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The utility of this undertaking at a crifis, when the taite for Botanical purfuits fo univerfally prevails,

will, it is prefumed, be readily admitted by all thole engaged in them, whether as theorifts, collettors,

or cultivators. Such a work, under the immediate dire&ion of ibme principal leader in the fcience,

of this country, has been a delideratum of long expectance ; but either from the great expence ne-
ceflarily incurred, before any adequate return could be made, or from the trouble attendant on publi-
cations, where colouring forms fo considerable a part, as yet, every fimilar attempt has proved abortive.
The Bot. Mag. of Mr. Curtis, a work of lingular merit in its way, has occafionally furniihed, it is

true, a few fpecimens of new plants; but the greater! part, as its title-page indicates, confifts of thofe

well known, common plants, long cultivated in our gardens; the direc! reverfe of the propofals and
intentions of the author, in the prolecution of this. From a with to prevent confufion, it was a
determined principle at the outlet of the work, not to give any generic or fpecific fynonims; but to
follow the mof! generally accepted names, of known and named plants, without a cavil, of our beft
Englifh botanifts, or cultivators, if no flagrant error was perceptible, according to the LinnEean fyf-
tern: being fatisfied, nothing contributed fo much to reprefs the ardour of young botanifts as the

difficulty of affixing the right name to thofe plants, which, (from a captious defire in every pubHiher,
to foil! in fomething of his own coinage, upon the moll trifling fuppoled difference,) have undergone
feveral changes of title. If the plant was a certain novelty, with us, to have followed the fexual
fyftem, without a fchifm; upon that truly grand and comprebenlive fcale of nature; when the
formation of a new genus was neceffary; if not, to refer it to fome one already made, if fuch was
to be found, in any orthodox author: the fpecific name to be formed from fome oppofed, leading
feature, in the habits of the different fpecies of the genus. But although fuch were the Author's
intentions, when he entered on this bulinels, yet, from a wifli to oblige many of the fupporters of
the work, who have lignified a wifli that fynonims mould be given, an alphabetical Index, with
all the various Synonims collated from the beft authorities, fhall be printed feparate for the ufe of

thofe who may wifh for fuch an addition.

As a fair excufe for the Author, (who throws himfelf upon the candour of the Public,) in exte-
nuation of the inaccuracies which have, and will neceffarily occur in the profecution of the work,
it is juft to fay, that the difficulties to be encountered, and of which none but thofe engaged in
fimilar concerns can form any adequate idea, are incalculable; ariling chiefly from the nature of a
monthly publication, compofed entirely of novelty, which cannot be anticipated, and of courfe, fo

very little time can be allotted for revifal or correc!ion. To remedy as far as poffible fuch flips, a lil!

of Erratee will be given, with the Index, at the clofe of each volume.

Knightsbkidge, Oft. 1/99-

 ERRATA, VOL. I.

Plate 2. Springalia, lege, Sprengelia. Bloff. one leaf, read, one petal.

Peri. 4-valvis, 4-locul. 1. e-val. 5-loc. S. V. 4 val. 4 cells, r. 5 val. 5 cells,

3. Cor. aequila, 1. aqualia. Emp. Sheath, r. Sheaths.

7. Calyx, multiflorium, 1. mult'iftoruin.

9. Calyx, dxiduis, 1. deciduis. Stam. acumenatas, 1. acuminata.

ii. Sp. Ch. poll rofeis, inf. (,).

12. Ord. II. r. IV. Seeds, become, r. becomes.

74. Emp. cup, [Link]. Poin. put (,) after beneath.

15. Standard, cut, [Link].

20. Sem. acumenatue, 1. acuminata.

23. Bloff. after fpieading, put (,). No. 2 of Ref. put (the) before chives.

25. Sp. Ch. port plcnis, inf. (,).

27. Ord. II. r. IV.

30. Line 6th of Defer, leave out (not).

37. Old. II. r. IV.

41. Bloff. one leaf, r. one petal; divided into fix, r. ivithjix dh't/ions.

47. Stam. poft fubulatn, inf. (,),

65. Emp. fruit-ftalks, r. fruit'-fialk.

67. Defer, line ;d, for makes an addition to, r. makes one of.
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CORTUSA MATTHIOLL
Alpine Sanicle.

CLASS V. ORDER 1.

PENTANDRU MONOGYNIJ. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC HARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium quinquefidum, perfiftens; Empalement. Cup with five divifions, perma-
laciniis obtulis, concavis. nent; the legments blunt, and concave.
Corolla. Monopetala, rotata, quinquepartita, Blossom. One leaf, wheel-lhaped, fivedivifions,
laciniis iub-rotundis, ad quarum bafin pro- fegments nearly round, having rive promi-
minent tubercula quinque. nent tubercles at their bale.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque brevia. Antherae Chives. Five lhort threads. Tips divided in
bipartitae, oblong*, ere&ae, exteriori parte two, oblong, upright, and fixed to the
affixae. blolVom by their backs.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis. Pointal. Seed-bud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread-
Stigma fimplex. fhaped. Summit fimple.
Pericarpium. Capfula ovata-oblonga, utrinque Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong egg-fhaped,
longitudinaliter fulcata, unilocularis, apice channelled on each fide, of one cell, the
quinquevalvi, valvularum marginibus in- top has five valves, which are turned in-
volutis. ward at their margins.
Semina numerofa, oblonga, fcabra. Seeds many, oblong, and rough.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
Cortufa, foliis cordatis, laciniatis, petiolatis; Sanicle, with heart-fhaped jagged leaves that
calycibus corolla brevioribus. have foot-ftalks; empalements fhorter than
the blofToms.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, and Fruit-ftalk.
2. The BlolVom cut, and fpread open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Pointal, magnified.

This beautiful little herbaceous plant, a native of the Germanic Alps, was known to, and defcribed
by all the elder, as well as modern botanical theorifts; yet till this time, has there not been one good
reprefentation of it. Having been nearly loft to us for a number of years, it may be confidered as
delerving a place amongft thofe plants we deem rare; as a fpeciinen of fuch it has been given. It
delights much in fhade; is perfectly hardy; thrives beft in a light but pure foil; as dung, or other
mixtures, are apt to rot the roots when in a ftate of inaction; flowering in May and June, and
producing feeds. But the fureft mode of propagation is by the root, which may be divided with
fuccefs about September.

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SPRINGALIA INCARNATA.
Star-flowered Springalia.

CLASS XIX. ORDER VI.

SYNGENESU MONOGAMU. Tips united. Flowers fimple.

GENERIC HARACTEK.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- Empalement. Cup one leaf, cut into five

fidum, periiftens. fegments, and remaining.

Corolla. Monopetala, quinquefida, rotata, Blossom. One leaf, cut into five fegments,
laciniis acumenatis. wheel-fhaped, the divifions fharp pointed.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, lineares, recepta- Chives. Five threads, linear, fixed into the
culo inferta. Antherae pilofae, erectae, co- receptacle. Tips hairy, upright, united
natoe in cylindrum. into a cylinder.
Fistillum. Germen fuperum, turbinatum. Pointal. Seed-bud above, turban-fhaped.
Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtufum. Shaft thread-fhaped. Summit blunt ended.
Pekicakpium. Capfula quadrivalvis, quadri- Seed-vessel. Capfule four valves, four cells.

locularis.
Semina plurima, minima, rotunda. Seeds many, fmall, and round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Springalia, foliis alternis, amplexicaulibus, mu- Springalia, with alternate leaves, embracing the
cronatis; corollis fub-folitariis, incarnatis, ftem, and fharp pointed ; bloffoms moftly
rigidis, micantibus. fingle, flefh-coloured, harlh, and mining.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, (natural fize).
2. The Blollbm divided from the Empalement.
3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, (magnified).
4. The Seed-velfel, and Pointal, (magnified).

The Springalia, muft certainly rank among the mod beautiful of the various new genera which
have been introduced from New Holland; the delicacy, brilliancy, and number, of its bloilbms
render it particularly attractive, whilft their extreme permanency adds greatly to its merits; the
flower being of fuch Angular durability, as to retain nearly the fame appearance when the feeds are
perfected, as at their firft opening. The figure before us, was taken from a plant in the nurfery
garden of Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, who raifed it from feeds about three years fince,
and where it has flowered thefe two fucceffive years. The Botany-bay plants, (as they are generally
called) are beft preferved in the greenhoufe; but although this is fufficiently hardy for fuch treat-
ment, yet its muft be dry, being very fufceptible of damps, flourifhing bell in fandy peat
lituation
earth; continues flowering through the whole fummer; and propagates eafily by cuttings. The
characters, and habit of this genus, like almoft all the plants from New Holland, being perfectly new,
there was a necellity to form a frefti generic name for it; which has been done by the defervedly
eminent Dr. J. E. Smith, botanical profeffor, and prefident of the Linnaean Society.
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NEOTTIA SPECIOSA.
Flejh- coloured Neottia.

CLASS XX. ORDER II.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.

GENERIC CH ARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae vagoe. Spadix fimplex Emtalement. Sheath fcattered. Fruit-ftalk
fimple.
Corolla. Petala quinque, longitudine sequila, Blossom. Petals five, of equal length, of a
angufte-lanceolata, eredba. narrow fpear-fhape, and upright.
Nedarium monophyllum, indivifum, acumina- Honey-cup one leaf, undivided, fharp pointed,
tum, intra petala interiora pofitum. bafin placed between the two inner petals, half
ftyli femiampleftens, ere&um, fuperne pa- embracing the bale of the {haft, upright,
tulum. fpreading at the top.
Stamina. Filamenta duo, ex limbo ftyli dorlali Chives. Two threads, rifing out of the back
orta, lanceolata. Antherae duae, lineares, of the (haft, fpear-fhaped. Tips two, linear,
longae, locatae in loculum filamenti. long, placed in the cells of the threads.
Pistillum. Germen inferum, curvatum, ful- Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, curved, furrowed,
catum, inferne attenuatum. Stylus craffus, tapering at the bafe. Shaft thick, growing
adnatus labio fuperiori neftarii. Stigma to the upper lip of the honey-cup. Summit
oblbletum. indiftinct.

Pericarpium. Capfula unilocularis, carnofa, Seed-vessel. Capfule with one cell, flefhy,
longiffima, trivalvis. very long, three valves.
Semi n a numerofa, minutifiima. Seeds numerous, very fmall.

SPECIFIC CH ARACTER.
Neottia, foliis radicalibus, undulati-% lato- Neottia, with leaves growing from the root,

lanceolatis, ba:i atten :' ;

s; floribus con- •wav^ ', of a broad fpear-fhape, tapered at
fertis, fpicatis, incarnatis fpeciociffu the bafej flowers preffed together in a
fpi' i, flefh-coloured, and molt beautiful.

REFEREISCi TO HE PLAT.-'.
1. A Bloffom, Seed-bud, and Shi >th, (rtaltu
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2. The Seed-bud, and three Petals of the B] ., the two inn r cut > .:, to fliew the pofition

t>f the Honey-cup, (natural fize).

3. Seed-veffel, and Honey-cup magnified; fii„, ing th< ituati ., and i
1

[>e of th<3 Chives,

within the Honey-cup.
4. The fame magnified; fhewing the fituation of the Pointal at the back of the . oaey-cup.

Professor Jacquin of Vienna, having figured the Neottia in the third volume rf his Cu'''/1 a,

with juftice has determined it a new genus, and given it the name it here bears; the whole habu of
the plant being entirely diffimilar to any old genera. It certainly mult be placed fomewhere near

Limodorum, or Epidendron, from either of which, however, it ftands perfectly diftinct. This is the
only fpecies yet in England, and was introduced from the illand of Jamaica, about the year 1^93, by
the Hon. Mrs. Barrington The drawing from which the prefent figure is taken, was made (by
her kind permiffion) from a plant in the extenfive collection of the Hon. Lady Archer, Ham-common.
Like all plants from that illand, it requires the heat of a pine-ftove, and rich earth, to make it
flourifh; is increafed by the root, and flowers in the early part of the year.
 PLATE IV.

RHODODENDRON DAURICUM.
Dauric Rhododendron.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC C HARACTEE.

Calyx quinquepartitus, perfiftens. Empalement of five divifions, and remaining.

Corolla. Monopelala, rotato-infundibulifor- Blossom. One leaf, of a roundim funnel-fhape:
mis: limbo patente; laciniis rotundatis. the limb fpreadingj and its fegments
rounded.
Stamina. Filamenta decern, filiformia, longitu- Chives. Ten hair-like threads, the length of

dine corollae, declinata. Antherae ovales. the blolTom, bent downward. Tips oval.
Pistillum. Germen pentagonum, retufum. Pointal. Seed-bud five-fided, and dented.
Stylus filiformis, longitudine corolla;. Stig- Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the
ma obtufum. bloilbm. Summit blunt-ended.
Pericarpium. Capfula ovata, quinquelocularis. Seed-vessel. Capfule oval, five-celled.
Semina numerofa, minima, lineares. Seeds many, fmall, and linear.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Rhododendron, foliis glabris utrinque nudis, Rhododendron, with linooth leaves, naked on
petiolis longiffimis; corollae violace.x, foliis both fides, and long foot-ftalks; the blof-
nmpliores, rotatae. foms light purple, larger than the leaves,
and wheel-fhaped.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Bloflbm, (natural fize).

2. The Chives, and Pointal, (natural fize) ; one tip detached, (magnified).

3. The Seed-venel, and Pointal, (magnified).

Although this flirnb has been deforibed, and is well known to botanifts, it has not, till within thefe
very few years, been feen in Great Britain. It is a perfectly hardy plant, being a native of the coaft
of the Black and Cafpian feas, and parts adjacent; from whence it has been conveyed to Peterfburg
by Dr. P. Pallas, and figured by him in his Flora was the perfon who brought it
Ruihca. Mr. Bufli
to England, on his return from Ruffia. The month of March, con-
flowers begin to appear in the
tinuing through April and May. As yet (from its fcarcity) the belt method of cultivating it can
icarcely be known but it feems to like a fheltered fituation, and light foil, like moft of the genus;
;

and has been increafed by layers. The drawing was made from a plant, at the nurfery of Melfrs. Lee
and Kennedy, Hammerfmith.
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GLADIOLUS LONGIFLORUS.
Long-flowered Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC HARACTER.
Calyx. Spathre bivalves. Empalement. Sheath two valves.
Corolla, fexpartita, ringens. Petala oblonga, Blossom, cut into iix fegments, and gaping.
omnia unguibus in tubum conata. Petals oblong, having all their claws con-
nected into a tube.
Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, divifuris Chives. Three threads, awl-ihaped, fixed into
alternis petalorum inferta. Antherae ob- each alternate divifion of the petals. Tips
longae. oblong.
Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus limplex, Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fitnple, the
longitudine ftaminium. Stigma trifidum, length of the chives. Summit divided in
concavum. three, and concave.
Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga, obtufa, tri- Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, obtufe, three
locularis, trivalvis. cells, three valves.
Semina plura, fubrotunda. Seeds many, nearly round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus, foliis enfiformibus, plicatis, villofis; Gladiolus, with fword-fliaped, plated, hairy
corollis tubifonnibus, longiffimis; petalis leaves; bloflbms trumpet-fhaped, and very
undulatis, reflexis. long; petals waved, and bent back.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the fituation, and infertion of the Threads; the Threads, and
Tips, remaining attached.
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and its Summit.

This fpecies of Gladiolus, (as are moft of the genus) Cape of Good Hope, about
is a native of the
Table Mountain ; where the form a chief part of the food of
roots of Ixia, Antholyza, Gladiolus, &c.
the inhabiting monkies. It came to England amongit many other roots and feeds of beautiful and

rare plants, collected by J. Pringle, Efq. of the ifland of Madeira, when on an excurfion at the Cape;
and lent by him to Meifrs. Lee and Kennedy, of Hammerfmith. Like moll bulbs, it has its period of
reft; during which, it iliould be kept without moillure, but whilft growing, requires abundance;
flowering about June, or July, and producing good feeds. It iliould be treated as a greenhoufe plant.
and planted in light fandy earth. Like the Crocus, the old root perifhing, a number of frelh ones
are produced, which may, (if thought necell'ary) be kept out of the ground two or three months.
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HEMEROCALLIS CtERULEA.
Blue Day Lily.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Nullus. Empalement. None.
Corolla, fexpartita, infundibuli-campanulata. Blossom, has fix l'tgments, of a funnel bell-
fhape.'
Stamina. Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine Chives. Six awl-fliaped threads, the length of
corollae, declinata; fuperiora breviora. An- the bloffom, bent downwards; the upper
therae oblongae, incumbentes, affurgentes. ones the (horteft. Tips oblong, fixed by their
fides, and turned up at the ends.

Pistillum. Germen fulcatum, fuperum. Stylus Pointal. Seed-bud furrowed, and above.
filiformis, longitudine et fitu ltaminium. Shaft thread-fhaped, of the length and po-
Stigma obtufe-trigonum, affurgens. fition of the chives. Summit bluntly three-
cornered, turned up at the point.
Pekicarpium. Capfula trigona, trilocularis, tri- Seed-vessel. Capfule three-fided, three cells,

valvis. three valves.

Semina plurima, fubrotunda. Seeds many, nearly round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Hemerocallis, foliis cordatis, petiolatis; corollis n Day Lily, with leaves that are heart-fhaped,
caeruleis. ||
and, have foot-ftalks; the bloiToms blue.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Chives, and Pointal, as placed in the BlofTom.
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.
3. A Seed of the fhape and fize when ripe.

The variety of charafter exhibited in this new fpecies of Hemerocallis, fo different from its con-
geners, in foliage, flower, and feed; would almoft induce us to think like Gartner, a generic divifion
neceflary; if we were not withheld, by that ftrong rule of Linnaeus, (from which, it will be a leading-
feature of this work, not to fwerve) not to increafe the number of genera, but where abfolutely
necefTary. This fpecies, as well as a white variety, which has been figured by Kaempferj and con-
tinued fince him by Welldenow, in his new Species Pkmtarum, under its prefent denomination; is
a native of China, and introduced to our gardens from thence by G. Hibbert. Efq. of Clapham, from
whole moft extenlive and beautiful collection this fpecimen was taken. It is as vet cultivated as a
hothoufe plant, where it flowers in the fpring months, perfecting its feeds: perhaps when better
known, it may be found, like many Chinefe plants, to bear our climate. It is propagated as well by
parting its roots, as from the feeds.
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 PLATE VII.

PRIMULA CORTUSOIDES.
Siberian Primrofe.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Involucrum polyphyllum, multiflori- Empalement. Fence of many leaves, including
um, minimum. Perianthium monophyllum, feveral flowers, and fmall. Cup one leaf,
tubulatum, pentagonum quinquedentatum,
,
tubular, five-fided, five-toothed, lliarp, up-
acutum, eredhim, perliftens. right, and remaining.
Corolla. Monopetala. Tubus cylindraceus, Blossom. One petal. Tube cylindrical, the
longitudine calycis. terminatus colo parvo length of the cup, terminated by a fhort
hemifphaerico. Limbus patens, femi-quin- hemifpherical neck. Border {pleading, half
quefidus; laciniis obcordatis, obtufis. Faux cut into five divisions; the fegments are
pervia. inveriely heart- fhaped, and blunt. Mouth
open.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, brevifhma, intra Chives. Five threads, very fhort, within the
collum corollae. Antheroe acumenatae, neck of the bloflbm. Tips pointed, upright,
ereftae, conniventes, incluice. approaching, within the tube.
Pistillum. Germen globofum. Stylus filifor- Pointal. Seed-bud globular. Shaft thread-
mis, longitudine calycis. Stigma globo- fhaped, the length of the cup. Summit
fum. globular.
Pericarpium. Capfula teres, longitudine fere Seed-vessel. Capfule cylindrical, nearly as
perianthii, unilocularis, dehilcens apice long as the cup, of one cell, opening at
decern dentato. the top, with ten teeth.
Semina numerofa, fubrotunda. Receptaculum Seeds numerous, and roundilh. Receptacle ob-
ovato-oblongum, liberum. long egg-iliaped, and loofe.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Primula, foliis petiolatis, cordatis, fub-lobatis, Primrofe, whole leaves have foot-ftalks, are
crenatis; corollis laete purpureis. heart-lhaped, flightly lobed, and fcollopedj
bloffoms of a bright purple.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Cup, and Fruit-ftalk.
2. A BlolTbm cut open, to fhew the fituation of the Chives, and its internal formation.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, (magnified).

This fpecies of rrimrole is figured by Gmelin, in his Flora Siberica. It was in the year 1794, that

the feeds of this plant were lent by ProfelTbr P. Pallas, from Siberia, to MefTrs. Lee and Kennedy, of
Hammerl'mith; at whofe nurfery the drawing of this nioft charming plant was made: though a
native of fo cold a clime, it feems with difficulty to endure the feverity of ours; thriving bell in a pot,
under any flight llielter, or a very dry fituation if planted out: it is increafed by the root, which
fliould be parted in March ; and flowers in June, and July.
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GLADIOLUS ALATUS.
Wing-flowered Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC HARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae bivalves. Empalement. Sheath two valves.
Corolla, fexpartita, riogens. Petala oblonga, Blossom, of fix divifions, and gaping. Petals
omnia unguibus in tubum conata. oblong, having their claws formed into a
tube.
Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, divifuris Chives. Three awl-fhaped threads, fixed into
alternis petalorum inlerta. Antherae ob- the alternate divifions of the petals. Tips
longa;. oblong.
Pistillum. Germen inferam. Stylus (implex, Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft (imple, the
longitudine ftaminium. Stigma tritidum, length of the chives. Summit cut into
concavum. three, and concave.
Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga, obtufa, tri- Seed-vessel. Caplule oblong, blunt ended,
locularis, trivalvis. three cells, three valves.
Semina plura, fubrotunda. Seeds many, nearly round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus, foliis enfifonnibus, coftatis; petalis Gladiolus, with fword-fhape, ribbed leaves; the
lateralibus latillimis. fide petals of the blolTom the broadeft.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement, with the Chives, detached from the Petals, as they
ftand in the Bloffbm, and apparently attached to each other; with the natural pofition
of the Pointal.
2. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud; one of the divifions of the Summit magnified.

This is certainly one of the moft common found

fpecies of Gladiolus, although fo fearce with us,
near Cape Town; extreme beauty, has been overlooked by moft collectors;
and, notwithstanding its

who, from its great frequency, have generally confidered it as forming, undoubtedly, part of every
colle&ion of exotics. It is of an extreme delicate nature, and overmuch wet eafily deffroys it; dif-

fering from molt Cape bulbs, in requiring a light loamy earth, and the afliftance of a dry ftove, to
make it flower well; which it will do by fuch aid, about May, or June; feldom producing feeds, and
propagating but flowly by the root. From the fugitive character of this plant, it is difficult to afccrtain

the firfi culti\ator; for although it does not appear amonglt the Gladiolus in the Hortus Kewenfis, it

undoubtedly have come into that immenle collection at different periods, but never flowered;
raiift

which is the reafon we do not find it there defcribed, which has been done by Linnaeus, in his Species
Plantarum, under the name it here bears; as well as by Plukenet, in his Phyto graphia, and others
under various fynonims. This figure was taken from a plant that flowered at Meffrs. Lee and Ken-
nedy's in 1 "9(5.
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ATRAGENE CAPENSIS.
Cape Atragene.

CLASS XIII. ORDER VII.

POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. Many Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum ; foliolis Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are oval,
ovalibus, patentibus, obtufis, diciduis. fpreading, blunt, and deciduous.
Cokolla. Petala duodecim, linearia, bafi an- Blossom. Petals twelve, linear, narroweft at
guiliiiima, obtufa, patula. bafe, blunt, and fpread open.

Stamina. Filamenta plurima, breviflima. An- Chives. Threads many, very fhort. Tips ob-
therse oblongae, acumenatae. long, pointed.
Pistillum. Germina plurima oblonga. Styli Pointal. Seed-buds numerous, oblong. Shafts
villofi. Stigmata fimplicia, longitudine hairy. Summits fimple, the length of the
antherarum. lips.

Pekicakpium. Nullum. Seed-vessel. None.

Semina plurima, definentia in caudam pilofam. Seeds many, terminating in a hairy tail.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Atragene, foliis ternatis; foliolis incifis, dentatis, Atragene, with three divifions; the fmaller di-
rigidis; flore incarnato, femipleno. vifions jagged, toothed, and harfh; the
flower flefh-coloured, and femidouble.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 A Petal cut off clofe to the receptacle.
2. The Fruit-ftalk, Chives, and Pointals; the Chives thrown to one fide, to expofe the fituation
of the Pointals; one tip magnified.
3. A Seed of the fize when ripe.

This plant has been considered by Burmann, Hermann, and other Cape botanifts, as an Anemone,
to which genus it certainly may as eafily be referred as Atragene: but as it has been clearly de-
fcribed by Linnaeus, under that genus, we have not hardinefs enough to difpute his authority. It is
(as the trivial name implies) a native of the Cape of Good Hope, but at fome confiderable diftance
within land; whence it requires a dry ftove to preferve it, fuffering much from damps. It is only
fince the year 1/95, that this plant has been found in our greenhoufes; being then introduced by
[Link] and Kennedy, nurferymen, where it has flowered and perfected feeds; which feems to
be the only means of propagating it: the foil it prefers is a mixture of peat and loam; flowering
about March, or April.
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ARISTEA CYANEA.
Blue-flowered Ariftea.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae bivalves, laceras, perfiftentes. Empalement. Sheath two valves, ragged, and
remaining.
Corolla, hexapetala, oblonga, aequalia, obcor- Blossom, of fix petals, oblong, equal, inverfely
data, perfiftentia, patens. heart-fhaped, remaining, fpreading.
Stamina. Filamenta tria, erefta, fubulata. Chives. Three threads, upright, awl-fhaped.
Antherae fub-fimplices, magnse. Tips almoft fimple, and large.
Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread-
mis, ere£tus. Stigma trifidum, concavum, fliaped and erect. Summit cut into
reflexum. three, concave and reflected.
Pericaepium. Capfula oblonga, triquetra, tri- Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, three -fided,
locularis, loculis compreflis, trivalvis. three cells, cells comprefTed, three valves.
Semina plura, comprefia, fcabrida, fub-femi- Seeds many, flat, rough, nearly femicircular.
circularia.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ariftea, foliis enfiformibus, radicalibus; floribus Ariftea with fword-fhaped leaves growing from
capitatis, cyaneis. the root; the flowers grow in heads, and
are of a bright blue.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Valve of the Sheath fpread open.
2. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed bud, (magnified.)
3. A perfect Seed, (magnified.)

The Ariftea is Cape of Good Hope, and has been defcribed under various fynonyrns;
a native of the
by Plukenett Gramen, by Petiver as Bermudiana Capenfis, and by Van Royen, Burmann, and
as a
Linnaeus, as an Ixia. But although differing from Linnaeus is againft the fixed intention of this
undertaking, where there is a poflibility of avoiding it; yet in this inflance of alteration he mull
have acquiefced, having undoubtedly never feen the plant himfelf, The bloflbm, feed-veffel, feeds,
habit, root, and growth, of the plant, fo totally differ from the character of Ixia, &c. that we have
not hefitated, in accepting the name given it in the Hortus Kewenfis; where, it is faid to have been
introduced, to that collection, byMr. F. Maflbn in 1//4; though no fpecific description is given of
it from which we may conjecture, it never flowered there. The figure here given, was taken from
;

a plant which flowered at Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's, in 1797- The Ariftea being rather a delicate
plant, requires an airy, warm fituation in the greenhoufe, flowering readily about the month of July,
or Auguft ; requiring to be kept in a fmall pot, the foil a light loam. It propagates by feeds, and
flips.
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PLATE XL
GLADIOLUS ROSEUS.
Rofe- coloured Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER L

TRTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae bivalves. Empalement Sheath two valves.
Corolla, fexpartita ringens. Petala oblonga, Blossom, of fix divilions, and gaping. Petals
omnia unguibus in tubum conata. oblong, having their claws formed into a
tube.
Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, divifuris Chives. Three awl-fhaped threads fixed into
alternis petalorum inferta. Antherae ob- the alternate divilions of the petals. Tips
longae oblong.
Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex, Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple,
longitudine ltaminium. Stigma trifidum, the length of the chives. Summit cut into
concavum. three, and concave.
Pericarpiltm. Capful» oblonga, obtufa, trilo- Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, blunt-ended,
cularis, trivalvis. three cells, three valves.
Semina plura, fubrotunda. Seeds many, nearly round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus, foliis lanceolatis, tortis, rubro margi- Gladiolus, with fpear-fhaped leaves, twilled,
natis, pubefcentibus; floribus rofeis odora- red-edged, and downy ; blolfoms rofe co-
tiffimis. lour, and fweet fcented.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The two Valves of the Sheath.
2. A Flower cut open, to expofe the infertion of the Threads, the Threads, and Tips remaining
attached.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit magnified.
4. A Seed natural fize, inclofed in its Tunic.

This moft beautiful fpecies of Gladiolus, is but of veiy recent date in England; in the year l"g5 it
was feen firft to blow here, in the collection of J. Ord, Efq. Purfer's-crofs, Fulham but has fince, re- ;

peatedly, at the nnrfery, Hammerfmith, from whence this figure was taken. ProfefTor Jacrjuin has
figured this plant, in his laft Fafciculus ; but, undoubtedly, from a dried fpecimen, as his figure gives
no idea of the brilliancy of this delightful plant. The fragrance of its flowers, added to the Angu-
larity and beauty of its leaves, muft place it in the foremoft rank of its congeners. To preferve the
bulb of this delicate Gladiolus, as foon as the item begins to decay, it mould be taken from the pot,
and kept dry till Odtober; when it mould be replanted, and treated as other Cape bulbs. It iucrcafes
by offsets, and flowers about the month of May, or June.
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GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM.
Large/1 flowered Crane s - bill.

CLASS XVI. ORDER II.

MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium pentaphyllum: foliolis Empalement. Cup five leaves: leaves egg-

ovatis, acutis, concavis, perliftentibus. fhaped, {harp pointed, concave, and per-
manent.
Corolla. Petala quinque, obcordata, feu Blossom. Five petals, inverfely heart-fhaped,
ovata, patentia, magna. or egg {haped, fpreading, and large.
Stamina. Filamenta decern, fubulata, corolla Chives. Ten threads, awl-fhaped and fhorter
breviora. Antherae oblongas, verfatiles. than the blolibm. Tips oblong, eafily turn-
cd round.
Pistillum. Germen quinquangulare, roftra- Poixtal. Seed-bud five-angled, and beaked.
tum. Stylus fubulatus, ftaminibus longior, Shaft awl-fhaped, longer than the chives
perfifiens. Stigmata quinque, reflexa. and remaining. Five reflexcd Commits.
Peeicarpium nullum. Fruclus pentacoccus, Seed-vessel none. Fruit five dry berries,
roftratus. beaked.
Semina folitaria, reniformia, faepc arillata; Seeds, folitary, kidney-fhaped, often furnifhed
Arifta longifiima, demum fpirali. with a dry bulky coat, and a very long
awn, which become fpiral,

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium, calycibus monophyllis, fbliis quin- Geranium, empalements of one leaf; leaves five-

que-lobis, glabris, dentatis; floribus am- lobed, fmooth, and toothed; the flowers
pliilimis, fub-albidis. very large, nearly white.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular ftrufture.
2. The Chives, and Pointal, as placed in the flower, (natural lize.)

3. The Shaft, Summits, and Seed-bud, (magnified.)

Of all the fpecies of this numerous tribe, introduced to us, from the Cape of Good Hope, this ftands

Angularly pre-eminent; whether for delicacy of foliage, or beauty of flower, of which, the mod
finillied drawing would convey but a faint idea. The figure before us. was taken from a plant in the
valuable collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham; from whom we underftand, that it was fent in ~gl 1

to the Royal Gardens atKew. by Mr. F. Maflbn. To keep this plant in a flourifhing condition, it

lhould be kept in a window of the ftove, in winter, as the heat of a greenhoufe is fcarce furficicnt at
that feafon. It flowers in July, or Auguft, and requires the foil generally ufed for Geraniums, a mix-
ture of rotten dung, and loam; being eafily propagated by cuttings.
To from molt of the late publications on the fcience of Botany, may leem prefuming; yet,
diffent
when it ihall be confidered, that we take Linnaeus for our fole guide, where that great matter has
inconteftibly fixed a Generic character, to a tribe of plants, which undoubtedly, came clearly under
his infpedtion; from his dictates, ours mull emanate, although his authority may be questioned by-

others. It any good realbns had been found, to difunite a Genus, which nature has fo palpably diftin-
guifhed throughout numerous fpecies; he certainly, who had minutely examined fo main-,
all its

would not Syftem have allied them; though nature had apparently fo done. We
in his factitious
mult therefore, after him, think no Generic divifion necelfary. For the fake of correclnefs, where a
Genus is fo extended in its fpecies as Geranium, Erica, &c. are; the conformity of particular parts,
may form a fecondary arrangement, as we rind it conftantly in Linnaeus; the Heaths, from the lhape
of their tips, the Geraniums, from the number of fertile Chives; which a French Botanili of the name
of L'Heritier, has thought of fufficient moment to create two new Genera on, Erodium and Pelargo-
nium, retaining the old name Geranium with ten perfect Chives. Monf. L'Heritier and
for thole only,
his followers mult, therefore, forgive us for ranking one of his Pelargoniums under the old llandard.
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EPIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM.
Purple flowered Epidendrum.

CLASS XX. ORDER I.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathoe vagae. Spadix fimplex. Pe- Empalbment. Sheaths fcattered. Fruit-ftalk
rianthium nullum. fimple. Cup none.
Corolla. Petala quinque, oblonga, longifiima, Blossom. Five petals, oblong, of a great length,
patentiflima. and fpreading much.
Neclarium bafi tubulatum, turbinatum, Homy-cup tubular at the bafe, turban-
intra petala deorfum pofitum, ore obliquo, lhaped, placed between the lower petals,
bifido: fuperiori labio brevifiimo, trifido; mouth oblique and divided: the upper
inferiori in acumen produdto. lip very fhort, cut into three di virions; the
lower terminating in a point.
Stamina. Filamenta duo, breviffima, piftillo Chives. Two very lhort threads, fixed on the
infidentia. Antherae tectae labio fuperiore pointal. Tips covered by the upper lip of
nedtarii. the honey-cup.
Pistilli'm. Germen tenue, longum, contor- Tointal. Seed-bud flender, long, twitted, and
tum, inferum. Stylus breviflimus, adnatus beneath. Shaft very fhort, fixed to the upper
labio luperiori nectarii. Stigma obfoletum. lip of the honey-cup. Summit blunt.
Pekicarpium. Siliqua longifiima, teres, car- Seed-vessel. Pod very long, round, and
nola. flefhy.
Semixa numerofa, minutiflima. Seeds numerous, extremely fmall.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Epidendrum foliis oblongis, geminis, glabris, Epidendrum with oblong leaves growing by
bulbo innatis; fcapo multifloro; ne&ario pairs, fmooth, rifing from the bulb; ltalk
cordato, purpureo. many flowered; honey-cup heart-fhaped
and purple.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The Blofibm, without the Honey-cup; difpofed to lhew the iituation of the Chives, and
Pointal, which are covered by the Honey-cup.
The Honey-cup.
The Tips.
The Summits.

Of all plants, none furnifli a more agreeable fpeculation to the Eotanift, than thole of this clafs; the
lingular conllruction of the whole flower, leads the obferver to form analogous companions from it to
animal life: particularly amongft the Orchis, and Ophris, of our own country; where bees, flies, liz-

zards, and butterflies are accurately fhaped in the honey-cup. The Genus Epidendrum, takes its Ge-
neric title from its place of growth, being what Botanifts term parafitical, that is, growing on an-
other plant; which is the cafe, with moft of the fpecies of this Genus: yet is cultivated here with
fuccefs, by planting it in a mixture of rotten wood, and loam. A plant, from which
this figure was

taken, was a prefeut to Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy from the Honourable Mrs. Barrington, who received
it from Dr. Dancer's botanical garden Jamaica, of which illand it is a native; therefore mull be kept
in the ttovc It is propagated by dividing the bulbs.
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IXIA REFLEXA,
Reflex flowered Ixia.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae bivalves, oblongae, perfiftentes, Empalement. Cup two valves, oblong, re-

gertnina diltinguentes. maining, and dividing the feed-buds.

Corolla. Tetala fex, oblonga, aequalia, lan- Blossom. Six oblong petals of an equal length,
ceolata. and fpear-fhaped.
Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, corolla Chives. Three awl-fliaped threads, fhorter than
breviora, fitu aequalia. Antherae fimplices. the blolfom, placed equally. Tips hmple.
Pistillum. Germen inferum, ovatum, tri- Pointal. Seed-bud beneath egg fliaped, and
quetrum. Stylus limplex, erectus, longi- three fided. Shaft fimple, upright, the
tudine ftaminum. Stigma trifidum, crafli- length of the chives. Summit cut into
ufculum. three, and thickilh.
Pericakpium. Capfula fubovata, triquetra, Seed-vessel. Capfule, nearly egg-fhaped,
trilocularis, loculis comprellis, trivalvis. three-fided, three cells, piefled together,
three valves.
Semina fubrotunda, plurima. Seeds many, nearly round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia floribus fpicatis, reflexis ; foliis enfiformi- Ixia,with flowers growing in a fpike, and bent
bus, glabris. backward; leaves fword- fliaped, and fmooth.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement (magnified).
2. The Bloflom.
3. The Chives (magnified).
4. The Pointal (magnified).

No genus exhibits greater diverfity, either in the figure, or colour of the blofloms, of its various fpe-
eies than Ixia; the extreme delicacy of their colours, rendering it abfolutcly neceflary to protect them
both from wind and rain; even watering them over their heads (as is ufual with greenhoufe plants),
at once deliroys their brilliancy. The bulbs of this fpecics were gathered at the Cape, by J. Pringle,
Efq. from whom they were fent to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy in 1/95, at whole nurfery they flowered
the eniuing fpring, when this figure was taken. No particular treatment is neceliary for this plant,
other than what is given to Cape bulbs in general, viz, an airy fituation, and light foil. Is propa-
gated by feeds, and by the roots.
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ANTHYLLIS ERINACEA.
Blue Broom of Spain.

CLASS XVII. ORDER III.

D IAD E L PHIA D E CANDR IA. Chives in two fete. Ten Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophylkim, ovato- [Link]. Cup of one leaf, oblong egg-
oblongum, parum inflatum, villofam ore ; fhaped, a little fwelled, and hairy ; mouth
quinquedentato, inaequali ;
perfiltens. cut into rive unequal teeth; permanent.
Corolla papilionacea : Blossom, butterfly-Shaped.
Vexillum longius, lateribus reflexis, ungue Standard longer, fides bent back, the claws
longitudine calycis. as long as the cut.
Alae duas, oblongx, vexillo breviores. Wings two, oblong, Shorter than the
flandard.

Carina compreffa, longitudine alarum, alis Keel compreSfed, as long as the wings, and
fimilis. like them.

Stamina. Filamenta decern, connata, alTur- Chives. Ten threads, connected, rifing up-
gentia. Antherse fimplices. wards. Tips fimple.
Pistillum. Germen oblongum. Stylus (im- Tointal. Seed-bud oblong. Shaft fimple,
plex, adfeendens. Stigma obtufum. afcending. Summit blunt.
Pericarpium. Legumen fubrotundum, tectum Seed-vessel. Pod roundifh, covered by the
intra calycem, minimum, bivalve. cup, very fmall, of two valves.
Semen unum, alterumve. Seeds. One or two.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Anthyllis fruticofa, fpinofa ; foliis fimplicibus Broom, Shrubby, and covered with prickles;
floribus ex caeruleo purpurafcentibus. leaves fimple; blofibms of a purplifh blue.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Cup.
2. A Bloflbm, the cup taken off to fliew the exact: fituation and Shape of its various parts.
3. The Chives, as they indole the pointal (natural fize.)

