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T/je Species one^ viz. 

 Frank LI NiA alatamaha. FrankUnia, 



(Bartram's Catalogue.) 



This beautiful flowering, tree-like fhrub, rife^ 

 with an ercd trunk to the height of about twenty 

 feet ; dividing into branches, alternately difpofed* 

 The leaves are oblong, narrowed towards the bafe, 

 fawed on their edges, placed alternately, and fitting 

 clofe to the branches. The flowers are produced 

 towards the extremity of the branches, fitting clofe 

 at the bofom of the leaves ; they are often five inches 

 in diameter when fully expanded; compofed of five 

 large, roundifli, fpreading petals, ornamented in the 

 center with a tuft or crown of gold coloured fl:amina; 

 and poflefled with the fragrance of a China Orange. 

 This newly difcovered, rare, and elegant flowering 

 flirub, was firft obferved by John Bartram when oil 

 botanical refearches, on the Alatamaha river in 

 Georgia, Anno 1760; but was not brought into 

 Pennfylvania till about fifteen years after, when his 

 fon William Bartram, employed in the like purfuits^ 

 revifited the place where it had been before obferved, 

 and had the pleafing profpeft of beholding it in its 

 native foil, poflefled with all its floral charms; and 

 bearing ripe feeds at the fame time; fome of which 

 he coliefted and brought home, and raifcd feveral 

 plants therefrom, which in four years time flowered, 

 and in one year after perfected ripe feeds. 



It feems nearly allied to the Gordonia, to trhich 

 it has, in fome late Catalogues, been joined: but 

 William Bartram, who firfl: introduced it, believing 

 it to be a new Genus, has chofen to honour it with 

 the na^me of that patron of fciences, and truly great 



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