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PLATE CCCCXXXVI.
C O R R t E A VIRIDIFLORA.
Green-ßowered Corroea.
CLASS Vm. ORDER L
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX monophylkis, quadri-dentatus. Corolla
pétala quatuor. Stamina oeto. Germen
superum. Capsula quadrilocularis. Semina
quatuor.
SPECIFIC
CokRJEa, foliis oblongis, oppositis, undulatis,
stellalim hiräutis, supra viridibus, subtus
ferrugineis : foliis juuioribus couniventibus,
flores dum parvos obscurantibus^ qui postea
emergunt ex axillis foliorum, et dependent.
Corolla viridis, leviter punctata, petalis
adhgerentibus in forma cylindrica. Kami
oppositij ferruginei.
EMPALEMENT one-leafed, four-toothed. Blossom
four-petalled. Eight chives. Seed-bud
above. Capsule four cells, and four seeds.
CHARACTER.
CokKJEA, with oblong opposite leaves, waved,
and beset with divers starlike specks; green
on the upper surface and rusty beneath :
the younger leaves connive together, and
obscure ths flowers when young, which
afterwards emerge from the axillae of the
leaves, and hang down. Blossom green, and
lightly dotted, the petals adhering in tlie
form of a tube. The branches are opposite,
and rusty.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A blossom detached from the cup.
3 . A flower spread open.
4. One of the longest chives.
5. One of the shorter ones.
6. Seed-bud and pointal.
7. Seed-bud magnified.
THIS green-flowered Corraea is by no means so desirable a plant as the alba, but Is the only addition to
this genus as yet in cultivation witli us, and as such deserving notice. It has been already figured in the
Exotic Botany of Dr. Smith, but very imperfectly, as it is there represented with only two divisions in
the corolla instead of four, and six anther s instead of eight—a deficiency we have not met with: and although
we have examined a number of living and dried specimens, yet we have always found it perfect in
those characters essential to the genus. The only variation we have ever observed has been sometimes a
super-abundance of petals in the corolla; (instead of a deficiency) five instead of four, a frequent occurrence
in many genera when the plant is in a state of luxuriant growth : and certainly little illustration,
but much confosion, might probably arise from giving a figure from any specimen so very defective. We
find this genus published by Billardiere under the title Mazeutoxeron—our present figure under the
specific of rufum—an excellent specific, were it not a striking feature in every species of this genus,
living or dried, that we have as yet seen. Our figure was made from a plant in the collection of
G. Hibbert, Esq.
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