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MONCEClA. HEX AND. 1695—1698. 



aa. 



memhrana- Leaves ovate, pointed, membranaceous, roughim with bri- 

 dles: {lamina 4. 

 Hispaniola. Swartz. prodr. 59. 



1695. EPIBATERIUM. Calyx double; the outer 

 6-leaved; inner 3 -leaved and larger: petals 6; 3 

 of them outer, and between the calycine leafets ; 

 3 inner: drupes 3, nearly globular, mucronate 

 with the 3 permanent ftyles, inclofing a kidney- 

 form nut. 



pendulum. 



pinnata. 



ttrnata. 



nun*. 



mtide. 



Epibaterium. 



South Sea 1 (lands. Forft. no<v, gen. p. 107. /. 54. 



1696. POMETIA. Calyx i-leafed, 6-ckft: petals 6. 

 Male. Filaments 6, on the margin of the nectary. 

 Fern. Berry globular, with a fingle feed in the centre. 



Leaves pinnate; racemes moTe than decompound, terminal. 

 South sea Iilands, Forft, prodr. n. 392. 



Leaves ternate: racemes nearly fimplc, axillary. 

 New South Wales. Forft. prodr. n. 393. 



Calyx 4-ieaved: petals 4: nectary 4-cieft: stamina 8 : styles 2s 

 germs 2, 1. celled, valvelefs, i-feeded. 



ORDER VIII, 



ftamina- 



POLYANDRIA: 8 or more 



1697. THOA. Calyx o: corolo, 

 Male. Stamina numerous, at the joints of the fpike. 

 Fern. Germs 2, at -the bale of the male fpike, one" 



on each fide, feffile: fiigma 3 or 4-cleft: feed 1, 

 in a brittle fhell, covered with a bnitly web. 

 Thoa. 



Guiana. Aubl. Ouian. p. 875. tab. 336. 

 Shrub with twitted climbing branches: leaves oval, mucronatey 

 entire, glabrous:^;'^ axillary and terminal. 



1698. BEGONIA. Calyx o: corol 4-apetalled. 

 Male. Filaments numerous, on the receptacle. 

 Fern. Capfule winged, many-feeded. 

 Shrubby, erect : leaves quite glabrous, hearted, with the 



lobes unequal, obfeurely toothed: largeft wing of the ( 

 capfule roundifh. 

 Jamaica. UH&rii* flrip* ncv. 1 .p. 95. t. 46. 