4. The Threads magnified, and cut open, to fhew their tubular Shape.
5. The Pointal, magnified.

Owing to the difficulty in propagating and preferving fome plants, although frequently introduced
to us, and well known ;
yet are they more fcarce
to be found, in our belt collections, than plants of
feemingly more difficult acquifition. This fpecies of Anthyllis has been mentioned under various
fynonyms by molt botanical authors from Cluiius downwards. Mr. T. Johnfon, in his edition of
Gerard of 1633, has given a description of this plant from Clufius, and a cut; both of which are
excellent (confidering the then infant flate of the art of engraving), under the title of Genifta
fpinofa humilis; Dwarf Furze. It is termed Erinacea by Clufius (fays he), from the Spanifli name
of the hedge-hog, Erizo, of which country it is a native, in the kingdom of Valencia : from which
we might infer, that, like other plants of that country, it would live through our winters ;which is
not the cafe. It mult be kept as a greenhoufe plant, and watered but Sparingly. The foil it prefer*
is a light loam; is propagated by cuttings, and flowers in April, or May.
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AZALEA PONTICA.
Yellow Pontic Azalea.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIJ MONOGYNIJ. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthiuni monophyllum. quinque- Empalement. Cup one leaf with five divi-

partitum, acutum, ere&um, parvum, per- sions, fharp pointed, upright, fmall, and

fiftens.
permanent.
Corolla. Monopetala, campanulata, limbus Blossom. One petal, bell-fhaped, margin five-

quinquefidus : laciniarum lateribus in- cleft: fegments with the edges bent in-

flexis. wards.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, filiformia, recep- Chives. Threads five, thread-ihaped, fixed to

taculo inferta, libera. Anthers liraplices. the receptacle, and loole. Tips fimple.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum. Stylus filitbr- Pointal. Seed-bud egg-fliaped. Shaft thread-
mis, longitudine corolla, perfiftens. Stigma ihaped, the length of the blolfom, perma-

obtufum. nent. Summit blunt.

Pekicarpium. Capfula ovata, quinquelocularis, Seed-vessel. Capfule egg-fliaped, with live

quinquevalvis. cells, and five valves.

Semina plurima, compreffa. Seeds many, and flat.

Obs. Figura petali in aliis infundibuliformis, in Obs. The fhape of the petal in fome is funnel-

aliis campanifo:mis eft; ftamina in quibuf- fhaped, in others bell-fhaped ; the chives in

dam declinata longiftima. fome are bent downward, and very long.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Azalea, foliis ovato-oblongis, pilofis, alternis; Azalea, with oblong egg-fliaped leaves, hairy,
floribus amplillimis, luteis; ftaminibus lon- and alternate; flowers very large, and yel-
giflimis, declinatis. low; chives very long, and bent downward.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, (natural fize.)
2. The Chives as they appear within the blolfom.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.
4. A Capfule cut horizontally, expofing the number of its cells.

America has furnifhed our gardens with an extenfive variety of beautiful fhrubs; amongft them, the
Azaleas hold a diftinguifhed place; fome for the beauty, others for the fragrance, of their blofibms:
the prefent fpecies far furpaffes all of them for both. It is a native of the coaft of the Black Sea, or
Pontus Euxinus, through the whole of its from the city of Trebifonde;
extent, on the Afiatic fide,
from whence its trivial That a plant of fuch extreme beauty, and fweetnefs, fhould fo long
name.
have been a ftranger to our European gardens, though known to, and described by, i'o many botanical
travellers, mull feem matter of wonder; but ftill it is an uncontefted fact. Monf. Tournefort, in his
Voyage to the Levant, has given an ample defcription of it, under the title of Chamajrhododendros
Pontica maxima, mefpili folio, flore luteo; where he fays, it grows to the height of feven or eight
feet, and that the flowers are of a moft exquifite flavour. Dr. P. Pallas, in his Flora Roflica, has like-
wife figured, and defcribed it, under the name it here bears; but apparently his drawing was made
from a dried fpecimen, as the brilliancy of the flower is by no means preferved but it is to him we ;

are indebted for this fine plant. In his voyage to the Crimea and countries adjacent, in l/p2. he
procured the feeds of this, amongft many other valuable and rare plants; parcels of moft of which
were fent by him to Melfrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerirnith; by whom plants were railed of it, and
many other forts, the next year. It is a deciduous fhrub, extremely hardy, and blows early in the
fpring; propagated, like other Azaleas, by layers and feeds; grows beft in peat earth, with a fmall
is

portion of loam.
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PROTEA FORMOSA.
Coronet Protect.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TE TRANDR IA MONO G YNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium commune, imbricatum; Empalement. Cup common, fcaled; fcales
fquamis inrequalibus, perfiflentibus. unequal, and remaining.
Proprium nullum. Proper none.
Corolla tetrapetala. Petala faepe cohasrentia, Blossom four-leaved. Petals frequently ad-
laepius divifa, lineari-oblonga: unguibus hering, oftener divided, of a linear oblong
ereftis, limbo patenti. fhape: claws upright, border fpreading.
Stamina. Filamenta nulla. Anthera? quatuor, Chives. Threads none. Tips four, linear, or
lineares, vel oblongas, fub apice limbi co- oblong, fixed within the border of the
rolla: infertae. bloilbm.
Pistillum. Germen fuperum, oblongum. Sty- Pointal. Seed-bud above, and oblong. Shaft
lus filiformis, corolla longior. Stigma fim- thread-fhaped, longer than the bloilbm.
plex, clavatum. Summit fimple, and club-ihaped.
Pericarpium nullum. Calyx patens, indura- Seed-vessel none. Cup fpreading, hard, and
tus, vix mutatus. fcarcely changing.
Semina folitaria, fubrotunda, vel compreffa. Seeds folitarv, nearly round, or flat.

Receptaculum commune nudum, villofum, Receptacle the common, is naked, hairy,

paleaceum, vel conus. chaffy, or a cone.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Protea, foliis lanceolatis, pubefcentibus; caule Protea, -with lance-fhape downy lea\r es; ftem
villolb; flore aurantio flavo; femine fub- hairy; bloflbm orange yellow; feed nearly
rotundo, glabro, magnitudine pili majoris. round, fmoolh, the lize of a large pea.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Flower complete, as it ftands on the Receptacle.
2. The Bloilbm expanded, to ihew the fituation of the Chives.

Of all the varied genera of plants which decorate that mine of botanical riches, the Cape of Good
Hope, and the adjacent country, no one ftands more confpicuous than Protea. Few travellers who
have not noticed the fingularity and beauty of their foliage; indeed they are of fuch extreme bril-
liancy, that no one, however indifferent to botanical refearches, can pals them unobferved; forelis of
them being fo numerous, the Protea Argentea, or Silver Tree, produces almoft the only wood of the
country; growing to the height of thirty or forty feet. But although the leaves of this numerous
tribe are moftly beautiful, many of their blolfoms are but trifling, except in the eye of the botanift:
the Protea Formofa, however, is one amongft many which Hand as powerful exceptions: the great
beauty of this charming plant has induced us to adopt the trivial name it here bears. It has been
introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew by Mr. F. Maffon, botanical collector to his prefent Majefty;

from whofe liberal patronage the fcience of Botany has of late been brought into fuch general efti-
mation. This fpecies, from the downy cbarafter of the whole plant, is apt to damp, if not kept in an
airy fituation in winter; though the warmth of a common greenhoufe is quite fufficient for its pro-
tection. It is with difficulty propagated by cuttings; and has not hitherto perfected its feeds in this
kingdom. Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered in the nurfery of Mef&s. Lee and
Kennedy, in the year i"Q6, about the month of Auguft.
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CORREA ALBA.
White Correct.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDR1A MONOGYNU. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadridcn- Emfalement. Cup of one leaf, five-toothed,

tatum, campanulatum, erectum, perliflens. bell-fhaped, upright, and permanent.

Corolla. Petala quatuor, oblonga, concava, Blossom. Four petals, oblong, concave, reflexed

apice reflexa, marginibus craflis. at the end, and thick at the edges.

Stamina. Filamenta o£to, ere&a, filiformia, Chives. Eight threads, upright, thread fhaped,
receptaculo inferta. • and fixed into the receptacle.
Pistillum. Germen turbinatum, fuperum. Pointal. Seed-bud turban-lhaped, and above.
Stylus filiformis, longitudine ftaminium. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the
Stigma obtufum. chives. Summit blunt.

Pericarpium. Capfula coriacea, lanata, qua- Seed-vessel. Capfule leathery, and woolly,
drilocularis, quadrivalvis. four cells, four valves.

Semina quatuor, folitaria, fubrotunda. Seeds four, folitary, and nearly round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Correa, foliis fubrotundis, fupra tomentofis, fub- Correa, with leaves nearly round, downy on the
tus lanigeris; floribus terminalibus, qua- upper furface, woolly on the under furface;
ternis, albidis. flowers terminate the branches by fours,
and are white.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The Empalement.
2. The Chives, and Pointal.
3. A Thread, and Tip, (magnified.)
4. The Shaft and Summit, (magnified.)

The Correa is a native of Port Jackfon, in New Holland, and commonly termed a Botany-bay plant
it was firft raifed in the year 1 ~g3, from feeds which were given by Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart, to J. Vere,
Efq. of Kenfington-gore, and from a plant in whofe collection our figure was taken. It receives its

generic from Mr. Jofeph Correa de Serra, a native of Portugal a gentleman of very diftinguillied
title ;

talents as a man of fcience in general, and botany in particular. Of this genus there are as yet but
few fpecies difcovered; the Alba grows to a fhrub of the height of four or five feet, woody and tough;
both ftem and leaves are covered with a thick flannelly fubftance, particularly the under fide of the
leaves,which gives the whole plant a whitifh appearance. It continues to flower through the months
of April, May, and June; may be propagated eafily by cuttings, fhould be kept as a hardy greenhoufe
plant, and thrives beft in peat earth.
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GLADIOLUS VERSICOLOR.
Changeable Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRL1NDRIA MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae bivalves. Empalement. Sheath two valves.
Corolla, fexpartita, ringens. Tetala oblonga, Blossom, of fix divifions, and gaping. Petal»
omnia unguibus in tubum connata. oblong, having their claws formed into a
tube.
Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, divifurii Chives. Three awl-fliaped threads, fixed into
alternis petalorum inferta. Antherse ob- the alternate divilions of the petals. Tips
longae. oblong.
Pistillum. Germen inferura. St)'lus (implex, Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, the
longitudine flaminum. Stigma triridum length of the chives Summit cut into
concavum. three, and concave.
Fericarpium. Capfula oblonga, obtul'a, tri- Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, blunt ended,
locularis, t rival vis. three cells, three valves.
Semina plura, fubrotunda. Seeds many, nearly round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus, foliis lineari-cruciatis; floribus maxi- n Gladiolus, with linear crofs fliaped leaves; flowers
mis, verficoloribus. ||
very large, and changeable.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. The Pointal, and Seed-bud; one of the divifions of the Summit magnified.
3. A ripe Seed, natural fize, in its tunic.

That colour bears the chirac\er given it by Sir Ifaac Newton, our prefent fubjeft (as did the prifm)
adds another proof. The Gladiolus verficolor might, like the camelion, equally be a fubjeel of con-
tention, to thofe who have feen its blofTom at different periods of the fame day; for, ftrange to tell!

it is brown morning, and continues to change from that colour till it becomes light blue by
in the
night. During the night it regains its priftine colour; and this change is effected diurnally, whilft
the flower is in its vigour; but upon the decay, the change is lefs powerful, gradually fixing in a
dark brown; which, however, does not take place in lefs than nine or ten days. This is the only
flower, we have ever noticed, to regain the colour that has once forfook it. A drawing was began
about ten o'clock in the morning, but before it was finifhed the plant was fo totally altered in colour

that there was an abfolute necefiity for taking a fecond day to complete it. The bulbs of this plant
were lent from the Cape of Good Hope by J. Fringle, Efq. of Madeira, in 1/94, amongft many others,
to Melfrs. Lee and Kennedy, of Hiimmerfmith, where the drawing was made. It flowers about the

month of June; is increafed by the root or feed; and thrives beft in peat earth.
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ECHIUM GRANDIFLORUM.
Large-flowered Viper's Buglofs.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium quinquepartitum, erectum Empalement. Cup with rive divifions, upright,

perfiftens; laciniis fubulatis ereftis. permanent ; fegments awl-fliaped, upright.

Corollai Monopetala, campanulata. Tabus Blossom. One petal, bell-fhaped. Tube very
breviffimus. Limbus ereftus, fenfim ampli- fhort. Border gradually widening, with five

atus, quinquefidus obtufus; laciniis fspius clefts, blunt. Segments ofteneft unequal,
inrequalibus; fuperioribus duabus longiori- the two upper ones the longeft ; the lower
bus, infimis minoribus, acutis, reflexis. ones fmaller, fliarp, and reflexcd. The
Faux pervia. mouth open.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, longi- Chives. Five threads, awl-fhapcd, the length of
tudine corollas, declinata. inasqualia. An- the blofibm, declined, and unequal. Tips
therse oblongae, incumbentes. oblong, fixed fide ways to the threads.
Pistillum. Germina quatuor. Stylus filiformis, Pointal. Seed-buds four. Shaft thread-fhaped,
longitudine ftaminum. Stigma obtufum, the length of the chives. Summit blunt,
bifidum. and two-cleft.
Pekicarpium nullum. Calyx rigidior, in finu Seed-vessel none. The cup growing more
femina fovens. harfh, contains the feeds.
Semina quatuor, fubrotunda, oblique acumenata. Seeds four, roundifh, obliquely tapering.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Echium, foliis nitidis, lanceolatis, hifpidis; Viper's Bugloft, with fhining, lance-fhaped,
caule fruticofo; corollis maximis, requali- hairy leaves; ftem fhrubby; bloffbms very
bus, rubris. large, equal, and red.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Blofibm cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.
4. A ripe teed.

The Echium Grandiflorum is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was fent from thence by Mr. F.
MaffoD to the Royal Gardens at Kew, about the year IJQI. The fuperior beauty of this fpecies to
the reft of its congenors makes it confidered as a valuable greenhoufe plant, although its intrinfic
merit is fufficient to enfure it that character; the rich green of its foliage, contrafted to the colour of
the bloffbms, gives to each a lingular brilliancy. It is rather a tender greenhoufe plant, grows about
two feet high, and becomes naked at the lower part of the ftem; is with difficulty propagated by
cuttings, feldom perfeding its feeds; thrives beft in rich earth, and flowers in April and May. The
drawing was made from a plant in the collection of the Marquis of Blandford, Bill-hill, Berks.
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V ERE I A C REN ATA.
Scolloped- leaf Vereia.

CLASS VIII. ORDER IV.

OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Eight Chives. Four Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis Empalement. Cup four leaved, which are-

lanceolatis, concavis, erectis, acutis, per- lance-fhaped, concave, upright, fharp-

fiftentibus. pointed, and permanent.
Corolla monopetala, ventricofa; limbus pa- Blossom of one leaf, big bellied; border
tens, revolutus quadripartitus; laciniis fpreading, rolled back, and divided into
ovatis, acuminatis. four egg-fhaped, pointed fegments.
Neflararia quatuor; fingulum fquamula Ho?iey-cups four, each confifting of a final]
minima, fingulo germini ad bafin
debilia, flight fcale, fixed on the outfide the bale of
extrorfum inferta. each feed-bud.
Stamina. Filamenta o£to, brevia, quorum Chives. Eight fhort threads, four of which
quatuor medio, quatuor vero ad bafin are fixed to the middle, and four to the
corollas adnatae. Antherae fubrotundae bafe of the bloffom. Tips nearly round,
fimplices. and fimple.
Pistillum. Germina quatuor, oblonga, defi- Pointal. Four feed-buds, oblong, ending in

nentia in ftylos fubulatos. Stigmata ob- awl fhaped (hafts. Summits blunt.
tufa.
Pericarpium. Capfulae quatuor, ovatae acu- Seed-vessel. Four capfules, egg-fhaped, ta-
minatae, re&ae, trigonae, longitudinaliter pering, upright and three fided, opening
future introrfum dehifcentes. inwards along the feam.
Semina plurima minima. Seeds many, very fm3ll.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Vereia, foliis oppofitis, crenatis, patentibus; II Vereia, with oppofite,fcolloped, fpreading leaves;
racemis longiflimis laxis; floribus luteis. II
very long loofe fpikes, and yellow flowers.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, (natural fize.)
2. A Blolfom cut open to fhew the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Seed-veflel, Shafts, and Summits, with the fcales of the Honey-cups, as th>-j

ftand in the bloflbm, (magnified.)

4. One Capfule of the Seed-veflel detached.

This genus of Plants muft clafs with Linnaeus' s natural order of Succulents, nearly approaching Craf-
fula in habit ; but as the Sexual Syflem is the bafis of our theory, we cannot admit it under that or any
other yet defcribed genus; we have therefore named it James Vere, Efq. long and well known for
after
his extended and liberal patronage to the profeflbrs and cultivators of the fcience; in whole beautiful
and felect. colle&ion at Kenfington Gore, the prefent fpecies, has for the firft time, flowered in this
kingdom. Mr. Anderfon the gardener informs us, that this plant is a native of Sierra Leone; from
whence it was fent to England, by Profeflor Eld. Elfzelius, in the year 1/93 ; that he has treated it as
a tender hot-houfe plant, keeping it conftantly in the tan bed, by which means he has made it flower;
but from every appearance of the plant, we fhould be led to think the common treatment of hot-houfc
Succulents would anfwer for this. It is eafily propagated by cuttings; grows to the height of three
or four feet, having when in flower the appearance of a middle fized flirub; blows in the «inter
months, and thrives bed in rich mould.
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GOODENIA CALENDULACEA.
Cape Marygold-leaved Goodenid.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium quadrifidum, fuperum, Empalement. Cup four-cleft, above, and re-

perfillens. maining.
Corolla monopetala, iupra longitudinaliter Blossom of one leaf, cleft longitudinally on the

fifla, genitalia exferens; limbo quinquefido, upper fide, expofing the organs of fructifi-

fecundo. cation ; border five-cleft, leaning one way.

Stamina. Filamenta quinque, receptaculo in- Chives. Five threads fixed into the receptacle.
ferta. Antheras lineares. Tips linear.
Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex. Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple.

Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum. Summit pitcher-fhaped, and fringed.

Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga, bilocularb, Seed-vessel. Capfule qblong, with two cells,

bivalvis; diflepimento parallelo. and two valves; partition parallel to the

valves.

Semina plura, fcabrida. Seeds many and rough.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Goodenia, foliis obovatis, crams, fcabridis; Goodenia with inverfely egg-fhaped, thick rough
floribus axilaribus, casruleis. leaves; flowers fitting clofe to the iiem, and
blue.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower with all its parts complete.
2. A Blofiom without the organs of fructification.
3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud (magnified).

The Goodenias are all natives of New Holland, and received their generic name of Dr. J. E. Smith,
Prefident of the Linnncan Society, in honour of the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, whole valuable difiertation
on the Britifh fpecies of Carex, does him the highett honour, as a botanilt. The fpecies of this genus
(as yet difcovered) are ten, from which we may infer that they are numerous; thole only yet intro-
duced to Britain are, the Lxvigata, ovata, and the prefent fpecies; the others are defcribed by the
Prefident, in the fecond volume of the Linnoean Tranfactions. This plant, though not to be ranked
amongft the handlbmeft productions of that country, fo replete with novelty, is yet ponelTed of fufh-
cient merit to give it a place in our collections of gieenhoufe plants, flowering about the month of
Auguft; delighting moft in an airy fituation, and light foil. It is eafily propagated by cuttings. Our
figure was taken from which flowered at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in 1797; where it had
a plant

been railed from feeds, communicated by Colonel Paterfon, then commanding at Port Jackfon; to
whofe afiiduous labours in collecting feeds, &c. the cabinets and collections of our natural hiftorians
are fo very much indebted.
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IXIA CAPITATA. Far. ovata.

Bunch-flowering Ixia. Far. Egg-Jhaped purple Petals.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6 petala, patens, aequalis. Stigmata Blossom fix petals, fpreading equal. Summits
3, erectiufculo-patula. three, nearly upright, fpreading.
See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia, foliis radicalibus, enfiformibus; floribus Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and
capitatis, confertis, purpureis, petalis bafi fword-lliaped; blollbms in dole bunches,
obfcuris. purple, and dark at the bale.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two {heaths of the Empalement.
2. A flower cut open, to fhew the infertion of Chives.
3. The Chives as attached to the tubular part of the blollbm, the border cut oft"

(magnified).
4. The Shaft, Summits, and Seed-bud (magnified).

This fine fpecies of Ixia, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was introduced to our collections about

the year 1795, by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, nurferymen; they having railed it from feeds received

by them, from the Royal Gardens at Vienna; is certainly amongtt the tenderer! of its tribe: the root,
being extremely fubject: to injury by wet, it mould be dried as foon as it has done flowering. It is
one of the earlieft Ixias in bloom, being in high perfection about the middle of April; is increafed
but flowly ty the root, thriving beft in very fandy peat, or fand only. The figure here given was
drawn from a plant which flowered at the nurfery, Hammerfmith, in 1/98, for the firft time.
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CINERARIA AURITA.
Two-coloured-leaved Cineraria.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIS POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Communis, fimplex; polyphyllus; fo- Empalement. Common, fimple; of man)-
liolis aequalibus. leaves; fmall leaves equal.

Corolla. Compolita, radiata. Corollulae Blossom. Compound, radiate. Florets with

hermaphroditae, aequales; numerolle, in chives and pointals equal; numerous in

difco. Femincse ligulatae, numero foli- the centre. Florets with only pointals Ji-

orum calycis in radio. gulate; equal in number to the leaves in

the circumference of the empalement.

Propria hermaphroditi, infundibuliformis; Individuals with chives and pointals funnel-

limbo quinquefido, eredto. fliaped; border five cleft, upright.

Feminea ligulata, lanceolata, apice denticu- Individuals with pointals only, ligulatc,

lata. lance-fhaped, toothed at the point.

Stamina. Filamenta quinque, filiformia bre- Chives. Five threads, thread. lhaped and fhort.
via. Antheroe cylindracea, tubulofa, apice Tips forming a hollow cylinder, with five

quinquefida. clefts at the top.

Pistillum, hermaphroditis. Gormen oblon- Pointal of florets with chives and pointals.
gum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine fla- Seed-bud oblong. Shaft thrcad-lhapcd, the
minum. Stigmata duo eredtiufcula. length of the chives. Summits two, a little

upright.
Femincis : Germen oblongum. Stylus fili- Of florets with pointals only. Seed bud ob-
formis, brevis. Stigmata duo, oblonga, long. Shaft thread-fliaped, and lhort. Sum-
obtuliufcula, revoluta. mits two, oblong, rather blunt, and rolled
back.
Pekicakpium nullum. Calyx immutatus. Seed-vessel none. Cup not changing.
Semina hermaphroditis folitaria, linearia, qua- Seeds of florets with chives and pointals, folitarv.
drangula. Pappus pilol'us, copiofus. linear and four-fided. Feather, hairy, abun-
dant.
Receptaculum nudum, planiufculum. Receptacle naked, rather flat.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Cineraria, foliis cordatis, dentatis, pilofis, fub- Cineraria with heart-fhaped, indented, hairy
tus purpurafcentibus; petiolis auritis: flo- leaves, purple underneath; the footftalks
ribus purpureis. Inning lobes: the flowers purple.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement (natural fize).
2. A floret of the ray (magnified).
3. A floret of the dilk (magnified).
4. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud of a floret of the dilk (magnified).

In the Sert. Anglic, of Monf. L'Heritier, this fpecies of Cineraria has been defcribed and figured
under the fpecific character of Cruenta, from the botanic garden at Kew; where, according to the
catalogue, it was firfl introduced by Mr. F. Maflon, from the Canary Mauds, about \~~~ ; and by
which fpecific it has hitherto been titled: but from what appearance or part of the plant, he could
denominate it bloody, will not be eafy to determine; from our idea of colour, he might as well have
named it blue. Finding, therefore, a fpecific chara&er certainly more fixed in the leaf, we have taken
the liberty of altering Cruenta to Aurita; though that would not have been done, (as nothing is more
contrary to our fentiments, than altering any publiilied name) if there had been any glimpfe of
affinity to the plant in that title. This is unqueftionably the handfomelt fpecies of Cineraria yet
known, growing to the height of near three feet if encouraged. The fpecimen from which this figure
was taken, and which was fent laft March to the author, by Mr. James Colville, King"s road, Cliel-
fea, had attained that fize. By night it is extremely fragrant, continuing its blolfoms from the month
of February, till Auguft; feeding abundantly, by which it may be propagated, producing many vari-
eties; or by the fuckers which are thrown up from the roots; thriving belt in light mould or peat.

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CAMELLIA JAPONIC A. Far. Flore alio pleno.

Double white Camellia.

CLASS XVI. ORDER V.

MONODELPHIJ P0LYANDR1A. Threads united. Many Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx imbricatus, pulyphyllus: foliolis interi- Emtalement tiled, of many leaves: the inner
oribus majoribus. Ii leaves the larger!.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER OF VAR.

Camellia floribns ampliftimis, plenis albidis. Camellia with large double white flowers.

Though it maybe considered by fome, as deviating from the botanical rule we prefcribed to ourfelves,
at the outfet of this work, not to figure any flower, but what could be fyftematically afcertained;
double flowers, 8cc. having loft thole conftituent characters neceffary to the Sexual Syftem; yet hav-
ing feen this moft delightful plant in bloom laft year, the temptation was too powerful to be refilled,
for giving a figure of it in the Botanift's Repository. This fine variety of the Camellia, was firft im-
ported from China about the year 1/93, by Captain Connor of the Carnatic Eaft-indiaman, for the
gardens of the late I. Slater, Efq. a gentleman of moft indefatigable fpirit, for the introduction of new
plants to this kingdom; indeed, it is to him we owe moft of the plants received from China within
thefe few years; he having procured a catalogue to be printed of all the defcribed Chinefe plants in
that language, with the defcriptions tranflated, and by various hands tranfmitted it to that country.
The fineft plants in this kingdom, of the double white Camellia, are now in the collection 'of Sir
Jofeph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. This, like the others of this genus, we may confider of fufficient hard-
inefs to refill our winters; being a native of the Japanefe ifles, where, as well as in China, it was
feen by Thunberg. As yet (from its fcarcity) that cannot be afcertained; but from the eafy method
by which it is propagated by cuttings, we are in hopes it loon may. It is at prefent cultivated as a

hot-houfe plant, where certainly it will be always feen in the greateft perfection; the flowers being
of fo delicate and brilliant a white, their beauty is eafily deftroyed, even by watering. Flowers in
the autumnal months, and thrives beft in rich loam.
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CRASSULA ODORATISSIMA.
Sweet-fcented Crqfiula.

CLASS V. ORDER V.
PENTANDRIA PEJSTAGYNIA. Five Chives. Five Pointals.
GENERIC CH ARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium pentaphyllum; foliolis Empalbment. Cup of five leaves; the fmall
lanceolatis, canaliculato-concavis, ereftis, leaves are lance-lhaped, concave and chan-
acutis, conniventibus in tubum, perfiften- nelled, upright, fharp, formed into a tube,

tibus. and remaining.

Corolla. retain quinque, unguibus longis, Blossom. Petals five, claws long, linear, up-

lincaribus, rec"tis, conniventibus, reflexo- right, joined together, bent back, and
patentibus. fpreading.
Ncdaria quinque; Unguium fquamula Honey-cups five, each confifting of a fmall
minima, emarginata bafi germinis extror- fcale notched at the end, and fixed on the
fum annexa. outfide the bale of each feed-bud.

Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata. lon- Chives. Five threads, nwl-fhaped, the length of
gitudine tubi, unguibus corolla; inferta. the tube, fixed into the claws of the blolfom.
Anthers limplices. Tips fimple.
Pistillum. Germina quinque, oblonga, acu- Poixtal. Seed-buds five, oblong, pointed, end-
minata, definentia in ftylos fubulatos, lon- ing in awl- fliaped fhafts, the length of the
gitudine ftaminum. Stigmata obtufa. chives. Summits blunt.

Pericarpium. Capfulae quinque, oblongs, Seed-vessel. Five capfules, oblong, pointed,

acuminata;, rettae, compreflae, longitudi- upright, prefled together, and opening in-
naliter introrfum dehifcentes. wards along the feam.
Semina plura, parva. Seeds, many, fmall.

SPECIFIC CH ARACTER.
CralTula foliis oppofitis, amplexicaulibus, cili- CralTula with oppofite leaves that embrace the
atis, linearibus; floribus capitatis, odora- ftem, fringed and linear; the flowers grow
tiffimis, luteis. in bunches, are fwect-fcented and yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The Empalement.
2. A Blolfom cut open to fliew the infertion of the threads.
3. One Petal of the bloflbm.
4. The five Pointals as they ftand in the blolfom, with their honey-cups attached to the
bottom of the Seed-buds.

5. One Pointal (magnified).

The Craflula Odoratillima is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was introduced to our gardens about
the year 1794, but did not flower till 1796. The fcent of this plant at night is fo very powerful,
that by many it may be deemed almoll oftenfive, though by others it is confidertd as mod agreeable;
the flavour is nearly affined to the tuberole. This is not a very fliewy plant, growing about a foot
high, and flowers from March, till May or June. It is molt eafily propagated by cuttings, lives in

the common greenhoule with very little care, and in almoft any fort of earth. This figure was taken
at Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's, nurferymen, Hammeifmith, where the plant was firft raifed.

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GLADIOLUS RINGENS. Far. cinereo odprato.

Gaping AJh- coloured fweet Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-partita, ringens. Blossom fix divifions, gaping.
Stamina adfeendentia. Chives afcending.
See Plate XI.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis linearibus, coftatis; floribus Gladiolus with linear, ribbed leaves; the blof-
ringentibus, cineriis, odoratiilimis. foms gaping, alb-coloured, and very l'weet-
fcented.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two fheaths of the Enipalement.
2. A Bloflom cut open to expofe the infertion of the Chives.
3. The Pointal (one Summit magnified).
4. A Seed in its coat.

This moft defirable Gladiolus, is not a perfect novelty in the greenhoufe; although extremely fcarce,
it has been introduced to us conflantly from the Cape of Good Hope, but from its great delicacy has
been repeatedly loft. The
now in England, have been imported from Holland, from the col-
plants
lection of Meflrs. Voorhelm and Co. who about the year 1/03, purchafed the largeft collection ever
formed at the Cape, from a Frenchman who had been many years refident there. The Gladiolus
ringens about mid-day has the flavour of violets lb powerfully, that a fingle plant is fufficient to fcent

a whole greenhoufe. It is with difficulty preferved from rotting at the root; therefore fhnuld be
grown in very fandy peat, and fhould be expofed to dry as foon as the flower is gone. Is propagated
by the root, or by feed, which may be procured by great care not to over-water the bulb alter flower-
ing; but herein there is great danger.
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GERANIUM ELEGANS.
Round-leaved Geranium

CLASS XVI. ORDER II.

MONODELPHIJ DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fructus roftratus, One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed
5-coccus. with long awns, 5 dry berries.

See Geranium granoiflorum, Plate XII.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium pedunculis multifloris; calycibus mo- Geranium, the fruit-ftalks fupporting many flow-
nophyllis, foliis orbiculatis, ferratis rigidis, ers j cups of one leaf; the leaves round,
petiolis longiflimis; caule herbaceo. fawed, and harm, with very long foot-ftalks;
ftem herbaceous.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement cut open, to fliew its tubular fhape to its bafe.

2. The Chives, and Pointal, natural fize.

3. The Pointal, magnified.

This truly elegant fpecies of Geranium was introduced to us from the Cape of Good Hope, in the
year 1/95; being raifed from feeds, received from thence, by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, in whofe
collection it flowered for the firft time this year, about the latter end of May, and from which fpeci-
men this figure was taken. one of thofe that have in general feven fertile tips, and, therefore,
It is

muft be placed under Mr. L'Heritier's genus Pelargonium, by thofe who follow his new arrangement.
It is a hardy plant, and requires only a common greenhoufe for its protection, where it will leed;

which feems to be the readieft mode of propagating it, as it produces but very few branches; thriving
beft in rich earth.
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1XIA SPICATA. Far. vlrldi nigra.

Sea-green fpiked Ixia.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6 petala, patens, aequalis. Blossom fix petals, fpreading, equal.
Stigmata 3, ere&iufculo-patula. Summits three, nearly upright, fpreading.
See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis linearibus, coflatis ; corolla viridi, Ixia with linear, ribbed leaves; green bloflbm,
petalis bafi obfcuris; fpicis longiffimis. the bafe of the petals dark; fpikes very
long.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Empalement.
(heaths of the
2. A Bloflbm cut open, to fhew its tubular character, and the infertion of the Chives at the
mouth.
3., The Pointal complete, one of its Summits magnified.

The Angularity of colour exhibited in this very fine fpecies of Ixia, the extraordinary length of the
which are moftly all expanded at the fame time; and which grow fometimes
fpikes, the flowers of
to the length of a foot, ormore; will certainly entitle it to a place in every collection of exotics.
We are indebted to the Hollanders for this plant, as they firft introduced it from the Cape; and it is
from them we received it but a few years fince. It is amongft the hardieft, and eafielt propagated of
this genus; requiring a fmall degree of heat when near blowing, to make the flowers expand with
luftre; thriving bell in peat earth; propagating itfelf by the bulb; and flowering during the months
of May and June.

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VACCINIUM ARCTOSTAPHYLLUS.
Madeira Whortlc -berry.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium minimum, fuperum, per- Emfalement. Cup very fmall, above, and per-
fiftens. manent.
Corolla. Monopetala, campanulata, quadri- Blossom. One petal, bell-fliaped, four-cleft;

fida; laciniis revolutis. fegments rolled back.

Stamina. Filamenta ofto, fimplicia. Antherae Chives. Eight threads, (imple. Tips with two
bicornes, dorlb arirlis duabus patentibus horns, and furnifhed with two fpreading
inflruc-foe, apice dehifeentes. awns at the back, opening at the points.
Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus (implex, Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft (imple,
(laminibus longior. Stigma obtufum. longer than the chives. Summit blunt.
Pericarpium. Bacca globola, umbilicata, qua- Seed-vessel. A globular berry, with a hollow
drilocularis. dimple, and four cells.

Semina pauca, parva. Seeds few, and fmall.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Vaccinium, floribus racemofis; foliis crenulatis, \Yhortle-berry,with flowers growing in bunches;
ovatis, acutis; caule arboreo. leaves (lightly fcollopped, egg-fhaped, and
pointed; ftem woody.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, Pointal, and Chives; the blolfom removed.
2. A Chive (magnified).
3. The Shaft, and its Summit (magnified).
4. A ripe Berry (natural (ize).

Numerous are the difficulties which occur in arranging plants according to any yet invented fyltem;
and although the fexual fails in the fewefl inftances, yet that is fometimes the cafe. The plant before
us, although in habit, fruit, ice. Vaccinium, and, from which characters,
feemingly perfectly allied to

it has been placed under that genus, yet we doubt whether if Linnaeus had examined the flower him-

felf, (as he has accepted it under the name it here bears, and we have no doubt of its being the plant

intended;) he would not have clalled it in Oetandria; for certainly it has in every inftance ten chives,
with the border of the blolfom of five fegments; the threads attached to the blolfom. But, as it is

the profeffed intention of this work as little as pofiible to confufe, by the introduction of new names
for plants already known by eftablillied, and generally accepted ones; though erroneous from incor-
reclnefs, or otherwife, in the author who firll publifhed them; we (hall attempt an alteration but

rarely, and that cautioully, or for very glaring reafons; being thoroughly convinced of the difficulty
of retaining only one name for each plant. The Vaccinium Ardtoflaphyllus is a native of the illand
of Madeira, where it grows to a cqnfiderable height: it has not been many years cultivated in our
gardens; having been introduced to us firll by Mr. F. Marlon about the year 1/8(3. The winters in
common of this climate are too fevere for it, therefore (hould be protected, although it will furvive
a mild one: it is bed preferved in a pot, and kept as a greenhoufe plant, where it is very ornamental;
flowering about the months of July and Auguft; thriving bed in light mould, or peat; and is pro-
pagated by cuttings, or the feed, which it produces in abundance.
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BORBONIA CORDATA
lleart-Jliape leaved Borbonia.

CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.

DIJDELPHIA DECANDRIJ. Threads in two fets. Ten Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- Empalement. Cup one leaf, cut into five feg-
fidum, turbinntum, corolla dimidio bre- ments, turban-lhaped, fhorter by half than
vinsj laciniis lanceolatis, acuminatis, fub- the bloflom; fegments lance- fliapcd, point-
oequalibus. ed, nearly of the fame length.
Corolla pentapctala papilionacea. Blossom of five leaves, butterfly-fhaped.

Vexillum reflexum, obtufum, ungue calycis Standard bent back, blunt, the claw the
longitudine. length of the cup.
Al<e femicordatae, vexillo paulo brevi- Wings half heart-fhaped, a little fhorter
ores. than the. ftandard.
Carina dipetala, lunulata, obtufa. Ktel of two leaves, half moon-fliaped, and
blunt.
Stamina. Filamenta decern, coalita in cylin- Chives. Threads ten, joined in a cylinder,

drum, fuperne longitudinaliterdehifeentem, fplitting at the upper fide, turned up at

apicibus affurgentia. Antherae parvae. the ends. Tips fmall.

Tistillum. Gerrnen fubulatum. Stylus bre- Pointal. Seed- bud awl-fhaped. Shaft fhort,
viffimus, adfeendens. Stigma obtufum, turned up at the end. Summit blunt, and
emarginatum. bordered.
Pericarpium. Legumen fubrotundum, acumi- Seed-vessel. Shell roundifh, pointed, of one
natum, uniloculare, i'pina mucronatum. cell, and pointed with a fpine.
Semina reniformia. Seeds kidney-fhaped.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Borbonia foliis cordatis, multinerviis, integer- Borbonia with heart-fhaped leaves, many-nerved,
and very entire.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. The Standard, or upper petal of the Bloflom.
3. A Wing, or fide petal of the Bloflom.
4. The Keel, or lower petals of the Bloflom.
5. The Pointal and Chives, natural fize.
6. The Seed-vefiel, attached to the Empalement.

The Borbonia cordata, with its various fynonyms, may be found in the fecond volume of Linnaeus's
Species Plantarum, page gg4, from whence our fpecific character is copied. This plant, as well as
moft of the genus, are fubjett to lofe their leaves from the lower part of the ftem, which gives it

rather a naked appearance when amply compenfated by the very handfome

not in flower; but that is

appearance of its magnificent bunch of yellow blofloms. It grows to the height of three or four feet,

producing but few branches. This figure was taken from a plant fent to the author, about the be-
ginning of July, in full bloom, by Mr. Colville, nurferyman, of the King's Road, Chelfea; who informs
him that he railed it about the year 1/95, from feeds which he had received from the Cape of Good
Hope. The Borbonias are moftly hardy greenhoufe plants, and delight in light earth; either peat, or
very light dungy earth: they are in general difficult to propagate by cuttings; the fureft method is

by the feed, which they for the moft part perfect in ^his climate.
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ANTHOLYZA RINGENS.
Gaping Antholyza.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Poinlal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae bivalves, alternate, flores dif- Empalemekt. Sheath of two valves, alternate,
tinguentes, perfiftentes. dividing the flowers, and abiding.

Corolla, retalum unicum e tubo fenfim di •

Blossom. One petal, widening in the tube,

latatum in faucem compreflam. ringentem. flattened at the mouth, and gaping.

