72 



Report on New and Rare Plants, $*c 



XII. Pergutaria sanguinolenta. 



A trailing shrub, agreeing in all essential particulars with 

 the genus Pergularia. was raised from seed, sent from Sierra 

 Leone, in 1822, by one of the collectors of the Society. It 

 produced its flowers in July last. They grow in cymes, are of 

 little beauty, and of a yellowish herbaceous colour. All parts 

 of the plant, on being wounded, discharge a blood-coloured 

 turbid fluid, analogous to the white milky sap of other plants 

 of the same order. It grows freely in the stove, and is easily 

 propagated by cuttings. It may be thus defined : — 



P. sanguinolenta; foliis ovato-lanceolatis glaberrimis petio- 

 latis, cymis multifloris folio brevioribus, corolla? laciniis acu- 

 minatis obtusis, succo sanguineo,* 



XIII. Glycosmis citrifolia 



Limonia citrifolia. Willd. Enum. 448. Dec. Prodr. 536. 

 Limonia parvijlora. Bot. Mag. 2416. Dec. Prodr. 536. 



This is a valuable plant. Although it has no beauty in its 

 flowers, it is, nevertheless, continually covered with a profu- 

 sion of small pale orange-coloured berries. These are smooth 

 and semi-transparent ; their skin is membranous, with a slightly 

 resinous flavour, and tender juicy flesh of a lively sweetish 

 taste. The seeds are solitary, or in pairs, dark brown, ele- 

 gantly marked with the branched darker brown lines of the 

 raphe. It is probable that the plant will be cultivated as a 

 fruit for the dessert, for which the singular appearance of its 



* Since this Paper was read to the Society the plant has been figured in the 

 Botamca- Magazine, tab. 2532. 



