FETID STAPELIA, 
OR THE 
CARRION-FLOWER. 
Generic Character. 
Corolla {lightly twilled towards one fide. 
Nellary in form of a double liar in the middle of 
the corolla. 
Pentandria Dlgynia. 
Specific Character, &c. 
STAPELIA with the denticles of the branches 
upright. 
THE CARRION-FLOWER. 
The fragrance emitted by the major part of the 
vegetable world is fuch as to be regarded amongft the 
moft elegant and valuable attributes of plants ; and the 
ingenuity of mankind has been ftudioufly employed in 
collecting, preferving, and concentrating it. So 
great is the variety of vegetable perfumes that it is 
hardly poffible to enumerate the different kinds. 
Without particularizing the rofe, the violet, the car¬ 
nation, and many other common inhabitants of the 
garden, we might adduce the genera of Diofrna, Illi— 
cium, Ny&anthes, Polyanthes, and fome others, as 
peculiar 
