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A COMPLEAT BODY 
Jan. 
. there indeed any to receive it. 
“improve the Writings of an Author we refpect, 
into a fingle Body. 
five Segments ; 
the others ; and they are all firm, harden’d at the 
Points, and prickly. 
The Body of the Flower is compos’d of five 
Petals, and is truly papilionaceous. Its Form is 
fingular, and on the Outfide it is hairy. 
The Vexillum is rounded and turn’d backward, 
and has a narrow Bottom of the Length of the 
Cup. The Ale-are fhorter than the Vexillum, 
and are nip’d at the Tips. The Carina is form’d — 
like a Crefcent, obtute, and compos’d of two Pe- 
tals. 
Within the Flower are plac’d nine Filaments : 
thefe unite in their Bodies, and form a Cylinder ; 
and their loofe Ends turn up: among thefe rifes a 
fingle Style. 
The Student will be perplex’d at. this Difpofi- 
tion: he will not well know to what Place to re- © 
fer the Plant in the Linnaan Syitem, nor is 
Let us not fear to 
but as freely as we applaud, difplay his Imperfec- 
tions to the Reader, that he may fupply the 
Deficience. 
The Difpofition of the Filaments in this Plant 
is the fame with that of the nine in the diadelphous 
‘Tribe, but there wants the Tenth. | 
_ We have already fhewn the Student, that in 
this Clafs nine ufually form a long cylindric Body, 
which has an Opening at the Top, and there, a fingle 
one falls into the Slit. This is the Structure of 
the papilionaceous Flowers, and hence Linn us 
calls them diadelphous. 
Here there are the nine, they form the Cylinder, 
and they fplit at the Top; but there wants the 
Tenth to cover that Opening. ’Tis the Addition 
of this tenth loofe Filament which conftitutes the 
very Name and Character of the diadelphous 
Clafs: the Term exprefies that the Filaments ftand 
in two Affortments; one and nine. This is not the 
Cafe here, therefore the Plant ftri@ly cannot be 
referr’d to this Clafs. ss jar! 
There is another Clafs, the Monadelphous, 
form’d for the Reception of thofe Plants which 
have the Filaments connected in their lower Part, 
This might receive the 
Plant in ei oul ; but in that Cafe the Borbonia, 
which has a papilionaceous Flower, would be divided |} 
from the Papilionaceous, ahd plac’d among the 
Malvaceous Tribe, which are utterly diftinc. 
Nature abhors thefe Violations: and if we give 
- into it, in the prefent Inftance, ’tis not the Borbo- 
nia alone that mutt be remov’d out of its natural 
Place. 
Linn vs retains it among the anti tho’, 
at the Expence of his Claffical Character; but 
this cannot be right. His Definition of the Mono- 
delphous, is, Stamina filamentis in unum corpus co- 
alta: of the Diadelphous, Stamina filamentis in 
duo corpora coalita. | 
As there are others of the papilionaceous Plants, 
befide the Bordonia, which want the loofe upper 
of thefe the loweft is longer than | 
unite and furround the Piftil ; 
Filament, they are not diadeiphous, while by their - Jan. 
univerfal Form they are declar’d not of the mox0o- ———~ 
delphous Kind, altho’ their Filaments would {peak it. 
Therefore there wants, in the modern Syftem, a 
Clafs to receive thofe papilionaceous Plants which 
have nine Stamina united, and no loofe one. 
This I apprehend cannot be introduc’ d without 
changing the prefent Terms. | 
The Word Columnifere,us’d by fome of Character 
in Botany, very well receives the malvaceous or pro- 
per monadelphous Kind: this therefore may be us’d 
- inftead of Monadelpbia,; and two other Clafles with 
other Names, abolifhing the fingle diadelphous, may 
be form’d to receive thofe Plants whofe Filaments 
the one containing 
thofe which have nine F Nanienits united, and a 
fingle one loofe above ; the other, thofe which © 
have the nine united, but not the fingle one. = 
The firft would contain the common papiliona- 
ceOUus ; Plants, the other thefe. - 
\ 
Culture of the BorBonta. ees 
It is to be rais’d from Seeds. Thefe fucceed 
beft when brought from Africa, where it is native ; 
but the Plant will ripen them here, and they will 
grow freely, 
In its wild State, at the Cape, it covers the 
Sides of fandy Hills, where there js rich 
Matter among the crumbling Mould; and never 
thrives fo well as where it fringes the Bank of 
fome trickling Spring. 
This direéts our Culture; and we fhall fucceed 
beft if we give it a loofe yet not poor Soil, and a 
good deal of Water. 
Let the Compoft be this: 
A Barrow of Earth from an upland Pafture, a 
Bufhel of Sand, and a Peck of rotted Cow- 
_ Eatly j in Spring & fill a Couple of Pots with this, - 
| and leave the reft till wanted. 
‘On the Surface, in thefe Pots, {catter fome of 
the Seeds; fift over them a Quarter of an Inch. 
of the fathe Compoft, and fet them up to the 
_ Rim in a Bark-Bed, 
Now and then give a gentle Watering ; and, 
when the Plants rife, repeat it oftener, and give 
them Air in the Middle of the Day. 
When they have a little Strength, raife the Pots 
to the Surface, and give them more Air, 
Soon after this, tranfplant the ftouteft of them 
into feparate Pots of the fame Compoft; and 
put thefe into the Bark-Bed, watering and fhad- 
ing them till rooted. _ 
Then by Degrees bring them out into the open 
Air, among the Greenhoufe Plants, and at Au- 
tumn remove them into Shelter. 
They will not require the Stove-Heat in Win- 
ter; but, if preferv’d from Froft, and allow’d 
Air in the Middle of mild _ will flower all 
the Year. 
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