~ Pe 
3 
A OOMPELEATOBODY | 
Herman has defcribed it under the Name 
of a Liffymachia, adding Non pappofa flere luteo 
minimo, filiquis caryophillorum aromaticorum amulis :" 
little yellow-flower’d Lyfimachia with Seeds not 
downy, and with Pods refembling the Clove 
Spice. , 
Van Roven referred it to the Ludwigia, 
adding, Cop/ulis oblongis: Ludwigia with oblong 
Pods. Linnaus, with better Regard to the 
Charaéters of Nature, refers it to the Genus 
Fufiea, fo named from the diftinguifhed Fuffieu 
of Paris, who ftudies and teaches Botany un- 
der the Patronage of his Sovereign: he adds, 
as the Diftin€tion of this Species, Eveéia villofa 
floribus tetrapetalis oftandris pedunculatis : 
hairy Juffiea, with four-leav’d Flowers on Foot- 
-ftalks, and eight Filaments in each. This is | 
a fingular fpecifick Diftincétion, but it is highly 
Parts none. 
juft, ioe the ordinary Fuffieas have ten. It 
fhews the Imperfection of the Syftem of Lin- 
wus, while it commends his moft accurate | 
fpecifick Diftinctions. 
The Root is white, and hung. with innu- 
merable Fibres. | : 
The Stem is firm, and almoft woody; the 
Height three Feet, and the Branches nume-. 
rous. The main Stem has the Remains of four 
Ridges, and the younger Shoots are eects 
{quare. 
The Bark is brown, with a Tinge of red 
on. the older Parts, but on the younger it is 
pale, and the young Shoots are lightly hairy. 
The Leaves are numerous, and of an elegant 
Form, oblong, moderately broad, undivided 
at the Edges, and fharp-pointed; they ftand 
alternately on the Branches, and they have 
very fhort Footftalks; thofe on the extreme 
They are broadeft toward the 
Their Colour 
is a ftrong green on the upper Side, and a 
fgint or whitifh green below: and they are 
lightly hairy, foft to the Touch, and of a ten- 
der Subftance. 
The Flowers are fmall, and of a delicate 
yellow ; they ftand in the Bofoms of the Leaves, 
the Rudiments of the Fruit ferving in the | 
Place of Footftalks. 
Each Flower has_ its Cup, this ftands to- 
gether with it on the Rudiment, and is fmall, 
ae compofed of four little oval pointed Leaves, 
which cohere at the Bafe, and remain after the 
Flower is fallen. | : 
The Body of the Flower is compofed of 
middle, and truly lanceolate, 
- flight, 
upright | 
laments, and five Petals or Segments. 
four roundifh Petals, which fpread wide open; Sept. | 
and the Filaments are eight: they are hort, 
and they have roundith Buttons. : 
The Style is fingle and flender, and its 
| Head is thick, and marked with five Ridges. * 
The Seed-veffel is oblong, thick, crowned 
with the Cup, and filled with numerous Seeds 
in feveral Series. It is this Seed-veffel, which 
throughout the whole Time of the Plants 
flowering, makes fo confpicuous a Figure. 
It 15: an. Inch in Length, and has the Rides 
and the Scoan large. 
They are of a pale green at firft, afterwards of a. 
deep brown; and they refemble in this laft 
Condition extremely the common Clove Spice. 
The Student will at once refer the Plant 
to the Ofandria of Linnzaus; bnt he is to 
be told the Fufiea belongs to the Decandyia, 
Nature wantons a little in this Matter; and 
the general Number in the Genus is ten Fi- 
Lyn- 
Neus obferves, that one fifth af the Number 
in all the Parts is in fome Species deficient, 
and this is an Inftance: but it is not con- 
ftant or certain even in this; for there 
are. Flowers: on fome Plants, in which the 
Filaments are regularly ten. In thefe the 
Ridges on the Rudiment of the Fruit are five, 
the Leaves of the Cup five, and the Petals of 
the Flower of the fame Number. 
Culture of this Jusstma. 
It is a Native of the warmeft Part of the 
Indies, and thrives beft near the Waters, where 
the Soil is deep, mellow, and rich. 
With us it fhould be raifed from Seed ifi 
a Soil of the fame Kind. 
The Compoft fhould confift of equal Parts 
of Garden Mould and Pond Mud, and in this 
the Seeds fhould be fown in a Pot, which 
when they have been covered a Straw’s Breadth 
with the fame Mould, muft be fet up to the 
Rim in a bark Bed; and there managed as 
‘we have directed before. 
There requires nothing particular in the 
Management of the Plate only where they 
are large enough to remove, they muit be at 
once put into Pots of a Size to hold them when > 
full grown, for they do not well bear often 
removing; and when they are well rooted, 
muft be fet in, to take their Fate with the 
reft. 
% TRIFID LEAVED LEUCADENDROS. 
This is a very fingular Shrub, of a Genus 
diftinguifhed for its great Beauty, and itfelf 
not deftitute of that Charkdeer: though inferior 
to many of the others. 
The earlier Writers were not acquainted 
with it, nor did thofe who firft receiv’d Plants 
from Africa know by what Name to call it. 
_Priuxenet, by a ftrange Thought, referred it 
to the Cyanus, adding as its Diftin&tion, +hi- 
opicus rigidis capillaceis tenuiffimis foliis trifidis : 
fEthiopian Cyanus, with harfh very fine Leaves 
terminated by three Points, 
Van Roven referred it to the Protea, and ad- 
ded, Foltis linearibus ramofis: Protea with linear 
branched Leaves. 
Linnavs places it with the other Species of 
Leucadendras ; 
