451 
CHIMONANTHUS fragrans: 6. grandiflorus. 
Large-flowered Japan Allspice. 
ee 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. CALYCANTHER. Lindley supra vol. 5. fol. 404. 
CHIMONANTHUS. Stamina subequalia, persistentia, 5 exteriora 
fertilia, maturitate basibus connatis faucem operientia. Irutices (Japonie) 
ramis virgatis. Flores axillares, solitarii, odori, flavescentes, intus purpu- 
rei. Lindley supra vol. 5, fol. 404 in nota ad calcem pag. 
Chimonanthus fragrans. Lindley MSS. 
Calycanthus precox. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 718. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1120. 
Hort. Kew. 2. 220. t. 10. ed. 2. 3. 282. Curtis’s magaz. 466. 
Obai s. Robai. Kampf. amen. exot. 878. t. 879. 
(8) grandiflorus; floribus subrotundis majoribus: laciniis patentibus: exteri- 
oribus nunc margine crispatulis. Lindley MSS. 
(«). Fratex virgatus. Rami oppositi, virgati, impubes, cortice pallidé brun- 
neo scabrello; ad nodos tumidi. Folia opposita, brevitér petiolata, rigida, 
lanceolata, acuminata, plana, integerrima, scabra, venis primariis precipue 
subtis pilosiusculis, supra atro-viridia nitentia, infra pallidiora. Flores 
post folia, odoratissimt, axillares, subsessiles, solitarii, cernui; bractex 
numerose, pilose, brunnee, imbricate, superiores sensim majores, demdm 
transeuntes in perianthium: foliolis impubibus, imbricatis, basi in tubo con- 
natis, exterioribus ovalibus, concavis, obtusis, margine plano seu crispatulo, 
ameené lutescentibus, semidiaphanis, interioribus unguiculatis, sensim minori- 
bus, crasstoribus, coccineis albido-maculatis. Stamina fauce carnosé inserta, 
numero variabilia, sepissimé 10, tum serie duplici; 5 exteriora fertilia, 
filamentis carnosis pilosiusculis, foliolis intimis breviora, ultra antheras pos- 
ticas, ellipticas, adnatas, biloculares, longitudinaliiér dehiscentes, lutes- 
centes, medio semiseptiferas, producta: pollen sphericum; interiora toti- 
dem paulo breviora, filiformia, pilosa, «qualia, stylorum longitudine. Sta- 
mina plira utriusque seriet quanddque superadduntur, sed hec vel manca vel 
siti irregularia. Ovaria (germina) receptaculo carnoso in basi tubi sessilia, 
unilocularia, impubia: ovulis duobus, verticalibus, adscendentibus, superiore 
citissimé obliterato ; styli totidem, filiformes; stigmata simplicissima. Fructus 
oblongus, é tubo pertanthit incrassati, velutinus, laciniis deciduis cicutrizatus, 
fuscus, staminibus persistentibus carnosis basi connatis (an semper?) coro- 
natus, sapore terebinthino. Achenopses 1 v. 2 (5-6 ex Kempf.), oblonga, 
brunnea, nitida, basin versis pilosa, cornea. Semen solitarium adscendens ; 
testa papyracea, pallidé brunnea; raphe crassa rectilinea: axt fructis ad- 
versa; chalaza orbicularis. Embryo CALYCANTHI. Lindley MSS. 
** Under the article Catycanruus fertilis in vol. 5. fol. 
404, Ihave proposed to distinguish the CaLycanruus pra- 
coz of Linnzeus as a separate genus, by the name of Cumo- 
NnanTHus. The propriety of this measure has been con- 
firmed by my subsequent observations. It differs very ma- 
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