firm and rough ; 
and fpread irregularly, and their Bark is a pale 
rT oirPpLeadt BODY 
vat the Gardener’s Pleafure of being trained up to 
a regular ‘T’ree. 
The Root is large and fpreading; the Stem is 
the Branches are numerous, 
brown. 
The Leaves are broad, of a lanceolate oval 4. 
Form; that is, oval except that they grow {mall 
green ; undivided at the Edges, fharp pointed, 
and lightly rib’d : they ftand in Pairs, and difpofe | 
themielves 1 in all Directions. 
“The Flowers are the moft fingular of any thing ; 
in the botanical World: they are large, elegant, 
and of a deep but very dufky Purple ; compofed | 
of numerous Petals waved, and irregularly dif- 
pofed about a Multitude of Heads; and they | 
‘The Bark | 
have a faint but very fingular Smell. 
has an .aromatick Smell, a much higher. Degree, 
The Conftruction of the Flower is this. 
The Cup is formed of a fingle Piece, thick, of 
a femi-oval Shape, or as if the larger End of )the 
oval had been cut off, and hung about with five 
Segments. 
or Edge of the folid Part, but break out irregu- 
larly from the Sides, toward the Middle hee 
larger, ‘and others {maller ; : and fome. higher, | 
others lower. : 
The Petals rife from” the Fdge of the folid *|. 
Part of the Cup, at fome Diftance above the 
Segments: they are about four and twenty in 
Number, and are difpofed in two Series; thofe 
of the outer Series naturally ftand expanded, thofe 
of the inner turn inward at the Points: they are 
all oblong, pointed, and a little waved. Their 
, Subftance is very tough and firm. 
Part of that Prominence, 
-Thofe of the outer Series terminate, plain as 
the Petals of other Flowers; but at the Extre- 
mity of each of the Petals of the inner Series, 
there is a fall, round, whitifh, glandular Tu- 
bercle. Son ae 
_ The Filaments are about twenty ; they ftand 3 in a 
regular circular Series round the Verge of the Cup, 
clofe within the Infertion of the inner Series. of 
Petals. They are of a: moft fingular Structure, 
thick, moderately long, coloured as the Flower, 
and a little bent outwards. | 
Each is terminated by a Gland in the manner 
of the inner Series of the Petals; 
takes the Placé where the Buttons fhould natural- 
ly. ftand, that needful Part is fixed to the outer | 
which is formed by the | 
bending of the Filament. 
Thefe Buttons are oblong; yellow, and large ; 
_ they adhere clofe to this outer Part of the Fila- 
ments, but the whole internal Surface, or that. 
which is toward the Centre of the Flower, is 
naked. 
In the Centre of the Flower, furrounded by 
thefe Filaments, ftand thirty or more Styles, each 
crowned with a {mall globular Head. Thefe rife 
from {fo many eos of Seeds, which are 
. lodged in the folid Bafe, or Body of the Cup. 
Thefe are the fucceeding Seeds, they have hot 
ripened in England, nor hve we any regular Ac- 
count of the Fructification from Abroad. 
| that we know~is, that as the Flower fades, the —--—— 
eft to the Rofe; 
. in’ a natural. Manner, on their Tops; 
Thefe do not rife from the Verge, ; 
of Petals are very ftrange. 
the Nectaria of the Flower, and thofe on the 
whence eae Plant has been named ; 
| nearer the Condition of this esate Appearance 
than any other; but the Continuation of the Fi- 
lament above the Button, and its ‘Termination by 
fuch a glandular Subftance in its Stead. is - alto- 
| gether peculiar to this Plant. 
and (as this | 
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| flefhy Body of the Cup grows fofter, and that the 
Rudiments of the Seeds are hairy. 
The Clafs and Place of the Shrub in the Lin= 
NAEAN. -Syftem, are eafily afcertained by thefe 
| Characters: the numerous Filaments inferted on 
the Cup fhew it to be one of the Lcofandria; and 
again at the Bafe, and of a frefh but not deep } the numerous Styles refer it alfo to the Polgynia. 
Of all the. known Genera it approaches _near- 
but the Difference is fufficient to 
conftitute-a feparate Genus. This Difference con- 
 -fifts “in the Segments of the Cup, which in the 
Rofe are regularly five, large, and continued 
from the Edge of the Body : > whereas in this their 
“Numbers lefs-certain ; they are flight, and grow 
to the Sides, leaving an entire plain Edge. 
In the Rofe the Petals are broad, 
the Length of the Cup, and are naturally but 
five: whereas they ate numerous, 
longer than that Part many Times: in the Rofe 
the Filaments are fhort, and have the Buttons 
whereas 
here they are long, and have them placed in a 
very fingular-Manner on their Sides, - _ Probably 
the Fruit of this Tree is like that of the Rofe 
Kind; fo far as we fee of it, the Appearance is 
evidently that of a Hep. 
The Situation of the Anthera, or Button, on 
the Side of the Filament, though out of the ufual 
Courfe of Nature, is not particular to this Flower.. 
*Tis fo in the Herba Paris, and in Afarabacca ,- 
but the glandular Extremities of the inner Series 
Summits of the Filaments are perfectly the fame: 
there is an Appearance alfo, that the Heads of 
the Styles are of the fame Nature. 
We fee in the Adenanthera a glandular Sub- 
{tance growing from the Button, or Anthera, 
Culture of this BEURERIA. 
It is a Native of the warmer Parts of America, 
but with due Care will live through the Year in 
our Gardens in the open Ground. We are to 
imitate Nature, who generally allows it a defended 
Situation, and deep Soil. 
The Gardener muft chuf for it a very rich 
Piece of Ground in fome warm Quarter, and if 
he dig in a good Quantity of Pond Mud and fome. 
old-Cow Dung, he will mend the Quality of the 
Soil without heating | it. 
The beft Method of propagating it is by 
Layers: Cuttings are very precarious ; and we have 
obferved, that it neither ripens Seeds in England, 
nor have we feen the mature Fruit from abroad. 
The Method of making the Layers muft be 
the fame as in other tender Shrubs. 
A Quantity of rich Garden Mould mutt be put 
into 
All: 
and of | 
natrow, and 
Thefe are properly 
that comes | 
aT 
Sept. 
