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parts in both; a circumftance common to all natural' 
genera. 
I don’t know whether this plant will vegetate and 
thrive in our ftoves or green-houfes ; if it does, I am 
convinced it will make a beautiful appearance with, 
its aflemblage of purple or blood- red flowers. 
The drawings which I herewith lend [Tab. VIII. 
and IX.], fhew a ftalk with a flower, and one 
without, fo that the receptacle is bare. 
Brown/eae Genus. 
1. Brown as a ( coccinea ) floribus disjuncfis umbel- 
latis. 
Brownaea coccinea. Linn. Spec. Plant. 9 58. 
Jacquin.. Hift. Stirp. Americ. 194. * Tab. 121. 
Habitat in rupeftribus fylvatieis Zaucae ad finuni' 
Venezuelas Americes. 
Defer, apud Jacquinum, loco citato. 
2. Brown je a (Rofa de monte), floribus aggregato- 
capitatis feffilibus, ftaminibus longiffimis. 
Hermefias. Loefling. Itin. p. 278. * 
Habitat in montofis Terras Firmae, Portobello.. 
Descr. Caulis arboreus. 
Rami torulofl, cortice cinereo. 
Ramuli (feu petioli communes) fubalterni,. 
teretes, glabri, ball geniculo fuberofo- 
rugofo, paten tes. 
Folia coriacea, fpithamaea, oppofita, ovato- 
oblonga, integerrima, longius acuta, 
utrinque glabra, nervis alternis obfoletis, 
breviter petiolata ; inferiora fenfim mi- 
nora ; infima ovata, bafl fubcordata. 
Petiole Hi 