Stamina. Filamenta tria, longa, tenuia, i'ub- Chives. Three threads, long, thin, and placed
labio fuperiori. Anthers acutae. under the upper lip of the blollbm. Tips
fharp.
Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread-
mis, fitu et longitudine ftaminum luperi- fliaped, in the fame place, and of the fame
orum. Stigma trifidum, capillare, reflex- length of the upper chives. Summit cut
um. into three hair-like divifions, which are
bent back.
Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda, trilocula- Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly round, three cells,

ris, trivalvis. three valves.

Semina plura, triangularia. Seeds many, triangular.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Antholyza corolloc labiis divaricatis; fauce com- Antholyza with the lips of the blolTbm in vari-
preffa. ous dire&ions; the mouth flattened.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the infertion of the Chives.
3. The Pointal (natural fize).

Although this fpecies of Antholyza is not new in our gardens, yet has it been feen in flower but by
few, as it blows fo feldom; though the roots are by far the largeft of any of the genus. The bulb
from which this figure was taken, had received a little afiiftance from heat early in the feafon, and
by that means was (apparently) brought into flower. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, has
much the appearance of a common flag in the foliage, growing to the height of three feet, or more;
requires the fame earth as Ixias, propagates by the root, or feed, and flowers in the month of June;
at which time a drawing was made from a plant then in bloom at the Hammerfmith nurfcry.
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DIOSMA LATIFOLIA.
Broad-leaved Diofma.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium quinquepartitum; laciniis [Link]. Cup of four divifions; fegments
tenuibus, acutis, perliftentibus; bad plana. thin, fharp, and permanent; fmooth at the
bale.

Corolla. Petala quinque, ovata, obtufa, fef- Blossom. Five petals, egg-fhape, blunt, fitting
filia, erecto-patula. clofe, erect, and open.
Ne&arium corona? forma, excavatum, quin- Honey-cup crown-fhaped, hollow, with five
quefidnm, obtufum, germini impofitum. divifions, blunt, fixed on the feed-buds.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata. An- Chives. Five threads, awl-fhaped. Tips nearly
therae fubovatae, erecfae. egg-fliaped, upright.
Pistillum. Germen coronatum nectario. Sty- Pointal. Seed-bud crowned by the honey-
lus fimplex, longitudine ftaminum. Stigma cup. Shaft fimple, the length of the chives.
obfoletum. Summit blunt.
Pericarpium. Capfuloe quinque, ovato-acumi- Seed-vessel. Five capfules, egg-fhaped, point-
natae, compreiThe, margine introrfum coali- ed, flattened, joined together by the inner
tae, apicibus diftantes, futura fuperiori de- edge, the points Ifanding apart, fplitting
hifcentes. 3t the upper future.
Semina folitaria, oblonga. Seeds folitary, oblong.
Arilhis elafticus, hinc dehifcens; Unguium Seed-coat elaftic, fplitting from hence, and
involvens lemen. inclofing a fingle feed.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Diofma, foliis oppofi;i«, ftrratis, ovalibus, la- Diofma with oppofite leaves, fawed, oval, and
tillimis ; floribus terminalibus, albidis, fef- very broad; flowers terminal, white, and
filibus. fitting clofe to the branches.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Bloflom complete.
2. The Chives and Pointal, with the furrounding Seed-buds and Honey-cups.
3. The Pointal, natural fize, with the Empalement attached.
4. The fame magnified.
5. A Seed taken from its coat.

There are few genera of plants more deferving our notice than Diofma; the fragrance of the leaves
of molt of the fpecies, and the beauty of the flowers of others, has rendered them fo common, (beino-
eafily propagated by cuttings) that few collections but have a number of die different fpecies. They
are all very hardy greenhoufe plants, the prefent fpecies excepted ; this, requiring a dry fituation, and
rather more warmth than the reft. It was fent to the royal gardens at Kew, about the year 1791 , by
Mr. F. Marlon, to whofe induftry botany Hands fo much indebted. Of all the Diofmas this is the
higheft grower, al'piring to three or four feet, or more, if encouraged; delights in peat earth, and
flowers about the month of x\uguft.
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CHELONE RUELLIOIDES.
Scarlet Chelone.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNJMU ANG10SPERMU. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CH ARACTER.
Calyx. Ferianthium ruonophyllum, quinque- l
Empalement. Cup one leaf, five diviiions very
partitum, breviflimum, perullens; laciniis fhort, permanent; fegments upright and
ere&is, ovatis. egg-fhaped.
Cokolla monopetala, ringens; tubus cylin- Blossom. One petal, gaping; tube cylindrical,
draceus, brevillimus; faux infiata, oblonga, very fliort; mouth fuelled, oblong, round-
fupra convexa, infra plana; limbus claufus ed on the upper, and flat on the lower part;
parvus; labium fupcrius obtufum, emargi- border fhut, and fmall; upper lip blunt,
natum; limbus inferius cum luperiori fere bordered; lower lip nearly as long as the
sequale, loevillime trifidum. upper, flightly divided into three at the end.
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, fub dorfo corollse Chives. Threads four, hid under the upper
recondita, quorum duo lateralia paulo Ion- part of the bloflbm; of which the two (ide

giora; anthers incumbentes. ones are a little longer than the others. Tips
fixed tideways to the threads.
Rudimentum quint! filamenti, mucronis The rudiment of a fifth thread, like a lharp
inltar, intra fupcrius ftaminum par. point is placed equal with, and between the
upper chives.
Pistillum. Germen ovatiim. Stylus filifor- Pointal. Seed-venel egg-fliaped. Shaft thread-
mis, fitu, et longitudine ftaminum. Stigma fhaped, of the fame length, and place as the
obtufum. chives. Summit blunt.
Pehicakpium. Capfola ovata, bilocularis, calyce Seed-vessel. Capfule egg-fhaped, two cells

longior. longer than the empalement.

Semina plurima, fub rotunda, margine mem- Seeds many, nearly round, bound at the edge
branaceo cincta. by a thin (kin.
SPECIFIC CH ARACTER.
Chelone foliis inferioribus fpathulatis, glabris; Chelone with fpathulate, fmooth leaves on the
fuperioribus lanceolatis, oppofitis, corollis lower part of the ftem; and lance- fhaped,
cernuis, coccineis; labiis inferioribus bar- oppofite ones on the upper; blofl'oms hang-
batis. ingdown, and fcarlet; the lower lips bearded.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Leaf from the lower part of the Stem.
2. The Empalement.
3. A Bloflbm cut open, to fhew the fituation of the Chives, and the imperfect rudiments of a fifth.

4. The Seed-veflel, and Pointal, (natural fize).

The Chelone Ruellioides is a native of Chili, South America, and was introduced to the royal gardens
at Kew in the year 1/93, by Mr. Boutelow, the fon of the gardener to the King of Spain, who was
then in England purfuing his botanical ftudies. It is (apparently) a hardy plant, and fit to endure
the open borders, but, as yet, we have not had a fufficient trial to afcertain it; hitherto it has been
treated as a greenhoufe plant. Being herbaceous, it is propagated by parting the roots, which mould
be done in ipring, about the month of March. The proper feafon of its flowering cannot well be
determined, as it has undergone fuch various treatment. this figure was made
The plant from which
was in full bloom at the gardens of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham, in the month of June 1/Q~, where it
was feen to flower, for the firft time in this country. The foil it feems to thrive in mod, is a compo-
fition of loam, and rotten dung.
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IXIA CRISPIFOLIA. Far. flore caruho.

Crifped-leaved Ixia. Blue Variety.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-petala, patens, sequalis. Stigmata 3, Blossom fix petals, fpreading equal. Summits
erectiufculo-patula. three, nearly upright, and fpreading.
See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis crispis; icapus ramofus, flexuofus, Ixia with crifped leaves; flower-ftem branched,
fpithamaeus; floribus fub-umbellatis, coeru- waved, and a fpan high ; flowers grow in
leis. partial umbels, and are blue.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the infertion of the Chives.
3. A Chive (magnified).
4. The Pointal, one of the divisions of the Summit detached, and magnified.

This Angular fpecies of Ixia, is one among» the many given by the Dowager Lady De Clifford to
MetTrs. Lee and Kennedy Hammerfmith, in the year 1/94; at which time, her ladyfhip had juft
received the bulbs in a prefent from the Cape. It is defcribed by Thunberg, in his Difiertatio de Ixia,
publiflied in 1/83. The root of this plant is of a moft curious ftiape, having the appearance of being
the half, rather than the whole; it is very delicate, is eafily deftroyed by moifture, therefore (except
when in flower) fhould be kept very dry; it propagates by the root, the old one generally producing

two; flowering about the month of June, or July, but requires the warmth of a moderate hothoufe to
expand its bloffoms. Like other Cape bulbs, it fhould be planted in fandy peat.
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RHODODENDRON PUNCTATUM.
Doited-leaved Rhododendron.

CLASS X. ORDER I

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla rotato-infundibu- Empalement of five divifions. Blollom of a

liformis. Stamina declinata. Capfula 5- rounded funnel-fhape. Chives bent down-

locularis. ward. Caplule of five cells.

See Rhododendron Dauricum, Plate IV.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Rhododendron foliis glabris, fubtus punclatis; Rhododendron with lVnooth leaves, dotted on the
viminibus laxis; corollis crifpis, violaceo- under part; flender loofe branches blof- ;

purpureis. \\ foms crilped, and of a blueifh purple.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Blollom.
2. The Chives, and Pointal (natural fize) ; one tip detached (magnified;.
3. The Seed-veiled, and Pointal, (natural fize).

It is to the induftrious refearches of J. Frafier, nurferyman, of the King's Road, Chelfea, we arc
indebted for this charming fpecies of Rhododendron, who introduced it 1/92 from the
in the year
back fettlements of Carolina, North America, where it is native. This fpecies is by far the moft
delicate ofany yet difcovered on that continent; grows to the height of three, or four feet, and of
inthe open ground; a flight protection infures its flowering,
fufficient hardinefs to refill our winters

which are very often without that alliflance deftroyed.

as our late frofts are apt to injure the buds,
The beft method of propagating this fhrub is by layers, which fhould be taken off in autumn, and
protected the firft winter. It flowers about the month of July, at which leafon this year a drawing

was made from a plant, in the nurfery of Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. It (like moll American
plants) delights in fandy peat.
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GERANIU M FRAGILE.
Brittle-Jlalkcd Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER II.

MONODELPHIJ DECANDRIJ. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fruclus rol'tratus, One Pointal. Summits five. Fruit furnifhed
5-coccus. with long awns, five dry berries.

See Geranium Grandiflorum, Plate XII.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis carnofis, pinnatis; caulis fruti- Geranium with flefhy winged leaves; item
cofus, ramoius, fragilis; petalis linearibus, fhrubby, branched and brittle; petals linear,
pedunculis ere&is. fruit-ftalks upright.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement cut open, to fliew its tubular fhape to its bafe.

2. The Chives, and Pointal, (natural fize).

3. The Pointal, (magnified).

The Geranium fragile has in general (even fertile tips, and thus comes under Linnaeus's firft arrange-
ment; and Monf. L'Heritier's Genus Pelargonium. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was
introduced by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy in the year 1/92. This plant feldom grows more than a foot
high, but during the months of July, Auguft, and September, it is covered w ith bloffoms, which are
of a pale yellow, ftriped at the bottom with red, (landing nearly upright. It is rather a tender plant,
requiring a dry flovc, or hothoufe, to preferve it in winter, being very fubjecl to damp in the leaves;
is eafily propagated by cuttings, and thrives beft in rich mould.
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GLADIOLUS PRECOX. Far. fore rubro.

Red early-flowering Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-partita, ringens. Blossom fix divifions, gaping.
Stamina adlcendcntia. Chives attending.
See Plate XI. Gladiolus koseus.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis enfiformibus, apicibus tortis, Gladiolus with fword ihaped leaves, twitted at
lineari-cruciatis; corollis fub-campanula- the ends, linear, and crofs-fhaped; blofibms
tis, rubris; petalis acuminatis. nearly bell-ihaped, and red; petals fliarp-
pointed.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. A Bloflbm cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Pointal, one of the Summits magnified.
4. A Seed.

Of all the fpecies of this numerous Genus, this is the firft to expand its blolTbms, feldom flowering
later than April; is extremely hardy, fcarce. requiring the warmth of a greenhoufe for its protection,
although a native of the Cape. About the year 1791, the bulbs of this plant were purchafed of
Meflis. Voorhelm, and Co. of Haarlem, in Holland, by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, at
whole nurfery it has repeatedly flowered, and where this figure was taken. It is propagated by the
root, as other Gladiolus, and requires the fame earth, a light fandy peat.
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ECHIUM FEROCISSIMUM.
Prickly Viper s Buglofs.

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CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla irregularis, fauce nuda. Blossom irregular, mouth naked.
See Echium grandiflorum, Plate XX.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Echium caule fruticofoj ramis, foliifque acu- Viper's Buglofs, with a fhrubby ftem; branches
leatis; floribus fpicatis, violaceis; corollis and leaves covered with (harp prickles;
fub-aequalibus. flowers growing in fpikes, and violet co-
loured; blofibms nearly equal.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Bloiibm cut open, to fliew the infertion of the Chives in the tube.
3. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified.

Although there are few fpecies of this genus, but are rough, or hairy; yet this by far exceeds any of
them, or almoft any other plant not actually fpiny, for its extreme coarfenefs to the touch; never-
thelefs it is handlbme fhewy greenhoufe plant, growing to the height of two feet, and blowing
a very
freely. It is Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy
a native of the
in 1 79-i at whofe nurfery it flowered for the firlt time, this year, in the month of July.
; The only
method of propagating the Cape Echiums is by cuttings, and that is done with great difficulty; of
courfe, this, as well as the other fpecies, are very fcarce: they delight moll in rich light mould.
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CHELONE CAMPANULOIDES.
Bell-flowered Chelone.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNJMU JNGIOSPERMIJ. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 5-partitus. Rudimentum filamenti quinti Empalement of five divifions. The rudiment
inter fuprema ftamina. Capfula bilocula- of a fifth thread is found placed between
ris. the upper chives. Capfule of two cells.
See Plate XXXIV. Chelone Rvellioides.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Chelone foliis oppofitis, feffilibus, acuminatis, Chelone with oppofite leaves fitting clofe to the

profunde ferratis; corollis campanulatis, ftem, tapering to the point, and deeply
purpureis. fawed; bloffoms bell-fhaped, and purple.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the lituation of the four Chives, and ftation of the fifth imperfedt
thread.
2. The Pointal, (natural fize).
3. The Seed-veifel, with the Empalement and Shaft ftill remaining attached.

This fpecies of Chelone is of the fame date in our gardens as the Chelone Ruellioides, and was intro.
duced through the fame medium it is a native of Mexico in South America will make a pretty
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addition to our greenhoufe exotics; and isdefcribed and [Link], in his firft volume
of Spanifh plants. It feems to thrive beft in rich, dung}' earth, and is eafily propagated by cuttings,
or feeds; of which latter it produces abundance; but does not appear to be long lived. The plant
from which this figure was taken, flowered (as we fuppofe for the firft time in England) in the col-
lection of B. Robertfon, Efq. of Stockwell in Surry, and kindly communicated by him to the author.
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LACHENALIA PENDULA.
Droophig-flowered Lachcnalia.

CLASS VI. ORDER L

JIEXANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx, Dullus. Emfalement. none.
Corolla monopetnla, cylindracea, fexpartita; Blossom one leaf, cylindrical, divided into fix;
tubus gibbus; laciniis tribus exterioribus tube gouty; the three outer divifions the
brevioribus. fliorteft.

Stamina. Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine Cnivr.s. Threads fix, awl-fhaped, the length of
corolla?, inferta ball laciniaium corolla;. the blolfom, fixed into the bafe of the divi-
Antheras oblonga?, incumbentes. fions of the blollbm. Tips oblong, layinf
on the threads.
Pistillum. Gormen trigonum, trifulcum. Sty- Pointal. Seed-bud three-fided, three-furrowed.
lus (implex, corolla paulo longior. Stigma Shaft fimple, a little longer than the blof-
obtufum. fom. Summit blunt.
Pericartium. Capfula triquetra, trilocularis, Seed-vessel. Capfule three-fided, three cells,
trivalvis. three valves.
Semina plurima, globofa. Seeds many, globular.

STECIFIC CHARACTER.
Lachenalia foliis longillimis, ovato-oblongis, im- Lachenalia with very long egg-fhaped oblong
maculatis; corollis fpeciocillimis, maximis, leaves, without fpots; blollbms very fhewy,

tricoloratis, pedunculatis, cernuis. large, three-coloured, having foot-italks,

and nodding.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower fpread open, to fhew the infertion of the Chives.
2. The fame, exhibiting the character of the outer Petals.
3. The Pointal, natural fize.

The genus Lachenalia is certainly an infringement on Hyacinthus; ihe fmall diftindtion on which this
new genus is founded can, at molt, be confidered but of fufficient confequence to form a fpecific cha-
racter, fo thought Linnaeus: the fon of Profellbr Jacquin has thought otherwife, having called it after
a botanift of the name of De la Chenal; and under which it is now generally known; therefore we
have not replaced it under its old title, though we have authority of fuch weight to corroborate our
opinion. The Lachenalias are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, yet are of fo hardy a nature as to
require no farther protection than fhelter from the fevere frofts. Our fpecies is the handfomeft yet
known, flowering about September; was, according to the Kew catalogue, introduced there by Mr.
F. Maffon in the year 17/4. It was from a plant in the exteniive collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clap-
ham Common (to whole kind communications the author acknowledges himfelf much indebted), that
this figure was taken, the latter end of September this year. No plant is more eafy or certain to in-
creale than this; the young offsets are produced in fuch abundance from the old bulb, which delights
in a light foil ; but its flowering is not fo certain.
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ORCHIS CILIARIS.
Fringed Orchis.

CLASS XX. ORDER I.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae vagce. Spadix fimplex. Peri- Empalement. Sheaths (battered, Fruit-ltalk

anthium nullum. (imple. Cup none.

Corolla. Petala quinque; tria exteriora; duo Blossom. Petals five; three outer ones; two
interiora furfum conniventia in galeam. inner ones approaching upwards in form of
a helmet.

Neftarium monophyllum, a latere inferiore Honey-cup one leaf, fixed by the lower fide

inter divifuram petalorum receptaculo af- to the receptacle betwixt the divifion of the
fixum. Labio fuperiore eredto, brevillimo. petals. Upper lip upright, and very fhort.

Labio inferiore magno, patente, lato. Tubo Lower lip large, fpreading, broad. Tube
poftice corniformi, nutante. (landing behind, fhaped like a horn, and
hanging down.
Stamina. Filaments duo, tenuillima, breviffi- Chives. Two threads, very (lender, and very
ma, pittillo inlidentia. Antherae obovatae, fhort, fixed on the pointal. Tips inverlely
ereftae, tedtae duplicatura biloculari labii egg-fhaped, upright, covered by a folding
fuperioris neftarii. of the upper lip of the honey-cup, forming
two cells.
Pistillum. Germen oblongum, contortum, in- Pointal. Seed-bud oblong, twilled, and be-
ferum. Stylus adnatus labio fuperiori nec- neath. Shaft fixed to the upper lip of the
tarii, brevitlimus. Stigma compreftum, ob- honey-cup, very (hort. Summit flattened,

tufum. and blunt-ended.

Pericarpium. Caplula oblonga, unilocularis, Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, of one cell, three
tricarinata, trivalvis ; fub carinis trifariam keels, three valves; fplitting in three places

dehiicens, apice et bail cohoerens. under the keels; fattened at the point, and
the bafe.
Semina numerofa, minima. Seeds numerous, very fmall.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Orchis radicibus fubpalmatis, expanfis ; ne&arii Orchis with roots nearly hand-fliaped, fpread-
labio lanceolato, ciliato, cornu torto, lon- ing; lip of the honey-cup lance-(haped, and
giflimo; floribus luteis. fringed, horn twitted, very long; flowers
yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Honey-cup with its Horn.
2. The upper Petal.
3. A fide Petal.

4. One of the inner Petals.

5. The Chives, and Pointal attached to the horn of the Honey-cup.
6. The Chives, and Pointal, magnified; with the Chives drawn from their cells.

This handfome Orchis is a native of North America, and is found in all the dates from Virginia as
far north as Canada it has been treated of by Kay, Morifon, Gronovius, Royen, Linnaeus, and others;
:

but although fo long known by name, it was not introduced to our gardens before the year 1/Q6;
having been fent that year from Philadelphia by Mr. J. Lyons, from the gardens of J. Hamilton, Elq.
toMeifrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith; at whole nurfery it flowered this year, in the month of
July, when the drawing was made. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, thriving belt in a (hady border,

and lhould be planted in a mixture of loam and peat earth. The propagation of this plant, like mod
of the genus, is difficult, the feeds being too fmall to be collected, and the root feldom producing more
than one bud.
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B I G N O N I A L E U COXYLON.
Oleander-flowered Trumpet Flower.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

D1DYNJMIA ANG 10 SPERM I J. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. IYrianthium monophylluro, ercctum, Empalkmbnt. Cup one leaf, upright, cup-
cyathi-fornie, quinquefidum. fhaped, and cut into five divifions.
Corolla raonopetala, campauulata; tubus mi- Blossom of one bell-lhaped petal; tube fmall,
nimus, longitudine calycis; faux longillima, the length of the cup; mouth very long,
fuhtus ventricofa ; limbus quinque parti tus; fwelled at the bottom; border of five divi-
kiciniis duabus iuperioribus reflexis; inferi- fions; the two upper tegmenta reflexed, the
oribus patulis. lower ones fpreading.
Stamina. Filametita quatuor, fubulata, corolla Chives. Threads four, awl-fhaped, fhorter than
breviora, quorum duo rcliquis longiora. the blofiom, two of which are longer than
Antherae reflexae, oblongae, vclut dupli- the others. Tips bent back, oblong, and
cate. appear doubled.
Pistillum. Germen oblongum. Stylus fili- Pointal. Seed-bud oblong. Shaft thread-
formis, fitu et rigura fiaminum. Stigma fhaped, of the fame fituation and fhape as
capita turn. the chives. Summit headed.
Pekicahpium. Siliqua bilocularis, bivalvis. Seed-vessel. Pod of two
cells, and two valves.

Semina plurima, imbricata, comprefl'a, utrinque Seeds many, laying one over the other, flat, and
membranaceo alata. winged at each fide.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Bignonia foliis digitatis; foliolis inlegerrimis, Trumpet Flower with fingered leaves; the fmall
ovatis, acuminatis; caule erecto, arboreoj leaves entire, egg-fhaped, tapered , Item up-
fioribus nerii; alato femine. right, growing with flowers like
to a tree;
the oleander; feed winged.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The Empalement.
2. A Blofiom cut open, (hewing the proportionate length of the Chives to the Bloflbm, and their
infertion; one of the Tips detached, and magnified.
3. The Pointal, (natural fize); the Summit detached, and magnified.

This fpecies of Bignonia is well known in moft colleftions of hothoufe plants, and was firft introduced
to the Chelfea gardens by Mr. P. Miller, the then gardener, in l"5g, and may be found deleribed in
his Dictionary; but, notwithstanding its frequency, few have feen its bloffoms. Owing to the naked

appearance of the ftem, and its growing to fo confiderable a height before it flowers, and that but
rarely, has rendered it confideration; though perhaps, from the great beauty of
a plant but of little

its bloffoms, it deferves more

Being a native of the Wefl Indies, it does not flourifh without
attention.
the afliftance of tan heat; but will live in any fituation of the hothoufe; thriving bell in a mixture
of loam and peat, and is readily propagated by cuttings. It was from a plant in the fek and valuable . t

collection at Paddington, belonging to the Hon. Dowager Lady De Clifford (to whom the author, as well
as all the cultivators and profeflbrs of the fcience, fland much indebted for the zeal and patronage
which her ladyfhip has iliewn, in her endeavours to promote it), that this figure was taken in July
this prefent year 1/98.
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I XIA CINNAMOMEA.
Cinnamon-fmeUing Ixia.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-petala, patens, requalis. Stigmata Blossom iix petals, fpreading, and equal. Sum-
tria, ere&iufculo patula. mits three, nearly upright, fpreading.
See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis falcatis, crilpis; floribus alternis, nofti- Ixia with fcimitar-fhaped leaves, waved at the

florens, cinnamomi odoie. edge; flowers alternate, blowing at night,

and fmellinsr of cinnamon.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Chives, attached to the tubular part of the Blofibm, the border cut off, (magnified).
4. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified).

Amongst this diftinci than this. The extreme fweetnefs

moft extenfive genus no fpecies ftands more
and delicacy of its which expand only by night, and clofe in the morning, give it a decided
blolTbms,
fuperiority over many of its congeners. Thunbcrg, who faw it at the Cape, has defcribed it under
the name it here bears; but till the year 1"9'2 we had no knowledge of it, when it was firft intro-
duced by MefTrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammcrfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope; at whole nurfery
it flowered the following year; where it continues to blow annually, and whence this figure was taken.

It is rather a tender bulb, fmall, and eafily rotted; fliould therefore be placed in the warmeft part of

the greenhoufe, and kept dry when out of flower; is rather difficult to increafe, as each bulb feldoni
produces more than one offset, nor that always, and rarely feeds.
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IRIS LONGIFOLIA.
Long-leaved Iris.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTEF.
Calyx. Spathae bivalves, flores dittinguentes, II Empalement. Sheaths of two valves, feparat-
perfiftentes. ing the flowers, permanent.
Corolla fexpartita; petala oblonga, obtufa, Blossom with fixdivifions; petals oblong, blunt,

tria exteriora reflexa, tria interiora erecta, the three outer ones reflexed, the three in-
acutiora; omnia unguibus conata. ner ones upright, and iharper; all connected
by the claws.
Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, petalis re- Chives. Threads three, awl-fhaped, laying on
flexis incumbentia. Antherae oblongae, the reflexed petals. Tips oblong, flraight,

rectae, deprefiae. deprefled.

Pistillum. Gertnen inferum, oblongum. Sty- Tointal. Seed-bud beneath, oblong. Shaft
lus (implex, brevillimus. Stigma maximum, Ample, very fliort. Summit very large, di-
tripartitum, laciniis petala mentientibus, vided into three [Link] petals,
latis, reflexis, fiamina et petala alterna de- broad, bent back, and alternately prelling
primentibus, apicibus biridis. down the chives and petals, cleft at the ends.
Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga, angulata, tri- Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, angular, of three
loculare, ttivalvis. and three valves.
cells,

Semina plurima, ovata, glabra. Seeds many, egg-lliaped, and fmooth.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Iris foliis linearibus, canaliculars, longiflimis, Iris with linear, channelled leaves, very long, and
glaucis; fcapus teres, multiflorus; radix bluifh; flower-flem cylindrical, with many
bulbofus. flowers; the root bulbous.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. The Chives as attached to the Seed-bud.
3. The Pointal complete.

This Irisis a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced to us from the collection of

Meflrs. Voorhelm and Schnevoght, of Haarlem in Holland, about the year 17p2. The leaves of this
delicate Iris grow fometimes to the length of three feet, giving it a very lingular appearance: it
fhould be treated like the Cape Ixias, and protected from the weather, whilft in bloom, as the flower
is injured by the lighten: wind, and the duration of each bloflbm is but a few hours; there is, however,

a good fucceflion, which rife diurnally from the fame flieath, feldom more than one at a time. This
figure was taken in the month of June 1797, at the Hammerfmith nurfery. It has a lingular mode

of propagating itfelf; the old root dying, two young ones are formed above it, from whence the flower-
flem arifes: feldom ripe feeds are produced.
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MASSON A I V I O L A C E A.
Purple-flowered Majfonia.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx, nullus. Emfalement none.
Corolla fex-petala. Telala ne&ario impofita, Blossom fix-petals. Petals placed on the honey-
lanceolata, patentia. cup, are lance-fhaped and fpreading.
Ncfiarium infcrum, cylindricum, membra- Honey-cup beneath, cylindrical and ikinny.
naceum.
Stamina. Filamenta fex, nectarii dentibus in- Chives. Six threads, fixed into the teeth of the
ferta, (iliformia declinata, petalis panlo lon- honey-cup, thread-fhaped, bent downward,
giora. Anthers ovatae. and a little longer than the petals. Tips
egg-ihaped.
Pistillum. Germen (refpe&u neiSlarii) fupe- Pointal. Seed-bud (with regard to the honey-
rum. Stylus fubulatus, declinatus, longitu- cup) above. Shaft awl-fhaped, and bent
dine, ftaminum. Stigma fimplex, acu- downward the length of the chives. Sum-
tum. mit fimple, and pointed.
Pekicakpium. Capfula triquetra, glabra, tri- Seed-vessel. Capfule three-fided, and fmooth,
locularis, trivalvis, angulis dehifcens. of three cells and three valves, fplitting at
the angles.
Semina plurima, globofa, glabra, magnitudjne Seeds many, globular, fmooth, the fize of a muf-
'

feminum finapios. tard feed.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Maffonia, foliis fpathulatis, glabris; fcapus fili- Maffonia with fpatula-fliaped, and fmooth leaves;
formis, ere&us, bipollicaris; flores pedun- flower-ftalk thread-fhaped, upright, two
culati, violacei, fparfi, peduficuli uni- inches high ; the flowers have foot-flalks,
flori. are of a violet colour, and grow fcattered;
the foot-ftalks have each but one flower.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower complete.
2. The fame cut open, to fhew the infertion of the Chives.
3. The Pointal.

This genus of plants perpetuates the name, as a botanift, (would it could likewife the mild, unaffum-
ing, and univerfally allowed amiablenefs of character) of Mr. Francis Maffon, botanical collector to
his Majefty; now exploring die untrod regions of North America, to add to the extenfive collections
of his royal and munificent Mafter, which fland fo much indebted to his indefatigable induftry for
their prefent fplendour. The Maflonias are all rather tender, and require the fame fituation as
Hasmanthus &c; that is, a dry ftove; they are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, or, at leaft, grow
within that point of Africa generally fo called, but at fome diflance from the Cape town, near a
mountain (according to Thunberg) of the name of Bocklands Berg. The root of this fpecies is very
fubjeft to rot when the leaves are decayed, if watered at that time ; therefore, like the Ixias, lhould
be put afide, or taken out of the pot for two or three months, after flowering. It is very difficult to
propagate, as the feeds are feldom perfected, and rarely makes any offsets; flowering in September,
about the beginning of which month this figure was taken, from a plant in the collection of G.
Hibbert, Efq. Clapham Common. It appears to thrive beft in a mixture of peat and fandy loam.
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M U S A C O C C I N E A.
Scarlet flowered Plantain-tree.

CLASS XXIII. ORDER I.

POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Vai ious difpofitions. Upon one Plant.

GENERIC CH ARACTER.
Hermaphroditi feminei flares. Hermaphrodite flowers, ivhere the female parti
are perfeit.
Calyx. Spatha partialis ovato-oblonga, plano- Empalement. flieath
Partial oblong, egg-
concava, magna. fhaped, fmoothly-concavc, and large.
Cokolla inaequalis, ringens; petalo conftitu- Blossom unequal and gaping; the petal form-
ente labium fuperius, necfario vero labium ing the upper lip, the honev-cup the
inferius. under.
Petalum ereftum, ligulatum, quinqueden- Petal upright, ligulate, five-toothed, and
tatum, ball antice connivens. meeting at the bale in front.
Neclarium monophyllum, naviculare, petalo, Honey-cup one leaf, fhip-fhaped, fhorter than
brevius, intra finum petali infertum. the petal, and inclofed within it.
Stamina. Filamenta lex, fubulata electa, pe- Chives. Threads fix, awl-fhaped, upright, fhort-
Anthers abortivae.
talo dimidio breviora. er by half than the petal. Tips abortive.
Pistillum. Germen infra receptaculum floris, Pointal. Seed-bud below the receptacle of
maximum, longiflimum. Stylus ereflus, the flower, large and very long. Shaft
longitudine petali. Stigma capitatum, fub- upright the length of the petal. Summit
rotundum. headed, nearly round.
Pericarpium. Bacca carnofa, corio tetta, Seed-vessel. A flefhy berry, covered with a
longifiima, pulpa trifariam, ablque difle- tough lkin, very long, the pulp laying three
pimentis. ways, without partitions.
Semina plurima, globofa. Seeds many, round.

Hermaphroditi mafculi flora. Hermaphrodite floivers, ivhere the male parts

are perfect.
Calyx ut in feminneo. Empalement as in the female flower.
Corolla ut in feminoeo. Blossom as in the female flower.
Stamina. Filamenta ut in feminaeo, at lon- Chives. Threads as in the female flower, but
giora, te'nuiora. Anthers lineares, fulcatae, longer, and thinner. Tips linear, chan-
ereftae, magnae. nelled, upright, and large.
Pistillum. Germen ut in feminaeo, ut minus. Pointal. Seed-bud the fame as in the female,
Stylus, et ftigma ut in faemineo, at mi- but fmaller. Shaft and fummit like the
nora. female, but fmaller.
Pericarpium abortit. Seed-vessel is abortive.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. "

Mufa fpadice erefto; floribus capitatis; fpathis Plantain-tree with an upright fruit-flalk; flowers
confertis, coccineis, maximis, apicibus lu- growing in heads; (heaths crowded together,
teis. fcailet, very large, points yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The upper lip of the bloflbm, fhewn in front, as cut oft'clofe to the feed-bud.
2. The fame, fliewing the hinder parts, with the three fmall claws on the border.
3. The honev-cup, which forms the lower lip of the bloflbm.
4. The feed-bud, chives, ftyle, and fummit, of a female hermaphrodite flower. .

5. A feed-bud cut obliquely, to expofe the fituation charafter of the feeds.

6. The chives, feed-bud, fliaft, and fummit, of a male hermaphrodite flower.

The honour of having introduced this fupremely beautiful plant, pertains to, Thomas Evans Elq. of
Stepney; a gentleman to whofe zeal for the introduiStion of new plants our lloves are of late much
beholden; he having received it, amongft many others, about the year 1/Q2 from China, where, as
well as in Cochin-China, Sumatra, Java, &C. it is very commonly found. Our figure was taken, in
part, from a plant which flowered at James Vere's, Efq. Kenfington Gore, lalt December, and partly,
from one in blolTbm about the fame time, at the Hon. Lady Archer's, Ham Common. The Mufa
Coccinea grows to the height of about three, or four feet before it blows, and without queftion, has
no rival but Strelitzea Regina in the hothoufe, where its brilliancy, tends in fome degree, to dilpel
the gloom of winter, for at leaft three months. It increafes itfelf by fuckers, which are thrown up in
abundance from a vigorous plant; may be taken off" at any time, and will arrive at a flowering fizc
in twelve months; if planted in rich earth, and kept growing in pine heat, or on a flrong hotbed.
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IXIA BULBIFERA. Van florc luteo.

Bulb-bearing Ixia. Van yellow -flowered.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-petala, patens, requalis. Stigmata Blossom fix petals, fpreading, and equal. Sum-
tria, erediufculo patula. mits three, nearly upright, and Spreading.
See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis falcatis, glabris, fcapo brevioribus, Ixia with fcimitar-fhnped leaves, fmooth, and
axillis bulbiferis; floribus alternis, lu- Ihorter than the flower-ftem, bearing bulbs

teis. at their infertion into the ftalk; flowers

alternate, and yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified).

The fingular fporting of Nature in the Ixia bulbifera is not uncommon; its viviparous character (if
it maybe fo called) conftitutes a fpecific difference in many genera; Lilium, Lyfimachia, &c. partake

of it. The bulbs produced from the ftem blow the fecond year, whereas thofe from feeds do not till
the third. The flowers of this variety are the firft that open, amongft the numerous fpecies yet in-
troduced, of this extenfive genus ; they are of a brilliant yellow, and feldom expand more than one
at a time. The ufual treatment of other Cape Ixias is fuitable for this. The drawing was made at
MelTrs. Lee and Kennedy's, in the month of March i/9S> trie y having introduced it about the
year 1784.
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MALPIGHIA CRASSIFOLIA.
Thick-leaved Malpighia.

CLASS X. OR D E R III.

DECANDRIA TRIGYNIJ. Ten Chives. Three Pointals.

GENERIC CH ARACTER.
Calyx. Periantlmun pentaphvllum, erettum, Empalement. Cup five leaves, upright, very
minimum, perfiftens, connivens. Glandula? fmall, remaining and doling at the points.
mellifeme duae, ovales gibbse, foliolis caly- Two honey-bearing glands, oval and gouty,
cinis externe infernequc adnata:. are fixed to the outer and lower part of the
leaves of the cup.
Corolla. Petala quinque, reniformia, magna, Blossom. Petals five, kidney-fliaped, large,
plicata, ciliata, patentia, concava; ungui- plaited, lathed, fpreading, and concave;
bus longis, linearibus. claws long, linear.
Stamina. Filamenta decern latiufcula, erefta, Chives. Threads ten, rather broad, upright,
in cylindrum polita, parva. Antherae cor- placed cylindrically, and fmall. Tips heart-
datoe. fhaped.
Pistillum. Germen fubrotundum, minimum. Pointal. Seed-bud nearly round, very lmall.
Styli tres, filiformes. Stigmata obtula. Shafts three, thread-fhaped. Summits
blunt.
Pericarpium. Bacca globofa, torulofa, magna, Pericarpium. Berry globular, knobby, large.
unilocularis. of one cell.
Semina tria, offea, oblonga, obtula, angulata. Seeds three, bony, oblong, blunt, and angulated.

SPECIFIC CH ARACTER.
Malpighia foliia lanceolato ovatis, fubtus to- Malpighia with oval fpear-ihaped leaves, downy
mentofis, integerrimis; floribus terminali- beneath, and entire; flowers terminate the
bus, fpicatis, pallide-luteis. branches in fpikes, and are pale yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, Chives, and Pointal, (natural fizel.
2. The Empalement, (magnified).
3. The Chives fpread open, (natural fize).
-1. A Thread, and its Tip, (magnified).
5. The Tointal complete, (natural fize).

Although, we have given to this fpecies of Malpighia, the fpecific name under which it has been
introduced; yet, there is much doubt, whether it is not the Verbafcifolium of Linnaeus; or indeed if

they are not both the fame plant, named from different fpecimens. Our fpecies makes a very hand-
fome hothoufe plant, growing to the height of five, or fix feet, before it flowers. It is a native of
Jamaica, and moft of the adjacent iflands, and was introduced by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy about
the year 1792. From the extreme tendernefs of the young leaves, and fhoots, it muft be kept in a

ftrong growing pine heat during the winter months; otherwife, they are fubjeft to damp off. It is

railed by cuttings, and fecms to delight in a rich foil. The figure was made from a fpecimen com-
municated bv the Right Hon. Lord Vifcount Courtenay, in whole moft fuperb colleftion at Powderham
Caftle, near Exeter, it flowered, for the firft time in England, in the month of September 1798.
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IX I A CAP I TATA. Far: flore aurantio.

Bunch -flowering Ixia. Far: Bloffbm gold colour.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla G-petala, patens, aqualis. Stigmata Blossom fix petals, fpreading, and equal. Sum-
tria, ere&iufculo-patula. mits three, nearly upright, and fpreading.
See Plate XIV. Ixia reilexa.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis radicalibus, enfiformibus; floribus Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and
capitatis, confertis, aurantiis, petalis ball fword-fliaped ; blolfoms grow in a clofe
obfcuiis. bunch, gold coloured, and the petals dark
at the bafe.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The two Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified).

This was introduced at the fame time as the Ixia bulbifera, flore luteo, viz.
variety of Ixia capitata
in 1784, by Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, and requires
Meffirs.

the fame treatment. It flowers the latter end of May, or beginning of June; propagating itfelf

abundantly by the root, which produces annually numerous young bulbs.

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PLATE LI.
XERANTHEMUM SPECIOCISSIMUM.
Largejl-Jlowermg Everlafting Flower.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.
GENERIC C II A B A C T 1. 11.

