Sept. 
according to Linnzzus is Capficum Caule lhe 
The: Shrub is five Feet high, and full of 
_ with purple Buttons in their Centre, and they are Sept. 
_ agreeably fcattered over the Tops of the Branches, 
The Fruit is three quarters of an Inch lone, 
and moderately thick ; its Surface is gloffy, as. 
in the common Capficum ; but-its Colour is a. 
gold yellow.. 
{preading Branches. The Leaves are long and 
narrow, of a gay gloffy green; and veined 
with Purple. | The Flowers are {mall and white 
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of all who pride themfelves on their exotic Trea- 
{ures; and happily fuited to explain to the Student 
In cur Science,-one of the moft abftrufe Clafles of 
Linnaus. That Author calls it Paff, iflora foliis 
indi: ND | oe 
It is a vaft Plant of a Aecrulir and noble Af. 
pect ; and in its wild State, =e well fupported, 
eclipfes all the vegetable Kingdom. 
Its Stem is sical and unable to fupport itfelf ; 
but it. will climb the talleft_ Trees; its main 
Trunk. winding like a Serpent round them, and 
its inmtnctable Branches {preading over their 
broad Tops, and covering their whole Extent 
with Flowers and Fruit, both in the higheft 
Degree beautiful 5 and hanging from the out- 
snot Branches in innumerable long and flender 
Twigs, that play with the leaft Wind, and are 
: loaded with the fame Flowers and Fruit. 
Iti is a 
Native of South America, but has been omed in 
Holland to its full Beauty. 
The Trunk i is covered with a rough erey Batke 
The tender Stalks are green, and there pe TBS 
Tendrils, with the Leaves. 
Thefe are very large, oblong, broad, dopa 
‘pointed.at. the Ends, wav’d. at the Edges, and. 
of a fine green. 
The Flowers rife with the Leaves and Tendrils 
ufually one Leaf, one Flower and one Tendril 
| together ; ; and for two Months of Autumn they 
are extremely numerous. They are very large, 
and of a Lilly Whitenefs, 
~ "The Fruit follows fingly each Flower, and is 
of the Shape and Size. of an 1 Orange, and of a 
eile yellow. 
“The Flower more clofély examined difelofes, 
more Beauty. It is placed ina large Cup ‘com- 
pofed of five coloured Leaves, which are large, 
long and pointed: the Body of the Flower 1s 
formed of feveral very broad and long Petals, 
which’ naturally {pread out, and-afterwards fall 
backwards « thefe:are of a perfec: {nowy White- 
nefs. Within them is placed the Nedarinm, 
forming a triple Coronet. 
thefe three is large, and cothpofed of long, flen- 
der twifted Filaments, and is of a celeftial blue: 
this ftands within. the Circle of the Petals,' and 
furrounds. the Style... The others. are. fhorter, 
fmaller, and. paler coloured. | 
The Filaments rife within she: inner Coronet | 
of the NeGtarium, and they are in. Number jive. 
They are fixed at the Bafe of the Rudiment. of 
the Fruit, and to the Style, which i is there of 
variegated on the 
central Part with blue, red and yellow. 
»The outer Circle of | 
they rife in Height. They are flender, and of an 
Orange Scarlet. The Buttons that lie on thele 
-are oblong and obtufe. 
From the Parts where the Filaments are in- » 
feited, the Body of the Style rifes upright, co- 
lumnar ahd ftrait; and at its Top from an oval. 
Bud, which is the Rudiment of the Fruit, there e 
-fpread three Divifions which are largeft towards 
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the Extremity, and are there ctowned each with, 
a Kind of Head. 
‘Such the Stru@ure of this wonderful Flower ; 
and it is in general common to the other Species 
of the fame Name. 
The World is indebted to Seto Rr for ex- I 
- plaining what that fingular Part, the Nefarium 
of a Flower, is: it appears very particular i in ma- 
ny as we have fhewn, but in none fo much as in 
this: and till we knew that fuch a Part’ was 
common to moft. Flowers, and perfpicuous in 
| many, none underftood what this triple Circle 
in the Paffi on Flower was, or by what Name to call it. 
Hereafter the Student will know, that when 
befide the Cup, the Petals, the Filaments, and 
the Style, he fees in any Flower {ome other. fin- 
gular Part, that is its Nearium. 
The Form is quite inconftant and uncertain ; 
for Nature in no Part of Plants wantons fo 
~much, but whatever be its Figure, this i8 
| its Name. 
Our Student who has been’ taught to’ refer: 
| Plants to their Clafs in the Linn wan: Syftém by 
‘the Number of their Filaments, muft not rafhly 
call this one of the Pentandria of that Author, 
becaufe thofe Filaments are five. 
«Fhe Number of thofe Threads chara@terifes 
the Clafs only when they have the common and 
natural Situation, and rife free from the Bottom 
of the Flower; not when they are joined to one 
another, or'to the female Part. 
This we have obferved to him before. There- 
fore as they are’in this Flower joined to the fe- 
male Part or Style, they conftitute-a new Cha- 
racter. This is the Diftin@ion of a peculiar 
Clafs in the Linnaan Syftem, which hé calls 
Gynandria. It is a Greek Term formed of two 
Words, .as the others; and expreflés Plants in 
whofe Flower the male Parts grow sa the fes 
male. oe. 
This is the twentieth Clafs of Linwaus’; his 
whole Syftem being comprifed in twenty-four : 
and the Paffifiora is gt the fourth Se@ion of that 
Clafs; the frit Se@ion comprehending thofe 
which have only two Filaments, the fecond, 
thofe 
