small-leaved Tournefortia. La- 

 marck Illuftr. n. 1883. Poiret n. 14. — " Leaves reflexed, 

 oblong, obtufe ; very rough above ; wrinkled and downy 

 beneath. Flower-ftalks branched, terminal. Berries co- 

 nical." — Gathered in Hifpaniola, by Jofeph Martin. 

 Branches flender and flexible, ftriated, fomewhat downy. 

 Leaves ftalked, (lightly toothed, an inch long and four lines 

 broad, rounded at the bafe, blunt at the extremity. Calyx 

 hairy, rough, widely fpreading, acute. Berry reddilh, oval, 

 almoft conical. Poiret, whofe defcription is our only guide, 

 mentions a fuppofed variety, with leaves twice as long, but 

 narrower, of which, however, he had feen neither Jloivers 

 nor fruit. 



23. T. fcandens. Climbing Brown-flowered Tourne- 

 fortia. Mill. Dift. ed. 8. n. 4. Poiret n. 18. — "Leaves 

 lieart-fliaped, hairy. Spikes branched, reflexed. Stem 

 twining. Segments of the corolla awl-fhaped." — Found in 

 Jamaica by Houftoun, who fent feeds to Miller. We pre- 

 fume it to be the fame with what Mr. Brown mentions as 

 T. fcandens of Solander's manuftripts, and therefore we 

 adopt from him the charafter of the corolla ; though our 

 Jisvigata was marked by Dr. Wright, with doubt indeed, as 

 the plant of Solander ; but it does not at all anfwer to the 

 defcription. The prefent has (hrubby branching flems, ten 

 ■or twelve feet high. Leaves near three inches long, one 

 and a half broad near the bafe, acutely pointed, on fliort 



footjlalks. Floivers in very {lender, branching, terminal 

 fpikes, fmall, unilateral, of a dirty brown. Berries pulpy, 

 with four feeds. Miller. 



24. T. fejfdiflia. Seflile-leaved Tournefortia. Poiret 

 n. 19. — " Leaves felfile, hnear-lanceolate, villous. Flowers 

 in roundilh denfe terminal fpikes. Stem hifpid." — Ga- 

 .thered by Commerfon at Buenos Ayres. Branches fttrubby, 

 -ouud, clothed with ftiff' hairs. Leaves obtufe at each end, 



though a little contrafted at the bafe, half clafping the ftenl, 

 an inch and a half long, three lines broad, downy on both 

 fides. Floivers at the ends of the branches, on a common 

 ftalk, which divides into two parts, each bearing feveral 

 very denfe crowded fpikes. Limb of the corolla dilated, 

 with five fhort blunt fegments. Stalks and calyx clothed 

 with numerous, ftiff, glandular hairs. Poiret. 



25. T. carnofa. Flefhy-leaved Tournefortia. Mill. 

 Did. ed. 8. n. 6. Poiret n. 20. (Pittonia frutefcens, 

 folio carnofo, hirfuto et obtufo ; Plum. Gen. 5.) — " Leaves 

 ftalked, ovate ; rugofe and very rough above ; paler and 

 fmoother beneath. Spikes branched, axillary. Stem 

 (hrubby. " — Gathered by Robert Millar, near Cai-thagena 

 in South America. Stem woody, near 20 feet high, with 

 ftrong rough branches. Leaves thick, oval, four inches 

 long and three broad, on pretty long footflalks. Flowers 

 fmall, white. Berries fmall, with ttvo or three oblongy^f^j-. 

 Miller. 



Befides all the above fpecies, Poiret has a T. bifida, n. 16. 

 Of this we find a fpecimen, gathered by Commerfon in the 

 ifland of Mauritius ; but it appears to us totally foreign to 

 this genus. The flem is (hrubby, with oppofite, bluntly 

 quadrangular, rugged branches. Leaves likewife oppofite, 

 though Poiret fays alternate, on downy chicnneMeA footjlalks, 

 ovate, about two inches long, entire, even, fmooth, pale 

 green, with a yellow mid-rib, flender lateral ribs hairy at 

 their origin, and innumerable, excelTively minute, reticulated 

 veins. Stipulas oppofite, between the footftalks, and half 

 as long, broad at the bafe, pointed, filky, deciduous. 

 Flowerjlalks axillary, folitary, oppofite, round, downy, 

 longer than the footflalks, each bearing two, horizontally 

 divaricated, fimple, unilateral fpikes, of numerous, fmall, 

 ie^AsJloiuers, in two rows. Germen inferior, oblong, filky, 

 crowned with a calyx of five deep, round, filky fegments. 

 Corolla funnel -(haped, white or yellowilh, twice as long as 

 the calyx and germen together, a little filky externally. 

 Stamens within the tube ; their anthers large, oblong, obtufe. 

 Of the Jlyle, Jiigma, or fruit, we can give no account. 

 This ftirub appeaj-s to belong to the natural order of Ru- 

 hiacen, but we have not fufficient materials to determine its 

 genus. 



Tournefortia, in Gardening, contains plants of the 

 fhrubby exotic kind, among which the fpecies cultivated 

 are, the hairy Tournefortia (T. hirfutiffima) ; the cHmbing 

 Tournefortia (T. volubilis) ; the fetid Tournefortia (T. 

 foetidiflima) ; the dwarf Tournefortia (T. humilis); the 

 broad -leaved Tournefortia (T. cymofa) ; the filvery Tourne- 

 fortia (T. argentea) ; and the hoary-leaved Tournefortia 

 (T. fufi"ruticofa). 



Method of Culture Thefe plants may all be increafed by 



feeds, which (hould be procured from the countries where 

 they grow naturally, and be fown in fmall pots filled with 

 light earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners'-bark. 

 They fometimes grow the firft year, but often remain in the 

 ground a whole year ; therefore, when the plants do not 

 come up the fame feafon, the pots ftiould be plunged in 

 autumn into a tan-bed in the ftove, where they ftiould remain 

 all the winter, and in the fpring be removed and plunged 

 into a frefh tan-bed, which will foon bring up the plants, if 

 the feeds were good. When thefe are fit to remove, they 

 (hould be each planted in a fmall pot, and plunged into a 

 tan-bed, where they muil be (haded from the fun till they 

 have taken new root, and then be treated in the fame way 

 as other tender plants from the fame countries, which re- 

 quire to be kept conftantly in the bark-ftove. They may 

 aJfo fometimes be increafed by cnttings, which (hould be 

 planted in pots, and plunged into the bark-bed, 



Thefe 



