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EUPHORIA verticillata. 
Whorled-flowered Euphoria. 
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POLYGAMIA MONG@CIA. 
_ Nat. ord. Sarinpaces, 
EUPHORIA Juss.—Cal. 5-dentatus. Petala 5, medio intus subyillosa 
Teflexa, Stamina 6-8. Ovarium didymum. Stylus 1,° Stigmata 2. Car- 
pella 2, indehiscentia, 1-locularia, intis pulposa, uno swpé abortiyo, altero 
Superstite spheerico coriaceo. Semen 1. | Cotyledones crassc, sept confer- 
Tuminates.———Arbores ; foliis pinnatis, fructuum pulpd sepiis edul. Decand. 
Prodr. 1.611, — f 
a STU ST SNe 
E, verticillata ; foliis simplicibus obovato-lanceolatis. 
cytalia verticillata. Roxburgh. Hort. Beng. 29. . 
ortex adultus viridis, novellus cinnamomeus. Folia alterna, breviter 
petiolata, obovato-lanceolata, glaberrima, basi auriculata. Flores racemoso- 
paniculati, albi, rubescentes. Calyx albus, 5-phyllus, sepalis inequalibus, 
imbricatis, ciliatis, interioribus majoribus cucullates. Petala 5, ovata, reflexa, 
extra discum cyathiformem inserta, supra basin squamula ciliata aucta. 
3. Stamina 8, intra discum inserta, basi monadelpha. Rudimentum ovarit 
Jiliforme, staminibus brevius. @. Ovarium didymum, disty lum, basi glandulis 
intra discum suffultum, carnosum, ovulis solitartis horizontalibus. Stigma 
Parvum, ovatum, ciliatum. 
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Whether this is really a species of Euphoria, it is impos- 
sible, in the absence of its fruit, to ascertain; that it is the 
Scytalia verticillata of Roxburgh, we know from the cir- 
cumstance that the very plant from which our drawing: was 
taken was brought to England from the Botanic Garden, 
Calcutta, in 1822, by Mr. John Potts, for the Horticultural 
Society, in whose Garden, at Chiswick, our drawing was 
made, in February last. 
A tender stove plant, native, according to the Hortus 
Bengalensis, of the Moluccas. In the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta, it forms a shrub, flowering in the rainy season, 
from June to October, and ripening its fruit in the hot 
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