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P L A T E DXXXIX.
C A L Y C A N T H U S FERTILIS.
Fruitful Allspice.
C L A S S XIL ORDER VIIL
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Many Pointals.
ESSfiNTIAJL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX irnbricatus : foliolis coloratis. Corolla
nulla. Styli plurimi. Stigmata glandu-
Iosa. Semina plurima^, intra calycis partem
succulentam.
EMPALEMENT tiled : leaflets coloured. Blossom
none. Sliafts many. Summits glandular.
Seeds many, within the fleshy part of the
cup.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
CALYCANTHUS ramis virgatis, sub-erectis : foliis
ovato-lanceolatisj acuminatis : floribus
fertilibus.
Habitat in America Boreali.
CALYCANTHUS with twiggy branches nearly upright.
Leaves ovately lance-shaped, and
pointed. Flowers fertile.
Native of North America.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower divested of the leaflets of the cup.
2. The same cut open, to show the seeds.
T H I S fruitful species of Calycanthus has not yet been figured by any author we know of, but has been
described by two : first by Walter, in his Flora Caroliniana, under the title of C. fertilis j and afterwards
by Michaux, in his Flora Boreali-Americana, under the appellation of C. ferax, synonymous
appellations equally good : and we see no reason why it should have been altered from fertilis, if even
for the better, unless that had been a very bad specific title. It is a native of the high mountains of
Carolina, in North America, and was introduced by Mr. Lyons in I8O7. Our figure is from a plant
in the collection of the Marquis of Blandford.
£rraiiim.—In our last Number, PI. DXXXVII, the description of Origanum Tournefortii (in the hurry too often
attendant upon periodical publications) was left unfinished. The most necessary information omitted, is, that it is a
bardy green-house shrub ; and fine living specimens of it were communicated to us by A. B. Lambert, esq. who
received it from the Royal Gardens at Kevi', to which it was introduced by the late Dr. Sibthorpe in 1788.
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