Calyx. Communis imbricatus; fquaruis lan- Empalfmbnt. Common tiled; fcales fpear-
ceolatis, quarum iutimae difco longiores, fhaped, the inner on< s 1. ng< r than the dilk,
menahranaceae, niiidae, radium conftituen- lkinny. lhming. and forming the ray ot the
tes. flower.
Corolla. Corapofita ifiacqualis; corollulse Blossom. Compound, unequal; florets with
hermaphrodite plurimae, tubulofae in difco. chives and pointals numerous and tubular
Feminea; pauciores, tubulatae, in ambitu. in the dilk. Female florets fewer, and tu-

.
bular in the circurrifen nee
Propria hermaphroditis infundibuliformis, Individuals with chives and pointals funnel-
calyce lunge bre\ior; limbo quinqucfido, ihaped, much lliorter than the empalement;
patulo. border with five clefts, fpreading.
Feminds tubulofa, longitudine hermaphro- Individuals with only pointals, tubular the
diti, quinquefida, minus aequalis. length of the hermaphrodites, five cleft,

and rather fmaller.

Stamina. Hermaphroditis filamenta quinque, Chives. The threads in the hermaphrodites are
brevifBma. Anthenv cylindracea, tubu fi\e, and very final! Tips forming a cylin-
.

lofa, longitudine fere corollulse. der, tubular almofl the length of the florets.
Pistillum. Hermaphroditis germen breve. PoiNTAL. Seed-bud of the hermaphrodites
Stylus nliformis, ftaminibus longior. Stig- fhort. Shaft thread-fhaped, longer than
ma bifidum. the chives. Summit cloven.
Femineis germen ut in hermaphroditis. Seed-bud of the female florets the fame as
Stylus filiformis, longitudine herrnaphrodi- the hermaphrodites. Shaft thread-fhaped
torurn. Stigmata duo, oblonga reflexa. the length of the hermaphrodites. Sum-
mits two, oblong and bent back.
Pericarpidm nullum. Calvx vix mutatus. Seed-vessel none. Empalement fearcely
changing.
Semixa oblonga, coronata. Seehs oblong, and crowned with a feather.
[Link] nudum, planiufculum, puncta- Receptacle naked, flatiih, and dotted.
tura.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Xeranthemum fruticofum, crecfum; fbliis am- Everlafting flower with an upright fhrubbv ftem
plexicaulibus, lanceolatis, trinerviis; ramis leaves embracing the ftem, lance-fhaped,
unifloris, fubundis. and three-nerved; brancheswith one flower,
and nearly naked.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. An Hermaphrodite floret, (natural fize).
2. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-'oad, (magnified).
3. The Pointal, and Seed-bud from a female floret, (magnified).

This handfome fpecies of Xeranthemum was introduced, according to the Kcw catalogue, by Mr. F.
Maffon from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1/8J; it is, nevertheless, a very fcarce plant, bting
fubjecr. to decay from our winter damps; therefore requires a dry ftove for its protection. The blof-

foms (or rather the flower-cups, for they are the perfiftrnt parts) are eafily preferved for many years,
in all their brilliancy, by cutting them, when they fir ft expand; but our atmofphere feems uncon-
genial to the ripening of their feeds, and is with great difficulty increafed bv cuttings. The foil it

molt approves is fairly peat, with a fmall portion of loam. Our figure was taken in September latt

year, at the Hammerfmith nurfery.

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GNIDIA PINIFOLIA.
Pine-leaved Gnidia.

CLASS VIII. ORDER T.

C TJNDR IA MONO G YNU. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, infundi- Emfalement. Cup one leaf, funnel-fhaped and
buliforme, coloratura; tubo filiformi, lon- coloured; tube thread-fhaped, very long;
giflimo; limbo quadripartito, piano. border of four fegments, which are flat.

Corolla. Petala quatuor, feflilia, plana, calyce Blossom. Petals four, fitting clofe to the cup,
breviora, eique inferta. flat, fhorter than the cup, and fixed within
it.

Stamina. Filamenta octo, fetacea, erecta, lon- Chives. Threads eight, awn-like, upright,
gitudine ferme floris. Antherae fimplices. fcarcely the length of the flower. Tips
fimple.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis, Pointal. Seed-bud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread-
germinis lateri infertus, longitudine ftami- fhaped, fixed into the fide of the feed-bud,
num. Stigma capitatum, hilpidum. and of the length of the chives. Summit
headed, and hairy.
Pericakpium nullum. Fruftus in fundo ca- Seed-vessel none. Fruit in the lower part of
lycis. the cup.
Semen unicum, ovatum. Seed one, egg-fhaped.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gnidia, foliis fparfis, lineari-fubnlatis; ramis Gnidia with fcattered, linearly a wl-fliaped leaves;
verticillatis; floribus aggregatis, termina- branches grow in whorls; the flowers termi-
libus. nating the branches in clutters.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower with its feed, (natural fize).
2. The fame cut open, to fliew the fituation and infertion of the Chives into the tube of the-
Empalement.
3. The Pointal, (magnified).

The efiential diftinguifhing chnra&er, in Paflerina, Gnidia, Struthiola, and Lachnaea, muft certainly
be confidered as amongft the made by Linnaeus. It is no fmall difficulty to
flighteft generic divifions

difiinguifh the bloffom in Gnidia, and Lachnaea, from the empalement in PaflTerina, and Struthiola;
the fame exact natural ftruciure being alike in them all; and to us, appear noticeable in their fmall
variations, rather as forming fpecific, than geneiic diftinftions. As our plan is not to alter, upon any
terms, what has been determinately fettled by that great mafter in the arcana of nature, let our opi-
nions be what they will; we are determined to prevent confufion (which has been but little attended
to of late), to give it only as fuch, without prefuming upon alteration. But as in the prefent in -

fiance, when a plant long named, but otherwife unknown to cultivators, has unfortunately been
foilted from its rank by another, no ways anfwering to the characters of the defcriber; we fhall con-
fider it as our particular province to rectify the miftake, however generally the error may have, ob-
tained. —The Gnidia pinifolia is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, the feeds having been received

from thence by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, at whofe nurfery it has flowered,
in 1/95,
for the firft time in England, in the month of February this year, and where the drawing was taken.

It is a hardy greenhoufe plant, but is propagated with difficulty by cuttings; growing to the height

of eighteen inches, being moft exquifitely fcented by night, continuing in flower at leaft three months,
and thriving beft in a light peat foil.
A figure of the plant generally known by the name of G. pinifolia, will be given with the next
number, to the end our affertions may be properly inveftig-Ued.
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MIMOSA STRICT A.
Harjh-leaved upright Mimofa.

CLASS XXIII. ORDER I.

POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Various difpofitions. Upon one Plant.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Perianthium monophyllum, quinquedentatum, Empalement. One leaf, five-toothed, and very
minimum. l'mall.

Corolla. Petalum unicum, infundibuliforme, Blossom. One petal, funnel-fliaped, cut half
femiqu'mquefidum, parvum. way down into five divifions, and fmall.
Stamina. Filamenta capillaria, longiffima. Chives. Threads like fine hairs, and very long.
Antheras incumbentes. Tips laying on the threads.
Pistillum. Germen oblongum. Stylus fili- Tointal. Seed-bud oblong. Shaft thread-
formis, ftaminibus brevior. Stigma trunca- fhaped, fhorter than the chives. Summit
tum. appearing cut off.

Pericarpium. Legumen longum, diflepimemis Seed-vessel. A long pod, the partitions run
tranfverfis, pluribus. acrofs the pod, and are numerous.
Semina plurima; figura varia. Seeds many; of different fhapes.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Mimofa foliis fimplicibus, utrinque venofis, Mimofa with fimple leaves, veiny on both fides,
linearibus, obtufis; ramis ftricliflimis; ca- linear, and blunt ended; branches growing
pituli geminati, oppofiti, ex alis folio- clofe and upright; flower heads grow by
rum. pairs, oppofite, and at the infertion of the
leaf into the Item.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Floret, (natural fize).
2. The Empalement, (magnified).
3. The Bloffom, (magnified).
4. One Thread and its Tip, (magnified).
5. The Pointal, (magnified).

This New Holland Mimofa, has as yet, efcaped even the indefatigable, and accurate Dr.
fpecies of
Smith; from Port Jackfon, whence the feeds were tranfmitted by Colonel Paterfon in the year
it is

1793. Being eafily raifed, it is found in molt collections; the feeds preferving their vegetative quality
many years, and linking readily by cuttings. It has the peculiar character attached to the Mimofas
of that country, viz. winged feed-leaves, which are loft after the firft year's growth. This fpecies has
no fmell, and grows to the height of three or four feet before it flowers; perfectly ftraight and com-
pact, from which circumftance we have taken its trivial name.
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PLATE LIV.
ALETRIS SARMENTOSA.
Creeping-rooted Bafiard Aloe.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx, nullus. Empalement, none.
Corolla, monopetala, oblonga; limbi laciniis Blossom, one leaf, oblong; the fegments of the
lanceolatis, acuminatis, erecUs; perfiftens. border are lance-fhaped, tapering, and up.
right ; remaining.
Stamina. Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine Chives. Threads
fix, awl-fhaped, the length

corollae, inferta bafi laciniarum corollas. of the blolfom, and inferted into the divi-
Anthera; oblonga?, eredtae. fions of it, at the bafe. Tips oblong, up-
right.

Pistillum. Germen ovatum. Stylus fubula- Pointal. Seed-bud egg-lhaped. Shaft awl-
tus, longitudine ftaminium. Stigma tri- fhaped, the length of the chives. Summit
fidum. three-cleft.
Pericarpium. Capfula ovata, triquetra, acu- Seed-vessel. Capfule egg-ihaped, three-fided,
minata, trilocularis. tapered, and of three cells.
Semina plurima. Seeds many.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Aletris, acaulis; foliis enfiformibus, laxis; flori- Ballard Aloe, without a item; having fword-
bus fpicatis, fuave rubentibus; radicibus fliaped, weak leaves; flowers grow in fpikes
farmen tolis. of a foft red colour; roots producing fuckers
from the joints.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 A Flower.
2. The Chives, and Pointal.
3. The Pointal.

This fpecies of Aletris was introduced to us, from the Cape of Good Hope, about the year 17^9; it
is a hardy plant, requiring the fame management as Aletris Capenfis, that is, to be kept in a dry part
of the greenhoufe; although the plant fhould be frequently watered when in bloom, as fliould moftly
all plants, notwithstanding (as in the prefent infiance is the cafe) their flowering in the winter
months. This caution we have thought necelTary, as it is a general rule with gardeners during that
whether in flower or noc, to avoid damps.
feafon, to put as little moifture as poflible to their plants,
The little difficulty in handfome fpecies of Aletris, will render it foon common; the
propagating this

roots grow nearly horizontally, and from their joints numberlefs young plants are produced; which
character we were defirous of exprelling in the figure, as from thence we have taken our trivial name;
but from the fize of the work, it was found impracticable. The drawing was made in December
1798, from a plant then in flower, at the Hammerfmith nurfery: we are neverthelcfs informed, that
from being planted in a light, rich foil, it may be made to grow to the height of three feet; with a
fpike of flowers, one fourth the length of the flower-Item.
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ZINNIA VIOLACEA.
Purple Zinnia.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIC SUPERFLUJ. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Communis ovato-cylindricus, lxvis, im- Empalement. Common
cylindrically egg-
bricatus; fquamis plurimis, obtufis, eredlis, fhaped, fmooth, and tiled; fcales many,
perfiltentibus. blunt, upright, and remaining.
Corolla. Compofita radiata; corolluloe her- Blossom. Compound radiate; florets with chives
maphrodite plures in dilco elevato. Femi- and pointals, ate numerous in the center,
neos plurimae in radio. which is elevated ; florets with only pointals,
many in the circumference.
Propria hermaphroditi infundibuliformis, Individuals with chives and pointals funnel-
quinquefida intus villofa. fhaped, five-cleft, and hairy within.
Feminea ligulata, fubrotunda, retufa, per- Individuals with pointals only, ligulate,
fiftens. roundiih, dented at the end, and remaining.
Stamina. Hermaphroditis; rilamenta quinque, Chives. Hermaphrodites; five fhort threads.
breviffima. Anthera cylindracea, tubulofa. Tips forming a hollow cylinder.
Pistillum. Hermaphroditis; germen oblon- Pointal. Hermaphrodites; feed-bud oblong,
gum, triquetrum. Stylus nliformis, femi- three-fided. Shaft thread-fhaped, fplit nearly
bifidus. Stigmata duo, obtufa. halfway down. Summits two, blunt.
Femineis; germen oblongum, triquetrum. Females; feed-bud oblong, three-fided. Shaft
Stylus capillaris, femibifidus. Stigmata duo, hair-like, fplit half way down. Summit*
recurvata. two, bent backward.
Pericakpium. Calyx immutatus. Seed-vessel. Cup not changing.
Semina. Hermaphroditis folitaria, oblonga, te- Seeds. Hermaphrodites; folitary, oblong, three-
tragono-ancipitia. Pappus muconibus duo- fided, but (harp at two edges. Feather of
bus. two (harp points.
Femineis folitaria, mutica, coronata petalo Females, folitary, without points, being
perliftente. crowned with the perfinent petal.
Receptaculum paleaceum; paleis lingulatis, Receptacle chaffy; chaff tongue-fhaped, chan-
canaliculars, longitudine calycis, deci- nelled, the length of the cup, and falling
duis. off.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Zinnia foliis oppofitis, amplexicaulibus, lato- Zinnia with oppofite leaves, embracing the ftem,
lanceolatis, fcabris; floribus pedunculatis, broadly lance-fhaped, and rough; flowers have
purpuras, folitariis. foot-ftalks, are purple, and grow folitary.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Floret of the ray with the feed attached, (natural fize).
3. A Floret of the difk with the feed attached, (magnified).
4. The Chives and Pointal of an hermaphrodite floret

5. The chaffy fubltance dividing the florets.

This elegant new fpecies of Zinnia, is defcribed and figured by J. A. Cavanilles, in his firft volume
of Spanilh plants; where he fays, it is a native of Mexico, South America, and was tranfmittcd from
thence to the royal gardens, where it perfe&ed its feeds. In the year 1 7g6, the Marchionefs of Bute
received amongft many other curious feeds, from Madrid, through the medium of Profeflbr Ortega.
it

Being rather a tender annual, it fhould be fown in March, on a gentle hotbed; and tranfplanted into
tiie open borders the beginning of May. The plant grows to the height of three feet or more, and
makes in the months of Auguft and September, a very confiderable addition to the fplendor of the
flower garden. The feeds ripen freely, though the flower fhould be plucked before it appears
decayed.
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ANTHOLYZA SPICATA.
Spike-flowered Antholyza.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap Blossom tubular, irregular, and bent backward.

fula infera. Capfule beneath.

See Plate XXXII. Antholyza ringens.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Antholyza, floribus infundibulifbrmibus, fpica- Antholyza with funnel-fhaped, fpiked flowers,
tis, incarnato-pallidis; foliis falcatis, bre- of a pale flefh colour; leaves fcimitar-

viflimis. fhaped, and very fhort.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Bloffom cut open, to fliew the infertion of the Chives.
3. The Pointal, (natural fize).

There are few fpecies of this genus but furnifh beautiful flowers; this is certainly among the moft
handfome, from the foftnefs of its colour, what adds conliderably to
and the regularity of the fpike :

its merit, is, that the bloffoms remain a confiderable time before they fall, which unfortunately, is

feldom the cafe with the flowers of this genus. It was received from the Cape of Good Hope in
bulbs, fent by J. Pringle, Efq. of Madeira, in 1/94, to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy of Hammerfmith;
the drawing was made in the month of June 1 "gj at their nurfery. Not being eaiily injured by damp,
there is no neceffity for removing
it from its pot, as is neceffary for moft bulbs, but to increafe it;

one, or two young bulbs being annually produced, in addition from the old one. The beft foil ii
a fandy peat, with a fmall proportion of loam.
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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM GLABRUM.
Smooth-leaved annual Fig Marygold.

CLASS XII. ORDER IV.

1C0SANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Five Pointals.

GENERIC C HARACTER.

Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, femiquin- Empalement. Cup one leaf, cut nearly half
quefidum, fuperum, patens, perliftens. way down into five divisions, above, fpread-
ing, and remaining.
Cokolla. Monopetala; petala lanceolato-line- Blossom. One petal; petals linearly lance-
aria, numerofiffima, ferie multiplici nata, fhaped, very numerous, riling in a number
calvce longiora, unguibus laeviter connatis of rows, longer than the cup, llightly joined

in unum. together by their claws.

Stamina. Filamenta numerofa,capillaria, longi- Chives. Threads numerous, hair-like, the
tudine calycis. Antherse incumbentes. length of the cup. Tips laying on the
threads.
Pistillum. Germen inferum, angulis quinqne, Poixtal. Seed-bud beneath, with five obtufe
obtufis. Styli quinque faepius, fubulati, angles. Shafts moftly five, awl-ihaped, up-
erefto-reflexi. Stigmata fimplicia. right, and a little bent outwards. Summits
fimple.
Pericarpium. Capfula carnofa, fnbrotnnda, Seed-vessel. A fiefhy capfule, nearly round,
loculamentis numero ftylorum refpondenti- the cells anfwering to the number of the
bus. chives.
Semika plurima, fubrotunda. Seeds many, nearly round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Mefembryanthemum foliis amplexicaulibus, gla Fig Marygold with leaves embracing the lira,
berrimis, fpathulatis; pedunculislongitudine veryfmooth, and fpatula-fhaped; the foot-
foliorum; calycibus hemifphaericis; corollis llalks the length of the leaves; cups hemi-
luteis. fpherical; blollbins yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Seed-bud; the Rlolfom, Cup and Chives, cut off, the Pointals remaining.
2. The fame, with the Cup and Chives.

As the extreme brilliancy of this plant cannot Jbe done juftice to in painting, we muft reft fatisfied
with having done our belt; every perfon in the leaft acquainted with the art, muft know, that in
yellow the iliining colour exifting in nature cannot be retained in a drawing. This fpecies is annual,
and according to the Kew Catalogue, was introduced to the royal gardens by Mr. F. Maflbn in the
year 1787. The feeds fhould be fawn on a hotbed in the month of February, and by the end of
Auguft the plants will flower, and continue to bloflbm till the end of October; never failing to perfect
their feeds.
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BORONIA P1NNATA.
Hawthorn-fcenied Boronia.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium quadripartitum; laciniis Emfalement. Cup with four divifibns; fcg.
acutis, perfiftentibus. rncnts fharp pointed, and remaining.
Corolla. Petala quatuor, ovata, feililia. Blossom. Petals four, egg-fhaped, fitting clofc
to the cup.
Neflarium corona; forma, excavatum, glan- Honey-cup of the fliape of a crown, hol-
dulofum. lowed, and glandular.
Stamina. Filamenta ofto, plana, ciliata, incur- Chives. Eight threads, fiat, fringed, turned
vata, receptaculo inferta. Antlierae infra inwards, and fixed into the receptacle. Tips
apicem filamentorum pedicillatae, incum- fixed below the ends on the infide of the
bentes. threads, on fhort foot-ftalks, and lying on
them.
Pistillum. Germcn fuperum, conicum, qua- Tointal. Seed-bud above, conical, and four-
drifulcatum. Stylus breviffimus, fimplex. furrowed. Shaft very fhort, and fimple.
Stigma capitatum, glabrum, fulcatum. Summit headed, fmooth, and furrowed.
Pericakpium. Capfulse quatuor, ovato-acumi- Seed-vessel. Capfules four, of a pointed egg-
natae,compreffa:,margine introrfum coalita;, fliape, flattened, joined by the interior edge,
apicibus diftantibus, futra fuperiori dehi- the points ftanding feparate, fplitting from
fcentes, bivalves. the upper future, two-valved.
Semina lblitaria faepius, nitida, reniformia, aril- Seeds moftly folitarv, fhining, kidney -fliaped,
lata. and covered with an elaftic coat.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Boronia foliis impari-primatis, integerrimis; pe- Boronia with leaves abruptly winged, entire;
dunculis axillaribus, dichotomis; filamentis flower-ftalks growing from the bale of the
apice obtulis, glandulofis. leaves, forked; end of the threads blunt,
and glandular.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, (natural fize).
2. The Chives, and Pointal.
3. One Chive, (magnified).
4. The Pointal, and Honey-cup, (natural fize).

This is the only fpecies yet in our gardens, of a moft beautiful new genus of plants, natives of New
South Wales, firft named, delcribed, and with three other fpecies, figured in the Tracts relating to

Natural Hi/lory by Dr. J. E. Smit/t, F. K. S. P. L. S. &c. Thus eternizing the name of an efteemed
and faithful tenant, who by his ardour in botanical purfuits, had merited the honour; rejecting the
ufual confederations, riches, or learning, does the Dr. no lefs credit as a man, for the kindnefs of
his heart, than what his diftinguifhed talents have gained him, by placing him in the firfl botanical

feat in thiskingdom. In the fhort hiftory of the unfortunate end of Borone, the Dr. informs us,
he had refigned him to Dr. Sibthorpe, as a moft fit perfon to attend him in his laft journey through
Greece; where, at Athens, he met his death, by an accidental fall from a balcony: the Dr. did not
long furvive him.
The Boronia pinnata has much of the aromatic flavour of Diofma in its leaves and ftem; the

flowers, which appear about February, and continue till May, have the font of the Hawthorn flower;
it grows to a fhrub of the height of eighteen inches, is propagated with difficulty by cuttings, and
has not hitherto perfefted its feeds in this country; requiring a dry fituation in the grcenhoufe, and
flouri flies molt in light fandy peat. The
was taken from a plant which flowered
figure laft year, in

the nurfery of Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, where it was railed from feeds in 1/94.
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IXIA FISTULOSA.
Hollow-leaved Ixia.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-petala, patens aequalis. Stigmata Blossom fix petals, fpreading, equal. Summits
tria, ere£tiulculo-patula. three, nearly upright, and fpreading.
See Ixia reflexa. Plate XIV.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis linearibus, fiftulofis; floribus fecundis, Ixia with linear, hollow leaves; flowers pointing
no£tu fragrantes; bulbus campanulatus, one way, and fragrant by night ; bulb bell
margine acuto-fibrofo. fhaped, the margin edged with iharp fibres.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The outer fpath of the Empalement.
2. The inner fpath of the Empalement.
3. A Flower cut open.
4. The Pointal, and Chives.
5. The Pointal.

This Ixia is of a very delicate nature, the root being fubjeft to rot fooo after the flower decays, if

not then removed from its pot, and dried; the flowers expand about four o'clock in the afternoon,

and are fo extremely fragrant that they are fmelt at a considerable diftance. For this plant, our
gardens are indebted to the Dowager Lady De Clifford, who received the bulbs from the Cape of
Good Hope in the year l"g4 The drawing was made from a plant, which flowered laft year at
MelTrs. Lee and Kennedy's, Hammerfmith, who had fome of them in a prefent from her ladylhip.
Like other Ixias, it fhould be planted in light peat, and watered but feldom; its propagation is but
flow, as feldom more than one new bulb is produced, upon the decay of the old one.

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GERANIUM PUNCTATUM.
Dotted-jiowered Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. Suppl. Syjlem. Feget. 1/81.

MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Mon'ogvna. Stigmata 5. Fructus roftratus, One Poiktal. Five Commits. Fruit furnilhed
5 coccus. with long awns, five dry berries.
See Gekanium grandiilorum, Plate XII.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis radicalibus; floribus umbellatis, Geranium with leaves growing from the root;
diandris; petalis duobus fuperioribus punc- flowers grow in umbels, two fertile chives;
tatis; fligmata quatuor. the two upper petals being dotted; fum-
mits four.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement cut open, with the Chives and Pointal left on, (natural fize).
2. The Threads cut open, to (hew their number, and the fituation of the two fertile ones,

(magnified).
3. The Pointal, (magnified).

Perhaps among!! plants, there is no genus exhibits fuch varied and numerous fpecies as Geranium;
no one, in which the fpecies are lo allied in natural character, or lb unfavourable to the fexual fyftem,
if fome deviation from general rules was not allowed the founder thought fuch licence neccllarv,
:

and we implicitly follow him. Thus far we have thought proper to extenuate in the prefent inftance;
for fhould we follow Monf. L'Heritier, (as mol! of the modern correctors of Linnaeus have done,) a

new genus muft inevitably be formed for this plant. Upon a dole examination of the flowers, from
a dozen different plants, invariably, only feven threads were found; two only with tips, and thofe
placed immediately behind the (haft, whole fummits were but four. This Geranium is rather tender,
and requires a dry-ftove heat to make which it will readily do with fuch allifiance, in April;
it flower,
about the beginning of which month, this year, a drawing was made from a plant in the collection of
Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy. The roots or bulbs of this plant were firlt received in England by Thomas
Johnes, Efq. in the year IJQi, in whofe magnificent confervatory at Havod they flowered the next
year.

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ASTER DENTATUS.
Toothed-leaved Starwort.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIC SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Communis fquamofo-imbricatus; fqua- Empalement. Common, fcales tiled; the inner
mis interioribus apice prominulis. fcales ftanding a little out at the points.
Corolla. Compofita radiata; corollulae her- Blossom. Compound, radiate; florets with
maphrodite numerofas in difco; femineae chives and pointals, many in the center;
ligulatae, decern plures in radio. florets with only pointals, ligulate, ten or
more in the circumference.
Propria hermaphroditi infundibuliformis; Individuals with chives and pointals, funnel-
limbo quinquefido, patulo. fhaped; border with five-clefts, fpreading.
Femine<e ligulata, lanceolata, tridentata. Individuals with only pointals, ligulate,
fpear-fhaped, with three teeth.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, capillaria, bre- Chives. Five hair-like threads, very fhort.

viflima. Anthera cylindracea, tubuloia. Tips forming a hollow cylinder.

Pistillum. Hermaphroditis; germen oblon- Poin'tal. To thole with chives and pointals,
gum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine ftami- feed- bud oblong. Shaft thread-fhaped, the
num. Stigma bifidum, patens. length of the chives. Summit two-cleft,
expanding.
Femineis; germen oblongum. Stylus fili- Seed-bud to thofe with pointals only, ob-
formis, longitudine hermaphroditi. Stig- long. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of
mata duo, oblonga, revoluta. the hermaphrodites. Summits two, oblong,
bent back.
Pekicarpium nullum. Calyx vix mutatus. Seed-vessel none. Cup fcarcely changing.

Semina. Hermaphroditis folitaria, oblonga, Seeds to the hermaphrodites folitary, oblong,

ovata. Pappus pilofus. egg-fhaped. Feather hairy.
Femineis fimilia hermaphroditis. Females the fame as hermaphrodites.
Receptaculum nudum, planiufculum. Receptacle naked, almoft flat.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
After caulis fruticofus; foliis dentatis, fubtus Starwort with a fhrubby ftem; leaves toothed,
ferrugineis; floribus terminalibus; pedun- iron colour beneath; flowers terminate the
eulis unifloris, bradteatis. branches; fruit-ftalks having but one flower,
with floral leaves.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE,

i. A Floret of the circumference.
2. The Pointal of the preceding.
.!. A Floret of the center, (magnified).
4. The Chives and Pointal of the preceding, (magnified).
5. The Shaft and Summit of the fame, (magnified).

the vegetable produc-

This plant cannot undoubtedly be confidered as amongft the moft beautiful of
as
tions of New Holland but neverthelefs, from the continuance of its flowering, is very defirable
;

that time till

a greenhoufe plant, as it begins to expand its blollbms about December, and from
a low-growing flirub, feldom exceeding a foot in height,
Auguft is feldom feen without flowers. It is

moft from Botany Bay, delights in a light fandy peat foil, M .ilily
and very branching. Like plants it <

of
propagated by cuttings, and feeds. The drawing was made from a plant in the nurfery Meflr».

Lee and Kennedy, who railed it firft from feeds in the year 1 793.
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GLADIOLUS GRAMINEUS.
Grafs-like Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla fexpartita, ringens. Blossom with fix divifions, gaping.

Stamina adfeendentia. Chives afcending.

See Gladiolus longiilorus. Plate V.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Gladiolus polyftachyus, fcapo laxo, fpicis capil- Gladiolus with many fpikes, upon a flexible
laribus, flexuofis; foliis enfiformibus; co- flower ftem, fpikes hair-like, growing zig-
rollas fexpartitoe, abfque tubo. zag; leaves fword-fliape ; blolfom of fix di-

vifions, without a tube.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two ftieaths of the Empalement.
2. The Seed-bud, Chives, and Pointal (magnified).
3. The Pointal, (magnified).

This fpecies of Gladiolus has been defcribed by Thunberg, and from him by Linnxus, in his Suppl.
Plant, p. Q5, under the fpecific name it here bears. It is a little ftraining on the genus to introduce

this fpecies into it; as it is deficient in mod of the ellential characters; having a blolfom without a
tube, and the petals equal. From the Kcw Catalogue we learn it was introduced in the year I"S",

by Mr. F. Mallon, to the royal gardens; is there laid to flower moft part of the year: a plant of fuch
character is moft definable, but unfortunately we have never feen it in blolfom but at the ufual feafon
for the flowers of this tribe; that is, from April till June. The capfules of this plant bear a flrong
refemblance to thofe of the Euonymus: generally perfecting their feeds. It is a very hardy bulb, blows
rarly, and may be kept in a pit protected from the froft.
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USTERIA SCANDENS.
Climbing UJleria.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- Empalement. Cup one leaf, five divifions,

partitum, perfiftens; laciniis eredlis, fubu- permanent; fegments upright, and awl-
Iatis. fhaped.
Corolla. Monopetala, ringens, tubus ventri- Blossom. One leaf, gaping, tube fwelled out
cofus, ban ar6ta; limbus bilabiatus, labium in the middle,and pinched in at the bafe;
fuperius bifidum, rotundatum, reflexum; la- border with two lips, the upper divided
bium inferius trifidum, laciniis rotundatis, into two lobes, which are rounded, and
intermedia minore. bent back; the loiver has three divifions,
the fegments rounded, the middle one the
fmalleft.
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, tub labio fu- Chives. Threads four, hid under the upper lip,

periori recondita, quorum duo lateralia of which the two fide ones are the longeft,
longiora, fundo corollae inferta, ban incraf- fixed into the bottom of the blofibm, thick-
fata, lanata, apice incurvata. Antherae ened at the bafe, woolly, and turned inward
ereftae, verfatiles, approximates. at the point. Tips upright, (lightly fixed
by the middle, and approaching.
Fistillum. Germen fub-rotundum. Stylus fill Pointal. Seed-bud nearly round. Shaft thread-
formis, perfiftens; longitudine ftaminum. fliaped, remaining, the length of the chives.
Stigma obtufum. Summit blunt.
Pericarpium. Capfula fub-rotunda, biloou- Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly round, of two
laris, calyce longior, obtufa. cells, longer than the cup, blunt ended.
Semina plurima, fub-rotunda, fcabrida. Seeds many, almoft round, and very rough.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ufteria caulis volubilis; foliis haftatis; floribus Ufteria with a climbing ftem; leaves halbert-
folitariis, purpureis; pedunculis tortis, lon- fhaped; flowers folitary, and purple; fruit-

gilfimis. ftalks twifted, very long.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Bloflbm cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
2. One Chive, (magnified).
3. The Pointal, (natural fize).
4. The Empalement, and Seed-vefTel nearly ripe, of its natural fize.

This is another of thofe plants railed in the year 1~Q7 by the Marchionefs of Bute, at her charming
little villa, Brompton, from feeds, fent to her ladyfhip from Spain by Dr. Ortega. It is a native of
Mexico, North America, and will live through our winters with the protection of a greenhoufe, to
which it forms a beautiful ornament as a creeper; flowering from May till September, but does not
appear to be a long-lived plant; is eafily propagated by cuttings, or from feeds, which are ripened by
November, or earlier; thriving beft in light rich earth.
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PLATE LXIV.
P^ONIA ALBIFLORA.
White Pceony.

CLASS XIII. ORDER II.

POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA. Many Chives. Two Pointals.

GENERIC CH ARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium pentapbyllum, parvum, Emtalemrnt. Cup five-leaved, fmall, and re-

perfiftens; foliolis fubrotundis, concavis, maining; leaves roundifh, concave, bent

reflexis, inequalibus mngnitudinc et fitu. back, and unequal both in fize and fituation.

Corolla. Petala quinque, fubrotunda, con- Blossom. Petals five, roundifh, concave, fmallcr
cava, bafi anguftiora, patentia, maxima. at the bate, fpreading, and very large.
Stamina. Filaments numerofa, capillaria. An- Chives. Threads numerous, and hair-like. Tips
thers oblongre, quadrangulse, eredbe, qua- oblong, four-fided, upright, with four cells,

driloculares, magnae. and large.

Tistillum. Germina duo, ovata, erefta, tomen- Pointal. Seed-buds two, egg-fhaped, upright,
tofa. Styli nulli. Sligmata compreffa, ob- and downy. Shaft none. Summits flattened,
tufa, colorata. oblong, blunt, and coloured.
Pericarpium. Capfulae oblonga:, acuminata, Seed-vessel. Capfules oblong, tapered, bent
reflexo-patentes, tomentofae, uniloculars, back, and fpreading, downy, of one cell,

univalves, longitudinaliter introrfum dehi- and one valve, fplitting lengthways from
fcentes. the inner part.
Semina plura, ovalia, nitida, colorata, faturoe Seeds many, ova!, mining, coloured, and fixed
dehifcenti afrixa. to the future where it fplits.

SPECIFIC < [ARACTER.

Pa'onia foliis lobatis, nitentibus; corollis albidis; Paeony with leaves divided into lobes, and finn-
germinibus tevnis, vel quaternis. ing; blotlbms white; feed-buds three, or
four.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, Chives, and Pointals.
2. A Thread and its Tip (magnified).
3. The Seed-veflels.
4. A Seed.

This new lpecies of Paeony is a native of Mongol Tartary, and the parts adjacent; of courfc, is fniTi
ciently hardy to endure our fevereft winters. It has been defcribed by Gmelin, in his Flora Sibirica;
and figured by Dr. Pallas, in his Flora Roffica, under the fpecific title it here bears. J. Bell, Efq. of
Iflewortb, procured fome plants of it from St. Peterlburg, about the year l/pl ; where it had been
introduced by Dr. Tallas fome time before, when on his travels through Tartary. It forms a hand-
fome, upright growing, herbaceous plant ; the flowers Handing much above the foliage, are much
handfomer before they are expanded, than when fully lb; as the under part of the petals are tinged
\\ which contraftcd with the purity of the white of the other parts, renders them at that period
ith red,

extremely beautiful. The figure was taken at the nurfery of Mcffrs. Lee and Kennedr, this year, in
the month of June, during which month it is in perfection. Like the reft of the Paeonies, it is eafily
propagated by the root; requiring little attention in its cultivation, as it will live in almoft any foil
or fituation.
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OPHRYS LILIFOLIA.
Lily-leaved Ophrys.

CLASS XX. ORDER I.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Empalement. Sheaths fcattered. Fruit-ftalks
Calyx. Spathae vagae. Spadix fimplex. Peri-

anthium nullum. fimple. Cup none.

furfum Blossom. Five petals, oblong, approaching
Corolla. Petala quinque, oblonga,
conniventia, requalia; duo horum exteriora. upwards, equal ; two of them placed out-
wards.

Nedar'mm petalis longius, dependens; pof- Honey-cup longer than the petals, hanging

tice tantum carinatum. down; only keeled on the back part.

Stamina. Filamenta duo, breviffima, piftillo Chives. Two threads, very fhort, fixed to the
infidentia. Antheraj eredtae, tefte margine pointal. Tips upright, covered by the inner

interiore ne&arii. edge of the honey-cup.

Pistillum. Germen oblongum, contortum, Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, oblong, twifted
inferum. Stylus margini interiorl nectarii beneath. Shaft fixed to the inner edge of

adnatus. Stigma obfoletum. the honey-cup. Summit imperfect.

Pekicarpium. Capfula fubovata, trigona, ob- Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly egg-lhaped, three-
tufa, ftriata, trivalvis, unilocularis, angulis fided, blunt, channelled, three-valved, and
carinatis dehifcens. one cell, opening at the keel-fhaped an-
gles.

Semina numerofa, fcobiformia. Seeds numerous, like faw-duft.

Receptaculum lineare, adnatum fingulas val- Receptacle linear, growing to each valve of
vule pericarpii. the feed-veflel.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ophr}'s bulbo fubrotundo; fcapo nudo; foliis Ophiys with roundifh roots; ftem naked; leaves

ovato-oblongis, radicalibus; nectarii labio oblong, egg-lhaped, growing from the root;
Integra; petalis dorfalibus linearibus. the two back petals linear.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Honey-cup cut off the bloilbm.
2. The Seed-bud and Pointal (natural lize) fhewn tideways.
3. The fame (magnified) fhewn in front, with the cap lifted up, to expofe the parts of
fructification.

Gronovius, in his arrangement of the plants dilcovered by Mr. J. Clayton in Virginia, P. i, page ] 85,
has defcribed this plant ; and Linnaeus after him, in his fecond edition of the Species Plantarum,
page 1341, has it likewife, but thought it only a large variety of a fpecies found in marfhy grounds
in Sweden however that may be, it is perfectly new to Britain, as a plant in our gardens. This
;

fpecies of Ophrys feems much more eafy to preferve than moft of its congeners, as, fince its intro-
duction, the bulbs feem to acquire additional fize, and the fpikes of flowers to grow larger each year.
Our drawing was taken from a plant in the extenfive collection of the Right Hon. the Marquis of
Blandford, Bill-hill, Berkfhire, in the year 1797, about the beginning of the month of July; having
been fent the preceding year from Philadelphia, by J. Lyons, gardener to William Hamilton, Efq. of
that State. It is a hardy plant, and will thrive in a fheltered border, if planted in light earth, and
kept moift; is propagated but flowly by the root, which feems the only method; as the feeds are too
imall of all this natural order to raife them by that means.

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GLADIOLUS POLYSTACHIUS.
Branching Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla (5-partita, ringens. Blossom of fix divifions, and gaping.
Stamina adfcendentia. Chives afcending.
See Plate XI. Gladiolus roseu>.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis falcatis; caule polyftachio; co- Gladiolus with cymitar-fhaped leaves.: fern manv
rollis fub-regularibus, carneis. branches; bloifoms nearly regular, audflefli
colour.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. Tlie Empalement.
2. A Blofibm cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Pointal and Seed-bud, one fummit magnified.

Tins fpecies of Gladiolus has been long known in herbariums, as it is very common about Table
mountain, at the Cape of Good Hope Jacquin, Thunberg, Gmelin, Welldenow, &rc. have it under the
j

tribe of Ixia, with the fpecific names of Scillaris, Fabricii, &c. but notwithfianding, we have no
hefitation in placing it under its true genus Gladiolus. The upright character of the chives, their
inlertion into the tube of the blolfom, and not at the mouth, the difference in the fhape of the petals,
the fituation of the fummits behind the chives, &c. leave no room for doubt where its ftation fliould

be. Although plentiful at the Cape, it has not been long an inhabitant of this clime; having flowered
for the firft time in the year 1797» at Bulftrode, the feat of his Grace the Duke of Poitland. What
contributes much to the value of this plant is, that it continues in flower at leaft two months, from
the beginning of June till the end of July; propagates itfelf abundantly by the roots, which are not

fubjeiSt to rot, though not removed from the pots in which they have flowered. Thrives in peat earth.
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GERANIUM INCISUM.
Jagged-leaved Geranium .

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.

MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Mokogyna. Stigmata quinque. Fruftus rof- One Pointal. Five fummits. Fruit furnilhcd
tratus. 5-coccus. with long awns, five dry berries.

