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the fides, which are wooly or downy when young, 

 garniflied with oval, fpear-lhaped leaves, placed op- 

 pofite on pretty long footftalks. The flowers come 

 out in whorls round the ftalks, fitting very clofe; 

 they are fmall and tubulous, cut into four obtufe 

 fegments at the top, which expand and are of a deep 

 purple colour ; thefe are fucceeded by foft fucculent 

 berries, which are of a deep purple colour when full 

 ripe, each enclofing four hard feeds. This is a na- 

 tive of Carolina and will not endure much cold. 



CALYCANTHUS. 



CAROLINIAN ALLSPICE, 



Clafs 12. Order 5. Icofandria Polygynia. 



'X'FIE Calyx is of one leaf, thickened, fquarrofe, fomewhat 

 top-ihaped, truncated, almoft clofed above; and perma- 

 nent. 



The Corolla is compofed of many leaves, which are oblong, 

 coloured, of thick and flefhy confiftence, longer than the 

 calyx, fomewhat fpreading, but chiefly lightly incurved their 

 whole length; inferted in the truncated margin of the calyx, 

 difpofed in feveral feries or rows circularly, of unequal 

 length and deciduous. 



The Filaments are many, lliort, awl-lTiaped and inferted in the 

 top of the calyx; the ex'terior of which, have oblong fur- 

 rowed Anthercd adjoined to their apex; the interior barren 

 and doling the calyx. 



The Germsn are many, oblong, villofe, and hid within the calyx. 



Tho Styles many, joined in a medullary column and protrud- 

 ing in the center of the barren filaments, which ferve for 

 its defence. 



The Seed-vejjel none but the calyx, thickened, much enlarged, 



berry' d, and fomewhat inverfe egg-fhaped. 

 The Seeds are many, oval, fomewhat villofe, and furrounded 



longitudinally with a future. 



We have but one Species of this Genus, viz. 



Calycanthi'- 



