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 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.