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P L A T E CCCLY.
L E E A PINNATA.
Winged-leaved Leea.
CLASS V. ORDER L
P E N T A N D R I A 3 W N 0 G Y N I A . Five Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC
CALYX. Ferianthiura monophyllum, campaiiulatiim,
coriaceum, quinquedentatum, perfiflens.
COROLL A monopetala; tubus longitudine calycis
; limbus quinquefidus, fequalis ; laciniis
faccatis.
Nectarium bafi interioris corollae adnatum, corolla
dimidio breviiis, ereñum, iirceolatum,
quinquefidum ; lobis emarginatili.
STAMINA. Filamenta quinqué, infarta bafi ex-
• tenori ne6tarii. Anlherse ovatae, verfaiiles.
P I S T I L L U M . Germen fubglobofam. Stylus fimplex,
neftario brevior. Stigma obtufum.
P E R I C A R P I U M . Bacca orbiculata, deprelTa, quinquelocularis.
SEMIN A quinqué, folitaria.
CHARACTEK.
EMPALEirENT. Cup One leaf, bell-lliaped.
leathery, five-toothed, remaining.
BLOSSOM one petal; tube the length of the cup;
border five-cleft, equal; fegments bagged.
Honey-cup fixed to the bafe of the iufide of the
bloflbm, by the half lliorter than the bloffom,
ereft, pitcher-iliaped, five-cleft; lobes
notched at the end.
CHIVES. Five threads inferted into the outfidc
of the bafe of the honey-cup. Tips egglliaped,
verfttile.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud almoll globular. Shaft
fimple, lliorter than the honey-cup. Summit
blunt.
SEED-VESSEL. Berry orbicular, flattened, fivecelled.
SEEDS five, folitary.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Leea foliis impari-pinnatis, oppofitis; caule
tereti, glabro; racerais angulatis, angiilis
undulatis.
Leea with winged leaves terminated by an odd
one and oppofite; ñera round and fmooth;
branches angled ; angles waved.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup, natural fize.
2. A Bloffom.
3. A Flower complete, magnified.
4. The Honey-cup, Qiewn from the infide, cut open, a little magnified.
5. A Bloifom, wilh the Honey-cup and Chives, magnified.
6. The Hoixey-cup and Chives iliewn from the outfide, magnified.
7. The Pointal, magnified.
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L E E A and Aquilicia have, of late, been confidered as not poffeffing fufficient eifentially differing char
a a e r s to conftitute two genera, and Aquilicia has been loft in Leea. Our prefent fubjedl is a fpecies
of the former Aquilicias, is mentioned by Gaertner, who fays, it approaches A. fambucina, now Leea
fambucina; to which indeed it has much refemblance, but differs in having oppofite, not alternate
branches, being fcentlefs, having the leaves rather rough and the ftem fmooth, It is a native of the
Eaft Indies, requiring the tan-bed to make it flower; is half ilirubby, and is increafed by cuttings.
Flowers in Auguft. Our figure is from a fpecimen communicated to us by Aylmer Bourke Lambert,
Efq. whoTaifed it from feeds received from Dr. Roxburg, in 1801, under the name of Leea crifpa :
which is a native of Africa, and has been long in moft of our colleaions of hot houfe plants, but is in
the higheft ftate of cultivation, under the care of Mr. Hoy, in that of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland,
Sion Houfe, near Brentford.
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