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NUMBER XIL Disk " 
For the latter End of NOVEMBER 
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fet tO Wee 
or the PueasurRE-GarRDEN.. 
COSHEA IP. 
It is a Shrub, Native of South America, and 
fingular in the Form of its Leaves; but much 
which, difclaiming the ufual Courfe of Nature, 
burft from their Edges. 
It has been dedcpibedi in Terms of Warder by 
all the late Botanical Authors. Prtuxener has 
Hamionitidi- affinis ; moft others call it Phyllan- 
fariferis. Phyllanthus, with lanceolate and indent- 
the Flowers. 
It rifes with due Care to a Shrub of dione 
Feet high. The Bark. is brown on the 
Trunk, grey on the Branches; and thefe di- 
rity. 
The Leaves are numerous, 
little Order as the 
ven Inches long, 
Breadth. 
‘and. ftand in as 
Branches. They are fe- 
‘and not half an- 
fharp-pointed and indented; they throw themfelves 
at firft horizontally from the Branches, and as they 
acquire the full Bignefs, frequently turn in a 
». Numb. XIII. 
very lively Green : 
hard. 
more fo in the. Difpofition of the Flowers, 
thus; to this Linwvus adds, for the Diftinétion 
of the Species, Foliis Janceolatis ferratis; crenis:| 
ed Leaves; the Indentings being the Place of ' 
vide and ipread — and with a fine — 
Inch in . 
. They rife. without. Rants ftalks, and they are 
f 
. : : , 
: | cai: wee _ Blowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
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1 LONG- LEAVED PHYLLANTHUS.. 
_ Nov. HE Singularity of this exceeds that 
z of moft other Plants, and cannot fail 
P.XIII. * to recommend it, ) 
7g. t. 
hooked Manner, sittentabak Sickles. Their In- Nov. 
dentings ftand at Diftances; théir Colour is a ———<= 
Their Subftance firm and 
The Flowers are ‘{mall, but of an elegant and 
lively Purple, not deep but flefhy ; ‘they {tand a- 
long both Sides of the Leaves in the Indentings,.. 
and whether in the Bud or open, give the Plant 
a very beautiful, as well as fneiiee Afpect. 
_| When in the Bud they are of a deeper Purple. 
given it a very inartificial Name,’ Filicifolia ; 
To know the Clafs and Place of. this ftrange 
Shrub in the ‘Linnzzan Syftem, the Student 
muft examine more than one Flower. Let him 3 
take off two or three Leaves loaded with them, — 
from different Parts of the Plant; and firit_ 
looking into ’em asthey ftand, obferve their 
general Difference. He will perceive fome to 
have a few. Threads and Buttons, and others 
only the Rudiment of a fucceeding Fruit. 
- Thefe two*Kinds being found upon the fame ’ 
Plant, fhew that its Clafs is that of the Monecia, 
the twenty-firft in the Linn 2 aw Sy{tem ; but let 
him examine them farther ; to knowin what Ar-. 
rangement they ftand under that general Clafs. 
The Buttons which’ are White upon the, 
Threads i in the Male- Flower, appear as fo many 
fnowy Spots on the pale Purple, which is 
its general Colour : Thefe are three, and that is | 
the Number of the. Stamina; the Shrub is 
therefore one of the Triandria, the fecond Sece 
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