In explaining the preceding appearances, to prevent confusion we called those parts which form the cone in the middle of the flower Antherae, but strictly speaking they are not such, the true Antherae being situated on the inside of their summits, where they will be found to be ten in number, making in fact the Apocynum a decandrous plant. [281] TURNERA ANGUSTIFOLIA. NARROW-LEAV'D TURNERA. _Class and Order._ PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-fidus, infundibuliformis, exterior 2-phyllus. _Petala_ 5 calyci inserta. _Stigmata_ multifida. _Caps._ 1-locularis, 3-valvis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ TURNERA _angustifolia_ floribus sessilibus petiolaribus, foliis lanceolatis rugosis acuminatis. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ TURNERA frutescens folio longiore et mucronato. _Mart. Cent. 49. t. 49._ This plant here represented is generally known to the Nurserymen about London as the _Turnera ulmifolia_, or _Elm-leav'd Turnera_, its foliage however does not answer to the name, nor to the figures of the plant as given by MARTYN in his _Cent. Pl._ and LINNAEUS in his _Hortus Cliffortianus_, which figures indeed are so similar that they look like copies of each other, these represent the true elm leaf; on the same plate of _Martyn's Cent._ there is given a very excellent figure of what he considers as another species of Turnera, vide Synon. and which MILLER, who cultivated it about the year 1773, also describes as a distinct species, under the name of _angustifolia_, asserting, from the experience of thirty years, that plants raised from its seeds have constantly differed from those of the _ulmifolia_; this is our plant, which on his authority we have given as a species, though LINNAEUS regards it as a variety. PLUMIER gave to this genus the name of _Turnera_, in honour of Dr. WILLIAM TURNER, a celebrated English Botanist and Physician, who published an Herbal, black letter, folio, in 1568. The present species is a native of the West-Indies, and is commonly cultivated in our stoves, where it rises with a semi-shrubby stalk, to the height of several feet, seldom continuing more than two or three years; young plants generally come up in plenty from seeds spontaneously scattered, so that a succession is easily obtained. It flowers from June to August. Its foliage has a disagreeable smell when bruised; its flowers are shewy, but of short duration, and are remarkable for growing out of the footstalk of the leaf. [Illustration: No 281] [Illustration: No 282] [282] HEDYSARUM OBSCURUM. CREEPING-ROOTED HEDYSARUM. _Class and Order._ DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. _Generic Character._ _Cor._ carina transverse obtusa. _Legumen_ articulis 1-spermis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ HEDYSARUM _obscurum_ foliis pinnatis, stipulis vaginalibus, caule erecto flexuoso, floribus pendulis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 676._ _Mant. 447._ _Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 2. t. 168._