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VINCA ROSEA. MADAGASCAR PERIWINKLE,'
Qafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.
'Generic CharaEter.
folliciili z ereQi. Semina nuda.
Specific Charafter and Synonyms*
VINCA rofea caule fratefcente ereQo, foliis ovato oblongis,
petiolis bafi bidentatis, floribus geminis feffilibus.
Linn. Syft. Fegetab. ed* 1 4. Murr. p. 2 52. Ait.
Ke-w. v. i. p. 2 96.
VlNCA foliis oblongo-ovatis integerrimis, tubo floris Iongiffimo,
caule ramofo fruticofo. Mill. Icon. 86.
The Vinca rofea was firft Cultivated in this country by Mr.
PHILIP MILLER in 1757, he obferves that it deferves a'place
in the ftove as much as any of the exotic plants we have in
England, becaufe the' flowers are very beautiful, and there is
4 confta'nt fucceffion of them all the fummer.
The following account is extracted from his Dictionary;
*' This plant grows naturally in the Ifland of Madagafcar, from
*' whence the Jeeds were brought to the Royal Garden at Paris,
" where the plants were firft raifed, and produced their flowers
" the following fummer; from thefe plants good feeds were
"obtained, which were fent me by Mr. RICH.ARD, gardener
" to the King at Verfailles and Trianon. It rifes to the height
" of three or~fo.ur feet; the branches which when young are
" fucculent become ligneous by age : thefe flowers which ap-
w pear early in the fummer produce ripe feeds in the autumn.
"f This fort is propagated by feeds or cuttings in the ufual
" way; unlefs the fummer proves warm thefe plants mould not
" be placed abroad, for they, will not thrive if they are expofed
" to cold or wet, therefore during the fummer they ihould be
!' placed in an aify glafs-cafe, and in winter they muft be
" removed into the ftove, where the air is kept to a temperate
^ neat, without which they will not live through the winter in
"England. Mill. Diff.
There is a variety of this plant having white blcffoms with
a Purple eye.
The flowers do not always grow in pairs.