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PLATE DLIV.
V O L K A M E R I A AN GUSTI F O LI A.
Narrow-leaved Volhameria.
CLASS XIV. ORDER IL
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX quinquefidus : Corollae laciniis secundis.
Drupa 2-locularis. Semina 4, seu abortu
tantum 2.
EMPALEMENT five-cleft. Blossom with the divisions
pointing one way. Berry 2-celled,
Seeds 4, or from abortion only 2.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
VoLKAMERiA fruticosa glaberrimSj foliis oblongo
lanceolatis integerrimis, pedunculis
trichotomis axillaribus et terminalibus.
VOLKAMEKIA shrubby and veiy smooth^ witli
oblong-lanced very entire leaves, and peduncles
divided by threesj both axillary and
terminal.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The erspalement.
2. A blossom spread open, one tip detached and magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
4. The seed-bud magnified.
VoLKAMERiA angustifolia is a dwarf branchy shrub flowering in great profusion about the middle of
August. The blossoms are white and remarkably sweet-scented. It was communicated by Mr . Donn,
Curator of the Cambridge Botanic garden, and is to be enumerated in the new edition of his Catalogue
now in the press. It requires to be kept in the bark-bed in the hot-house, and is supposed to be
a native of the Isle of France. We believe no other figure of it has been given.