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HAMELIA* ventricédsa. 
The King-Wood Tree. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RusBracem. 
HAMELIA Linn, — Calyx parvus, 5-fidus. Corolla tubulosa, ob- 
longa, 5-gona, limbo 5-fido. Stamina 5, medio tubi inserta; anthere 
oblong. Stigma obtusum, sub-5-gonum. Bacca ovata, sulcata, apice 
retusa et coronata, 5-locularis, polysperma, seminibus minutis. Frutices ; 
folia plerumque 3, verticillata ; flores corymboso-cymosi terminales. Juss. 
mem. mus. 3. 398, 
II. ventricosa ; corymbis terminalibus axillaribusque, corollis campanulatis 
ventricosis, foliis lanceolatis glabris ternis quaternisve. 
Nerio affinis arbor versicolore materie, lauri folio lucido, flore pentapetaloide 
sulphureo amplo. Sloane jamaic. 2. 63. t. 183. f. 2. 
Campanula arborescens, foliis ovato-acuminatis verticillatim ternatis, sti- 
pulis acuminatis interpositis, capsulis quinquelocularibus. Browne 
jamaic. 166. 
H. ventricosa. Swartz prodr. 46. fl. ind. occ. 1. 446. Willd. sp. pl. 1.981. 
Ait. Kew, ed. 2. 1.375. Bot. mag. Spreng. syst. 1. 765. 
H. grandiflora. L’Héritier Sert. angl. 4. t. 7. Ait. Kew. ed. 1. 1. 229. 
Paradisus Londinensis, 55. 
Arbor, ramis glabris, subtetragonis. Folia lanceolata, membranacea, 
petiolata, glaberrima, ternatim quaternatimve inserta, stipulis subulatis, 
Corymbi terminates, patentes, glabri. Calyx subrotundus, 5-dentatus. 
Corolla lutea, infundibularis, ventricosa, basi gibba, limbo erecto, plicato, 
5-fido. Antheree lineares, sepids exserte. 
A handsome hot-house plant, growing vigorously, and 
flowering in abundance in nearly all the summer months. 
It is a native of Jamaica, where it becomes a large tree, 
* This genus has been named in honour of Henry Louis Duhamel 
Dumonceau, a celebrated French philosopher of the last century, whose 
researches in vegetable physiology are the most perfect model of patient 
inyestigation and accurate deduction with which Botanists are acquainted. 
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