See Geranium grandiflorum, Plate XII.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis multifidis, craffis, confer tis; Geranium with leaves of many clefts, thick, and
floribus umbellatis, pedunculis longillimis; crowded together; flowers grow in bunches
caule eretto, fruticolb. on very long foot-fblks; ftem upriglit, and
ihrubby.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The [Link].
2. The Chives and Pointal, (natural fize).
3. The Chives cut open.
4. The Pointal, (magnified).

This pretty fpecies of Geranium, from the Cape of Good Hope, is one of thofe having feven fertile
tips; therefore a Pelargonium of Monf. L'Heritier. It is a low growing plant, feldom exceeding
eight or nine inches in height, keeping very compadl; but is fubjeft to damp in the leaves, if kept
moift in winter, though otherwife pretty hardy. Mr. C. Lodiges, of Hackney, firli railed it from feeds
which he received from Vienna, about the year 1/93. It is readily propagated by cuttings, or feeds,

and continues to flower all the fummer months; requiring light rich earth to make it flourilh.
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GOODENIA OVATA.
Oval-leaved Goodenia.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIJ MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla fupra longitudinaliter filTa, genitalia Blossom longitudinally cloven on the upper fide,
exferens, quinquefida. Stigma urceolatum, expofing the organs of generation, and five-

ciliatum. [Link] cup-fliaped, and fringed.

See Goodenia calendulacea. Plate XXII.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Goodenia foliis ovatis, ferratis; corollis luteis, Goodenia with egg-ihaped leaves, fawed at the
laciniis duobus exterioribus ere&is. edges ; bloifoms yellow, the two outer leg-
ments grow upright.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement and Seed-bud.
2. A Blofibm, with the parts of fructification attached.
3. The Chives, and Pointal (magnified).

In the fecond volume of the Linnsean Tranfaclions, Dr. Smith enumerates ten fpecies of the genus
Goodenia; this fpecies makes an addition to the number. The oval-leaved Goodenia is a half woody

plant, making long willow-like branches, which rnoitly decay in the winter, though a great part of
the plant remains; it is a hardy greenhoufe plant, requiring little trouble either to keep or propagate;
the latter of which done by cuttings. About the year 1/93, a parcel of feeds was received by Meflrs.
is

Lee and Kennedy, fent to them by Colonel Paterfon from Port Jackfon, New Holland; amonglt them,
the feeds of this plant; it neverthelefs did not flower till the year 1799) about the month of June.
It is certainly a dctirable plant, never failing to flower from June till September, if kept growing in
vigour, which it will furely do if planted in light peat earth.
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 PLATE LXIX.
LAMBERTIA FORMOSA. Far. longifolia.
Red-flowered Lambertia. hong-leaved variety.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CH AEACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium commune, imbricatum, Empalkment. Common cup tiled, the inner
fquamis interioribus, longioribus. fcales the longeft.
Corolla. Urmierfalls uniformis, leptem-florus. Blossom. General regular compofed of feven
flowers.
Propria monopetala, tubulofa, limbus qua- Individuals of one petal, tubular, border
drifidus, laciniis revolutis, ftameniferis. four-cleft, the fegments rolled back, and
fupporting the chives.
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, fubulata, bre- Chives. Threads four awl-fhaped, very fhort,

vilTima, inferta limbo corolloe, intra fingu- fixed into the border of the blollbm, one
lani laciniam fingula. Antherae lineares, within each fegment. Tips linear, and up-
erectae. right.
I'istillum. Germen fubrotundum, apice pilo- Pointal. Seed-bud nearly round, the upper
fum. Stylus fetaceus, ere&us. Stigma part hairy. Shaft awn-like, upright. Sum-
fubulatum, fulcatum. mit awl-fhaped, and furrowed.
Pericarpium. Capfula tricornuta, unilocularis, Seed-vessel. Capfule three-horned, of one cell,

difperma. and two feeds.

Semina bina, alata, fcabra, nigra. Seeds two, winged, rough, and black.
SPECIFIC CH ARACTEE.
Lambertia foliis ternis, apice mucronato-pun- Lambertia with leaves growing by threes, the
gentibus; corollis ltriatis, extus luave ru- ends terminating in lliarp points; blof-

bentibus; anfheris caeruleis. foms ftriped, of a light red without; tips

blue.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Blollbm cut open, with the Pointal as it (lands in the blollbm.
3. One fegment of a Flower, with the Chive attached.
4. The Pointal (magnified).
.5. A Capfule.
6. A Seed.

Of all the plants yet introduced from New Holland, that have hitherto flowered with us, this un-
quetlionably takes the lead for beauty, considering the plant altogether. It is a hardy greenhoufe
plant, growing to the height of fix or eight feet before it flowers; when the blollbms break from the
ends of almofl ever} branch. -
The were among the firft which arrived from Botany
feeds of this plant
Bay, in the year 1/88; when two varieties of it were raifed by MelTrs. Lee and Kennedy, at their
nurfery, who were fortunate enough to procure all the feeds which came home that lealbn. This
fine genus has received its title, (under the fanftion of Dr. Smith, fee the Linn. Tranf. page 214,
vol. 3.) from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Efq. fellow of the Royal and Linnaean Societies; a gentleman
whole advancement of the fcience is unbounded, and whofe labours to that end, as well
zeal for the
as his endeavours to render botany of univerfal benefit, by combining the ufeful with the pleafing;
(witnefs his work on the Cinchonas, or Jefuits' Barks) do him the greateft credit. Our drawing was
made from a plant which flowered for the firft time in this kingdom, in the collection of J. Robertfon,
Efq. of Stockwell, Surry, in July 1798. It is without difficulty raifed by cuttings, and thrives in
peat earth.
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GNIDIA SIMPLEX.
Heath leaved- G nidia.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDR. IA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx infundibuliformis, quadrifidus. Petala Empalemext funnel- fhnped, and four-cleft.
quatuor, calyci inferta. Semen unicum, Petals four, inferted into the cmpalemeut.
fubbaccatum. One feed, fomething like a berry.

See Gnidia pikifolia, Plate LII.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gnidia, foliis linearibus, acutis, laevibus; flori- Gnidia, with linear, pointed, fmooth leaves;
bus terminahbus, feflilibus, luteis. flowers terminating the branches, fitting
clofe upon them, and yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower, (natural fize).

2. The fame cut open, and magnified.

3. The Pointal, (natural fize).
4. The fame magnified.

The flowers of this fpecies of Gnidia, like moft plants of this natural order, are fragrant, which in.
creates much towards night. It is one of thofe delicate Cape plants requiring a dry ftove, or an airy
warm fituation in the greenhoufe; where it continues to flower through the months of April and
May, and frequently will bloffom a fecond time in September and October. It is eafily propagated by
cuttings; delighting moft in peat earth, and feldom grows more than a foot high. Our drawing was
made, (by his kind permiffion) at the beautiful and unique confervatory of R. James, Efq. Grofvenor-
place, from a plant in his valuable and leleft collection, in May this year.
Unfortunately the G. Simplex having been introduced to our gardens before the G. Pinifolia, (fee
our figure, PI. LII.) it was found in moft collections under that title; but we have no hefitation in
placing this plant under the fpecific name given it by Linnaeus, in his Mantiffa Plantarum of l^6~,
page 6/ ; where, to the ttfual fpecific character, he has fuperadded an accurate defcription of it.
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CLEMATIS VIORNA.
Blue thick-petard Virgins Sower.

CLASS XIII. ORDER VII.

FOLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. Many Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Perianthium. CaVx millus. Emtalement. Cup none.
Corolla. Petala quatuor, oblonga, laxa. Blossom. Petals four, oblong, flexible.
Stamina. Filamenta plurima, fubulata, corolla Chives Threads man)', awl-fhaped, fliorter
breviora. Antherae lateri filamentorum ad- than the bloflbm. Tips fixed to the fides

nata?. of the threads.

Pistillum. Germina plurima, fubrotunda, com- Pointal. Seed-buds many, nearly round, flat-

prefia, definentia in ltylos fubulatos, ftami- tened, ending in awl-fhaped (hafts, longer
nibus longiores. Stigmata (implicia. than the chives. Summits fimple.
Pericarpium nullum. Rcceptaculum capita- Seld-vessel none. Receptacle forming a round
turn, parvum. head, and fmall.
Semina plurima, fubrotunda, comprelTa, ftylo Seeds many, roundifli. flattened, retaining the
(figura varia) inltructa. fhaft, which is varioufly fhaped.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Clematis foliis compofitis decompofitifque; foli- Virgin's Bower, with compound and doubly com-
olis quibufdam trifidis; floribus violaceis, pound fome of the little leaves
leaves; fplit

coriaceis. into three; flowers blue, and tough.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Chives, and Pointals; the petals being removed.
2. The Pointals.
3. A Chhe, (magnified).
4. A Pointal, (magnified).
5. A Seed nearly ripe, (natural fize).

Doubts have been entertained, among fome botanifts, whether this plant is the Clematis viorna of
Linnaeus, as given by him, with various fynonims, in his Sp. Plan. By collating the different fpecific
characters from the fynonims adopted by him, we have no hesitation in our decilion. Being a native
of Virginia and Carolina, it is not fo hardy as fome others from the northern parts of Europe or
America; but, nevertheless, is not kilied by our winters, as it is herbaceous, and not making its fhoots
till late. In a warm fituation againft a wall or trellis, it will begin to bloflbm in July, and continue
to flower till deftroyed by the firoft. As yet it is rather fcarce in our gardens, being but of a late
introduaion, though long known by defcription. Our figure was taken at the Hammerfmith mtrfcrv,
where it is in high perfection, being planted in a mixture of loam and peat earth: it is mofi readily
increafed, by parting the roots in (bring; as the feeds feidom come to maturity in this climate.
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STYPHELIA TRIFLORA.
Three-flowered Styphelia.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PLNTANDRIJ MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Perianthium. Calyx imbricatus, pcrfiftens; Emfalement. Cup tiled, and remaining; the
ioliolis interioribus longioribus, acutis, inner leaves the longer!, fharp-pointed, and
erectis. upright.
Corolla tubulofa, quinquefida; laciniis revo- Blossom tubular, five-cleft; the fegments rolled
lutis, hirfutis. back, and hairy.
X?"arium membranaceum, lacerum, ger- Hovey-cup fkinuy, torn, and furrounding
men cingens. the feed-bud.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, tubo inferta. Chives. Five threads, fixed into the tube of
Antherae apice bilidae, verfatiles. the bloflbm. Tips fplit at the top, and
loofely fixed by the middle to the threads.
Pistillum. Germen globofum, fulcatum, nec- Pointal. Seed-bud globular, furrowed, en-
tario cinttum. Stylus capillaris. Stigma circled by the honey-cup. Shaft hair-like.
capita turn, quinquepartitum. Summit headed, and of five divifions.
Fericarfium. Drupa quinquelocularis, fub- Seed-vessel. A pulpy fruit with five cells,
rutunda, glabra. roundifh, and fmooth.
Semina, bina. Seeds, two together.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Styphelia, foliis imbricatis, fparfis, glaucis, Styphelia, with leaves tiled, fcattered, bluifli,

ovato-mucronatis; floribus axillaribus, ter- egg-fhaped, and fharp-pointed; flowers

ms. growing from the lower part of the leaves
by threes.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining attached, to fhew their infertion into the
tube of the Bloflbm.
3. The Pointal, (natural fize,) the Summit detached, and magnified.
4. The Honey-cup, (magnified).

The Styphelias constitute a very extended tribe of plants, indigenous only to New Holland; we are
indebted to the pupil of Linna;us, the celebrated Dr. Solander, for this generic title, which, (as Dr.
Smith has fairly obferved) is exprefiive of the habit o( this whole genus having its origin in grvBsXis,
harfh, or hard; a character which feems invariable in every fpecies that has come under our notice.

The S. tubifiora, although let off by Dr. Smith, in his fourth number of New Holland Botany, with fo
much grace, muft, (and we have no doubt of his concurrence) give place to S. triflora, which un-
doubtedly claims the palm from all its congeners hitherto difcovered. The only Specimen alive or
dead, and from which our figure was taken, of this plant, which has come to our knowledge, is to be
found in the extenfive collection of G. Hibbert, Elq. Clapham-common; from whofe exertions the
exotic collections of this kingdom, are likely to acquire fuch confiderable additions.
The S. triflora was raifed from feed at Clapham in ljg6, but did not flower till this year, in the
month of June, continuing in bloflbm through July, and part of Auguft. It grows to the height of
near thiee feet, branching but little; the whole ftem being hid by the leaves. Mr. Allen the gardener,
to whofe kind communications we are much indebted, informs us he has kept it in peat earth, and
t!;at he thinks it is to be raifed by cuttings.
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DAPHNE PONTIC A
Pontic Spurge- Laurel.

CLASS VIII. RDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eio;ht

O Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx, nullus. Emfalement, none.
Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis. Tu- Blossom one petal, funnel- fhaped. Tube cy-
bus cylindraceus, imperforatus, limbo lon- lindrical, clofed at the bafe, longer than the
gior. Limbus quadrifklus ; laciniis ovatis, border. Border four-cleft; fegments egg-
acutis, planis, patcntibus. fhaped, fharp, flat, and fpreading.
Stamina. Filamenta o£to, brevia, tubo infer ta; Chives. Eight fliort threads, fixed to the tube;
alterna inferiora. Antherae fubrotundrc, four alternately lower than the others. Tips
eredae, biloculares. roundifh, upright, with two cells.

Pistillum. Germcn ovatum. Stylus brevifii- Pointal. Seed-bud egg-fhaped. Shaft very
mus. Stigma capitatum, depreflo-planum. fliort. Summit a low, fmopth knob.
Pericarpium. Bacca fubrotunda, unilocularis. Seed-vessel. A roundifh berry, of one cell.

Semen unicum, fubrotundum, carnofum. Seed, Angle, roundifh, and flefhy.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Daphne, pedunculus axillaribus, bifloris; foliis Spurge-laurel, the fruit ftalks growing from the
obovatis, nitidis. bale of the leaves, with two flowers each;
leaves inverfely egg-fhaped, and fhining.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 . A Flower cut open, to fliew the foliation of the Chives.
2. The Pointal, (natural fize).
3. A ripe Seed.

Tournefort in his Voyage to the Levant, Vol. III. has defcribed this plant
under the name of,
T. ^...elaea Pontica Citrei Dr. V. Pallas in his Flora Roffica, has likewife figured and defcribed
foliis j

it, under the title it bears in the Sp. Plan. p. 51 1; from both of whom we learn, that it is a native
of the coaft of the Black Sea, and therefore perfe£tly hardy, at leaft fufficiently fo to endure our cli-
mate. It is the handfomeft in foliage of any fpecies of the genus, having, like molt of them, fra-
grant flowers; which begin to fliew themfelves with the firfi budding of the plant in fpring, about
thefirft week in March. Like our common Spurge-laurel it delights in fhade, making a pretty ever-
green fhrub, about two feet in height;and grows belt in a light loamy foil. Although this plant
has been long known by name, had not been fcen in England till 17.05, a year fubfequent to its
it

being fent in feeds to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. It flowered for the firfi time here,

in 1798; but our drawing was not made till this year, about the middle of April. It i, propagated
by the feed, or cuttings.
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PERSOONIA LANCEOLATA.
hance-Jhaped leaved Perfoonia.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MO NO GYMJ. Four Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx, nullus. Ehfalbmekt, none.
Corolla. Petala quatuor, bafin verfus ftami- Blossom. Four petals, fupporting the chives
nifera, reflexa, apice incrallata. near the bottom, bent back, and thickened
at the point.
L
-\.< ?ari,r. Glandulae quatuor globoke, ad Honey-caps. Four round glands at the bafe

balin germinis. of the feed-bud.

Stamina. Filaments quatuor brevia, fingula Chives. Four fhort threads, one growing out
ex linguli petal! medio enata. Antherae of each petal about the middle. Tips linear,

lineares, conniventes, demum rellex.T. and approaching each oilier, then reflexed.
Pistillu.m. Germen fuperum, ovatum. Stylus Tointal. Seed-bud egg-fhaped, and above.
fubulatus, glaber, perliftens. Stigma ob- Shaft awl-iliaped, fmootli, and remaining.
tufum, declinatum. Summit blunt, and bent downward.
Pericartium. Drupa lubrotunda, monofper- Seed-vessel. A pulpy berry, roundifh, with
ma. one feed.
Semen. Nux often, lubrotunda, compreffa. Si.i.n. A hard, roundifh nut, flattened.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Perfoonia foliis lanceolatis, acutis, enerviis, Perfoonia with lanco-fhaped leaves, fliarp pointed,
utrinque glabris ;
petiolis tortis ; tloribus without nerves, and fmootli on both fides;
axillaribus, flavis. foot-ftalks twilled; the flowers grow at the

lower part of the leaves, dole to the ftem,

and yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

J . A Bloflbra.
2. One divifion of the Bloflbm with its Chive.
3. The Pointal (natural fize).
4. The fame (magnified).
5. The Receptacle, with the Honev-cups (magnified).
6. A Berry cut in two, the Seed taken out.
7 '. A ripe Seed.

Every ftep we make in the examen of plants, from that endlefs fource for botanical refearch, New
Holland; nature almoft as conftantly, prefents us with a perfectly new face; fuch is the object of
our prefent confuleration. Dr. Smith, P. L. S. in the Linnsean Tranfaftions, Vol. 1 1 II. p. 215, con-
fidering a new Genus as neceffary for this tribe of plants, has named honour of C. H. Perfoon,
it in

much noted for his works on the fungi. This is a handfome, fpreading greenhoufe plant, growing about
five feet high, and covering itfelf with deep yellow bloffoms. It is propagated by cuttings, or feeds,
which come to maturity with us. and are produced in great numbers. J. Willfon, Efq. of Islington,
raifed this fpecies from feeds about the year 1/91; from a fpecimen in whole collection our figure was
taken, this year in July, and where it flowered for the firft time laft year, in the month of Auguft,
and is ftill in bloonj, although many feeds are already perfected, from the flowers of laft year.
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PHYSALIS PROSTRATA.
Trailing Winter-cherry.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Clayx. Perianthium monophyllum, ventrico- Emtalement. Cup one leaf, bellied, half five-
ium, femi quinquefidum, pentagonum; la- cleft,and five-fided; the figments are ta-
ciniis acuminatis; perfiftens. pered permanent.
:

Corolla. Monopetala, rotata. Tubus bre- Blossom, one petal, whed-fhaped. Tube very
vidimus. Limbus femiquinquefidus, mag- fhort. Border half rive-cleft, large, and
nus, plicatus. plaited.
Stamina. Filamenta qninque, fubulata, mi- Chives. Five threads, awl-fhaped, very fmall,
nima, conniventia. Anthers eredtoe, con- and approaching. Tips upright, and ap-
niventes. proaching.
Pistillum. Germcn fubrotundum. Stylus Pointal. Seed-bud roundifh. Shaft thread-
filifonnis, ftaminibus fere longior. Stig- fhaped, hardly longer than the chives.
ma obtufum. Summit blunt.
Pericarpium. Bacca fub-globofa, bilocularis, Seed-vessel. A roundifh berry, two-celled,
intra calycem maximum, inflatum, clau- within a large, fwelled, clofe-mouthed, five-
fum, pentagonum. fided cup.
Semina plurima, reniformia, compreffa. Seeds many, kidney- fhaped, and flat.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Thyfalis, ramofiflima, proftrata, hifpida ; foliis Winter Cherry, very branching, trailing, and
fubcarnofis ; corollis casruleis. hairy; leaves nearly flefhy ; bloflbms blue.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Pointal (natural fize).
4. A ripe Seed-veiled.

This beautiful fpecies of Phvfalis, as a tender annual, fhould be fown early in March, on a llrong
hotbed; and kept, when potted, in the greenhoufe, being impatient of cold or wet, and peri dies if
expofed to either. of Peru, South America, and has been figured by Profeflbr Jacquin
It is a native

in his Ic. Rar. 38; likewife by Monf. l'Heriticr in his Stirp. Nov. p. 43. t. 22; and was firft
I. t.

tranfmitted to England in the year 1782, by Monf. Thoin, from France. Although it has been cul-
tivated here fome years, it is but little known, owing to its great delicacy when young, being very
liable to damp off in the hotbed.
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PROTEA PINIFOLIA.
Pine-leaved Protect.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIJ MONOGYNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 4-fida, feu 4-petala. Anthera: lineares, Blossom four-cleft or of four pttals. Tips
infertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx pro- linear, inferred into the petals below die
prius null us. Sem. folitaria. ends. Cup. Proper, none. Seeds folitarv.
See Pkotea Si'eciosa. Plate XV11.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Protea floribus fimplicibus, racemofo fpicatis, Protea with Ample flowers, growing in branch-
glabris; foliis filiformibus, fparfis, gla- ing fpikes, and fmooth; leaves thread-
bris. fliaped, fcattered, and fmooth.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A BlofTom complete.
2. One Petal of the Blollom, (magnified), with its Chive attached.
3. The Pointal and Seed-bud, (magnified).
4. A ripe Seed.

The Pinc-leaved Protea from the Cape of Good Hope, is rather a delicate plant; and is fubjecl to be
killed, if not kept in the drieft, and warmeft part of the greenhoufe, being very fufccptible of
damps. It makes a very fine appearance when in bloom, growing to the height of two feet or more
upright, and with few branches; every part of the plant, (which is uncommon in this genus.) is quite
fmooth and fhining. This fpecies of Protea is an inhabitant of our gardens, fince the year 1/80;
when it was firft introduced by William Forfyth, Efq. of Kenfington, but has been rarely fees to
flower, as it is found but in few collections ; owing to the difficulty of propagating it, by the only
poffible method in this country, cuttings. The foil it approves mod, as do mod of the Proteas,
is a light loam. The drawing was taken at the Hammcrfmith nurlery, from a plant which flowered
there in Auguft this year.
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PERSOONIA LINEARIS.
Linear-leaved Perfoonia.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx nulhis. Petala 4, bafin verfus ftamini- Emtalement none. Petals four, fupporting t!ie

fera. Glandulx 4, ad bafin germinis. chives near the bottom. Four glands at the

Stigma obtufum. Drupa monofperma. bafe of the feed-bud. Summit blunt. A

pulpy berry with one feed.
See Persoonia lanceolata. [Link].

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Perfoonia foliis linearibus, fub-villofig; floribus Perfoonia with linear leaves, a little hairy;
flavis. flowers yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A flower complete.
2. One Petal of the flower, with its Chive, (magnified).
?,. The Pointal, (natural fize).
4. The fame, (magnified).

The Linear-leaved Perfoonia, is indigenous to the fame clime as the Lance-fhaped leaved, given in
our laft number; grows to nearly the fame height, and makes a handfome greenhoufe plant, con-
tinuing to flower through the autumnal months; and producing good feeds. J. Robcrtfon, Efq. of
Stockwell, Surry, raifed this fpecies from feeds in the year 1 794 ; with whom it flowered laft year,
for the firft time in England; and for whole kind communication of a fpecimen in flower, (from
which our drawing was made,) we beg our grateful acknowledgment. It is raifed by feeds, or cut-
tings; and fhould be planted in peat earth.
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IXORA PAVETTA.
Sweet Ixora.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Pcrianthium quadripartitum, mini- Empalement. Cup with four divifions, very
mum, eredtum, perfiftens. fmall, upright, and remaining.
Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis. Tu- Blossom of one petal, funnel-fhaped. Tube
bus cylindraceus, longiflimus, tenuis. Lim- cylindrical, very long, and fmall. Border
bus quadripartitus, planus; laciniis ovatis. of four divifions and flat ; the fegments
egg-fhaped.
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, breviflima, in Chives. Four threads, very fhort, placed in
divifuris corollse. Antherae oblongae. the divifions of the bloiTbm. Tips oblong.
Pistillum. Gormen fubrotundum, intra bafin Pointal. Seed-bud roundiih, in the bottom
calycis. Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi. of the cup. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length
Stigma bifidum. of the tube. Summit two-cleft.
Pericarpium. Bacca fubrotunda, bilocularis. Seed-vessel. A roundiih berry, with two cells.
Semina duo, tunc convexa, inde angulata. Seeds, two, hollow on the inlide, and angled
without.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixora foliis obtufis, undulatis, petiolatis, flori- Ixora with blunt, waved, leaves, having foot-
bus fafciculatis, odoratis, fordide luteis. ftalks; flowers grow in bunches, are fweet
fcented, and of a dirty yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, (magnified).
2. A BlolTom with the feed-bud attached, (natural fize).

3. The fame with the Empalement, (magnified).

4. The Pointal, (natural fize).
5. The fame, magnified.

To the Lady Dowager de Clifford are wc indebted, for the introduction of this new fpecies of Ixora,
a native of the Eaft Indies; her Ladvfliip having received it from thence, in the year 1~Q6. It is a

tender hot-houfe plant, growing to the height of a foot, or more, and very bufhy ; the bunches of
flowers are very large, covering nearly the whole upper part of the plant, and are exceedingly fra-
grant. The blofibms begin to expand about the beginning of Auguft, and continue to blow in fuc-
ceflion, till the end of October. The only plant we have yet heard of, in England, is in her Lady-
fhip's collection at Paddington; where it has flowered for the firft time this year, and where our
drawing was made. It is propagated like the other fpecies of Ixora, by cuttings, and fliould be kept
in rich earth.
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CROWEA SALIGNA.
Willow-leaved Crowea.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- [Link]. Cup one leaf, with five divifions,
Calyx.
the fegments egg-fhaped
partitum, laciniis ovatis.
erec- Blossom. Five petals, egg-fhaped, fitting clofe
Corolla. Petala quinque, ovata, feffilia,

in the cup, upright and fprcading.

to-patula.
Chives. Ten threads, flat and awl-tliaped, in-
Stamina. Filamenta decern, plana, fubulata,
terwove together by hairs, covering the
pilis intertextis connexa, pilUllum obvol-
pointal. Tips growing longitudinally from
ventia. Antherae longitudinaliter filamen-
the inner part of the threads.
tis e parte interior! adnata:.
erec- Pointal. Seed-bud above. Shaft upright, cy-
Germen fuperum. Stylus
Pistillum.
ger- linder-fhape, and very fliort, growing
tus, cylindricus, brevillimus, e bafi
from the bale of the feed buds. Summit
minis. Stigma capitatum.
a knob.
quinque, ovato-acu- Seed-vessel. Five capfules, pointedly-egg-
Pericarpium. Capfula?
apicibus dil- fliaped, joined on the outlide, and diftant at
minatae, extrorfum coalitar,
the ends.
tantes.
reniformia, glabra, arillata. Seeds folitary, kidney-fliape, fmooth, and co-
Semina folitaria,
vered by an elaftic coat.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
foliis lanceolatis, utrinque glabris, in- Crowea, with lance-fliaped leaves, fmooth on both
Crowea,
tides, quite entire; flowers grow folitary from
legerrimis; fioribus folitariis, axilaribus.
the bottom of the leaves clofe to the ftem.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. The Chives.
3. One Chive detached, natural fize.

4. The fame magnified to (hew the fituation of the Tip.

5. The Pointal, natural lize.

6. The fame magnified.
7. A ripe Seed.

figured in the BotanilVs R< -

The number of handfome flowering plants from New Holland, already
generally prevailing opinion, that the infigmli-
pofitory leads us to hope, the firft, and indeed molt
of that country, rendering them fcarcely worth [Link]
cance of the flowers produced by the plants
nearly, not quite done away: and we have reafon to think, when larther
for ornament; mutt be if
with it, tor the Angularity, variety, or
explored few countries will be able to Hand a competition
Crowea we conlidcr as one amonglt the
beauty of its vegetable produaions. The Willow-leaved
rather a delicate plant, and fliould be kept
many ftrong arguments, to favour our opinion; it is
where will flower from the month oi July, till No-
in a dry and warm part of the greenhoufe.
it

planted in light fandy peat; and is calily propagated by cut-

vember; growing three feet high, if
us; there is little doubt
tines. Although, the only fpecics at prefent, in cultivation with
this is
her-
number of handfome fpecimens of other fpecics, which we have teen, ui the different
from the
much refembling thu.e of tl,e Diofina,
bariums from Botany Bay; and from the charader of the feeds,
of many more ot this very
which are not fubject to rapid decay; but we lliall very loon be pofleffed
Our drawing was made from the nuriery at Hamnu rfmith, where it was raited
beautiful Genus.
is derived from the .nunc ot an
EngUO»
from feeds, in the year \7cjO. The generic title of this plant,

Norwich, Mr. James Crowe, F. L. S. fee Linn. Tran. Vol. IV. page
224.
botanilt at
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BUCHNERA FCETIDA
Sthiki)ig Buchnera.

CLASS XIV. ORDER IT.

DID YKAMIA ANGIO S PE R M IA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthiura monophyllum, quinque- Empalement. Cuponeleaf, five-toothed, rough,
dentatum, fcabrum, perfiftens. and remaining.
Corolla monopetala ; tubus longiflimus, fili- Blossom one petal; tube very long, tliread-
formis, arcuatus ; limbus planus, quin- fliaped, and arched; border flat, five-cleft,

quefidus, sequalis; lacintis duabus fupe- equal ; two upper divifions reflexed,
the
rioribus reflexis, tribus inferioribus corda- the three under ones heart-fhaped, nearly
tis, fubaequalibus. equal.
Stamina. [Link] qualuor, breviffirna, in Chives. Threads four, very fhort, in the mouth
fauce corollx, quorum duo fuperiora extra of the blofiom, of which the two upper
prominentia. Antherae oblongae, obtufa?. protrude without. Tips oblong, blunt.
Pistilli'm. Germen ovato-oblongum. Stylus Pointal. Seed bud oblong egg-fhaped. Shaft
filiformis, longitudine tubi. Stigma ob- thread-fhaped, the length of the tube.
tufum. Summit blunt.
PEKiCARriuM. Capfula ovato-oblonga, acumi- Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong-egg-fhaped, ta-

nata, te£la, bilocularis, apice bifarium de- pered, covered, two cells, and fplitting at

hifcens; diffepimentuin contrarium. the point in two; the partition oppofite to

the valves.
Semina numerofa, angnlata. Seeds numerous, and angular.
Receptaculum medio diirepimenti adnatum. Receptacle fixed to the middle of the partition.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Buchnera, foliis laciniatis, oppofitis, foetidil- Buchnera, with leaves appearing torn, oppo-
fimis; florcs umbellulati, terminales. fite and very ftinking ; flowers terminate
the branches in fmall umbels.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Pointal magnified.
4. A ripe Seed-vefiel.

This fpecies of Buchnera is an annual, and a native of the Cape of Good Hope; from whence, it
was introduced to England in the year 1J"95, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy. It fhould be raifed with
other tender annuals in fpring, and kept, either to ornament the greenhoufe with them in pots, or
planted in a warm part of the flower border, about the beginning of June. It will begin to flower
about July, and generally has perfected feeds by September; although, it will continue to bloom till

'leftroyed by the froft, as there is a conftant fuccellion of bloffoms.

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SOWERBIA JUNCEA.
HuJIi-lihe Sowerbia.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointa'l.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Involucrum hexaphyllum, multiflo- Empalement. Fence fix-leaved, containing
rum ; foliolis eredtis, fcariofis, perfiften- many flowers; the fmall leaves are upright,
tibus. lkinny, and permanent.
Corolla. Petala fex, infera, perfiflentia ; laci- Blossom. Six petals, beneath and remaining;,
niis ovatis, concavis. fegments egg-ihape, and concave.
Stamina. Filamenta fex, fub-globofa, car- Chives. Six threads almolt round, fleihy, fur-
nofa, germen cingens; ex quibus tria bian- rounding the feed bud; of which three
therifera, fterilibus tribus interflimSUs. bear two chives, each parted by three fte-

Anthers geminae, lineares, erettae. rile ones. Tips double, linear, and upright.
Pistillum. Germen fuperum. Stylus filifor- Pointal. Seed-bud above. Shaft thread -
mis, longitudine ftaminum. Stigma fim- fhaped, the length of the chives. Summit
plex. fimple.
Pericarpium. Capfula obtufetrigona, oblonga, Seed-vessel. Capfule bluntly three-fided, ob-
trilocularis, trivalvis. long, three-celled, three -valved.
Semina plura, angulata. Seeds many, angular.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Sowerbia, foliis teretibus, rnucronatis ; fcapo Sowerbia, with cylindrical leaves pointed at the
nudo, flexuolb; nmbclla globofa; flori- ends; flower- Hem naked and crooked;
bus petiolis longifiimis. the umbel globular; flowers with very long
foot-ftalks.

REFEREXCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Fence.
2. A Blolfom complete.
3. The Chives expanded.
4. The Pointal.

The very great refemblance this plant bears in habit, to fome fpecies of the garlick and rum, led us,

at firfl fight, to confider it Volume of the

of one of thole Genera: but as Dr. Smith has in the fourth
Linn. Tranf. p. 220, conflituted it a new genus, from the conftruiStion of the chives, we make
no fcruple to follow fuel» good authority. It is named after Mr. James Sowerby, fo well known for
his numerous botanical engravings, as attached to different works; but efpecially, for his excellent

coloured plates of Englilh plants. Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy of Hammerfmith, were the firfl, who
railed this plant from feeds, received in IJQ2 from Botany Bay. Our drawing was taken in May
1798, the firlt time it flowered there; it is the full lize of the plant, the flower-item cut off, it being,

twice the length of the leaves. There is no fmell to any part of the plant ; but neverthelefs, it is
very defirable in the greenhoufe, from the character of the flowers, which retain their colour with
little change, till the feeds are perfected. To increafe it, the roots may be parted early in fpring,
and fhould be planted in peat earth.
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BANKSIA 8ERRATA.
Sawed-leaved Banhfia.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TE TRJNDR IA MOXO G YNL4. Four Clm es. One Poinlal.

GENERIC CHARACTER. Seftreb. Gen, riant. |<)1.

Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifi- Emfalbmbnt. Cup of one leaf, four-cleft and
Jum, inferum. beneath.
Corolla monopetala; tubus cvlindraceus, bre» Blossom of one petal; tube cylindrical, and
vidimus; limbus longiflimus, quadriparti- \ery lliort ; border very long, of four divi-
tusj laciniis lioearibus, apice lanceolatis, fions; fegments linear, lance lhaped at the
interne foveola excavatis, acutis. ends, having final 1 holes on the infide,
which are hollowed out and lharp.
Stamina. Filamenta nulla. Anthera.- quataor, Chives. Threads none. Tips four, lance-
lanceolatav, in foveola laciniarum corolla fhaped, fitting clofe within the final] holes
fefliles. of the fegments of the bloflbm.
Pistillum. Gernien fuperum, minutum. Sty- Poixtal. Seed-bud above and very lmall.
lus fililbrmis, rigidus, corolla longior. Stig- Shaft thread-fliaped, flirt", and longer than
ma pyramidatum,- acutntn. the bloflbm. Summit pyramidal, and (harp
pointed.
Pcricarpium. Capfula ovata, feu globofa, lig- Seed vessel. Capfulc cgg-fliaped or globular,
nof.t, unilocularis, bivalvis. woody, one cell, two valves.
Sohna duo, obovata liinc convexa hide plana, Seeds two, inverfely egg-fhaped. convex on the
ala membranacea terminata. one tide and flat on the other, having a
ikinny wing at the end.
Obs. In quibufdam fpeciebus feminibus inter- Obs. In fome fpecies there is found between the
jectum eft diflepimentum liberum, figura feeds a loofe partition, the lhape and fize of
et magnitudine cavitatis loculamenti, co- the hollow of the cell, tough, woody, and
riaceo-lignofum, femibifidum. Grtetmr Jc half cleft in two. Gnetrtcr on fruits <>>:J

frua. seeds.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Eankfia foliis linearibus, in petiolum attenuatis, Eankfia with linear leaves, tapering to the foot-
xqualiter ferratis, apice truncatis cum mu- ltalks, equally tawed at the edge, appearing
crone. cut off at the end with a lharp point.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower, the fummit not yet efcaped from the Chives.
2. The fame with the fummit relieved; magnified, to lhew more clearly the fhape of the
petals, and the lingular fituation of the Chives.
3. The Pointal, natural fize.

4. A ripe Seed.

This fpecies of Bankfia, was the firlt to vegetate amongfl the number of different feeds, which were
received by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, from Botany Bay in 1783; thus, has the pre-eminence of fe-

niority here, to all the plants which have been introduced from thence, to Great Britain. From the
living and dead fpecimens we have already feen, this Genus bids fair to rival Protea in the number of
its different fpecies; from which, nature feems to have marked but a flight line for Generic diltinc-
tion. Our figure was taken fiom a plant now in flower in the greenboufe, (we believe for the firlt
time in Europe,) at the agreeable retreat of J. Old, Efq. Purfer's-crofs, Fulham, being nearly feven
feet high; indeed, we have feen fpecimens which have attained to twelve feet, and more. It is in-
creafed by cuttings, and will grow in almoll any earth. The cones to which the feed-veflels are
fixed, fomething refemble thole of the ftone pine, but much larger, and the wood more hard: the
feeds are inclofed in capfules which are placed at a confiderablc diflancc from each other, at irregular

intervals; the fpaces filled up with long harfli threads, and apparently abortive feed-veflils.
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MORiEA TRICOLOR.
Three-coloured Morcca.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIJKDRIA M0N0GYN1J. Three Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae bivalves. Emblement. Sheaths of two valves.
Corolla hcxapetala, patens; petala tria intc- Blossom fix petals, threading; the three inner-
riora patentia, angufiiora. moft petals are more fpread out and nar-
rower.
Stamina. Filamcnta tria, brevia. Anthers; ob- Chives. Three fhort threads. Tips oblong.
longs.
PisTiLLt'M. Germcn inferum, oblongum. Sty- Pointal. Seed-bud beneath and oblong. Shalt
lus fimplex, brcvillimus. Stigmata tria, (imple, and very lhort. Summits three,
bifida. two-cleft.
Pericartium. Captula trigona, trifulcatn, tri Seed-vessel. Capfule three fided, thrcc-fur-
locularis. rowed, three cells.

Semina plarima, rotunda. Seeds many, and round.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Moraea fcapo teritij foliis radicalibus, lanceola- Morxa with a round flower-ftem ; the leaves
tis, canaliculars, fcapo longiores; floribus grow from the root, arc lance-fhapcd, chan-
terminalibus, tricoloratis. nelled, and longer than the flower Hem;
the flowers are terminal, and three-co-
loured.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. An outer Petal of the Bloffcm.
2 An inner Petal of the fame.
3. The Chives and Pointal; the petals being cut off, to expofe the fituation of the Chives hid
under the fummits.

To G. Hibbert. Efq. of Clapham Common, we owe the introduction of this beautiful little Mora a. be
having received it from his collector at the Cape, in the fpring of 1799- it is certainly a pel
new fpecies here, and we believe has not been feen to flower in Europe before, as it is not in the
extenfive Collections, of the Emperor of Germany; at leaft it is not to be found amongft the ninny
figured by Profcflbr Jacquin. The very lhort duration of the blofibms, at firft, had determined us
to name it fpecifically, fugax ; but finding we were anticipated in thai name, by Jacquin, in his
Hortus. we have adopted that of tricolor. The drawing was made at Clapham this
III. tab. 20.

year, in October; we conceive the regular feafon for its blowing would
although June, or July, be...

if planted like other Cape bulbs in autumn. The only means of feeing this plant in perfection, is,
by keeping it entirely from the air when near flowering, as it is too delicate to bear the lcatt expo-
sure; it begins to expand about twelve o'clock, and is quite decayed by three. From every appear-
ance, without a fupply from the Cape, this delicate little bulb will, (as many others have) be
loft to this country.
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BUCHNERA PEDUNCULATA.
Solitary-flowered Buchnera.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNAMIA JNG10SPERMU. Two Chives longer. Seeds eovcred.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx quinque-dentatus. Corolla; limbus quin- Cur ii\e-toothed. The border of the blolfom
quefidus, fequalis ; lobis cordatis. Cap- live-cleft, equal ; the lobes heart-ihaped.
lula bilocularis. Capfule two-celled.
See Buchnera Fcetida. PI. LXXX.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Buchnera, foliis dentato-finuatis; floribus foli- Buchnera, with leaves that are indentcdly
tariis, pedunculis longifiimis. toothed; flowers folitary, with very long
foot-ftalks.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, magnified.
3. The Pointal.
4. A Capfule.

