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large lobe^ Joined at their bafe, having a pretty long 

 common footftalk: they arefomewhat wedge fliape, 

 or narrower towards the bafe than the point, veined 

 with oblique parallel veins, and fawed on their edges. 

 The flowers are produced in a loofe thyrfusy at the ex- 

 tremity oi the branches, of a pale yellowifli colour; 

 and are iucceeded by fruit near the fize of the eaftern 

 Horfe-Chefnut. 



2» .SlsGULUS Pavia. Scarlet Jlozvering Horjc- 

 Chejnut. . 



This is but of humble growth, feldom rifing to 

 more than ten or twelve feet high; fending out feve- 

 ral bran\ches, with leaves and flowers much like the 

 former, except the flowers being of a bright red 

 colour : they fliand upon fhort naked footftalks, 

 branching from the common ftem, generally five or 

 fix together in each thyrfus. They are tubulous at 

 bottom but fpread open at top, where the petals are 

 irregular in fize and length, having fomething the 

 appearance of a lip flower; they have feven or eight 

 flamina the length of the petals. When the flower 

 fades the Germen fwells to a pear lhaped fruit, with 

 a thick ruflet coloured covering, containing fome- 

 times one or two nuts. 



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A M O R P H A. 



BASTARD-INDIGO. 

 Clafs 17. Order 3. Diadelphia Decandria. 



THE Empalement is of one leaf, tubulous, cylindrical and 

 top-lhaped: at the mouth ereft, five-toothed, and^ob- 

 tufe: the two fuperior teeth largeft; permanent. 

 The Corolla is a fingle petal, inverfe egg-iliape, concave, fcarce 

 larger than the calyx, ered, inferred in the calyx between 

 the two largeft upper teeth, and placed on the upper fide. 



The 



