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Rh GoHDONiA Lasianthus, Willd. Sp. PL voL iu. p.' 840. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. voL ii. p. 451 MoKODELPHiA PoLTANDBiA, Linn.

This beautiful small tree is met with in Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, in moist lands near the coast, and never fails to attract the eye by its beautiful blossoms. The twig from which the drawing was made was procured from the garden of Mr Noisette, who liberally afforded me all the aid in his power for embellishing my plates. The leaves are evergreen, lanceolato-oblong, shining, and leathery ; the flowers white, of the size of the common garden-rose, and placed on long peduncles ; the capsules conical and acuminate.