This is another beautiful little fpeciea of Cape Buchnera, and which, we can confider as little
better than biennial; much fimilar, to fome fpecies of different genera from thence fuch as, He-
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yond the fecond year. From their fliort duration, it is neceffary to keep up a f'uccellion yearly;
which is done, by making cuttings of them early in fpring. Our drawing represents the branch of a
plant, in the colleftion of R. James, Efq. Grofvenor-place, taken in the month of July 1799. It is

a very fhewy greenhoufe plant, and fhould be plotted in rich mould; if kept free from damp-,, will

continue to flower till the end of November.

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MAHERNIA ODORAT A.
Sweet Mahernia.

CLASS V
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PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Five Chives. Five Pointals.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monopetalum, quinque- Empalement. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, bell-

fidum, eampanulatum; dentibus fubulatis, fhaped; the teeth awl-fhaped, and longer;
lungioribus; perfiftens. remaining.
Cokolla. Petala quinque, cordata, oblonga, Blossom. Five petals, heart-fliaped, oblong,
patentia, calyce duplo longiora. fpreading, twice the length of the cup.
Nettaria quinque, obcordata, pedicellate, Hwey-cups five, inverlely heart-fhaped, hav-
germen cingentia, calyce breviora. ing little foot-ftalks, embracing the feed-
bud, fhorter than the cup.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, capillaria, nec- Chives. Five threads, hair like, fitting on the
tnrio infidentia, calyce breviora. Antherse honey-cups, fhorter than the cup. Tips
oblongae, acuminata, erectae. oblong, tapered to a point, and upright.
Pistillum. Germen fubpedicellatum, obova- Pointal. Seed-bud fupported on a very fliort

tum, quinquangulum. Styli quinque, fe- foot-ftalk, inverlely egg-fhaped, five-angled.

tacei, erefti, longitudine petalorum. Stig- Shafts five, like briftles, upright, the length
mata fimplicia. ot the petals. Summits fimple.
[Link]. Caplula ovata, quinquelocu- Seed-vessel. Capfule egg-fhaped, five cells,

laris, quinquevalvis. five valves.

Semina nonnulla, reniformia. Seeds a few, kidney-fhaped.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Mahernia foliis lanceolatis, glabris, apice den- Mahernia with lance-fliaped leaves, fmooth and
tatis; pedunculis bifloris; corollis luteis, toothed at the end; foot-ftalks bearing two
odoratiflimis. flowers; the bloffoms yellow and very fweet.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The cup, (natural fize).

2. The Chives, Honey-cups, and Pointals, as they ftand in the flower.

3. The fame, with the Chives thrown back, as far as the flight junction of the honey-cups
will permit, without tearing.
4. A Chive with its honey-cup, (magnified).
5. The Seed-bud and Pointals, (magnified).

Many fpecies of this Genus have, hitherto, been arranged as Hermannias, to which they are
undoubtedly very nigh affined; in nuthing effentially varying, but in the character of the chives,
being, in this, placed on honey cups, which are wanting in the other; the fame natural appearance
however of the junction of the fupporters of the tips, being common to both. From this final] change
of the identity of character, fo necefiary in our artificial fvftem, they are thrown to a wide diltnnce
in clallification; the one Handing in the fifth, the other in the fixteenth clafs The Mahernia !

odorata from the Cape of Good Hope, and was lent in feeds to England about the year 1/gl.
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is but a fliort -lived greenhoufe plant, and muft be raifed every two years, at leaft, from cut-
tings; which lhould be made about the beginning of March, and placed on a gentle hot bed, they
will by this means become good fized plants by midfummer. The flavour of the bloffoms is exadtly
that of the Jonquil, it continues to flower through the whole year, but is as yet to be found in few
collections, although from its different attraction;; we have no doubt of feeing it loon in moft. Rich
earth, of old cow dung, and loam, feems to be the foil it moft all'ects. Our drawing was made at

the uurfcry Hammerfmith, in July 1799.

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BTGNONIA PANDORANA.
Norfolk IJland Trumpet Flower.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DWYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx quinquefidus, cyathiformis. Emf-alement, five-cleft, cupfhaped.
Corolla fauce campanulata. quinquefida, fub- Blossom bell-fhaped at the moutli, five-cleft, and
tus ventricofa. Siliqua bilocularis. Se- bellied beneath. A pod of two cells. Seed
mina membranaceo-alata. winged with a lkinny membrane.
See PI. XLIII. Bignonia Leucoxylon. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Bignonia foliis pinnatis; foliolis lanceolatis, Trumpet Flower with winged leaves; the fmall
dentatisj caule volubili; floribus racemo- leaves are lance-fhaped, and toothed; a
fis, tcimiiKilibus. climbing (tern ; the flowers grow in bunches,
and terminate the branches.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Pointal, and Seed-bud, (magnified).
4. A Seed.

This fpecies of Trumpet Flower, is a native of Norfolk Ifland in the Pacific Ocean, lying in 2Q deg.
2 min. fouth lat.; therefore, mutt be kept with us as a greenhoufe plant and, as ; a creeper, may be
placed to twine round the pillars, or to cover trellis work; being of quick growth (if planted in peat
earth,) and flowering abundantly from the month of March, 'till June. It is eafily increafed by cut-
tings, made in the (bring, or by fuckers, which it frequently produces from the root. The plant
from which our drawing was made, flowered (and we believe for the firft time in England) in 1798,
in the colle&ion of J. Vere, Efq. Kenfington Gore.
Naturalifls, when in detailing the hiitory of the various articles pafling under their review, fhould
receive with caution, any matter which feems tending to the marvellous ; but for the authenticity of
the authority, from whence we are furniihed with the account of the Angularly peftiferous character of
this plant, we can with confidence pledge ourfelves. Colonel Paterfon, now commanding at Port
Jacklbn, New Holland, lent the feeds from Norfolk Iiland, when he was flationed there, to Meflrs.
Lee and Kennedy Hammerfmith, who firft railed it, in the year 793. The N. I. Trumpet Flower
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is, in its native foil, a deciduous plant ; upon the return of the fealbn, in which the young tendrils
begin to and the leaves begin to appear; within fifteen, or twenty days, the whole
(hoot,
plant is entirely covered with a white downy infedt, of the genus Aphis, fomething fimilar to our
blight; which, in a very lhort time from their firft appearance on this plant, become fo completely
difperfed over every vegetable production, that fearce. a green leaf is to be teen through the whole
extent of the ifland. So great a plague was this infett thought to be, from its eft'edts on vegetation,
by thofe who were lent to colonize the ifland, that it was confidered as one of the principal reafon*
for abandoning the fettlement.
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IXIA ARISTATA. Var. atropurpurea.

Ragged-Jheathed Ixia. Var. dark purple.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointah

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-partita, patens, oequalis. Stigmata Blossom fix divisions, fpreading, and equal.
tria, erectiufculo-patula. Summits three, nearly upright and fpread-
ing.
See PI. XIV. Vol. I. Ixia reflexa.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ixia foliis falcatis, glabris, amplexicaulibus; Ixia with fcimitar-fhaped leaves, fmooth and
icapo fub-biflora; ipathis laceris. embracing the ftem ; flower-ftem moftly
with two flowers; fheaths appearing torn.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The fheath.
2. A Flower cut open.
3. The Pointal, complete.

This truly fpecious Ixia, has at different periods long fince, been feen in our exotic collections; but
the delicacy of its root, and of confequence, the difficulty of preferving it, when out of flower, was, no
doubt, the occafion of its having been as often loft to us for a time. To the Dutch we are in-
debted for the laft introduction of it to this country, about four years fince, amongft .many others;
from their immenfe collections of Cape bulbs at Haarlem. Although the root is particularly fufcep-
tible of wet, yet, by timely taking up the bulb, even before the upper part of the plant is decayed

and keeping it entirely free from moifture, till it is again planted in October, there will be little
danger of its perifhing. Our figure was taken in the month of June \~QQ, at Clapham, from a plant
in the Collection of G. Hibbert. Efq. Light Candy peat, with a fmall portion of rotten old cow-
dung, will give it the moft vigorous growth.
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ERANTHEMUM PULCHELLUM,
Blue-flowered 'Eranthemum

CLASS II. ORDER I.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium quinquefidum, tubulo- Empalement. Cup five cleft, tubular, upright,

fum, erettum, membranaceum, perfiftens. lkinny, and remaining.

Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis ; tubus Blossom one petal, funnel-fliaped; tube thread-

filiformis, longiflimus. Lirubus quinque- fliaped, and very long. Border divided into
partitus, planus ; laciniis obovatis, sequa- five, and flat; the fegments are inverfely
libus. egg-fliaped, and equal.
Stamina. Filamenta duo, ad bafin fpiralia, in Chives. Two threads, fpiral at the bafe, at
fauce corolla;. Antherae fubovatae, com- the mouth of the bloflbm . Tips nearly egg-
preffae, extra tubum. fliaped, flattened, and without the tube.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum, compreflum. Pointal. Seed bud egg-fliaped and flattened.
Stylus riliformis, longitudine ftaminum. Shaft thread ihaped, the length of the
Stigmata duo, inaequalia, ereSa. chives. Summits two unequal, and upright.
Pekicarpium. Capfula fpathulata, compreffa, Seed-vessel. Capfule fpatula fliape, flattened,

bivalvis, bilocularis, difiipimento valvulis two valves, two cells, the partition contra-ry
contrario. to the valves.

Semina folitaria, lentiformia. Seeds folitary, lentil fliape.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Eranthemum foliis lanceolato-ovatis, nervofis; Eranthemum with lance-fliaped, oval, and ltrongl)

floribus lpicatis ; bracteis lanceolatis, imbri- nerved leaves; the flowers grow in fpikes;
catis. the floral leaves are lance-ihaped, and tiled.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, with its four fmall leaflets.
2. The Bloflbm cut open, to fliew the part of infertion of the Chives.
3. One of the Chives, (magnified.)
4. The Pointal, (natural fize.)
o. The fame, (magnified.)
rj. The Seed-bud.
". A Seed.

Eranthemum, although Handing in our ancienteft tables, as a name to different plants; mufl have
been, hitherto, conlidered as a dead letter in all our modern ones, as attached to the tribe of plants it

now titles: but perhaps, to none of the former more aptly could it have been applied; (elpecially
this fpecies, as the Greek word 'Hpd.-[Link], a compound of Ho the fpring, and ci'/JiM to bloflbm, fairly
indicates;) fince the E. pulchellum firft begins to flower in January, and continues to bloflbm till May.
Linnaeus in treating this Genus, acknowledges to have feen but one imperfeft lpecimen: and from
this circumftance, left the defcription of the feed-veft'el, and feed, to be determined by future
Botanifts; as yet, that has not been accompli (lied, even by the indefatigable and accurate Schreber:
indeed, had the character of the pointal been likewife omitted, it would have been as well; fince, in
place of one, the two unequal fummits, (which might efcape ubfervation lpecimen, fromin a dried
their difproportion in length, and upright fituation;) point out a ftronger Generical diftinclion from
Jullicia, to whichmuch atfincs, than either, the regular fliape of the limb of the blolfom, or the
it

fituation of the chives. Our fpecies is a native of the coaft of Coromandel, in the Eaft Indies, and
was firft received in feeds from Dr. Roxburg, at the Roval gardens Kew, in the year 1"C)L>. It is a
moft defirable plant, for although it has hitherto been kept in the hot-houfe, we have no doubt from
its flowering and thriving there, with fo little care, in any fituation; but that it will foon be con-
fidered as a proper inhabitant of the greenhoufe. It is with the greateft eafe, and certainty, inereafed
by cuttings. Our drawing was made this month, from a plant in flower at the Hanmierlniith nurfery.
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GNIDIA LAEVIGATA.
*5 hining-leaved GniJia.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx infutidibuliformis, 4 fidus. Petala qua- Cup funnel-fhaped, 4-cleft. Four petals fixed
tuor, calyci inferta. Semen unum, fub- into the cup. One feed, fomething like a
baccatum. berry.
See Gnidia pinifolia, PI. LII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Gnidia foliis oppofitis, glabris, ovatis, quadri- Gnidia with oppofite fmooth egg-fhaped leaves,
fariam imbricatis; floribus terminalibus, forming four angles and tiled; flowers ter-

feffilibus, luteis. minate the branches, fitting clofe to the

item, and yellow.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Blofibm complete.
1. The fame cut open, with the Chives attached; the Pointal taken out.
3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, (magnified.)

This Gnidia is from the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was firft fent to England about the year
1"83, by Mr. F. MalTon to the Royal gardens Kew. It is a tender, and deiicate greenhoufe plant,
very fubjeft to be deftroyed by the autumnal rains, or over watering during the winter. It is with
great difficulty railed from cuttings, and its feeds feldom or ever, we believe, are perfected with us;
from which circumstance, it is to Our drawing was made from
be found in very few collections. a
plant, in the poflefiion of G. Hibbert. Efq. Clapham, about the middle of July 1/99.
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SEPTAS CAPENSTS.
Cape Septus.

CLASS VII. ORDER IV.

HEPTJNDRIA HEPTAGYN1A. Seven Chives. Seven Pointals.

GENERIC CHA RACTER.

Calyx. Perianthium feptempartitum, patens, Empalemlnt, Cup of feven divisions, fpread-
acutum, perfiftens. ing, iharp-pointed, and remaining.
Corolla. Petala feptem, oblonga, sequalia, Blossom. Seven petals, oblong, equal, twice
calyce duplo longiora. the length of the cup.
Stamina. Filamenta feptem, fubulata, longi- Chives. Seven threads, awl-fhaped, the length
tudine calycis. Antherae fubovatas, eredlae. of the cup. Tips nearly egg fhaped, and
upright.
Pistillum. Germina feptem, oblonga, defi- Tointal. Seven feed buds, oblong, and end-
nentia in ftylos fubulatos, longitudine fta- ing in awl-fhaped fhafts, the length of the
minum. Stigmata obtufmfcula. Chives. Summits bluntifh.
Pericarpium. Capfula feptem, oblonga:, acutae, Seed-vessel. Seven capfules, oblong, iharp-
parallels?, univalves. pointed, parallel, and of one valve.
Semi k a plurima. Seeds many.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Septas, foliis fubrotundis, crenulatis, oppofitis Septas with roundifh leaves, {lightly fcollopcd,
glabris; radice tuberofa. oppofite and fmooth ; root tuberous.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. The Chives, and Pointals, (magnified).
3. One of the Pointals detached, (natural fize).

We are happy in having procured for the entertainment of our botanical friends, a fpecimen of fo
lingular a plant as the Septas : which, from the conformity of its conilituent generic characters in
point of numbers, has given it die title it bears and forming for itfelf an order of plants, in which it

Hands alone. No plant is better known to botanifts than Septas by name; but as yet, there exifts

only one miferable uncoloured figure of it; which is to be found in the Mantilfa of Plukenet, tab. 340,
fig. g. The firfl plants feen of Septas in England, were purchafed in roots from Holland, under the
name of Saxifraga Tuberoa, by MelTrs. Lee and Kennedy Hammerfmith. The beginning of Auguft
this year, a drawing was taken from a plant in the collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham, he hav-
ing received fome fine bulbs of it, in the fpring, from his collector at the Cape. There are few plants
rival Septas for beauty that are of equal lize ; it is herbaceous, fhould be removed from its pot when
in a llate of inaftion, and dried like the Anemonie. The bulbs may be cut, or parted at the time
of removal for propagation.
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CAMELLIA JAPONICA. [Link] plena variegato.

Double-Jiripcd Camellia.

CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. \fSchntes 8* <d.

of Gen. riant.

MONODELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx imbricatus, polyphyllus; foliolis inte- Emfalemekt tiled, many leaved; the inner
rioribus majoribus. leaves the largeft.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER OF VARIETY.

Camellia foliis brevioribus, latioribus; floribus |
Camellia with fliorter and broader leaves; flowers
plenis, variegatis. double and ftriped.

In hopes that the fubjeft will plead our excufe, in thus again, obtruding a kind of nonentity, in
reference to the fexual fyftem,on our fcientific friends; and that a figure, of fo rare, and beautiful
a plant, would be agreeable to all; we have, once more, put by the etiquette of fcience, for the
charms of beauty; yet for this deviation, we think an apology neceflary, as it is undoubtedly not
conformable to the plan of our undertaking.
This variety of the Camellia Japonica, is of the fame date in our gardens, as the double white, and

was introduced through the fame medium. As yet this plant is found in but very few collections,
and is fold at a very high price; not being of free growth, few cuttings, or grafts can be obtained.
It has hitherto, been treated as a hothoufe plant; but there is no doubt it is equally hardy with the
common fort, upon which, all the plants we have as yet feen, and indeed thole that were firft im-
ported from China, were grafted; an inftance in proof, that horticulture muft have, there, attained
to a confiderable degree of perfeftion, in die operative part: as well as, that poflefling double
flowering varieties, of their molt beautiful plants, which are only produced by a feries of cultivation,
for ages ; inconteftably proves the antiquity of the art, (if any frefli proofs were neceflary,) in that
country. Our figure was made from a drawing taken from a plant which flowered in Auguft
partly,
laft year, in the collection of J. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham; and partly from one now (April) in full
bloom, in the confervatory of R. H. James, Efq. Grofvenor-Place; the only ones we have as yet feen
in flower; wherefore the time of flowering cannot as yet be fixed.
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CRINUM SPIRAL E.
Spiral-Jlalhcd Afphoclel Lily.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXJNDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHA RACTER.
Calyx. Involucrum fpathaefbrme, bifolium, Emtalembnt. Fence fheath-fhaped, two-leaved,

oblongum, umbelluliferum, poft dehifcen- oblong, bearing a (mall umbel, after Quit-

tiam reflexum. ting being rehxxed.

Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis. Tubus Blossom one leaf, funnel-fhaped. Tube ob-
oblongus, cylindraceus. Limbus fexparti- long, and cylindrical. Border divided into
tus ; laciniis lanceolato-linearibus, conca- fix fegments, that are linearly lance-fhaped,
vis, reflcxis, quarum tres alternoe appendi- concave, and reflexed, of which three alter-
culo uncinato diftindtas. nate ones are marked by a fmall claw hang-
ing at the lower part.
Stamina. Filamcnta fex, fubulata, e bafi limbi, Chives. Threads fix, awl-fhaped, growing from
longitudine limbi, conniventia. Antherae the lower part of the border, and of its

oblongac, lineares, allurgentes,, incumben- length, and inclining together. Tips ob-
tes. long, linear, turned up at the ends, and
lying on the threads.
Pisti hum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- Poihtal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread-
mis, longitudine floris. Stigma trindum, fhaped, the length of the flower. Summit
minimum. three-cleft, and very fmall.
Pericardium. Capfula fub-ovata, trilocula- Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly egg-fhaped, three
ris. celled.
Semina plura. Seeds many.
SPECIFIC CH ARACTER.
Crinum foliis filiformibus; scapo filiformi, fpi- Afphodel Lily, with thread-fhaped leaves; flow-
rali. er- ftem thread-fhaped, and fpiral.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower, cut open and magnified; to fhew the point of infertion of the Chives, at the
bale of the border.
3. The Pointal and Seed-bud (magnified).
•1. The Seed-bud cut tranfverfely, and magnified; to fhew the fituation of the feeds in the
cells, before the Splitting of the outer coat, when matured.

5. The Seeds, as they appear after the burning of the containing coat, and of their natural fize.

This curious little plant, has been figured by profeflbr Jacquin in his Ic. rar. 2. tab. 363, under the
name of Crinum Tenellum; Thunberg, (who no doubt faw the living plant) in his Prodromus,
p. 58, gave it firti, the lpecific title of Spiralis, which to us feems the bed pouible, we have retained
it; although, we differ from him as to the Genus, and which there is no doubt every botanift will,

on the examination of the figure, with its appendages. That this plant fhould ever have been placed
under Haemanthus, by any botanift, is certainly matter of wonder, yet the point is too clear to be
contended; fcarce one of the effential conftituent characters, of the genus, are to be found in our
plant, and yet fo perfectly in every part anfwering to Crinum. In Hsmanthus, the fence is com-
pofed of many leaves; the fegments of the border, ftanding upright; the Chives longer than lie blof- t

fom, and fixed into the tube; the Summit Ample! Sec. &c. We fubmit this, nevertheless, with
deference to fuperior judgments, as a late publication of much repute, has this plant, under the
Generic title we have rejected. The drawing was made in the beginning of March, this year, at
Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy's, Hammerfmith; by whom, it was received from the Cape of Good Hope
in 1/92. It is a very hardy bulb, requiring no more protection than a pit, to fecure it from the
froft. It increafes but flowly by the root, but occafionally produces ripe feeds ; and fhould be kept
conffantly in its pot, in a mixture of peat and loam.
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ASTER REFLEXU8.
Rcjiexed-lcaved Star-wort.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

S YNGENES IA POL YGAM1A S UPERFL UA. Tips united . Superfluous Pointal».

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER

Recept. nudum. Pappus fimplex. Cor. radii RECErT. naked. Featlier fimple. Florets of the

plures 10. Cal. imbricati fquamae interi- circumference 10 or more. Cup tiled, the
ores patulce. innermoli fcales fpread outward.
See After dentatus, PI. LXI.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

After fruticofus, foliis ovatis fub-imbricatis, re- Starwort with egg-fhaped leaves, almoft tiled,

curvatis, ferratis; floribus folitariis, termi- bent backward and la wed; flowers grow
nalibus, feffilibus. folitary, terminal, and fit clofe to the ends
of the branches.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Floret of the circumference.
3. The Pointal of the foregoing.
4. A Floret of the centre (magnified).
5. The Chives and Pointal of a floret of the centre (magnified).
6. The Shaft and Summit of the fame (magnified).

The Angular merit of this pretty greenhoufe plant, is, that its bloflbms are ftill to be feen through
the whole year; and is kept with as little care, as is required for any. It is with eafe, and certainty,
increafed by cuttings, put in about the month of May; or by feeds, which it fometimes perfects by
being kept from the rain in autumn. It is a plant known by name, to moll botanirts; but has not
been introduced to us, till the year 1/9-1, when it was received in feeds from the Cape, at the nur-
fery Hammerfmith ; where it has flowered, thefe two fucceflive years, aud w here our figure was
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GALAXIA OVATA.
Oval-leaved Galaxia.

CLASS XVI. ORDER I.

MONJDELPHIA TRIJNDR1J. Threads united. Three Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spatha univalvis, membranacea, con- Empalement. Sheath of one valve, ikinny, and
nivens. doling.
Corolla monopetala, fupra; tubus filiformis, Blossom, one leaf, above; tube thread-fliaped,
longus, ercetus, apice paullulum amplia- long, upright, the upper part a little widen-
tus; linibus fexpartitus; laciniis obovatis, ed; border divided into fix parts; feg-
paten tibns. ments inverfely egg fhaped and fpreading.
Stamina. Filamenta tria, in cylindrum co- Chives. Three threads forming a cylinder.
nata. Antherae ovatae. Tips egg-ihaped.
Pistillum. Germen inferum, obtufe triangu- Fointal. Seed bud beneath, obtulely trian-
lare, glabrum. Stylus filiformis, ltamini- gular and fmooth. Shaft thread-fliaped, a
bus paullo longior. Stigmata tria, filifor- little longer than the chives. Three fum-
mi-multipartita, patentia. mits, each divided into a number of (mall
threads, and fpreading.
Pericarpium. Capfula oblongo-fubcylindrica, Seed-vessel. Capfule of an oblong, anil almoft

trifulca, trilocularis, trivalvis. cylindrical fliape, with three furrows, three

cells, and three valves.

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Galaxa folds ovatis margine ciliatis ; corollis Galaxia with egg-fliaped leaves, fringed at the
longifiimis, arcuatis, flavis. edge; bloffoms very long, bowed, and yel-
low.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Sheath.
2. A Flower cut open, to fliew where the threads are fixed to the tube of the bloffom.
3. The Chives with the Fointal inclofed, the Bloflbm cut away.
4. The Fointal and Seed-bud.

Any fpecies of this Genus, mult be interefting to the Englilh botanilt; as, till hill year, not one was
to be found, in any colle&ion of this country. The G. ovata is figured in Cavanilles, Did', fi. p. 3-10.

t. 18C); and defcribed by Thunberg, in his Nova Genera Plantarum, p. SO. It is a moft fmgular
little plant, but we much fear will prove a fugitive to us; like the Ferraria, (to which in many par-
ticulars it very nearly affines,) its beauty is but of a few hours duration : indeed, lb fhort is the
period, that had not Mr. Hibbert taken a lketch of it, whilft in perfection; and from which our
drawing was completed, we could not have accomplifhed a figure of it. As yet, the true feafon of
its flowering cannot be ascertained; but, it was in the month of October, that the plant flowered laft

year 1/79; tne bulbs having been received, from the collector for the Clapham collection, (till at the

Cape, in the fpring of the fame year. The treatment for this, appears to be the fiune as that necef-
fary for moft Cape bulbs; light fandy peat, a little warmth when approaching to flower; and to be
removed from the pot afterwards.
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AMARYLLIS RADIATA.
Rayed Lily Daffodil.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spatha oblonga, obtufa, comprefia, Empalement. Sheath oblong, blunt, compreff-
ernarginata, marcefcens. ed, notched at the end, and withering.
Corolla. Petala fex lanceolata. Blossom. Six lance-fliaped petals.
Nettarium fquamis fox, extra bafm fila- Honey-cup, fix fcales from the bafe of the
mentorum, brevillimis. threads, very fhort.
Stamina. Filamenta fex fubulata. Antherae Chives. Six awl-fhaped threads. Tips oblong,
oblongs, incumbentes, affurgentes. fixed fideways to the threads, and turni/d
up at the end.
Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- Poixtal. Seed bud beneath. Shaft thread-
mis, longitudine ferme et fitu ftaminum. fhaped, almoit the length and iituation of
Stigma triridum, tenue. the chives. Summit three-cleft, flender.

Pericarpium. Capfula fubovata, trilocularis, Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly egg-fhaped, three

trivalvis. cells, three valves.
Semina plura. Seeds many.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Amaryllis fpatha multi flora; corollis revolutis, Lily Daffodil, with many flowers in the fheath;
undulatis, lanceolatis; genitalibus deflex- bloffoms turned backward, waved and lance-
is, divergentibus, corolla triplo longiori- fhaped; the parts of fru&ification are bent
bus. downward, fpread from the centre, and
thrice the length of the blolfom.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Petal, with the Chive attached.
2. The Pointal and Seed-bud, the Petals cut off.

This fpecies of Lily, certainly not a novelty to many as a plant, is neverthekfs in its bloffbm, to
moft, quite fo; for, though few collections are without it, yet we are pretty well allured, in no one
has it flowered, at leaft for many years within the vicinity of London; except, in that of the Right
Hon. the Marchionefs of Rockingham, at Hillingdou near LT xbridge; for whofe kind communi-
cation, (though perfonally unknown to her Ladyfhip,) of a moft beautiful fpecimen, of which our
figure conveys but a faint idea of the brilliancy; we can only thus, exprefs our fincereft thanks. Mr.
Greig, who had the goodnefs to bring the flower himfelf; informs us, the mode of his treating it is,

to plant the bulbs in light fandy peat, and confine them to fmall pots, nearly half filled with broken
tiles, and keep them on a fhelf of the hothoule. It is a native of China, was introduced by the late
Dr. Fothergill; and generally flowers, according to Mr. Greig, in the month of February, or March;
and is increafed abundantly from the root, by offsets.
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PUNICA GRANATUM. Far. fore albo.
White Pomegranate.

CLASS XII. ORDER I.

ICOSANDRU MONOGYNU. Twenty Chive*. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, campanu- Empalement. Cup one leaf, bell-fliapcd, five-
latum, qninquetidum, acutum, coloratum, cleft, pointed, coloured, and remaining.
perfiftens.
Corolla. Petala quinque, fubrotunda, erefto- Blossom. Five petals, roundiih, upright and
patentia, calyci inferta. spreading, atttached to the cup.
Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, capillnria, ca- Chives. Threads numerous, hair like, fhorter
lyce breviora, calyci inferta. Antherae ob- than the cup, and fixed to it. Tips nearly
longiufculse. oblong.
Pistilll'm. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplcx, Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple,
longitudine ftamimim. Stigma capitatum. the length of the chives. Summit a knob.
Pericarpium. Pomum fubglobofum, magnum, Seed vessel. A
large and nearly round apple,
coronatum calyce, novemloculare, diflipi- crowned by the cup, five-celled, the par-
mentis membranaceis. titions lkinny.

Semina plurima, angulnta, succulenta. Recep- Seeds numerous, arjgulated, and juicy. Recep-
taculum carnofum, fingulum loculamen- tacle flelliy, and dividing each cell of the
turn pericarpii bifariam dividens. feed-veffel into two.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Punica foliis lanceolatis, caule arboreo. Pomegranate with lance-ihaped leaves, and tree-
like Rem.
DIFFERENCE IN VAR.
Punica Gra: Foliis majoribus, pallidioribus; Pomegranate with larger and paler leaves; flow-
floribus fub-albidis. ers nearly white.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower cut open, to fhew the infertion of the Petals and Chives, into the cup; with the
lituation of the Pointal.
2. The fame fhewn from the reverie fide.

This handfome variety of the common Pomegranate, (for it cannot be confidered as a fpecies,) will,

it is to be hoped, prove an agreeable addition to our gardens; though not as a fruit tree, yet as an
ornamental plant, of the middling hardy clafs. Indeed we have little doubt of this, if we may judge-
by analog}', from its deciduous character, or from its natural affinities; as the other forts of this
fpecies, viz. (ingle red, double red, yellow flowered, and another new variety with large red blollbms
and larger leaves, all endure our winters, with little, or no protection, in the fouthern, or vreftern
counties of the ifland; aDd are all natives of the fame clime: from whence, no doubt, they, like the
Orange-tree, iVc. S:c. have been originally tranfported; though at prefent confidered as indigenous, to all

the different countries on the coafls of the Mediterranean fea, where the (ingle red is cultivated for its

fruit; the agreeable acidity of which, is confidered as a great luxury, in allaying the third occafioned
by the intenfe heat, of thofe parching regions. In the month of April laft year \799< a fine branch,
was obligingly communicated by Lady Hume, from her (elect collection at Wormley
in full flower,
Bury, Herts; from which our figure was taken, and where it was then flowering for the firfl time
in England. Her Ladyfhip had received the plant, amongft a number of others, from China, in the
year 1796. The fruit did not lipen, which we attribute to its being kept in the hothoufe, to which
fituation, all plants coming from the Eaft, are necelfarily configned on their nrft importation.
The mode of increafing it is certain and eafy, by cuttings, or layers; and it grows moft luxuriant

in light earth, compofed of rotten leaves or rotten dung, and light fandy loam.
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VACCINIUM FORMOSUM.
Red-twigged JVhor tie-berry.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Fila- Cur fuperior. Bloflbm of one petal. Threads
menta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- fixed to the receptacle. A berry with four

locularis, polyfperma. cells, and many feeds.

See Vol. I. PI. XXX. Vaccinium Akctosta-
fhyllus.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Vaccinium racemis pedicellifque brafteatis; foliis Whortle-berry with floral leaves on the branch
integerrimis, oblongis, acutis, glabris; caly- part of the bunch, as well as on the partial

cibus adpreflls; corollis fub-cylindraceis, foot-ftalks; leaves quite intire, oblong,

coftatis; ftigma fub-exferta; (lamina de- pointed, and fmooth ; cups prefled to the
cern. bloflbm; bloflbms nearly cylindrical, and
ribbed; fummit juft without the bloflbm;
ten chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Bloflbm and Cup.
2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified.
3. The Seed-bud a little advanced, with the Cup upon it.

4. A nearly ripe Berry, cut tranfverfely, magnified.

From the number of different new and old known lpecies, of this genus, which -we have been enabled
to examine this fpring; and of which drawings have been made, from one of them being
(a figure

intended to be given in each fucceflive No. till they are finiflied;) we are more fully confirmed, in
what was aflerted in a former part of the work, that V. Ar&oftaphyllus, with the greater part of thofe
plants, now known as Vacciniums, fhould be placed in Decandria. It is true, a certain latitude has
been given by Linna?us, on the genus, by allowing, that a fourth in addition to the
in an obfervation

ufual number is frequently found, in the different pai ts of the flower. But when fo eflential a part of
the fruftification is, with a very few exceptions, conftant through a numerous genus, we cannot but
think, in a fyftem, founded chiefly on that bafis, that in fuch cafe, the
mere chara&er of the fruit fhould
give way to firft principles; and that thofe with ten chives fhould be placed to Andromeda. Or, if the
diftinftion of a dry, from a moift capfule, fhould be thought of fufficient weight, on which to form a
new genus, thofe fpecies, with ten chives, and berries, might be fo arranged. Indeed, the difference
in the general habit, of thofe with ten, would well warrant fuch an
from thofe with eight chives,
alteration. But fuch a change we have declined making, upon the grounds we have, and are deter-
mined topurfue; not to alter any eftablifhed name, if even a little erroneous; but only to point out
the error, or the apparent neceflary alteration.
This fpecies of Whortle-berry was firft introduced, (according to the Kew Catalogue,) in 1/70, by
Mr. William Young, from N. America; and is confequently hardy enough to bear the feverity of our
common winters. It fhould be planted in fandy peat earth, on a dry, fheltered border. It is propa-
gated by layers, which fhould be put down in fpring, and taken oft" the fucceeding fummer. The leaves
of this fpecies are deciduous, when planted in the open ground but, if kept in the greenhoufe, where
;

it will be found very ornamental, it becomes an evergreen. Our figure was made at the nurfery,
Hammerfmith, in May this year.
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PULTENAEA daphnoides.
Daphne-like Pultencea.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, campanu- Empalement. Cup of one leaf, bell-fhaped,
latum, utrinque appendiculatum; ore quin- having an appendage oil each fide; the
quedentato, acuto. mouth five-toothed, fharp.
Corolla papilionacea, pentapetala. Blossom. Butterfly-fhapcd, five petals.
Vexillum fub-cordatum, ereftum. Standard nearly heart-ihaped, upright.
Alee oblongae, vexillo breViores. Wings oblong, fhorter -than the ftandard.
Carina dipetala, petalis alis conformibus. Keel two petals, which are like ihofc of the
wings.
Stamina. Filamenta decern, diftincla, aflur- Chives. Ten threads, diftincl, turned up at the
gentia, longitudine carinae. Antherae fim- ends, the length of the keel. Tips fimple,
minims.
plices, very fmall.
Pistillum. Germen ovato-oblongum. Stylus Pointal. Seed-bud oblong- egg- lhnped. Shaft
fubulatus, magnitudine et fitu ftaminum. awl-fhaped, the fize and fituation of the
Stigma acutum, recurvatum. chives. Summit fharp-pointed and recurved.
Pericarpium. Legumen fubrotundam, apice Seed-vessel. Shell nearly round, with a fharp
mucronatum, uniloculare, bivalve. point on the end, of one cell and two valves.
Semina duo, fub-rotunda. Seeds two, roundifh.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Pultenaea foliis alternis, obovatis, glabris, mucro- Pultenaea with alternate leaves, inverfely egg-
natisj floribus terminalibus, capitatis. fhaped, fmooth, with a fharp point at the
ends; flowers terminate the branches grow-
ing in heads.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Cup, with its two appendages, magnified.
2. The Standard of the Bloffom.
3. One of the Wings of the Bloffom.
4. The two Petals of the Keel.
5. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize.
6. The fame, magnified.
7- The Pointal.
8. The fame, magnified.
9. A half-ripe Seed-velTel, with the Cup remaining attached, magnified.

From the number of fpecies of this genus of plants, already in Britain, we may conclude, that it is
one of the moft extended in New South Wales; twelve diftindt ones have already flowered, drawings
of moil of them we have, which will be brought forward in due courfe. Dr. Smith, in the third No.
of New Holland Botany, has named this tribe of plants after Dr. R. Pulteney, F. R. and F. L. S. of
Blandford, Dorfetfhire; well known for his Sketches of the Progrefs of Botany in England. But there
is little doubt, that although no fuch kind attention as this of Dr. Smith had been fhewn, to perpetuate
the name of Dr. Pulteney, he had, by his excellent life of Linnaeus, infured his own to live for ever.

The Pultenaeas, in fyftematic order, rank after, but very clofe to Sophora; but are little allied in general
habit, as are few plants from that country to thofe of any other. This fpecies was firft railed in 1/92,

in many gardens about the metropolis the fame year; but did not flower JQ6. It is a hardy green-
till 1

houfe plant, generally flowering about the month of May; but the bloffom is of fliort duration. Sandy
peat is the foil it moft approves; and its increafe is produced, either from feeds, which fometimes ripen
with us, or from cuttings placed in gentle heat about the month of May. The drawing was made from
a plant in the Hibbertian collection at Clapham, this year.
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GLADIOLUS BLANDUS.
Large White-flowered Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDR1A MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla, fexpartita, ringens. Blossom, fix divifions, gaping.
Stamina adfcendentia. Chives attending.
See Plate XI. Vol. I. Glad, roseus.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis lineari-lanceolatis, nervofis, gla- Gladiolus with linearly lance-fliaped, ftrongly
bris; floribus fpicatis, fecundis, albidis, nerved, fmooth leaves; flowers grow in
maximis; laciniis tribus inferioribus ma- fpikes all from one fide of the Item, white,
culatis; ftigmatibus fub-bilobis. and very large; the three lower fegments
of the limb are fpotted; fummits nearly
two-lobed.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits.

Of all the different fpecies of fo handfome a genus, no one is more defirable than this; as the root or
plant is preferved with little care, and it rarely mines flowering; at the fame time that the bloflbms are
of long duration, and not fubjeft to injury from the weather; changing to a fine blufh colour, when
approaching to decay. From the Kew Catalogue we learn, that the G. Blandus was firft introduced,,
from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. F. Maffon in 1774. It thrives in moft forts of earth, but fandy
peat feems the moft proper for this, as well as moft Cape bulbs. Our figure was taken from a plant La
the collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham, this year, the end of May.
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EMBOTHRIUM SERICEUM.
Embothrium.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER
Calyx nullus. i
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Empalement none.
Corolla. Petala quatnor, linearis, obliqua, Blossom. Four petals, linear, oblique; broad
apice latiore, fubrotundo, concavo, liamini- ended, roundiih, concave, and fnpportinc
feroj poft fcecundationem revoluta. tlic chive; after the burning of the tips
they are rolled back.
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, breviliima, in Chives. Four threads, very fhort, one in each
fingulo petala fingula, vel nulla. Antheras petal, or none. Tips oblong, placed in the
oblongas, intra cavitatem petali fit.x, majuf- hollow end of the petal, larger.
culic.

Pistillum. Germen lineare, adfeendens, in- Pointal. Seed-bud linear, all-ending, and bent.
flexum. Stylus nullus. Stigma fubrotun- Shaft none. Summit nearly round, the
dum, antice planum, poflice concavum, forepart flat, the hinder concave, large.
magnum.
Pericarpium. Folliculus teres, unilocular^. Seed-vessel. A cylindrical pod of one cell.

Semina quatuor feu quinque, ovata, compretfa, Seeds four or five, egg-fhaped, flattened, having
margine altero membrana alata. a lkinny wing at one edge.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Embothrium foliis fub-ternatis, integerrimis, Embothrium with leaves growing moftly three
acutis, margine revolutis, fubtus fericeis; together, entire, pointed, rolled back at the
fpica recurva; frudku tuberculato, glabro. edge, and filky beneath; fpike bent down-
ward; fruit tuberculated, not downv.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 . A Bloflom complete.
2. A Petal of the Bloflom, magnified.
3. The Seed-bud and Summit, magnified.
4. A ripe Seed veflel.
5. A Seed.

