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HEDERA. 
Bot. t. 1267.—‘¢ Leaves ovate and lobed.’ —** Every one is 
‘acquainted with the ivy, fo common and fo panes We: upon 
old walls and the trunks of aged t Nor do com- 
monly creep on the ground in dark woods, fo ne an ever- 
green carpet. It is the lateft @f all our flowering plants, blof- 
foming i in O&ober and November, and ripening its berries 
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in the fpring. "The whole plart partakes of a peculiar aro- 
matic flavour. From the old ftems, when bruifed, a very 
fragrant refin exudes. ?*__Stem and branches long and flexible, 
creeping, attached clofely to os or walls by fhort fibres ; 
upper branches TAS round and fmooth, Leaves ever- 
green, dark, having white veins, ik ones — lower ones _ 
five-lobed, all ftanding: « on footita Flowers green, of 
many umbels, forming a cory = a gicbalsr, black, 
mealy w 
“Mr. eae remarks, that when i ivy trails on the groun 
nd 
its branches are {mall and — its leaves divided into three 
obes. Hence, this difference of appearance induced old 
botanifts to para the tent | in 5 isp into two or three 
diitin& fpecies. In its variegated {tate it fometimes appears 
almoft w or and mere perhaps, be the Hedera ™ or pal- 
lentes Hedere of Virgil. 
2. H. pendula. Swartz. Ind. Occ. v. 1. —** Leaves 
ovato- ieceslare. entire. Umbels fomewhat capitate. Stems 
very long, pendulous,”’—Native of high mountains in the 
Jamaica, flowering in May.—The #runé of this 
{hrab is about ten or twelve feet high, having a fmooth bark. 
Branches ipreading, fubdivided ; lefler ones ereG. Leaves 
long footitalks, fcattered, oppefite, or ternate, very 
f{mooth and fomewhat rigid. Umbels axillary, on long ftalks, 
‘pale. 
nutans. Swartz. Ind. Occ 514.— Leaves 
3 
‘Miptical: leathery Umbels drooping, Tenigaeian Stems 
erect.’ *—Native of the Blue mountains in the fouth of Jas 
fummi 
ied to H. pendula, but differs in its leaves i t s alfo 
are fhorter and nearly erect ; mbels are imaller,— 
Brawehes round, furrow cee on footftalks about 
their own length, extremely {moot Petals ovate, acute, 
reflexed, deciduous. Filoweas og into the bafe of the 
~— Ra 
ae oey Swartz. Ind. Occ. v. 1. is Smith. Ic. 
Pid. Rar. t.4. (Aralia capitata ; Jacq. Amer. 89. t 61.)— 
Leaves alliptical, {cattered. Clu tters ae terminal, 
it flowers in February. 
It exifted in the colleétion of the late marquis of Rocking- 
ham long before 1777, bik whence that plant was procured 
t flow 
is not known. ered for the firft time in Europe in 
the ftove of the Sie marchionefs in the year 1787, from 
Ww 
feed has been produced it mufl be propagated by Se | 
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riod it has continued flowering anally, but as no 
denfe heads at the Exiseniliy of each ftalk. 
arborea. Swartz. Ind. Occ. v. 1. ae Aralia 
of Jamaica, and other r parts of the Weft Indies, Sovaiie 
in December, Jacquin i this is an ineegat tree, 15 feet 
i 
Jam. 190. t. 19. f. 1 
of eon alana 8 ie 
high, with a cif reeable {niell. Its Lavei gre 
las laft, ie inflorefcence effentially Ht tly era 
The laces, many-t soothes involucrum ede each of the 
little umbels is very pec 
6. A Saniopreinm. lease Ind. Occ. v. 3. 519. Brown 
io sad in terminal $f: 
ativ 
parts of 
bruary. This | 
pom on ate ftalks ; the central ones by largeft. 
alf long, cylindrical, compofed of ine 
numerable, fcattered wt br eee ihe . — 
(Vitis heptaphy ‘la; 3. Linn. Mant. 212. 
.V. I. 1182.)—Leaves of feven-ftalked, ellip- 
tical leaflets. Clufters compound, very long ; partial flower- 
{talks whorled.—Native of the Eaft Indies. We have never 
Sey it but in the Linnean herbarium. ee: climbin 
We refer it to this genus os account of its ftrié 
affinity to the three preceding f{pecics. 
erebinthinacea. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. 1179.—Leaves 
Clufters compound 5 
partial flower-{talks umbellate.—Native of woods in Ceylon. 
This we have not ee awit’ defcribes it as differing 
from the laft in its sallorelcence. and {mooth calyces. 
comprifes 
an cl 
fae bunches, that turn ome before they * ripe. os 
is ftate it is called ci; mbing © n the 
rried ivy. 
oe the bark i is covered with an af-ccloured cpr ; 
a green 
which, in the young branches, purple 
tin 
es 
It has been remarked by the late Mr. Css, thee ba ew 
a are apprifed of oe beauty of the i 
1s permitted to run up a ftake, and ultimately ¢ po form it 
intoa ftandard, as the fingular - complication of 
diftinguithes it, 
