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Colour an elegant yellow. Each has its flight Cup ‘al: . | 
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Fig. 6, 
€i bis cunei-formibus : 
formed of five loofe Leaves, hollow, coloured, 
and of fhort Duration. 
The Body of the F lower is formed of five 
Petals, and thefe are large, rounded, hollowed, 
and fomewhat irregular; the two loweft in each 
Flower being larger than the others, and more | 
open and diftant. — 
In the Centre ftand ten Filaments ; they are 
long, flender, drooping, and of various Lengths 
The three uppermoft are 
the three lowermoft 
longer; and the three Seiret Buttons are much 
and Conftruction. 
fhorter than the others ; 
Jarger than the others, and of a hooked Figure. 
‘They have each a Beak, and they fplit at the 
| Sep, ; | 
_ The four Side “A rhhietce, or. Deicas have no 
Beak, and they alfo fplit when ripe; the three 
upper ones are diftinét from all thefe, very fmall, 
and fcarce perfect, or filled with the Farina. This 
is very fingular in the Character of | the Caflia, 
but all the Species of that Genus are alike in it. 
The Difproportion does not affect the Clafs of 
the Plant; that 1s found from the Number of | 
the Filaments; and as they are ten in Number, 
it is the Decandria, the tenth in the Linnean 
Sytem. 
_ The Style is fingle and fhort; it -rifes from a 
long Rudiment of a Fruit, fixed upon a Foot- 
‘ftalk, and is crowned with an obtufe affurgent 
Head, This fingle Style refers it to the firft 
Order under the senth Clafs, the Monogynia. 
The Seed-veflél is an oblong Pod divided into | 
feveral Partitions by tranfverfe Plates, and it con- 
tains numerous round Seeds. 
is fome Moitture. 
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Culture of this Cassia. 
it is found — in thofe warm Parts of the World 
where native, in deep mellow Earth, where there 
With us it never thrives fo 
well as in a Stove; but, with good Management, 
| it will live expofed in Summer among the Green- 
| houfe Plants, and only fheltered with them in 
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_ The Method of hides ie eohrOmn Seas’ or 
Crise ; and either Way it requires the com- 
mon Management with thofe Plants whofe native 
warm Climates make them tender here. ~ 
The Seed, if that Method be followed, fhould 
be obtained from Famaica, or fome other. Place 
where it is perfect ; and fown early in March upon’ 
a common Hot-bed of Dung with other tender 
ees \ 
_'The young Plants mutt be paitiowel to a fecond. 
Hot-bed, when the reft from the fame Bed are 
tranfplanted ; and after this, when they have got 
three or four Inches in Height, they muft be 
tranfplanted into feparate Pots. Thefe mutt be fet 
under a Frame, and fhaded till the Plants are ~ 
well rooted ; and after this removed either into 
1 the Stove, or into the Place where the Green- 
houfe Plants are kept, according to the intended 
Management. 
When the Method by Cuttings is peated, it 
muft be done in the Manner dire¢ted for thofe 
‘of other tender Plants, and at the fame Seafon. 
The Cuttings muft be of. that Year’s Growth :: 
| the Bed muft have Dung underneath, and an 
arched Covering. When the Cuttings are well 
rooted, they muft be planted into feparate Pots, 
and fet in the Stove, or out among the Green- 
} houfe Plants as the others. 
6 THREE FORKED SANTOLINA., 
. This is another of thofe elegant Africans which 
furnifh our Greenhoufes and Stoves at once with 
Variety and Beauty. The old Authors did not 
know it ; 
and COMMELINE, who has elegantly fi- 
cured and defcribed it, calls it by another Name: he 
yanks it with the Coma Aureas, and calls it Coma 
Aurea Africana fructicans folits glaucis © in extre- 
mitate trifidis: fhrubby Coma Aurea with blue, 
green Leaves, divided at the End into three 
Parts. | 
Van Roven and Linnaeus refer it to the 
Santolina, and the latter diftinguifhes it from the 
numerous other Species of that Genus, by the 
Addition of Corywbis fimplicibus faftigiatis foliis 
Santolina with fimple 
lufters at the Tops .of the Stalks, and with 
wedge-like Leaves divided.into three Parts. This 
Wass very happily exprefles the Form of the 
Leaf, which is oblong, broadeft and trifid at 
the Extremity, and fmaller to the Bafe. 
This .is the Senfe of the Term Cunei-form, 
z 
wedge-like applied to a Leaf; the Length is 
oreater than the Breadth, and it grows {maller 
from the Extremity to the Bafe. — 
The Species of Santolina are very numerous; 
but this Form of the Leaf, with the three Divi- 
fions at the Extremity, is a Character found in no 
other. 
and {preading. 
The Stem is woody, two Foot or more ia 
Height, and divided into numerous Branches. 
The Bark is brown, the young Shoots are of a 
pale filvery grey, and the whole Shrub, -when 
fuffered to grow in its natural Wildnets, is very 
elegant. 
The Leaves are of a pale blueifh, or sieyith 
green, and have the fame filvery Afpect with the 
young Shoots. They have no Footftalks, but 
adhere to the Branches by their narrow Bafe, and 
{tand irregularly. 
The Flowers are numerous, and crown the 
Branches 
The Root is woody, divided into many el 
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