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the great vegetable anatomiit Dr. Nehemiah Grew 
fee that article.—Linn. Gen. ~ 8 i 
Mill. Di@. v. 
Kew. v. 3. 313. Juff. 292. Lamarck Tlluftr. t. 467. " Getta; 
ie} . 
gynia. (Gynandria Polyandria, Linn.) Nat. Ord.. Colum- 
nifere, Linn. Tiliaee. . 
Gen Cal. Perianth inferior, of five lanceolate, 
ments very numerous, briftle-fhaped, the length of the 
petals, inferted into the bale of the germen ; anthers round- 
ith, i2. Germen roundifh, fupported - 
crowned with a five-fided berder, at the bafe ef which the 
: p the flamens ; ftyle thread- 
Seeds fo- 
everal cells. Seeds folita 
: outary. 
— Obf. Juffieu remarks that the honey is really fecreted by { 
e amens. 
the column, een the corolla and ft If fo, the 
{cales of the petals ‘are incorreétly termed ne@taries. 
ftamens not being inferted into the piftil above the germen, 
this genus belongs Polyandria, next to its near relation 
Tilia, initead of G ‘Jnandria, where Linnzus placed it, 
Inneus, are now remove 
168. fee ali Leni) a 
11368, 1174; fee alfo Le nifcia, 1¥72, which we believe 
belon “or latter. § it dace 
ill-underftood, fo that 
view of the whole. They are all. thrubs or trees, with the 
habit of Elms, or Lime-trees, with very handfome, though 
not large, flowers. 
der . occidentalis, i 
t..422,n 
butcula . 
A eenWBAfis, sehere i Ace 
mo} pat: ea Atigelid $0 hase : 1 sie t: 
mye colecuon at: Hamptos Court in1692, having heen, 
double, imported from Folland. "This ecea eS yoeey 
- 20 of 12 feet. high, much branched, the 
obtufe, four-cleft. j 
The. 
- eh ‘ -oblong, fharpl 
both ‘fides with so te 
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bluntifh, rather crenate, than ferrated, {mooth, an inch or 
more in length, fomewhat oblique, and much refembling 
thofe of an elm, deciduous. They have 
Leaves fhorter and rounder than the former, on longer more 
flender ftalks. F. lower-flalks afo much more flender, flightly 
thickened upwards, with i 
raceas. Flower about half the fize of the preceding, The 
under fide of the leaves is rough with minute, ftarry, rufty 
hairs, 
3- G. orientalis. Linn. Sp. .Pl. 1 367. 1 
Rheede Hort. Mal. v. 5. 91. t. 46. Frutex baccifer mala- 
baricus; Pluk. Phyt. t. 50. f. 4-)—Leaves ovate, pointed, 
finely and bluntly- ferrated, roughifh, 
wered. Petals revolute. 
of the Eaft Indies, 
8s. Leaves near three inches long, on fhort 
rough ftalks, exadily ovate with an elongated point, clofely 
Column very briftly.— 
by a leaf. ¥, re 
with broadifh revolute petals, fhorter than the calyx. ~ ‘The: 
column is clothed with long, denfe, filky, briftles, from juft 
as is the germen alfo. Fruit near an inch broad, four-lobed,. 
depreffed, clothed with denfe fhort briltles.—We are the 
more particular in deferibing this fpecies, becaufe Vahl and 
Geertuer feem to have rife ivec 
every other part fo precifely agrees, that we dare not make 
it diltinG, elpecially as the la‘t-mentioned chara&ter 
wer. 
Petals ftraight, neark equal to the calyx. 
he Eatt . ndies. This appears 
Jorub, much branched and divaricated’ 
( Pai-Parfea 5 
Flower-ftalks three- 
als to the bafe of the ftamens, 
ray ae 
Column naked. ~ 
to be Gertner’s 
