Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file made using scans of public domain works at the University of Georgia.) 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_. Of these, the _frutescens_ is the most shewy, and therefore the most cultivated. It is a native of different parts of Africa. The flowers are produced from June to autumn, and the seeds ripen in October. This plant should be placed in an airy glass case in winter, where it may enjoy a dry air, and much sun, but will not thrive in a warm stove, nor can it be well preserved in a common green-house, because a damp moist air will soon cause it to rot.