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CHIRONIA. 



Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogy7iia.) Flowers monopetalous, 

 inferior ; calyx five-parted, erect ; corolla equal, with a five-parted 

 limb ; filaments' from the mouth of the tube ; capsules ovate ; 

 seeds numerous, small. 



Named after Chiron, one of the fathers of medicine and 

 botany. A genus of Cape evergreen shrubs of great beauty, 

 with rose or purple-coloured flowers ; the species are — -jas- 

 minoides, haccifera, linoides, joedtmcularis, decussata, flori- 

 hunda, frutescens, glutinosa, etc. C. _peduncularis deserves a 

 place in every greenhouse ; the flowers are rosy-purple and 

 large, and are produced from June to November; this plant 

 will even succeed in the open border in a warm situation. 

 The soil, sand, peat, and loam. 



LOGANIA. 



Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogynia.) Corolla rather bell-shaped, 

 with the throat having shaggy hair, and the limb five-parted; 

 stigma club-shaped. 



Named after a Mr. Logan. L.florihunda has compound 

 racemes of white flowers at the axils of the leaves ; this 