When the figure of this plant, or a variety ofit, was publilhed by Dr. Smith, in the third No. of

his New Holland Botany,had not then flowered in England and from the leaves only, of the dried
it ;

Specimens, it was lcarce poffible to trace, amonglt fuch a variety of new faces, this fpecies of Emboth-
rium. It neverthelefs was in many collections, and in fome, all the varieties, although it had not then
flowered in any. About the end of the year \"Q\ the feeds of this plant, with many others, were
received by MeflVs. Lee and Kennedy, of Hammerfmith, transmitted to them from New South Wales,
by Col. Paterfon. As a hardy greenhoule plant, it will always be coveted, as it is feldum without
flowers through the whole year. Our plant appears to differ fufficiently, from the three varieties given
by the Doctor, to form a fourth; as the leaves on this are by no means conftanlly three together, but
are often fcattered. We have notwithstanding nearly copied his fpecific character. It ihould be
planted in light fandy peat, and may be increafed by cuttings, or by feeds, which occafionally ripen,
whilfl the plant is ftill in flower.
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HYPOXIS STELLATA.
Star -flowered Hypoxis.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIJ MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Gluma bivalvis. Empalement. Hulk of two valves.
Corolla monopetala, fupera; limbus fexparti- Blossom one petal, fuperior; border of fix di-

tus, laciniis ovato oblongis, patentibus; per- vifions, fegments oblong-egg fhaped, and
fiftens. fpreading; permanent.
Stamina. Filamenta fex, breviflima, capillaria. Chives. Six very fhort hair-like threads. Tips
Antherse oblongs, petalis breviores. oblong, fhorter than the petals.
Pistillum. Germen inferum, turbinatum. Sty- Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, turban-fhape.

lus filiformis, longitudine ftaminum. Stig- Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the

ma obtufiufculum. chives. Summit bluntifh.

Pericarpium. Capfula oblongiufcula, bafi an- Seed-vessel. Capfule rather oblong, fmaller at
guffior, coronata corolla perfiliente, tri- the bafe, crowned by the permanent blof-
locularis, trivalvis. fom, three cells, three valves.
Semina plurima, fubrotunda. Seeds many, roundifh.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Hypoxis fcapo unifloro; foliis fub-linearibus, Hypoxis with but one bloflbm on the flower-
laxis, ftriatis; petalis bafi maculatis. ftem; leaves nearly linear, flexible, and
fcored; the petals fpotted at the bafe.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Chives and Pointal, cleared from the Bloflbm.
2. A Chive.
3. The Pointal.

Though we have little doubt in referring this plant to the title under which we have figured it, and
by which it has been long known to moft botanifts, at leaft by name; yet have we great ones, whether
it ought in any wife to be confidered as fuch. Thunberg, perhaps the only botanift, who has feen it in

flower, thought fo, and placed it to a genus he had named Fabricia. Certainly no one character of
the genus Hypoxis, can be traced in the flower. The hulk is of one valve, the petals not even clofe
at the bafe, the threads flat, the fummits three, and halbert-fhaped, the lhaft pillar-fhape and fliort, &c.
But, as upon our old plea, we do not choofe to change generic names when long eftablilhed, this
plant, for us, mud ftill remain an Hypoxis; tho'it could not now be placed, at any rate, to Fabricia,

as that title is given to a family of plants, natives of New Holland. The ftar-flowered Hypoxis is a
native of the Cape of Good Hope, is rather a tender bulb,
and does not often flower. It was according
to the Kew Catalogue firft introduced to the Royal Gardens bv Mr. F. Maflbn, in the year 1/88; but
as the time of flowering is not mentioned, we fuppofe it did not flower there. The root fhould, like
other Cape bulbs, be removed from the pot after flowering, and replanted in October. It propagates
itfelf pretty freely by offsets, if planted in light fandy peat, mixed with a little loam. The drawing
was made in June, this prefent year, at the Hammerfmith nurfery.
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EPIGiEA RE PENS.
Creeping Epigcea.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium duplex, approximatum, [Link]. Cup double, clofe together, and
perfiftens. remaining.
P. exteritu triphyllum ; foliolis ovato-lance- Outer cup three-leaved; leaflets between
olatis, aeuminatis; exteriore majore. lance and egg-fliape, pointed; the outer
one the largeft.

P. interim quinquepartitum, erectum, ex- Inner cup of five divifions, upright, a little

teriore paulo longius; foliolis lanceolatis, longer than the outer; leaflets lance-fhaped
aeuminatis. and pointed.
Corolla monopetala, hypocrateriformis; tubus Blossom one petal, falver-fhaped; tube cylin-
cylindricus, intus hirfutus; limbus patens, drical, hairy within; the border fpreading
quinquepartitus, lobis ovato-oblongis. with five divifions, the fegments of an ob-
long [Link].
Stamina. Filamenta decern, filiformia, longi- Chives. Ten thread-fhaped threads the length
tudine tubi. Antherae oblongoe, acutae. of the tube. Tips oblong, and tapered.
Pistillum. Germen globofum, villofum. Stylus Pointal. Seed-bud globular and hairy. Shaft
filiformis, longitudine ftaminum. Stigma thread-fhaped, the length of the chives.
obtufum, fubquinquefidum. Summit blunt, and flightly five-cleft.
Peiucarpium. Caplula fub-globofa, deprelTa, Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly globular, flattened,
[Link], quinquevalvis. five-fided, five cells, and five valves.

Semina plurima, fubrotunda. Seeds many, roundiih.

Receptuculum magnum quinquepartitum. Receptacle large, of five divifions.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Epiga:a caulibus procumbentibus; foliis cordato- Epigaea with ftems that lay on the earth; leaves
ovatis, integerrimis, reticularis; corollis hy- between heart and egg-fhape, quite entire,
pocrateriformibus. and netted; blofibms falver-fhaped.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Cups of the Erapalement.
2. The inner Cup, difengaged from the outer.
3. A Blollbm cut open, to fhew its hairy interior.
4. The Chives and Pointal, as they ftand in the Bloffom.
.5. The Pointal, (magnified).

The Creeping Epigaea is the only fpecies of the genus yet in Britain; it was fir ft introduced by P. Col-
linfon, Efq. in 1736, from N. America; where it is found in moll parts, from Virginia, as far north as

Canada. The flowers of this plant are extremely fragrant, and are produced from March till May.
Hitherto, very few fituations have been found congenial to its cultivation, or growth indeed, ; fo fnbjed
is it to perifli from the moifture, or changeablenefs of atmofphere in our winter months, to which it

is not fubjec"t in its native clime, being during that feafon covered with a deep fnow; that unlets an
occafional fupply [Link] not been procured from America, the plant mull, long ere this, have been loft to

us. The foil which appears beft adapted for its prefervation, is a light lardy loam: if planted in the
epen air, it lhould have a llieltered fituation, on a dry border; but the mull likely mode to preferve it,
is by keeping it as a greenhoufe plant. It is with difficulty increaled by cutting-, but may be divided
at the root, with luccefs, in March. Our figure was made at the nurfery of Meff. Lee and Kennedy,
Hammerfmith, this year, in the month of April.
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PROTEA SPECIOSA, nigra.

Black-flowered Protect.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRJNDRIA MONOGYNU. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 4-fida, feu 4-petala. Antherae line- Blossom 4-cleft, or of 4 petals. Tips linear,
ares, infertse petalis infra apicem. Calyx inferted into the petals below the points.
proprius, nullus. Sem. folitaria. Cup proper, none. Seeds folitary.

See Protea Formosa, Vol. I. Plate XVII.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Protea foliis longis, lineari-lanceolatis; fquamae Protea with long leaves, between linear and
calycinae interiores apice incurvatae, bar- lance-fhaped; the inner fcales of the em-
batae, nigra?. palement are turned inward at the end,
bearded, and black.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

J. A Bloflbm complete, as it Empalement.
flands in the

2. The thrown open, to fhew the

four Petals of the Flower fituation and character of the tips.

3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.

It is to the curious and beautiful ftru&ure of the empalement, (the flowers being nearly concealed
within it,) that this fpecies of Protea owes its fpecific title, and for which it is fo much admired. There

are different varieties of it, which are conlidered by Thunberg, in his Diff. de Prot. of 1 781 as diftind ,

fpecies; but which are certainly only varieties of one flock we have drawings of two of thefe, the one
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flefh-coloured, the other white; and hope to be able to demonstrate as juft, our poftulatum, when the
fynonims are given, as propofed, at the clofe of this volume. This plant was firft introduced to the
Royal Gardens Kew, from the Cape of Good Hope, in 1786, by Mr. F. Maffon it flowers at a very
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early age, and when the flem is not more than two feet high, moflly from the centre or leading
branch of the plant. It is propagated by cuttings, which fhould be put in about the end of May,
three or four, at moil, in a pot, filled with good ftiff loam, which fhould be preffed hard to the lower
end of the cuttings, and the pot placed under a hand-glafs in the fliade. When the plants are to be
removed into feparate pots, it will be neceffary to add a fmall portion of peat earth to the loam, and
place them in an airy and dry part of the greenhoufe. Thefe directions are neceffary to be obferved,
in the culture of nearly every fpecies of this extended genus. Our figure was taken in the month of
July 1799» from a plant in the Hibbertian collection, Clapham-common.
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LACHNIA ERIOCEPHALA.
Woolly-headed Laclin<za.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, pcrfiflens; Empalement. Cup one leaf, remaining; tube
tubo longo, tenui; limbo quadripartito, in- long, ilender; border of four divifions, un-
xquali; lacinia fumma retrofra&a, minima; equal; the upper fegment appearing broke
laciniis reliquis tribus erectis; intermedia back, and fmall; the three other fegments
majore. are upright; the middle one the largeft.
Corolla nulla. Blossom none.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria, erecta, Chives. Eight hair-like threads, upright, al-

longitudine ferme floris. Anthers fim- moft the length of the flower. Tips
plices. fimple.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis, Tointal. Seedbud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread-
germinis lateri infertus. Stigma capitatum, lhaped, fixed into the fide of the feed-bud.
hifpidum. Summit a hairy knob.
Pericarpium nullum. Frudtus in fundo calycis. Seed-vessel none. The fruit is in the bottom
of the cup.
Semen unicum, ovatum. Seed one, egg-fhaped.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Lachnaea capitulis folitariis, lanatis; foliis qua- Lachnxa with little bunches of flowers grow-
drifariam imbricatis. ing folitary and woolly; leaves are tiled on
the Hem, forming four regular angles.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The terminating Leaves of the branches, which inclofe the fmall heads of flowers.
2. A Flower, magnified.
3. A Flower cut open, natural (ize, to fliew the infertion of the Chives.
4. The Seed-bud and Pointal, magnified.

The figure of this curious new plant was taken from a fpecimen moil obligingly communicated by
the Hon. Wm. Hen. Irby, from his valuable and extenfive colleaion at the Parfonage, Farnham Royal,
near Windfor, Bucks. The genus Lachnsea has hitherto, with us, remained in obfcurity; as the
L. Conglomerata has not as yet flowered, and the L. Eriocephala was not in our colleftions till
within
thefe five years; about which time it was introduced by Meff. Lee and
Kennedy, Hammerfmith,
from the Cape of Good Hope. It differs but little in habit from Panerina Grandiflora,
and until it
flowered this year, was confidered as a variety of that plant. May be propagated with eafe
by cuttings,
and continues to flower from March till Augult. A
mixture of peat and loam is the foil it molt
approves; but it is \ery fufceptible of damps.
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PLATE CV.

VACCINIUM CRASSIFOLIUM.
Thick-leaved Whortle- berry.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx fupems. Corolla monopetala. Fila- Cup fuperior. Bloflbrn of one petal. Threads
menta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- fixed to the receptacle. A berry with four
locularis, polyfperma. cells, and many feeds.
See Vol. I. PI. XXX. Vaccinium Arctosta-
PHYLLUS.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Vaccinium foliis ovatis, ferratis, rigidis. craffi- Whortle-berry with oval leaves fawed at the
ufculis; floribus fub-umbellatis, terminali- edges, ftifF, and thickifh; flowers grow
bus; calycibus adpreffis; corollis campanu- nearly in umbels, at the end of the
latis; flamina decern. branches; cups preffed to the bloflbrn;
bloffoms bell-fhaped ; ten chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 Cup and Seed-bud, natural fize.

2. A Bloffbm cut open.

3. The Chives and Seed-bud, the leaflets of the cup cut off, magnified.
4. The Pointal, magnified.

This fpecies of Whortle-berry was introduced from Carolina, about the year 1/94, by Mr. J. Frafer,
nurferyman. It is another of thofe with ten chives, five cells in the berry, and five fegments in the
borders of the cup and bloflbrn. It is an evergreen, and will live through a mild winter, on a warm
border; but cannot refill the cold of a fevere one, though a fmall degree of protection is fufficient for
its prefervation. As a greenhoufe plant, it is very decorative, flowering about June; in which month
this year our drawing was made, at the Hammerfmith nurfery, from a plant in that colleftion. The
pabulum beft calculated to preferve it in a flourifhing ftate, is a mixture compofed of fandy peat two
parts, and light loam one part. To propagate it, the younger branches fliould be laid down about
the end of May, and they will be rooted by the enfuing fpring.

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HOUSTONIA COCCINEA.
Scarlet Houftonia.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRJNDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium minimum, quadridenta- Empalement. Cup very fmall, with four teeth,
tum, ereftum, perfiftens. upright, and remaining.
Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus Blossom one petal, fuiinel-ihaped; tube cylin-
cylindraceus, longus; limbus quadripartitus, drical, long; border of four divifions, fpread-
patens, laciniis fubrotundis. ing, fegments roundifh.
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, in collo corollae, Chives. Four threads, fixed to the neck of the
minima. Antherse fimplices. blollbm, very ftnall. Tips fimple.
Pistillum. Germen fupetum, fubrotundum, Pointal. Seed-bud above, roundiil), and flat-

comprefium. Stylus (implex, llaininibus tened. Shaft fimple, lhorter than the
brevior. Stigma bifidum, acutum. chives. Summit fplit in two and fharp.
Pericarpium. Capfula fabrotunda, didyma, Seed-vesscl. Capfule roundilh, double, fplit-

fupra tranfverfe dehifcens, bilocularis, bi- ting tranfverfely from the upper part, two
valvis; valvulis difl'epimento oppolitis. cells, two valves; the valves oppofite to the
partition.

Semina pauca, parva, ovata, diffepimeuto adhae- Seeds a few, fmall, oval, adhering to the parti-

reutia. tion.

STECIFIC CHARACTER.
Houftonia foliis ovatis, glabris, fubternis; caulis Houftonia with oval, fmooth leaves, growing
debilis, fuftruticofus; floribus terminalibus, moftly by threes; ftem weak, rather fhrub-
coccineis. by; flowers terminate the branches, and are
fcarlet.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement and Pointal, the Bloflbm taken off.
2. The Bloifom cut open, to fliew its interior itrudlure.
3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, the leaflets of the cup being removed magnified.

The Houftonia coccinea has been placed, by fome late botanical authors, under the genus Hedyotis;
but fuch authorities can have no weight with us, when oppofed to an eftablilhed name, a nearly general

conformity in the eflential generic characters; and though laft, not the leaft in our eftimation, the cor-
roborating teftimony of Sir J. Banks, Bart. P. R. S. &c. by whom it was lent to the Royal Gardens, Kew,
in 1793. It is a native of Mexico, South America; and like the Hememerifes,* Fuchfias, Chelones, &c.
of that country, is very fubject to damp; but being partly herbaceous, the root is moft frequently
preferved, although the upper part has perilhed. Though it requires the protection of a greenhoufe in
winter, it may be made an ornamental plant for the flower borders in autumn, by putting fingle
cuttings, in fmall pots filled with rich earth, into the heat of a hotbed, early in March, they will be
fit to tranfplant into the open ground the latter end of June, and will flower about Auguft, continuing
to bloflbm tilldeftroyed by the froft; or if taken up and put into large pots, will flower till Chriftmas.
Our figure was taken from a beautiful plant, in the collection of R. H. James, Efq. Grofvenor-place,
in 1799.
* Tlicfe are the two /pedes of an old genus, Introduced into the Bot. Mag. of Curtis, under the titles of
Celfia liniaris and C. urticifo/ia.
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PLATE CVII.

ALLIUM GRACILE.
Sweet-fcented Garlic.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA M0N0GYN1A. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spatha communis, fubrotunda, mar- Empalement. Spath common, roundifli, wi-
cefcens, multiflora. thering, incloling many flowers.
Corolla. Petala fex, oblonga. Blossom. Petals fix, oblong.
Stamina. Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine Chives. Six threads, awl-fhaped, often the
faepe corolloe. Antherae oblongae, .ere£lae. length of the blolTom. Tips oblong, up-
right.
Pistillum. Germen fuperum, breve, fubtri- Pointal. Seed-bud above, ihort, nearly three-
gonum, angulis linea infculptis. Stylus fided, the angles marked by a line. Shaft
fimplex. Stigma acutum. fimple. Summit pointed.
Pekicarpium. Capfula breviflima, lata, triloba, Seed-vessel. Capfule very lho; t, broad, of three
trilocularis, trivalvis. lobes, three cells, and three valves.
Semina pauca, fubrotunda. Seeds a few, roundifli.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Allium fcapo nudo, tereti, longiflimo; foliis ca Garli^with a naked flower-flem, cylindrical, and
naliculatis, linearibus; umbella multiflora; very long; leaves channelled, and linear}
corollis albidis; ftaminibus fubulatis, ad umbel many flowered; bloflbms white;
bafin cum petalis definentibus in tubum. chives awl-fhaped, terminating with the
petals at the bafe in a tube.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The Bloffom cut open.
2. One Petal of the Bloffom and its Chive, magnified.
3. The Pointal and Seed-bud.
4. A Capfule with ripe Seeds.

From a plant in the collection of J. Vere, Efij. Kenfington Gore, our drawing was made, this year,
early in the month of May; and from an accurate fcrutiny, are inclined to think it might be con-

fidered as a new genus; for certainly it does not well affine to the one here ailigned it, in feveral

inftances; but as our profelfed principles are, as rarely as poflible, to increafe the number of genera,
we have retained it under Allium. The flowers of this plant are fragrant in the extreme, at night;
fo much fo, that one is fuffkieiit to fcent a large room; the flavour fomething like the Heliotrope.
Being a native of Barbadoes, from whence it was fent by Mr. J. Ellcock in 1791» to Melfrs. Lee and
Kennedy, Hammerfmith, it requires the heat of a hothoufe, where, without the affiflance of the bark
bed,it will flower, and increafe from the bulb abundantly.
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GERANIUM RENIFORME.
Kidney-Jliape-leaved Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. Qf Sypi. %<«*

Feget. 1781.

MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque. One Pointal. Five Summits.
Fructus rofiratus, penta-coccus. Fruit furnifhed with long awns, five dry ber-
ries.

SeeGERANIUIrtGRANDIFLORUM. PI. XII. Vol. L

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis reniformibus, crenato-dentatis, Geranium with kidney-fhaped leaves, between
tomentofis; floribus heptandris, fubquater- fcolloped and toothed at the edges, and
nis, purpureis; caule fruticofo, fub-carnolb. downy; flowers with feven fertile tips,
grow moftly by fours, and are purple ; ftem
fhrubby, and almoft fleftiy.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its hollow ftrudhvre.
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize.
3. The Threads cut open, to fhew their number, as well as the general number of fertile tips,

magnified.
4. The Pojntal and Seed-buds, magnified.

From the Hort. Cantab, publifhed this year, by the accurate Mr. J. Donn, we learn that this fine
fpecies of Geranium was introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, about nine years fince; yet, till
within thefe two years, it has not been feen in any other collection. Our drawing was made in July
1799, from a plant in the Clapham colle&ion. Tins Geranium muft be treated rather as a dry-ftove
than as a common greenhoufe plant, for it affines much to G. Fulgidum, and a few others, which are
inhabitants of the fandy deferts of the more interior parts of Africa, and which require more heat than
is proper for thole from Table Mountain, or the vicinity of the Cape. It is propagated by cuttings

made about the month of March, and placed under a fmall glafs, either in a hotbed, or in the bark
bed of the hothoufe it may be increafed by the root likewife, and from feed which is fometimes
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perfected. A comport of cow dung, at leafl two years old, one part, fea fand one part, and light loam
two parts, is the moft proper for many of the tenderer forts of this genus.
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PLATE CIX.
CHRYSANTHEMUM TRICOLOR.
Three-coloured Corn-Marygold.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIS, POLYGAMIC SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Communis haemifphaericus, imbricatus Empalement. Common, hemifpherical, tiled;
fquamis ar&e incumbentibus; interioribus fcales lyingdole upon each other; the in-
per gradus majoribus, margine fcariofis; in- ner ones becoming gradually larger, lkinny
timis terminatis fquama fcariofa. at the edge; the innermoll terminating in a
lkinny fubftance.
Corolla. Compofita radiata. Corullulae her- Blossom. Compound radiate. Florets with
maphroditic tubulofae, numerofa:, in difco; chivesand pointals, of the centre, tubular
femineae duodenis plures, in radio. and numerous; thole with only pointals, of
the ray, twelve or more.
Propria hermaphroditis infundibuliformis, Individuals with chives and pointals, fun-
quinquefida, patula, longitudine calycis. nel -fhaped, five- cleft, open, the length
of the cup.
Femineis ligulata, oblonga, tridentata. Individuals with only pointals, ligulate, ob-
long, with three teeth.
Stamina. Hermaphroditis filamenta quinque, Chives. Thofe with chives and pointals have
capillaria, [Link] cylindracea, five, hair like, very fhort threads. Tips cy-
tubulofa, corolla fere brevior. lindrical and tubular, fcarcely fliorter
than the bloffom.
Pistillum. Hermaphroditis, germen ovatum. Pointal. Seed-bud, where there are chives and
Stylus filiformis, ftaminibus longior. Stig- pointals egg- fhaped. Shaft thread-fhaped,
mata duo, revoluta. longer than the chives. Summits two, rolled
back.
Femineis germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis, Seed-bud where there are only pointals
cum hermaphroditis aequalis. Stigmata duo, egg-lhaped. Shaft thread-fhaped the length
obtufa, revoluta. of thofe where there are chives and poin-
tals Summits two, blunt and rolled back.
Pericarpium nullum. Calyx immutatus. Seed-vessel none. Cup unchanged.
Semina. Hermaphroditis folitaria, oblonga. Seeds of thofe with chives and pointals folitary,
Pappus nullus. oblong. Feather none.
Femineis (imillima hermaphroditis. Thole where there are only pointals like
the others.
Receptaculum nudum, pundtatum, convexum. Receptacle naked, dotted, and convex.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Chryfanthemum crithmi foliis; fquamis exteri- Corn-Marygold with famphire-like leaves; the
oribus calycis carinatis; floribus lolitariis, outer fcales of the cup keel-fhaped; the
tricoloratis. flowers grow folitary and are three-coloured.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. An
outer Scale of the Empalement.
2. An inner Scale of the Empalement.
3. A
female Floret of the Circumference, with its Pointal.
4. An hermaphrodite Floret of the Center.
5. The above, magnified.
6. The Chives of an hermaphrodite Floret, magnified.
7. The Pointal of an hermaphrodite Floret, magnified.
8. The Receptacle, natural fize.

Mr. James Donn, Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, through whofe medium we poflefs this
new fpecies of Cryfanthemum, informs us, in his catalogue for 1800, that it is a native of the coaft of
Barbary, and from whence it was firft received in 1/97. The C. Tricolor is but of annual growth,
fhould be railed on gentle heat about March, and may be either kept in pots, or planted in the open
borders, where it will flower from July till October; but much of the brilliancy of the flowers will be
loft, if treated in the laft manner, as the leaft wet, or even the dew, will affeft their colours. The
feeds are perfected in lefs than a week, after the decay of the flower, and are produced in abundance.
Our figure was taken from a plant in the Hammerfmith nurfery, which had been raifed from feed,
communicated by Mr. Donn to Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy.
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PROTEA SPECIOSA, latifolia.

Broad-leaved JJiewy Protea.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 4-lida, leu 4 petala. Antheroe lineares, Blossom 4-cleft, or of 4 petals. Tips linear, in-

infertse petalis infra apicem. Calyx pro- ferted into the petals below the ends. Cup,,

prius, nullus. Semina lblitaria. proper, none. Seeds folitary.

See Protea Formosa, PI. XVII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Protea foliis lanceolato-ovatis; fquamae calycinx- Protea with leaves between oval and lance-
interiores barbatoe, apice incurvatoe, incar- fhaped; the inner fcales of the ernpalement
natae. are bearded, turned inward at the aids., and
flelh coloured.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 A Bloffom complete, as it (lands in the Ernpalement.

2. The fame opened, to fliew the fituation of the Chives.

3. The Seed-bud and Pointal.

The drawing of this magnificent plant was made of Meffrs. Grimwood and Wykes,
at the nurfery

Kenfington, this year, early in the month of Auguftj as we were informed by Mr. Wykes it was then
in flower for the firit In the year 1/86 it was fent, in feeds, to the royal gardens,
time in England.
Kew, by Mr. from the Cape of Good Hope; where certainly its beauty muft be great; as,
F. Maffon,
even there, amidft that world of beauties, it fhould be honoured with fuch a fpecific title; in which,
confidering it as only a variety of our P. fpeciofa nigra, we entirely agree with Willdenow; where
the laft fynonim of that fpecies, copied by him in his Sp. PI. from Ray's Hiftoria Plantarum of \~\Q,
muft have been taken from a plant of this variety. The treatment, and culture of this, and P. Spe-
ciofa nigra, are exaft in every thing.
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GLADIOLUS STRIATUS.
Streaked-flowered Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen- Blossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend-
dentia. ing.
See Gladiolus roseus, Plate XI. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Gladiolus foliis lanceolato enfiformibus, fcapo Gladiolus with leaves between lance and fword-
aequantibus; fcapo fubtrifloro, erefto; flori- fliaped, the length of the flower-Item; ge-
bus ere&is; corolla ringente, laciniis acutis, nerally three flowers on the item : flowers
undulatis, medio firiatis. grow upright; bloffom gaping,the fegments
pointed, waved, and ftreaked in the middle.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open with the Chives attached.
3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, natural fize, one Summit detached, magnified.

This fpecies of Cape Gladiolus was brought to us, from Holland, about the year 1^88; it is a very
hardy bulb, the flowers continuing perfe£t more than a week, and are not eafily injured either
by wind or rain. But the greateft merit of this plant is, that the bloffoms are only produced when
molt of the other fpecies of Ixiae, Gladioli, &c. have done flowering; which is generally about the end
of July. Before the item decays, the bulb lhould be taken from the pot, and dried. The increafe of
this plant is not great, as feldom more than two roots are produced from the old one. Our drawing
was made at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in J 799- Willdenow has a Gladiolus from Jacquin's Icon.
Rar. under the fpecific title here given to undoubtedly not the fame plant; but as our name is
this,

that by which this fpecies is in general known, and by which it came from Holland, we have not

thought fit to alter it.

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PLATE CXIL

VACCINIUM DUMOSUM.
BuJIiy Whortle-berry.

CLASS VIII. ORDER 1.

OCTJNDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Fila- Cup fuperior. Bloflbm of one petal. Threads
menta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- fixed to the receptacle. A Berry with four
locularis, polyfperma. cells and many feeds.
See Vac. Akctostafhyllos, PI. XXX. Vol.1.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Vaccinium foliis ovatis, acutis, glabris; floribus Whortle-berry with oval, pointed, fmooth leaves;
iblitariis, axillaribus; pedunculis longifli- flowers grow folitary from the foot-ftalk of

mis, bra&eatis; corollis urceolatis fub- the leaves, clofe to the ftem; foot-ftalks of
albidis; ftamina decern. the flowers are very long, having floral

leaves; bloflbms pitcher- fhaped, nearly

white; ten chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 A Flower complete.
2. The Cup and its Foot-ftalk, with the floral Leaves.
3. The Seed-bud, Pointal, and Chives.
4. The fame, magnified.
5. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified.

This fpecies of Whortle-berry is a neat, compaft, bufhy flirub; and like all the relt of thole which
have ten chives, and the other parts confonant, can fcarcely be considered as a hardy plant; for
although it will live through a mild winter, if planted in a warm and dry Situation, on an open bor-
der; yet it will in general be deftroyed, by the fevere frofts which happen late in fpring. It fliould

be planted in fandy peat earth, with a fmall portion of light loam; may be propagated by layers, which
do not commonly root, fufriciently to be taken off", under two years from the time of their being put
down. As a hardy green-houfe plant it is beft preferved in a flourishing ftate, and will flower about
the month of June; in which month, this year, our drawing was made, at the nurfery of Meflrs. Lee
and Kennedy, by whom it was introduced from North America in the year 1783.
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PLATE CXIII.
STRUTHIOLA I MB RI CAT A.
Tiled-leaved Struthiola.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx, nullus ; nifi bracleas fub germine fro Empalement, none; unhfs you take the floral
calyce ajjitmas. leaves at the bafe of the feed-bud for the cup.

Corolla monopetala, marcefcens; tubus fili- Blossom one petal, withering; tube thread-
formis, elongatus; limbus quadripartitus, fhaped, lengthened; border of four divi-

planus, tubo brevior; laciniis ovatis. fions, flat, fliorter than the tube; fegments
egg-fhaped.
Nedarium, glandulae quatuor, feu octo, Honeycup, four or eight oval glands, placed
ovatae, fauci circumpofitae, penicillo proprio round the mouth of the bloffom, each being
cinctae. furrounded by its brufli of hairs.
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, breviflima, intra Chives. Four threads, very fhort, hid within
tubum ocultata. Anthers lineares. the tube. Tips linear.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum. Stylus filifor- Pointal. Seed bud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread-
mis, longltudine tubi. Stigma capitatum, fhaped, the length of the tube. Summit, a
hifpidum. hairy knob.
Pericarpium coriaceum, ovatum, uniloculare. Seed-vessel leathery, egg-fhaped, of one cell.

Semen unicum, acutiufculum. Seed one, a little pointed.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Struthiola foliis ovato-acuminatis, concavis, im- Struthiola with oval leaves, tapering to a point,
bricatis, glabris, margine ciliatis; glandulae concave, tiled, fmooth, and hairy at the
quatuor lupra faucem. edges; four glands upon the mouth of the
bloffom.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 A Flower with its floral leaves, or cup.
2. The floral Leaves or Cup, magnified.
3. A Flower cut open, magnified.
4. The Seed-bud, Chives, and Pointal, magnified.

The Genus Struthiola, from the few fpecies yet known, has been but llightly confidered. Linnaeus,
at the end of his Generic Character, aifines it to Pafferina; it is true, the habits of S. virgata,
and
S. eredta, which are undoubtedly only varieties of the fame flock, and the only two he had feen, might
lead to fuch a comment; but, from the feven fpecies of which we have drawings, all taken from liv-
ing plants, and which will be brought forward in due courfe, we confider them, as perfectly diftinct,
in more effential characters than merely the number of chives. The acute and diligent Willdenow,
in his new edition of Sp. Plant, enumerates five fpecies from Thunberg, &c; but from his notes of
obfervation, prefixed to each, he had not feen either living or dried fpecimens of any, but the two
above named. The characters in which we obferve this genus to differ from Gnidia and Pafferina,
are, firft, a cup of two leaves, conftant in every fpecies we have examined, for they cannot be con-
fidered as floral leaves, being attached to the bafe of the bloffom, and joined together at the bottom;
fecondly, the honeycup forming a complete cincture to the mouth of the flower, and upon which are
feated, four, or eight, upright glands. This fpecies of Struthiola was firft railed in England, at the
nurfery, Hammerfinith, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1794. It is a tender green-houfe

plant, and very fubject to be deftroyed by wet; therefore, fhould be protected from too much rain in
fummer, and kept in an airy part of the houfe in winter. It is propagated by cuttings made in the
month of May, or June, and fhould be planted in light, fandy peat, mixt with about one fixth part of
loam. The flowers of this, as well as all the fpecies we have feen, are extremely fragrant in the
evening, beginning to fmell with the fetting fun, and continuing their flavour till morning. An
agreeable peculiarity attendant on moft plants of this natural order, and on every fpecies of this genus,
in particular, is, that they flower twice in the year, about the month of March, and again in Sep-
tember; in which month, laft year, our drawing was made, from the Hibbertian collection, Clapham
Common.
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GERANIUM QUINQUEVULNERUM.
Variegated flowered Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. QfSuppL

Fegft.
System.
J/81.

MONODELFHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque. One Pointal. Five fummits.
Kiujctus roftratus, penta-coccus. Fruit furnilhed with long awns, five dry ber-
ries.

See Geranium Grandiflorum, PI. XII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Geranium foliis hifpidis, multifidis; rloribus Geranium with hair}' leaves many-cleft; flowers
heptandris; pedunculis multifloris; petala with feven fertile chives; foot-ftalk, many
atropurpurea, margine pallido; caule fuf- flowers; petals dark purple, pale at the
fruticofo, fpithamseo. margin; ftem half flirubby, grows a lpan
high.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, cut open as far as to the lblid part.

2. The Chives and Pointal.

3. The Chives cut and fpread open, magnified.
4. The Pointal, magnified.

This beautiful fpecies of Geranium was raifed by Mr. J. Armfixong, nurferyman of Northwarmborough,
Hants, from feeds received by him, in 1~q6, from the Cape of Good Hope. From a branch, in fine
flower, brought to us, this year, in the month of June, by Mr. Dickinfon, our drawing was made ; who
informs us, that the ordinary treatment of common Geraniums, is all that is required for this; that
it is increafed by cuttings, or from a divifion of the root, in fpring. It has not, as yet, produced any
perfect feed; although it has flowered abundantly thefe two years, from May till October. It has
fomething the habit of G. trifle, or the Night-fmellingGeranium; but differs from that fpecies, in
having a fhort Ihrubby ftera, the leaves ihorterand hardier, and the flowers entirely without fmell.

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GERANIUM TO MEN TO SUM.

Downy-leaved Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. »/««//' ft**

1781.
%
MONODELPHIA DECJNDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
Set Geran. Grand'iflorum,
1

PL XII. Fol.1.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata nuinque. One Pointal. Five Summits.
Feuctus roftratus, penta-coccus. Fruit furnifhed with long awns, five dry berries.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis ovatis, plicatis, eredtis, ferratis, Geranium with egg-fliaped leaves, plaited, up-
tomentofis ; floribus pentandris ; filamentis right, fawed, and down)-; flowers with five
duobus fuperioribus revolutis, ciliatis. fertile chives; the two upper threads rolled

back and fringed.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fizc.

3. The Chives cut open, magnified.

4. The Pointal, and Seed-bud

The Downy-leaved Geranium, according to Mr. Donn, introduced from the

the Hort. Cantab, of
Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1/94; is a dwarf growing, and rather delicate fpecics, of this
extended and very mutable tribe of plants; producing its flowers about the month of Auguft. It is
to be increafed from the feeds, which fometimes ripen; or by cuttings, taken off in the month of
March, and placed on a gentle hotbed; but if delayed to be made till much later, it will be found
difficult to propagate by this mode. Lets of dung and more loam, than is neceiTary for moft Gera-
niums, will prcferve this plant beft through the winter; in which feafon, it fhould be kept in a dry
and damps, which otherwife, often prove fatal to it.
airy part of the greenhoufe, to avoid the
That the charm of however erroneous or ablurd, has found at all times its votaries, we
novelty,
have daily experience; therefore cannot wonder at, though we may regret its confeijuent influence
on the many, who wiih to fignalize themfelves, under its delufive banner. This obfervation naturally
obtruded on our imagination, upon the perufal of the laft Number of the Cot. Mag. where the Kid-
ney-leaved Cranes-hill is mentioned as " one of the rarcjl of the Geranium tribe;" are we to undcrftand
Geranium in this place as a new title for a natural order of plants; or, as folely confined to one
Genus? Poor Geranium ! although thou haft been fo long excluded from thy ftation, in fcientific

Englifh, yet fhalt thou not lofe thy due weight, againft all thy opponents, in pure dei'criptive Eng-
lifli and perhaps fome day may be deemed, by the learned, worthy a place amongft Englifh
profe ;

Genera. With Mr. Donn, we humbly conceive the old title Crane's bill, as ill adapted to the three'
Genera of M. L'Heritier; and that, if new Latin names are to be foifted on us, for plants already well
known, and fettled, by that great mafter of the fcience, Linnreus; to whefe opinion ours ihall ever
bow, Englifh ones confonant, fhould be likewife adopted and that ; Heron's-bill for Erodium, Stork's-
bill for Pelargonium, and Crane's-bill for Geranium, will prove no greater puzzle to the Englifh Botanift.
Unfortunately we are, and have been, fo attached to old falhions, that we ttill mean to continue the
title Geranium, as it is apparently beft underftood; whether, in Englifh or Latin, defcriptive, or
fcientific; as long as the public lhall continue fo honourably to patronize the Botanift's Bepofitory.
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PLATE CXVI.
GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS.
Trailing Gaultheria.

CLASS ^foRDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx.. Perianthium duplex, approximatum, Empalement. Cup double, clofe together, re-
perfiftens. maining.
[Link] diphyllum, brevins ; foliolis femi- Outer Cup two leaved, fhorter; leaflets half
ovatis, concavis, obtufis.
egg-fhaped, concave, and blunt.
P. interius monophyllum, quinquefidum Inner Cup one leaf, five-cleft, bell-fliaped
campanulatum fegmentis femiovatis.
;
fegments half egg-fhaped.
Corolla monopetala, ovata, femiquinquefida; Blossom one leaf, egg-fhaped, flightly five-
limbo parvo, revoluto. cleft; border fmall, rolled back.
Nectarium corpufculis decern, fubulatis, Honey-cup ten fmall fubftances, awl-fhaped,
erectis, breviflimis, cingentibus germen in- upright, very lhort, furrounding the feed-
tra (lamina. bud within the chives.
Stamina. Filamenta decern, fubulata, incurva, Chives. Ten threads, awl-fhaped, turned in-
corolla breviora; receptaculo inferta. An- wards, fhorter than the bloflbm fixed into
;

therae bicornes; corniculis bifidis. the receptacle. Tips two-horned; horns

two cleft.
Pxstillum. Germen fubrotundum, depreffum. Pointal. Seed-bud roundifh and flattened;
Stylus cylindricus, longitudine corolla. Shaft cylindrical, the length of the bloflbm.
Stigma obtufum. Summit obtufe.
Pekicaepium. Capfula fubrotunda, obtufa, pen- Seed-vessel. Capfule roundifh obtufely five-
tagona, deprefla, quinque locularis, quin- fided, flattened, five cells, five valves; co-
que valvis, undique tecta perianthio inte- vered on all fides by the inner cup, tranf-

riore transformato et enato in baccam fub- formed and fwelled to a roundifh berry,
rotundam, coloratam, apice perviam. coloured, open at top.
Semina plurima, fubovata, angulata, olfea. Seeds many, nearly egg ihaped, angular and
hard.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
Gaultheria foliis ovatis, obtufe-dentatis, apice Gaultheria with egg-fhaped leaves, bluntly
confertis; caulis flexuofus, filiformis. toothed, and crowded together at the top;
fiem grows zigzag and thread-fhaped.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 A Bloflbm complete.
2. The Empalement, natural fize.
3. The Empalement, magnified.
4. The Chives as they ftand on the receptacle, magnified.
5. The Pointal and feed-bud, with the furrounding honey-cup, magnified.
0". The inner Cup of the Empalement, when the fruit is ripe, natural fize.
J. A feed veflel of the natural fize when ripe, detached from its cup.
8. A ripe capfule, cut open tranfveri'ely.

