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CORCHORUS ? JAPONICUS flore pleno.
Japanese Corchoms -with double Jlowers.
CLASS XIIL ORDER L
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COKOLLA 5-petala, Calyx 5-phyllus, deciduus.
Capsula plurivalvis, loculamentosa.
BLOSSOM of 5 petals. Cup 5-leaved, falling oft".
Fruit with many valveSj subdivided.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
CoRCHORus capsulis rotundis glabris, foliis duplicato
seiratis. —F/ora Japónica, p. 22/.
CoRCHORus with round smooth capsules, and
the leaves doubly sawed.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The pointais.
T H I S elegant shrub is amply described in the Flora Japónica of Professor Thunberg, who found it
growing naturally about Nagasaki^ Miaco, and various parts of the Japanese empire j where it is also
commonly cultivated for ornament. The double variety here figured he particularly specifies as naturally
adorning tlie country about Miaco. In Houttuyns Pfianrensystem, vol. vii. plate 54, there is
also an engraving of it. The single-flowered has not yet been introduced to tliis country. The time
of blossoming is in early spring : but it does not appear to confine itself to that season, as we have been
favoured with fresh specimens at various seasons from April to October •, and we may therefore safely
predict its being long a favourite with cultivators. The flexile twigs starred with blossoms look at a
little distance like garlands, and extend when supported to a great length. All the flowers that we
have seen are from 5- to 8-gynous; which, with the singular form of the capsule, makes us consider it
as a very doubtful species of Corchorus. The Japanese name is Jamma Buki.
Our figure is taken from specimens communicated by Mr . Milne of Fonthill, who informs us that
his plant now growing in the conservatory is ten feet high. We first observed it in bloom early last
spring at Messrs. Colville's, and in several other collections during the summer, but smaller both in
flowers and leaves.
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