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: -~= {trong Green of the Leaves, gives the Plant an 
_ there ftands a little Scale ; 
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very fmall and flender F ilaments ; 
thefe is fineular: 
inwards : 
flowers all the Year. 
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their natural Whitenefs, and the Contraft of the 
Air of Prettynels, that the moft incurious Eye 1 is. 
feldom feen to pafs by annotic’d.' 
The Flowers are all: furrotinded in the Clufter 
by numerous little Leaves, and each ftands in its 
own feparate’Cup, which is compos’d of three 
narrow and fharp-pointed Segments : 
when the Flower is fallen, and:becomes the De- 
fence of a roundifh Seed-veffel, mark’d with three 
Ridges, and containing, in as’ many Cells, ‘three 
roundifh but irregular Seeds ; one in each. 
In the Centre of the Flower, which is tubular, 
and imperforated ‘at the Bafe, and divided into 
five {mall Segments at the Rim, there rife five 
it is this. 
At the ‘Bale of every Segment of the F lower 
thefe are therefore five 
inal’? they are fharp- pointed, and ‘they converge 
the five Filaments have: their Infertion 
under thefe five little Scales, one rifing under 
each, and they are terminated ‘by fmall roundifh 
Buttons: | The Style is Siew — thele, and 
is {mall and undivided. 3 | 
This fingular Stragtore of the F lower, Rial 
fhews the Plant to be of a Genus difting from. all 
others; and the Filaments and Style thew evi- 
dently that it belongs to the Pentandria of Lin- 
weus, his Fifth Clais, and to ‘the firft Seétion, 
the Monogynia. ae 
The Plant is-a Native’ of Aithiopia, where it 
‘We firft rais’d it from 
Seeds fent from ‘thence; but at prefent, as it is 
common in our Green- houfes, and the Cuttings of 
it grow very freely, it is rais’d only by that Me- 
thod, : 
Thefe afford very good Plants ; but thofe dip 
have feen fuch as were rais’d from Seeds, brought 
from wild ‘ones in the natural Climate, know 
this remains | 
the Origin of 
| how. much they are preferable. . 
_ From thefe Seeds it is to be rais’d in Hot-Beds, 
as we have directed for the other Green-houfe 
Plants; but the other Way is the moft univerfal. - 
Culture. of the Putiyca, 
The natural Soil for this Shrub, ig 4 light 
Earth, with fome Sand; and it is found to thrive 
beft wild, when there be decay’d Wood about i it, 
as near the Edges of Thickets. 
We may eafily copy Nature in this Ma atter, 
and the more ftri€tly we do that, in this, as well 
as other Inftances, the better we fhall fucceed. 
Upon this Plan I form’d the following arti- 
ficial Compoft, with which I find the Shrub to. 
apree fo well, that it is not feen elfewhere fo beau- 
tiful. 
O€tob, 
Mix a Barrow of Farth. Fins an upland Pa- 
flute: half a Barrow of good Garden-Mould, a’ 
Bufhel of common Sand, and half a Buthel oF 
Saw-Duft. — 
Let thefe be A work’d together in the Spr ine, 
and lie mellowing all Staavia ) 
In the beMinning of the fucceeding Autumn All 
a Pot with this, large enough to hold eight ‘or 
ten of the Cuttings. Let them be taken from a 
thriving Plant, and fet in with Care. - 
Give them a gentle Watering as foon as they 
are in the Pot, and repeat it occafionally. — . 
Set the Pots up to the Edge in an old Bark- Bed 
that retains a little Heat, and fhade the Plants 
with Mats. » | 
By this Means, ‘the gentle Waterings, moderate 
Warmth, and due Degree of Shading, will en- 
courage them prefently to ftrike Root; and after’ 
this they require no particular Cate, but muft be’ 
treated juft as the Green-houfe Plants. 
cular Afpeét and late flowering, give them a great 
Their fin- 
Value. 
4 OCCIDENTAL GREWLA 
This is a very elegant little Shrub, and from — 
that of the young Shoots brown, and often pur- 
its handfome Growth, as well.as the Singularity of |. plifh: they are very flender, and are arm’d with a 
its Flowers, deferves a Place in every Collection. 
The old Writers on Botany were unacquainted 
with it; and thofe who afterwards came to the 
Knowledge of it, were perplexed where to arrange 
it, or by ‘what NaiC 10 Gal aes = Pa: . 
“PLuKENET. has call’d it, ‘Ulnifolia Arbor : and 
Commetine, Ulmi facie Arbufeula. | 
Linnzvus has diftinguifh’d it. by the Name 
Grewia; and as-this Species has the Leaves of a 
Form approaching to oval, he has added, to 
make the fpecific Name, Polis fubovatis. 
They judg’d by very faint Refemblances who 
nam’d ‘this after’ the Elm: they fhould have 
fought the Characters not in the Leaf, but i in the | 
Flower. 
It grows with us to a Shrub of a F oot high, 
and fpreads in a pleafing Manner into Branches. 
The Bark of the main Stem is ereyifh, and - 
N° 9. 
| few flight and almoft harmlefs Thorns. 
The Leaves are plac’d with perfect Irregularity, 
- fometimes in Pairs, fometimes alternately, and 
they are.an Inch and half long, . apd an Inch 
biped. « <Adse.3 
They have thre Foot- ftalks, and their Colour. 
is a pale but pleafing green. 
_ Their Edges are 
ferrated, and they are pointed at the E:nds. 
The Flowers are {cattered over various. Parts of 
| the Shrub, and they are very confpicuous : 
are large, open, and of a pale purple, with a 
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ereat-Clutter of yellow Buttons in the Centre. 
This Flower is plac’d in a five-leav’d-Cup, of 
a firm tough Subftance, and colour?’d on the inner 
Side; and is fucceeded by a Fruit of the Berry 
Kind, but fquare, and divided within into four 
Cells. 
The Petals of the Flower are properly five; 
Dd but 
