Volume Iii Part 1 (1/2)

The Botanical Magazine.

by William Curtis.

VOL. III.

”The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the face of beauty, when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears; These Flora banishes, and gives the fair Sweet smiles and bloom, less transient than her own.”

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MONSONIA SPECIOSA. LARGE-FLOWER'D MONSONIA.

_Cla.s.s and Order._

POLYADELPHIA DODECANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Stam._ 15. connata in 5 filamenta.

_Stylus_ 5-fidus. _Caps._ 5-cocca.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

MONSONIA _speciosa_ foliis quinatis: foliolis bipinnatis, _Lin. Syst.

Vegetab. p. 697._

MONSONIA grandiflora. _Burm. prodr. 23._

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