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PLUMERIA bicolor. 
Bicolor Plumeria. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ApocyNn®. Jussieu gen. 145. Div. £ Germen duplex. 
Fructus bifollicularis. Semina non papposa. 
PLUMERIA. Cal. minimus, quinquefidus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 
tubo tenui tereti; fauce esquamata; limbo infundibuliformi, quinquepartito, 
laciniis obliquis. Stamina basi tubi corolle inserta, inclusa, libera: anthere 
conniventes. Ovaria (germina) duo, annulo carnoso immersa: styli duo, 
breves: stigma incrassatum, apice emarginatum. Frollicult ventricosi, de- 
orsim flexi: semina inferné membranaceo-alata. Arbores aut arbuscule 
lactescentes. Folia magna, alterna, integra et integerrima. Flores _spe- 
ciosi, terminales, corymbost, incarnatt, rosei, albi et lutescentes. Kunth 
noy. gen. et spec. 3. 229. 
P. bicolor, foliis oblongis, acuminatis, marginibus planis, corolla albo-lutea. 
Ruiz et Pavon fl. peruv. 2. 21. t. 141. 
Plumeria alba; @. fragrans. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 3, 230; (PLUMERIA 
alb4 Linnai toto celo distans). 
Yuraccarhuas Suche. Peruvianis. 
Arbor quinqueorgyalis: truncus erectus, teres, cinereus, coma subrotunda 
magna: rami dichotomi, crassi, medullost. Folia sparsa in summitatibus ra- 
mulorum, oblonga, acuminata, integerrima, plana, ‘venostissima. Petioli 
basi biglandulost. Pedunculi terminales, striati, glabri (in nostra plantaé 
lanuginost v. subvillost), multiflori, pedicellis bracteolis ovatis deciduis suf- 
fulti. Flores corymboso-umbellati, gemini. Cal. viridis, quinquecrenatus. 
Cor. magna, albo-lutescens; tubus curvatus; faux intense lutea ; limbus albo- 
lacteus. Folliculi bipalmares et ultra, rubro-fusci: semina fusca, ald longa 
albicante. Ruiz et Pavon. loc. cit. 
We have been furnished with the sample of this rare 
plant through the kindness of Mr. Lambert; who has culti- 
vated it for several years in his hothouse at Boyton, in 
Wiltshire, where it was introduced from Jamaica; most 
probably from some garden. It is a very different species 
from the Puumertia alba of Linneus, which belongs to that 
Island. There the leaves are very narrow in proportion 
to their length, long-pointed, and revolute at the margins. 
As far as we can judge from the description and figure, we 
have scarcely a doubt that our plant is the Puumerta bicolor 
of the “ Flora Peruviana,” as well as the plant intended 
by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland in the place we have 
quoted above. Not having seen the sample while fresh, 
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