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Title: The Botanical Magazine v 2
or Flower-Garden Displayed

Author: William Curtis

Release Date: January 16, 2006 [EBook #17531]

Language: English

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THE

~BOTANICAL MAGAZINE~;

OR,

~FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED~:

IN WHICH

The most Ornamental FOREIGN PLANTS, cultivated in the Open
Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in
their natural Colours.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to
the celebrated LINNAEUS; their Places of Growth, and Times of
Flowering:

TOGETHER WITH

THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE.

A WORK

Intended for the Use of such LADIES, GENTLEMEN, and
GARDENERS, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the
Plants they cultivate.

~By WILLIAM CURTIS~,

Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS.

~VOL. II~

"A Garden is the purest of human Pleasures."
VERULAM.

LONDON:

Printed by COUCHMAN and FRY, Throgmorton-Street,

For W. CURTIS, at his BOTANIC-GARDEN, Lambeth-Marsh;

And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland.

M DCC XC.

[37]

~Chironia Frutescens. Shrubby Chironia.~

_Class 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._

[Illustration: No 37]

Of the genus _Chironia_, ten species a