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_ P.XVI. 
5 DOUBLE INDIAN NYCTANTHES. 
We here propofe to the Attention of the Curi- 
ous, the firft of the whole Shrub Kind in Ele- | 
gance, a Plant worthy all Care, and repaying 
all that can be taken of it, by more and richer 
- Luftre. 
It has been called Rofe Jeffamy, and great 
double Arabian Jafmine : itis properly a Nyc- 
tontbes, as the former. Breynivus calls it 
Fafminum Indicum mali Aurunculi foliis flore albo 
pleno ampilifimo, and the fame Name is copied 
by Micuarn AwncGeLro Tiri1, under whofe 
Care it flowered in the Duke of Tufeany’s Gar- 
den at Pifa; Linn aus, who has feparated it by | 
a generical Name from the Jafmine Kind, adds as 
its Diftinction from the other Species, Fo/iis ova- 
tis acuminatis undulatis, ramis teretibus, Nytan- | 
thes, with oval, pointed and waved Leaves, and 
* with round Branches. 
‘The Root fpreads, and is of a pale brown 
and woody ; the Bark of the lower Part is grey- 
ifh; the young Shoots are rounded, firm and 
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Fig. 0. 
green; and are fometimes {tained with a flefhy 
Colour or faint Purple. 3 
The Leaves are broad, oblong, and a_beauti- 
ful Green ; they are largeft at the Bafe, waved 
at the Edges, and pointed at the End. 
Their Colour is a very ftrong Green; and in 
favourable Seafons, their Ribs eet the fame Pur- 
ple that flains the young ranches. 
Their Manner of Growth is irregular, fome- 
times they ftand in exact Pairs, on other Parts 
ee: 
of the fame Plant, the two Leaves intended 
for a Pair, are inferted one a little above the 
other; and in other Places there grow three 
inftead of two together. 
Breynivs allows the Leaves only to ftand in 
Pairs; but Titzt1 has Authority from Nature in 
reprefenting them in fome Places ternate. 
The Flowers cover the Shrub in all Parts, ri- 
fing from the Bofoms of the Leaves from Top 
to Bottom, and terminating all the Stalks and 
Branches. | 
Their Colour is a pure White ; their Form and 
Bionefs that of a fmall Rofe; and their Scent 
that of the Jafmine Flower ; but though fuller 
yet without all Faintnefs. 
Toward Sun-fet this is ftrongeft, and to ap- 
proach the Shrub at that Time, is to remember 
what Poets fay of the Arabian Coat. 
It is a Native of the Eaj/?-Indies. 
The celebrated Shrub of it in the Pi/z Garden, 
was fent from Goa,' where it is not lefs efteemed 
than the moft moft curious of our’ Plants in. 
Europe. : | 
Its Clafs and Place in the Linngan Syftem, 
| are the fame with the preceding; but the Cha- 
racters are not eafily traced in double Flowers. 
Its Culture and Management need not be 
made the Subject of a feparate Article. It may 
be propagated by Layers; and the fame Care we 
have directed for the other, will preferve it. 
el PRECRLY seo TED LE AV D at OE 
The Aloes all have Beauty, and para Variety 
is alfo a great Recommendation. 
The fame Conveniences and Care needful for 
one Kind will raife many more, and their flower- 
ing at a Seafon, barren of moft other Things, 
adds to their Eftimation ; we have for this Rea- 
fon given the Culture of many of the Aloes ; 5 
and fhall of feveral more. 
None claims that Regard we have fhewn to the 
- Genus more than this, Whee Leaves as well as 
Flowers are full of Singularity and Beauty, — | 
Many of the late Authors have defcribed it, 
and moft have taken the Name firft given it, by 
the Author of the Amfterdam Garden, Aloe Afri- 
cana caulelcens folis pinofis maculs ab utraque parte 
albicantibus noftatis; Linn us calls it, Aloe flo- 
 ribus pedunculatis cernuis, coxymbofis Subcylindricts ; 
Aloe with drooping fub-cylindrick Flowers grow- 
ing on Pedicles in Clufters on the Top of the 
Stalk. 
The Root is formed of many thick reddifh 
Fibres. ‘The Leaves rife fometimes naked from. 
the Ground, and fometimes are fupported on a 
3 
Kind of Stalk, thick, fhort, and filmy. 
They are flefhy, oblong, and broad: their Co- 
dour i is a deep Green, {potted on both Sides ir- 
regularly with White; and they are edged with 
fharp and ftrong Thorns varioufly difpofed, and 
terminate in a very robuft, fharp Point. 
The Stalk rifes in the Centre of thefe Leaves, 
and is round; firm, upright: of a purplith 
Colour on the lower Part, and paler upwards. 
The Films toward its Top are numerous tho’ 
flight, and they of a mixed whitith green Co- 
lour, dafhed with Purple. 
The Flowers terminate the Stalk j in a beauti- 
ful Manner. They rife nearly together, and» 
‘they have feparate, long, whitifh Foot-ftalks,; 
thefe fpread out from the Top fo as to form a 
Kind of Umbell, and they are long, hollow, and 
of a fine Red. 
The Clafs to which the Aloe belongs, is to be 
read in thefe, and we have had Occafion to ex- 
plain it at large before ; we fhall therefore only 
obferve here, that the Flower, as in other Species — 
of the fame Genus, is formed of a fingle Petal, 
that 
