REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The chives and pointals.
2. A chive.
3. The same shown from the outer side.
This odoriferous plant is figured by Catesby in his Caroliniensis, who describes it as a stately tree eighty feet high; that it perfumes the woods with its fragrance; that its fruit is of a glittering red, not falling immediately to the ground, but hanging pendulous by small white threads about two inches long, in which state it must still be a beautiful object. It very rarely, if ever, perfects its seed in this country. Independent of its fine large sweet-scented flowers, it is a handsome evergreen. There are several variations of it in foliage. It succeeds well, trained up against a south wall. From a plant so situated, on the premises of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, our figure was delineated.[Pg 53]
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PLATE DXIX.
COMMERSONIA ECHINATA.
Bristly-fruited Commersonia.
CLASS V. ORDER V.
PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Five Chives. Five Pointals.