Volume 8 — PLATE DXXXIX.

CALYCANTHUS FERTILIS.

Fruitful Allspice.

CLASS XII. ORDER VIII.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Many Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx imbricatus: foliolis coloratis. Corolla nulla. Styli plurimi. Stigmata glandulosa. Semina plurima, intra calycis partem succulentam.

Empalement tiled: leaflets coloured. Blossom none. Shafts many. Summits glandular. Seeds many, within the fleshy part of the cup.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Calycanthus ramis virgatis, sub-erectis: foliis ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis: floribus fertilibus.

Habitat in Americâ Boreali.

Calycanthus with twiggy branches nearly upright. Leaves ovately lance-shaped, and pointed. Flowers fertile.

Native of North America.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A flower divested of the leaflets of the cup. 2. The same cut open, to show the seeds.

This fruitful species of Calycanthus has not yet been figured by any author we know of, but has been described by two: first by Walter, in his Flora Caroliniana, under the title of C. fertilis; and afterwards by Michaux, in his Flora Boreali-Americana, under the appellation of C. ferax, synonymous appellations equally good: and we see no reason why it should have been altered from fertilis, if even for the better, unless that had been a very bad specific title. It is a native of the high mountains of Carolina, in North America, and was introduced by Mr. Lyons in 1807. Our figure is from a plant in the collection of the Marquis of Blandford.

Erratum.—In our last Number, Pl. DXXXVII, the description of Origanum Tournefortii (in the hurry too often attendant upon periodical publications) was left unfinished. The most necessary information omitted, is, that it is a hardy green-house shrub; and fine living specimens of it were communicated to us by A. B. Lambert, esq. who received it from the Royal Gardens at Kew, to which it was introduced by the late Dr. Sibthorpe in 1788.