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PiNCKNEYA PUBESCENS, Mich. Fl. Amer. vol. i. p. 105. Pursk, Fl. Amer. Sept. vol. i. p. 158. — PENTANDB.IA MoKOGYNIA, Linn.

This shrubby tree grows on the banks of rivers, and near swamps in Georgia; but the twig represented in the Plate was from a tree in the beautiful botanic garden of M. Noisette, a few miles from Charleston, in South Carolina. The leaves are oval, acute at both ends, somewhat downy beneath ; the flowers are yellow, tinged with red ; one of the divisions of the calyx enlarges to a whitish leaf, tinged with red, which renders the plant highly ornamental.