715 Bauera rubioides

Bauera rubioides. Madder-LeavedBauera.***************Class and Order.

Icosandia Digynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. inferus 8-sidus. Cor. 8-petala. Caps. 2-locularis. Sem.plurima.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

BAUERA rubioides. And. Bot. Repos. t. 198

Desc. Stalk shrubby, 3-6 feet high, branched. Branchesopposite, patent, rigid. Leaves ternate, opposite; giving theappearance at first sight of six leaves growing in a whorl:Leaflets lanceolate, serrate, rugose-veined, naked. Pedunclesaxillary, longer than the leaves, at first erect, afterwards fre-quently drooping. Calyx inferior, one-leafed and growing tothe germen, deeply divided into eight slightly toothed, lanceo-late segments, reflexed, persistent. Corolla, rose-coloured,eight petaled, but one is deficient; Petals lanceolate,concave, patent, quite entire. Filaments many, shorter thanpetals, attached to the inside of the calyx, not to the receptacle,wherefore this plant belongs to the class Icosandria, not toPolyandria, where it is referred in the Botanists Repository.Anthers yellow, roundish. Germen roundish, somewhat flat-tened, emarginate. Styles two, filiform, divergent. Stigmasacute.

A handsome flowering shrub, without scent. Taste of theleaves bitterish, subastringent, not unlike Chinese Tea

This plant, a native of New-Holland, received the abovename in honour of the two Bauers, natives of Germany,both very eminent botanical draughtsmen in the employ of thiscountry; the elder brother at the Royal Garden at Kew, theyounger now on a voyage of discovery in the South-Sea. Thetrivial name is derived from the resemblance which it bears,especially in its young state, to a Rubia, not a Rubus, asMr. Andrews, with his usual accuracy, would have it. Flowersthrough the greatest part of the Summer.

Our Drawing was taken at Messrs. Grimwood and Wykes's,Kensington, where, we are informed, it was first raised in thiscountry. It may be increased by cuttings.