Volume Ii Part 1 (1/2)

The Botanical Magazine.

by William Curtis.

VOL. II.

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~Chironia Frutescens. Shrubby Chironia.~

_Cla.s.s and Order._

~Pentandria Monogynia.~

_Generic Character._

_Cor._ rotata. _Pistillum_ declinatum. _Stamina_ tubo corollae infidentia. _Antherae_ demum spirales. _Peric._ 2-loculare.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

CHIRONIA _frutescens_, foliis lanceolatis subtomentosis, calycibus campanulatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 229._

CENTAURIUM foliis binis oppositis angustis linearibus, flore magno rubente. _Burm. Afric. 205. t. 74. fig. 1._

[Ill.u.s.tration: No 37]

Of the genus _Chironia_, ten species are enumerated in Prof. MURRAY's last edition of the _Syst. Vegetab._ of LINNaeUS, exclusive of the _Chironia Centaurium_ which we first added to this genus in the 42d number of the _Flora Londinensis_.

Of these, the _frutescens_ is the most shewy, and therefore the most cultivated.