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the height of forty or fifty feet. The branches are 

 garnifhed with winged leaves placed oppofite, which 

 are generally compofed of four pair of fmall leaves, 

 terminated by an odd one. The flowers are produce 

 ed at the ends of the Ihoots of the fame year, in large 

 bunches; they have long fwelling tubes, fliaped 

 fomewhat like a trumpet, and are of^an orange co- 

 lour, incHning to red j and fucceeded by large pods 

 full of winged feeds. 



4. BiGNONiA fempervirens. Ever-green Big^ 

 nonia^ or Yellow Jafmine. 



This kind refembles the fecond fo much as to re- 

 quire no further defcription. 



CALLICARPA. 



CALLICARPA. 

 Clafs 4. Order i. Tetrandria Monogynia. 



nPHE Empalement is of one leaf, bell-fhaped: at the mouth 

 four-parted and ered. 



The Corolla is of one petal, tubulous : The border four-clefc, 

 obtufe and fpreading. 



The Filaments are four, thread-form, twice the length of the 

 corolla. The AnthercB ovate and incumbent. 



The Germen is roundilh. The Style thread form, thicker above. 

 The Stigma thickifh and obtufe. 



The Seed'VeJJel is a berry, globofe and fmooth. 



The Seeds are four, fmall, callous, oval, compreffed, fome- 

 what convex on one fide, but a little hallowed as if eaten oa 

 the other. 



^here is but one Species of this Genus, viz. 



Callicarpa americana, Carolinian Shrubby 

 Callicarpa. 



This flirub rifes from three to five feet high, with 

 but flender Items, fending out many branches from 



the 



