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PERGULARIA odoratissima. — 
Sweet-scented green Pergularia; or Chinese Creeper. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNIZ. 
Nat. ord. Avocinem. Jussieu gen. 148. Div. II. Germen duplex. | 
Fructus bifollicularis. Semina papposa. iy 
AscterIapEm. Brown in mem. Wern. soc. 1.19. Div. I. 
ASCLEPIADEE VERA. ? 
PERGULARIA. Cor. hypocrateriformis, tubo urceolato. Corona 
staminea 5-phylla, foliolis compressis apice indivisis, intis lacinul4 auctis. 
Anthere membrana terminate. Masse pollinis erecte, basi affixe. Stigma 
muticum. Folliculi ventricosi, leves. Semina comosa. Planta volubiles. 
Fol. latiuscula, membranacea. Cyme interpetiolares. Flores flavescentes 
odoratissimi. Patria ignota: in China et India Oriental ob flores suaveo- 
lentes culta. Brown loc. cit. 31. 
P. odoratissima, foliis cordatis acuminatis, calycibus tubo corolle~breviori- 
bus. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 83. 
Pergularia odoratissima. Smith ic. pict. 16; (exclus. Lour.) Andrews’s 
reposit. 185. 
Pergularia tomentosa. Lin. mant. 53; (tantim modd quoad descriptionem ). 
Flos siamicus. Rumph. amb. auctuar. 7. 58. t. 26. fig. 1. ; 
_ Mr. Brown observes that “the only certain species of 
this genus are the present and minor; P. purpurea, Vahl. 
and japonica, Thunb. may belong to it. P. edulis of Thun- 
berg (prod. cap.) is probably very different. When Lin- 
neeus established the genus in his Mantissa, he certainly 
meant his character to apply to Perautaria glabra, of 
which he had a specimen in his Herbarium, and which 
is the Flos Pergulanus of Rumphius; but unfortunately 
this plant does not belong to the order of Ascleptadew, but 
to my first section of Apocinee. The character of Linnzus 
was no doubt chiefly taken from a plant of P. odoratissima, 
that had flowered in the Upsal Garden, and which he con- 
founded with the Ascireras cordata of Forskael, an error 
long since pointed out by Sir James Smith in, his very 
accurate and satisfactory account of P. odoratissima in the 
Icones Picte.” : 
To the above remarks we shall subjoin Sir J. Smith's 
amended history of the present species, as given by that 
learned botanist in Rees’s Cyclopedia. : 
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