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CHIRONIA BACCIFERA. BERRY-BEARING<br />
CHIRONIA.<br />
Clafs and Order.<br />
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.<br />
Generic Character.<br />
Cor. rotata. Pifttilum declinatum. Stamina tubo corollee in-<br />
fidentia. Anthers demum fpirales. Peric. 2-loculare.<br />
Specific Character and Synonyms.<br />
CHIRONIA laccifera frutefcens baccifera. Linn. Syft. Veget.<br />
ed. 1 4. Murr. p. 2 29. Ait. Kew. v. i . p. 2 58.<br />
CENTAURIUM minus arborefcens pulpiferum.. Comm. rar.<br />
9- ' 9-<br />
CENTAURIUM minus africanum arborefcens anguftifolium.<br />
Old. afr. 26.<br />
The Chironia laccifera, a native <strong>of</strong> Africa, is a plant not<br />
unfrequent in our greenhoufes ; its flowers are curious in<br />
their ftrufture, <strong>of</strong> a lively hue, and fuceeeded by round feed-<br />
veflels, which, when ripe, have the appearance <strong>of</strong> red berries,<br />
whence its name <strong>of</strong> laccata ; if we carefully examine thefe feed-<br />
veflels, we Ihall find that they are not properly berries, for<br />
on cutting them tranfverfly, they are found to be hollow and<br />
to be divided into two cells (
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