From the eighth Ed. of Miller's Dictionary, we learn that, this plant vva» cultivated at the Phytic
Gardens, Chelfea, in the year \J65. That fo ornamental, and fo eafily propagated a plant as the
Gaultheria, fhould have been fo little noticed, or cultivated in our gardens, is rather fingular; as, it
is perfectly hardy in every expofure, an evergreen, and from the beautiful appearance of the fruit

and flowers, which come in fuccetfion nearly through the whole year; muft be confidered, as one of
our prettieft creeping or dwarf flirubs, for the front of the fhrubbery borders, &c. as it never rifes higher
than fix, or eight inches; forming a compact matted clump, which may be made to fpread to a
confiderable extent, if planted in light fandy peat earth. The very curious conformation of the fruit,
which is eatable, differing from every known Genus of plants; as well as, the peculiar property of
the leaves; point out the Gaultheria, as a particular object for obfervation, and comment, to the
experimental Botanift. In Canada, North America, where it is native, an infufion of the leaves is
ufed as a fubftitute for tea; or a few of them, either dried, or plucked frefh from the plant, when
mutt with the commoner! bohea, communicate to it a flavour, equal to fine Hyfon.
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GENTIANA PURPUREA.
Purple flowered Gentian.

CLASS V. ORDER II.

PESTANDRIA D1GYNIA. Five Chives. Two Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium quinquepartitum, acu- Empalement. Cup five divifions, fharp and
tum, perfiftens ; laciniis oblongis. permanent; fegments oblong.
Corolla. Petalum unicum, inferne tubula- Blossom. Petal only one, lower part tubular,
tum, imperforatum, fuperne quinquefidum, and close; upper part five-cleft, flat, wi-
planum, marcescens; ngura varia. thering, and varioufly fhaped.

Stamina. Filamenta qu'mque, fubulata, corolla Chives. Five threads, awl -fhaped, fhorter than
breviora. Antherae fimplices. the bloffom. Tips fimple.
Pistilla. Germen oblongum, cylindraceum, Pointals. Seed bud oblong, cylindrical, as

longitudine ftaminum. Styli nulli. Stig- long as the chives. Shafts none. Summits
mata duo, ovata. two, egg-fhaped.
Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga, teres acumi- Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, cylindrical, ta-

nata, apice leviter bifida, unilocularis, bi- pering, flightly cleft at the end, one-celled,
valvis. and two valves.
Semina numerofa, parva. Receptacula duo, Seeds numerous and fmall. Receptacles two,
fingula valvulae loDgitudinaliter adnatae. joined to each valve longitudinally.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gentiana corollis campanulatis, 6-J fidis, atro- Gentian with bell- fhaped blofToms, 6-7 cleft,

purpureis, pun&atis, verticillatis; calycibus deep purple, dotted and whorled; empale-
membranaceis, fub-fpathaceis, truncatis. ment fkinny, almoft fheathed, and appear-
ing cut off at the ends.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Blofiom, complete.
3. The fame cut open, to fhew the fituation of the Chives.
4. Half the Seed-bud fplit longitudinally, to Hugs its interior firucture.

5. A Seed-veffel, nearly ripe.

As a native of the Helvetian Alps, the Purple flowered Gentian is confequently, a hardy plant with
us, requiring only to be planted in a light may be
foil; increafed from the feeds, which are produced
in abundance, or by parting the root in autumn. The
feeds are perfected, within a fortnight after
the flower decayed; and fhould be fown on light fandy peat, covering them very flightly, as foon
is

as poffible after they have been dried.

There appears a ftrange variety of opinions amongft Botanifb concerning this, and two other fpe-
cies of Gentian, the Punftata and the Pannonica; which, as many have obferved, although denied
by others, are only varieties of each other ; furely, a flight variation in height, the fhape of the divi-
fions of the border, or what is of lefs confequence, (as they vary, in that regard fo much, on die fame
plant) their number; are not of fufficient weight
to form a fpecific diftinction.
This plant is faid, in the Hort. Kew.
have been introduced in the year 1768 by ProfefTor de
to
SaulTure: from what caufe, we cannot judge, if it is fo old an inhabitant, why it fhould not be more
plentiful with us; as at prefent few collections poflefs it, and it is fold at a very hijgh price. Our
drawing was made at the Nurfery, Hammerfmith.
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GLADIOLUS GRANDIFLORUS.
Large flowered Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla fexpartita, ringens. Blossom, fix divifions, gaping.
Stamina adfcendentia. Chives afcending.
See Gladiolus roseus, PI. XI. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis enfiformibus nervofis ; fcapo Gladiolus with sword - fhape leaves, nerved;
fubtrifloro, longitudine foliorum; floribus flower-ftem having moffly three flowers,
erectis, maximis; laciniis corollse emargi- and of the length of the leaves ; flowers
natis, undulatis, itriatis, fub-requalibus. grow upright, and very large; the feg-
ments of bloffom are notched at the ends,
waved, ftriped, and nearly of an equal
length.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two fheaths of the Empalement.
2. The Bloffom cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Pointal, and Seed bud.

From the figures in the Collect, and Ic. rar. of Jacquin, we were led to think, this muft be the fame,
or a ftrong variety of his G. florabundus ; but, as his trivialname and fpecific character fo ill accord
with our plant, we have continued it under that, by which it was fent to England in 1/88. It

is a very free blowing bulb, and will live through the winter, with very little protection; flowering
about June or July, and does not require to be removed from the pot, to prevent its rotting. Our
drawing was taken in June this year, at the Hammerfmith Nurfery.
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STRUTHIOLA OVATA.
Oval-leaved Struthiola.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

See Struthiola imlricala,
[Link]. Vol.11.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

[Link] diphyllum. Corolla tubulofa Cup two-leaved. Bloflbm tubular, 4-cleft; ho-
4-fida; ne&arium, glandulre o£lo fauci ney- cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth
circumpofitae. Sem. 1. fubbaccatum. of the bloflbm. One feed like a berry.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Itruthiola foliis ovatis, glabris; ramis glabris, Struthiola with egg-fhaped, fmooth leaves;
rugofis. branches fmooth and wrinkled.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Bloflbm, complete.
2. The Empalement, magnified.
3. The Bloflbm cut open, with the Chives attached, magnified.
4. The Pointal and feed-bud, magnified.

This fpecies of Struthiola is defcribed by Thunberg, in his Prodromus, under the fpecific title it here
bears, and was first introduced to us in the year 1/94, in feeds received from the Cape of Good
Hope, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. It is a very tender greenhoufe plant, and very
fubjett to be deftroyed by damps, or too much moifture, even in fummer; the flowers, (as are moft of
this natural order,) are extremely fragrant and continue in full perfection from March till June. The
mode of propagation is by cuttings, made in May, which fhould be placed under a hand-glafs in a
pot of light loam, and fhaded from the mid-day fun. It thrives beft in a mixture of half peat and

half loam. The drawing was made in the fpring of 1/98, from a plant in the Hibbertian Coileftion,
Clapham; then in flower, for the firft time in England.
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FUCHSIA LYCIOIDES.
Box Thorn-like Fuclifia.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYN1A. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum. Infundi- Emtalement. Cup one leaf, funnel-fhapcd,
buliforme, coloratura, fuperum marcef- coloured, above and withering; border four
cens; limbus quadripartitus. divifions.

Corolla. Petala quatuor, feflilia, ore cal)'cis Blossom. Four petals, fitting clofe on the
inferta. mouth of the cup, into which they are in-
ferred.

Stamina. Filamenta o£to, inasqualia, filiformia, Chives. Eight threads, unequal, thread-fhaped,
erec~ta, tubo calycis inferta. Antherce upright, fixed into the tube of the cup.
ovatae. lips egg-fhaped.
Pistillum. Germen inferum, ovatum. Shlus Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, egg-fhaped.
filiformis, ere&us, longitudine ftaminum. Shaft thread-fhaped, upright, the length of
Stigma tuberculatum. the chives. Summit compofed of final]
knobs.
Pericarpium. Bacca carnofa, ovata, quadri- Seed-vessel. A flefhy berry, egg-fhaped, and
locularis. four valves.
Semina plura, parva, receptaculo columnari Seeds many, fmall, affixed to a pillar-fhaped
affixa. receptacle.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Fuchfia foliis ovatis undulatis, fubternis; pe- Fuchfia with egg-fhaped leaves, waved, and
dunculis unifloris, axillaribus; laciniis ca- growing mofily by threes; foot-ftalks with
lycis reflexis. one flower growing from the infertion of
the leaf, the fegments of the cup reflexcd.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower cut open, to expofe the iufertion of petals and chives into the cup.
2. The Tointal, complete.
3. A ripe berry, natural fize.

No plant perhaps ever excited fuch univerfal admiration, as the Scarlet Fuchfia; wherefore, the
addition of a fecond fpecies to our collections, of fo fine a Genus, rauft be confide red as a very agree-
able acquifition. The Box Thorn-like Fuchfia, is a native of the Xorth-weft coatt of America; and
was brought to England, in the year ljgd: it is certainly, much more tender than the Scarlet
firft

Fuchfia, as the plant conltantly perifhes, as low as to the earth, if not preferred in the hothoufe;
but whether it is herbaceous the root furviving, we have not fufficient experience to determine.
The increafe is certain and eafy, if cuttings are made, from the young fhoots, early in March, and
plunged in a hotbed, or in the bark of the hothoufe, fix or eight in a pot; from which they may be
removed, about June, into large pots for flowering, which will be from Auguft till November.
Loam, with a fmall portion of rotten dung, is the foil it molt approves.
The fpecific title we have adopted, is from the very great rcfemblance the plant bears to Lycium
afrum, or the Box-Thorn; although we have fome doubts, whether this fpecies may not be the
F. triphylla of Father Plumier. But as the F. coccinea, as well as this plant, has frequently the
leaves growing by threes; we thought that, as it as yet had no fpecific title with us, the character of
the plant would be bed diftinguifhed, by the name we have chofen.
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GERANIUM CORTUSiEFOLIUM.
Cor tufa-leaved Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. ifSu&i. Sv/?<m.

1781.
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MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque. Fru&us rof- One Pointal. Five fummits. Fruit furnifhed
tratus, penta-coccus. ||
with long awns, five dry berries.
See Geranium gkandiflorum, PI. XII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER. i

Geranium foliis cordatis, fublobatis, ferratis, to- Geranium with heart - lhaped leaves, {lightly
mentofo-fericeis; petiolis longiflimis, erec- lobed, tawed, and covered with a downy
tis; floribus umbellatis, odoratillimis, fti- pile; footftalks very long and upright; rlovv-

pulis fubulatis; caule robufto, fubcarnofo. ers grow in umbels, and are very fvveet
lcented; leaf-props aw 1 lhaped; Item flout,
and rather flefhy.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement cut open.
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize.

3. The fame, magnified.

4. The Chives cut open, magnified.
5. The Seed-bud, and Pointal, magnified.

The Cortufa-leaved Geranium is a tender plant, feldom growing to more than a foot in height; pro-
ducing its bloffoms, which are extremely fragrant, in erect bunches, from the furamit of the branches,
and mud be protected, through the depth of winter, in the hothoufe. The propagation is both flow
and difficult, as it rarely perfectsany feeds, and forms but few branches. The cuttings when taken
off, which ought to be done about the end of May, fliould be expofed to die fun, till the part where
cut has formed a tough coat over the wound, which will take place in two or three days; when they
will not be fo fubject to rot from the moifture of the earth, as if planted
from thewhen jult taken
plant. Thefe inftructions are neceffary to be obferved, in the propagation of all the thick-ftemmed
Geraniums, by cuttings. A mixture of fandy peat, with a (mall quantity of old rotten dung, will
prove the beft comport for preferving this plant. Our drawing was taken this year, in July, at the
Hammerfmith nurfery. A miftake has arifen with regard to the name of this fpecies of Geranium ;

which was evidently not known to any botanirt, antecedent to its being brought to England in IJSt)
by Mr. A. Hove, a native of Poland, from the fouth weft coaft of Africa, and found by him in about
the 23d degree of fouth latitude. ProfefTor Martyn, in his new edition of Miller's Dictionary, article
Pelargonium 43, has taken for granted that this is the plant defigned by Profelfor Jacquin, where he
treats of G. cortufaefolium; giving the G. tabulare of Burman, Linnaeus, &c. as fynonymous to it;

but undoubtedly, no fuch intention could be in the ProfefTor, as the uniting thefe two plants, which
are fo entirely diffimilar; but only an unfortunate inclination to alter an old eftablifhed name, for one,
which he conceived more appropriate to a well known, common fpecies; whence the confufion; the
conftant confequence of fuch ufelefs alterations, whether generic or fpecific.
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GLADIOLUS GALEATUS.
Helmet-flowered Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TR IAN DMA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla fexpartita, ringens. Blossom fix divifions, gaping.
Stamina adfeendenfia. Chives attending.
See Gladiolus alatus, Vol. I. [Link].

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis fub-ovatis, coftatis, mucronatis; Gladiolus with leaves nearly egg-fhaped, ribbed,
fpathis carianatis, tubo longioribus; lacinia and pointed at the ends; flieaths keeled,
l'umma concava, fub-erecta. and longer than the tube of- the bloflom;
the upper fegment concave, and almoft up-
right.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two flieaths of the Empalement.
2. The Chives, with part of the tube of the Bloflbm, to which they are attached.
3. The Pointal and feed-bud.

We are certainly led to think with Thunberg, that this plant is not a fpecies, but a very fingular
and beautiful variety, of G. alatus, of which we have feen above fix or feven. Nevertheless, upon
the authority of Prof. Jacquin, who in his Icones 2. tab. 253, has figured it under this name fpeci-
fically; and as it has been continued as fuch, by the accurately difcriminating and indefatigable
Willdenow ; (to whofe labours, all lovers of the fcience are fo much indebted, for his invaluable,
and copious new Edition of the Species plantarum,) we have thought it but right to acquiefce,
without alteration in the name adopted by them. For the management of this plant we mutt refer
our readers to the G. alatus, PI. VIII. Vol. I. of this work.
The Helmet-flowered Gladiolus was not feen in England, till the fpring of the year 1800; when
the roots were received at Clapham, from the Cape of Good Hope, fent by the Collector there, for
the Hibbertian collection, amongft an infinite number of others; many having flowered this year, of
which we have drawings, by pcrmifiion of the proprietor, and [Link] deftined to enrich the Bot. Rep.
being perfectly new to this country. The figure of this plant was taken in Auguft, but the regular
feafon of its flowering, muft be much earlier (if planted with the other Cape bulbs in October,) that
is to fay, about the month of May or June.
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PLATE CXXIII.
THUNBERGIA FRAGRANS.
Twining Thunbergia.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DID YNA MIA ANGIO SPERM I A. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.
GENERIC CH ARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium duplex; extortus, diphyl- Empalement. Cup double; the outer one two-
lum, foliolis ovatis, longitudine
concavis, leaved ; leaflets egg-thaped and concave,
fere tubi ; interius, monophyllum, multi- nearly the length of the tube;, the timer
partitum, laciniis circiter duodecim, lub- one-leaved, many divisions, the fegtnents
ulatis, perianthio exteriori triplo breviori- about twelve, awl-lliaped, thrice as short
bus. as the outer cup.

Corolla monopetala; tubus fenfim ampliatus; Blossom, one petal tube widening gradually j
;

limbus quinquefidus; laciniis aequalibus, border five -cleft; fegments equal, egg.
ovatis, obtufiffimis, tubo triplo breviori- iliaped, very blunt, three times as fhort as

bus. the tube.

Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, tubo fupra ba- Chives. Four threads, fixed into the lower
fin inferta, inasqualia; duobus inferioribus part of the tube, unequal; the two lower-
brevioribus ; duobus fuperioribus tubo bre- moft the ihortett; the two uppermoft fhorter
viora. Antherae ovatae, adnatae. than the tube. Tips egg-fhape, preffed to
the threads.
Pistillum. Germen fuperum. Stylus filifor- Pointal. Seed-bud above. Shaft thread fhape,
mis, tubo paullo brevior, ereftus. Stigma a little fhorter than the tube, and upright,

bilobum. summit two lobed.

Pericakpium. Capfula globofa, roftrata, gla- Seed-vessel globular, beaked, fmooth, two
bra, bilocularis, longitudinaliter deliifcens celled, and fplits longitudinally; beak flat-
roftrum compreflum, fulcatum, lineare, ob- tened, awl-fhaped, linear, and blunt; par-
tufum; diflepimentum obovatum, emargi- inverfely egg-fhaped, notched at
tition
natum, fub apice foramine perforatum, la- the end, pierced with a hole at the top,
teribus membrunaceum, perfittens. ikinny at the edges, and remaining.
SEMiNAin fingulo loculamento bina, reniformia, Seeds two in each cell, kidney-fhaped, rough,
rugofa, hinc convexa, inde concava fulco convex on one fide, and concave on the
longitudinali. other by a longitudinal furrow.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Thunbergia ovato-acuminatis, fub-denta-
foliis Thunbergia with egg-lhaped, tapering leaves, a
tis; corolla alba, hypocrateriformis, tubo toothed; bloflbm white, falver-fhaped,
little

compreflb; caule volubili. the tube flattened; ftem twining.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The
outer cup of the Empalement.
2. The
inner cup of the fame, magnified.
3. A Blolfom cut open, to (hew the fituation of the Chives.
4. The Shaft and Summit, natural fize.
5. The Seed-bud, magnified.
6. A ripe Capfule.
7- A ripe Seed. **
The Thunbergia, here figured, a native of the Eall indies, from the Coromandel coalt; was intro-
is

duced to Britain in the year 179*5, at the fame time with the Ixora pavetla, by lie Hon. Lady Dow- t

ager De Clifford. It is eafily propagated, by cuttings, or from the feeds, which ripen with us: it
ihould be kept in light, rich earth in the hothoufe; where it will flower from May, till September;
in which month this year our drawing was taken at Kenfinglon Gore from a plant in the colleftion
of James Vere, Efq. But although Dr. Boxburgh's real'on for adopting the fpecific character he has
given it, that the place where it grows is fweet fcented, though the plant is not, feems rather a little
ftrained, we have not thought it right to alter it; as unqueftionably, any name would have been equally
appropriate, fince neither the flowers, or any part of the plant, root or branch, has the leaft fcent.
The plant from which this genus was originally formed by the younger Linnaeus in his Sup. Plant.
P. 46, is a native of the Cape of Good Hope; and we have our doubts, whether this plant ought to
be placed with it; for although it accords in the eflential character, of a double cup, the only one
thought necelTary, by Linnaeus, to divide it from Barleria ; yet, from the number of parts in which
it differs from his generic charafter, fuch as the fhape of the bloflbm, the length of the pointal, the

fituation and fhape of the chives, the very different fhape of the feeds, &c. we are led to think, it
ought to be confidered as a diftindt Genus. But in following fuch good authority as the able and
learned Dr. Roxburg, it is to be hoped, we fliall ftand excufed in continuing the fame name he has
affigned it, without alteration at leatt, if not without comment.
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HELICONIA PSITTACORUM.
Parrot -billed Heliconia.

C LAS S V."" R DER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Spathae communes partialefque altema;, Calyx. Sheaths common and partial alternate,

diftin&ae, perfiftentes. diftincx, remaining.

Perianthium nullum. Cup none.
Corolla. Petala tria, oblonga, canaliculata, Blossom. Petals three, oblong, channelled,
erecta, acuta, aequalia. upright, pointed, equal.

Nectarium diphyllum; foliolo altero pelalis Honeycup two leaved; one leaflet nearly the

fubaequali ; altero brevillimo, canalicular, length of the petals; the other very fhort,
uncinato, oppofito. channelled, hooked and oppofite to the
larger.

Stamina. Filamenta quinque, linearia. An- Chives. Five threads, linear. Tips upright
thers ere&ae, longae. and long.
Pistillum. Germeninferum, triquetrum. Sty- Pointal. Seed -bud beneath, three-fided. Shaft
lus ftaminibus fere brevior. Stigma Ion- fcarcely fhorter than the chives. Summit
gum, gracile, curvatum, capitulo terminali. long, llender, curved, and terminating in
a final] head.

Pericarpil'm. Capl'ula oblonga, truncata, tri- Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, appearing cut
quetra, trilocularis, trivalvis. off at the end, three-fided, three cells,

three valves.

Semina folitaria, oblonga. Seeds folitary, oblong.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heliconia. Foliis glaberrimis. lnnceolatis; in- Heliconia with very fmooth, lance-fhaped leaves
florefcentia glaberrima ; fpadice terminali the inflorefcence quite fmooth; item termi-
flexuofo; fpathis ruultifloris, marginibus re- nating in a zig-zag form; fheaths contain-
volutis; netStario lanceolato, concavo, inte- ing many flowers and rolled back ; honey-
gro. cup lance-lhaped, concave, and entire.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. the three petals detached from the upper part of the Honey-cup, which is
The Eloffom, with
lhewn in front with the fmaller leaf inclofed within the larger.
2. The Chives, with the lower part of the Honey-cup, to (hew their infertion at its bafe, and
the fmaller leaf of the Honey-cup in its place.
3. The fmaller leaf of the Honey-cup, magnified.
4. The Shaft and Summit, the Summit detached magnified.
5. The Seed-bud, natural (ize.
6. The Seed-bud cut tranfverlely, magnified.

The Parrot-billed Heliconia, a native of the continent of South America, as well as mod of the Weft
India Iflands, was firft received, in plants, from the ifland of St. Vincents, in the year 1797, by
Thomas Evans, Efq. of Stepney; in whofe collection it firft flowered, in September l'.QS, when our
drawing was taken. This plant requires a confklerable degree of moifture and heat, as well as much
root room and rich earth, to make it flower in perfection; as it feldom opens its bloiToms fro ly without
fuch treatment, and even with Inch afliftance, they are to be feen but for a few hours in that ftate. It
propagates from the roots, throwing up a Dumber of fuckers from the joints, which are firmed at a
considerable diftance from the plant. The younger Linnaeus in his Sup. Plant, of 1 JS1 p. 158, has ,

defcribed this plant under our fpecific title, but different in fome few points; which appear to arife
more from his ideas of the various parts, than from any real difference in the plant itfelf. Swattz in
his Obf. 93, gives fheaths to his plant, which Linnaeus, we prefume, denominates flower lien leaves,
&c. yet we have no doubt, but they have both defcribed the fame plant; and perfectly agree with
Willdenow and Martyn, that the H. pfittacorum of both authors is the fame, and have as little of this
being the plant.
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VACCINIUM PARVIFLORUM.
Smallflowered JVliortle-berry.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTJNDRU MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Cup fuperior. Elofiom one petal
Filamenta receptacula inferta. Bacca quadri- Threads fixed to the receptacle. A berry with
locularis, polyfperma. four cells, and many feeds.
See Vaccinium arctostaphyllos, PI. XXX. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Vaccinium foliis lanceolatis, undulatis, venofis; Whortle-berry, with lance- fliaped, waved, and
rloribus racemofis; pedunculis longillimis, veined leaves; flowersgrowinlong bunches;
bra&eatisj corolla conica, ftriata. Stamina foot ftalks of the flowers very long, having
decern. floral leaves; bloiibm cone -fliaped, and
flreaked. Ten Chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. ABloflbm.
2. The Chives magnified.
3. The Seed-bud, Cup, and Pointal, the Summit detached, magnified.

This fpecies of Whortle-berry was firft brought, from North America, in the year l^S-l. It is one
of thofe with ten chives, &c. and of the fame nature with thofe we have already figured ; for its
treatment, and increafe, we mud therefore refer our readers to V. formofum, PI. XCVII. Vol. II.
The drawing was taken in May i799, at the Hammerfmith nurfery.
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HIBBERTIA VOLUBILIS.
Twining Hibbertia.

CLASS XIII. ORDER V.

POLYANDRIA PKNTAGYNIA. Many Chives. Five Pointals.

GEXERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium pentaphyllum; follolis [Link]. Cup five leaves; leaflets tough,
coriaceis, fub-ovatiSj concavis, acutis, per- nearly egg fhaped, concave, fharp, and re-
filtentibus. maining.
Corolla. Pctala quinque, obcordata, calyce Blossom. Five petals, inverlely heart-iliaped,
longiora. longer than the cup.
Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, filiformia, re- Chives. Threads numerous, thread-fliaped,
ceptaculo fruftificationis inferta. Antheras fixed into the receptacle of the fructifica-
lineares, ereftae, emarginatae. tion. Tips linear, upright, notched at the
ends.
Pistilla. Germina quinque, ovato-oblonga, Pointals. Five feed-buds, between oblong
delinentia in flylos flexuofos, longitudine and egg-lliaped, terminating in zig-zagged
fere ftaminum. Stigmata fimplicia, apice fhafts, nearly length of the chives.
the
cod cava. Corpufculum fubulatum, nicra- Summits, Ample, and hollowed at the top.
branaceum in medio germinum, eorumque Afmall awl-lhaped, lkinny fubftancein the
longitudine. middle of the feed-buds, and of their length.
Pericarpium. Capfulae quinque ovatae, tri- Seed-vessel. Five capfules, egg fhaped, three-
gone, uniloculares, diffinctae. tided, one celled, and diliinCi.
Semi N a plurima, lubrotunda. Seeds man}', roundifh.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Hibbertia foliis obtufe-ferratis, obovato-lancco- Hibbertia with obtufely (awed leaves, between
latis, floribus folitariis, fellilibus, foeti- lance and inverlely egg fhaped flowers grow
;

diffimis. folitary, fitting clofe on the ftera; very foetid.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empale ment.
2. \ leaf of the blofloin.
3. The Chives and Pointals.
-I. ()m Chive, magnified.
5. Pointals apart, as they Eland in (he center of Chives.
(J. The Pointals fpread open, wilh the lkinny fubllance which ftands in their center.
7. One of the Pointals, magnified.
8. A Seed-bud, cut tranl'verfely.
g. A half ripe feed, magnified.

The Hibbertia volubilis, (as are the three fpecies of which wc have feen fpecimens,) is from New
Holland, near Port Jack Ion was raifed from feec . in many different collections near London in the
;

year 17.02. It is a hardy green houfe plant, and makes a very handlbme climber, for trellis, or

pillars in a confervatory. Its growth is very rapid, and its flowers which are very brilliant and fpe-
cions, continue in fuccefiion from May till September. The increafe is certain and eafy from cut-
tings, made in the month of May, and placed on a gentle hotbed, or plunged in the bark-bed of the
hothoufe. It delights in a light fandy peat foil. Our drawing was made from a plant, in the collec-
tion of the Hon. Ladv Dowager De Clifford, Paddington.
As hitherto this tribe of Plants has not been given to the public by any truly eftablifhcd name;
(the different fpecies having been erroneoully titled Dillenias, which have many pointals,) and as we
find it to differ, from any yet defcribed Genus, we have named it after G. Hibbert, Efq. of Clapham
Common, Surry; whole knowledge and fervor in botanical purfuits, as well as liberality in his endea-
vours to enrich our collections, from every quarter of the globe, but efpecially from the Cape of
Good Hope, has not been exceeded by any ; and we are well allured, no name deferves a place, on
botanical record, more than thai of Hibekrt.
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JASMINUM GRACILE.
Slender -ft emed Jafmine.

CLASS II. ORDER I.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, tubula- Empalement. Cup one-leaved, tubular, ob-

tum, oblongum; ore quinquedentato, erec- long; five-toothed at the mouth, and up-

to; perfiftens.
right; remaining.

Corolla monopetala, hypocrateriformis; tubus Blossom, one petal, falver-fhaped ; tube cylin-
cylindraceus, longus; limbus quinquepar- drical, long; border five divifions, flat.

titus, planus.
Stamina. Filamenta duo, brevia. Antherse Chives. Threads two, fliort. Tips fmall, with-
parvae, intra tubum corollas. in the tube of the bloflbm.

Pistillum. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus Pointal. Seed-bud roundiih. Shaft thread-*

filiformis, longitudine ftaminum. Stigma fhaped, the length of the chives. Summit
biridum. two-cleft.

Pekicarpium. Bacca ovalis, glabra, bilocula- Seed-vessel. Berry oval, fmooth, two-celled
ris feu bicapfularis. or two-capfuled.
Seeds two, large, oblong egg-fhaped, each in
Semina duo, magna, ovato-oblonga, arillata, its proper feed-coat, convex on one fide,

hinc convexa, inde plana. and flat on the other.

Obs. Figura floris acuminata et obtufa variat. Obs. The flower varies in its character of ta-
Bacca in aliis fimplex, in aliis dicocca. pering to a point, or in being blunt-ended.
In fome the berry is fimple, in others dou-
ble-feeded.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Jafminum petiolis foliorum geniculars; foliis Jafmine with the foot-flalks of the leaves jointed
ovatis, oppofitis, nitidis, fimplicibus; flori- egg-fhaped leaves, growing oppofite, fhin-
bus umbellatis ; laciniis corollse obtufis, ing and fimple; flowers grow in umbels;
undulatis. the fegments of the blolTom are blunt and
waved.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Cup.
2. A Bloflbm fpread open, to expofe the fituation of the Chivei.
3. The Shaft and Summit. »
4. A ripe Berry.
5. The fame cut tranfverfely, to fhew the cells and feeds.

The plant here figured, we confider as a diftincl fpecies from the J. fimplicifolium of Forfter, which
he defcribes as a native of the Friendly Ifles, in the South Seas; and likewife from the J. oblongum of

Burman, which is given (but with a query) as a fynonim to the J. fimplicifolium of the former Au-
thor by Willdenow, in his Sp. Plant, p. 38, Part I. In the year 1792, the feeds of this plant were
received by MeflVs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, with the Bignonia pandorana, and many others,
communicated by Colonel Paterfon, then commanding a detachment flationed for a time on Norfolk
Ifland, where it is native. To the green-houfe it is a confiderable acquifition, either for a climber, or
otherwife, as it is rarely without bloflbms from July, till the end of November; being rather more
tender than many of its congeners, which are in general deflined to that ftation; it fhould be placed
as nigh the flue, in as dry and airy a part of it as poflible. A light, fandy peat foil, without mixture,
is the moft congenial to its growth and it is increafed by cuttings, made in the month of March, put,
;

from 12 to 20, according to the fize of the pot, under a fmall bell-glafs, in the before-named earth,
and plunged either in the bark-bed of the hot-houfe, or in the heat of a common hotbed.

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IXIA POLYSTACHIA. Far. incarnata.

Many-fpiked Ixia. Far. flejli- colour.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. Blossom 6-petaIs, fpreading, equal.

Stamina tria, erectiufculo-patula. Summits three, nearly upright and fpreading.

See Ixia reflexa, PI. XIV. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis linearibus; fcapo fpicis pluribus; co- Ixia with linear leaves; flower-ftem with many
rolla; laciniis fubreflexis, incarnatis. fpikes of flowers; fegments of the blollbm
a little bent backwards, and flefli-coloured.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement.
2. A Blolfom fpread open.
3. The Pointal natural fize, with one of the Summits detached, and magnified.

This fine variety of the Many-fpiked Ixia was introduced to our collections from the Cape of Good
Hope, about the year 1JQ5, with the Reflex-flowered Ixia and many others, in bulbs, communicated
by J. Pringle, Efq. to Melfrs Lee .and Kennedy, Hammerfmith where our drawing was taken in
;

April 1/99- No particular care is required, for the culture or increase of this, other, than what is
required for the generality of Cape Ixias.
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GLORIOSA SUPERB A.
Superb Gloriofa.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx nullus. Empalemeni, none.
Corolla. Petala fex, oblongo-lanceolata, un- Blossom. Petals fix, oblong-lance-fhaped, wavei'
dulata, longiffima, totalitcr reflexa. very long, totally bent back.
Stamixa. Filamenta fex, fubulata, corolla bre- Chives. Six threads, awl-fhaped, fhorter than
viora, re&o-patula. Anthers incumbentes. the blouom, fpreading out at ftraight angles
from the feed bud. Tips fideways on the
threads.
Pistillvm. Germen globofum. Stylus fili- Pointal. Seed-bud globular. Shaft thread-
formis, ftaminibus longior, inclinatus. Stig- fhaped, longer than the threads, inclined.
ma triplex, obtnfum. Summit triple, blunt.

Pericarpium. Caplula oralis, triloba, trilocu- Seed-vessel. Capfule oval, three-lobed, three-
laris, trivalvis. celled three-valved.
Semina pi ura, globofa, baccata, duplici ferie Seeds many, globular, like berries, difpofed in
difpolita. two rows.
01$. AfEnis Erythronio. Qbs. The genus has an affinity to Erythro-
nium, or Dog's-tooth Violet.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gloriofa foliis cirrhiferis. || Gloriofa with tendril-bearing leaves.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A leaf of the BIofTom, with its Chive, as they are fixed together at the bafe.
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit; the petals of the blolTom being cut off".

The Gloriofa fnperba, a native of Guinea, as well as the coaft of Malabar in the Eaft Indies, is laid
to be every part poifonpus. It is herbaceous, and the roots, which are formed upon the decay of the
eld one, fhould be taken from the pot in November, and kept in dry fand till the end of February,
when they muft be planted in rich earth, compofed of one part old rotten dung, and two parts leaf
mould or peat earth, then plunged in the bark bed of a hot-houle which is kept at pine heat, to .

infure their flowering the enfuing Auguft.

Having received a mofl beautiful branch, of this magnificent plant from the colleftion of the Hon.
the Marchionefs of Rockingham, at Hillingdon, near Uxbridge; the impulfe was too ftrong to be
refitted, of giving a figure of it in the Bot. Rep. although againft our general propofils, as this is

certainly, neither a new, or rare plant; having been introduced fo early as \6go, by Mr. Bentick.
We therefore beg the indulgence of our friends, in this inftance; for although the flower is common,
and there air many figures of it, in different works, as, Rheede's Hort. Malab. Vol. 7. frut. fcand. WJ.
t. 67. PlukerSP alma '24g. t. 1)6. f. 3. Commelin s hort. 1. p. 69. t 35. fce. &rc; yet, as thefe may
not be in the pollellion of many of the purchafers of our work, we hope it may prove agreeable.

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CERBERA UNDULATA.
Waved-leaved Cerbera.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTJNDRIA MONOGYNU. Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CH ARACTEK.
Calyx. Perianthium pentaphyllum, acumina- Empalement. Cup five leaved, tapering to a
tum; foliolis ovato-lanceolatis. point; leaflets between egg and lance-
lhaped.
Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus Blossom one petal, funnel-fhaped; tube club-
clavatus; limbus magnus, quinqucpartitus; fliaped; border large, five divifions; feg-
laciniis obliquis, obtuiis, latere altero magis ments oblique, obtul'e, thicker edged or.
gibbis; os tubi quinquangulare, quinque- one fide; mouth of the tube five-angled,
dentatum, ftellato-connivens. five toothed, approaching together in the
form of a ftar.
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, in me- Chives. Five threads, nwl-fhaped, in the mid-
dio tubi. Anthera: erefta;, conniventes. dle of the tube. Tips upright, and ap-
proaching.
Pistillum. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus fi- Pointal. Seed-bud roundifh. Shaft thread-
liformis, brevis. Stigma capitatum, bilo- lluped, and fhort. Summit headed, two-
bum. lobed.
Pericarpiusi. Drupa maxima, fubrotunda, car- Seed-vessel. A large pulpy fruit, nearly round,
nofa, a latere fulco longitudinali excavata, flefhy, hollowed on the fide by a longitudi-
punctifque duobus. nal furrow, and with two punctures.
Semen. Nux bilocularis, quadrivalvis, retufa. Seed. Nut two cells, four valves, and bluntly
dented at the end.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Cerbera foliis lanceolatis, ulrinque attenuatis, un- Cerbera with lance fhaped leaves tapered to both
dulatis; cymis ramolis, divaricatis, axilla- ends, and waved; tufts of flowers branch-
ribus. ing into various directions, and growing
from the foot-flalks of the leaves clofe to
the Item,
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, magnified.
2. The Bloffom cut open, with the Chives as they ftand in the tube, magnified.
3. The Empalement, with the pointal after the bloffom has fallen off, magnified.
4. The Seed-bud, magnified.

This confpicuoufly handfome plant was introduced by W. Forfyth, Efq. to the Chellea Gardens in the
year 1/82, from the illand of Bourbon, now the Ifle de la Revolution, near the coaft of Madagafcar,
in the Indian Ocean. It grows to a very confiderable height, perfectly ftraight, and poliihed in the
ftem, fomething like the Bamboo Cane, from which appearance, till it flowered, it had gone by the
name of the fifhing rod plant. It mutt be kept in the bark bed of the hothoufe in rich mould, and
fliould be removed from its pot but feldom, the roots being extremely tender and brittle. The pro-
pagation is flow and difficult, as well from the great tendency the part has to rot, where cut, as from
the unfrequency of its throwing out any fide fhoots from the Item. Our drawing was made in July
this year, at the Hammerfmith nurfery; though we understand it flowered in the extenfive collection
of the Right Hon. the Earl of Tankerville at Walton-upon-Thames, fome years fince.
Having followed Willdenow, rather than Jacquin, in the Generic name of this plant, our reafon
is, each fpecies which has hitherto been thrown to this Genus, fince its firll formation, might well

make a diliinct one; if every generic or even effential, character, was to be critically attended to.
The fruit forming the principal effential character, a fpecimen of which we have feen, containing two
large feeds like C. Manghas, determined us in our adoption.
The defcriptions and figures of the two plants, given by rrofeffor Jacquin in his Icon. rar. 2, and
Collect. 4, under the genus Ochrofia, are, we conceive, onlv different fpecimens of our plant; and are
both, as well as Diyander's critique on Gmelin (fee Linn. Irani". Vol. II. p. 227) defective; neither of
them having feen but dried fpecimens, without the fruit; as in this natural order of plants, the flow-
ers being mofily flefhv, many of the principal characters are deftroyed in the procefs of drying; and
of courfc, in luch cale, mutt lead to error. Jacquin's character of maculattt, quoted by Willdenow as
a fpecific title, though he has rejected the Generic, we fuppofe, mutt have been taken from the fmall
blotches on the lower, and which fometimes pervade the upper furface of the leaves, but found only
when in the laft fiate of decay, or when artificially dried to preferve them; as by the preffure necef-
farily employed to that end, the waved, and molt oltcnlible character of the living plant, is done away.
As to the C. parviflora of Forlter being the fame, as cither, the Ochrofia borbonica or O. maculata of
Jacquin, we mult beg leave to diffent from the levcre critictfer of Gmelin; upon whole authority, ne-
vertheless. Widdenow has been led to exclude, even as a Ivixmim, the O
borbonica of Prof. Jacquin,
Which pel linos, if it were not for the iucreafing of Genera, ought to be the name of the plant.
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GERANIUM LACINIATUM.
Ragged-leaved Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. <f s,<p P i.s^,r,.

MONODELPHIA DECJNDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata quinque. Fruftus rof- One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furniihed
with long awns, rive dry berries.
tratus, penta-coccus.
See Geranium g r and iflorum,F1 .XII. Vol.1.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
radicalibus, integris lacinia- Geranium with leaves growing from the root,
Geranium foliis
calycibus mo- entire and jagged, foot- ftalksthread-fhaped;
til'que, petiolis filiformibus;

nophyllis; Staminibus quinque ferlilibus; cups one leaved; five fertile chives; root

radice tuberofa. tuberous.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, with its tubular part laid open.
2. The Chives and Pointal, as they ftand in the bloffom, magnified.
3. The fame cut open, and detached from the Pointal, magnified.
4. The Pointal, magnified.

The Ragged-leaved Geranium may be considered as an herbaceous plant, for it rarely retains its leaves
inaction, iliould be watered but fparingly, otherwife
longer than September; and when in a ftate of
the root will be fubjeft to rot. It may be increafed by parting the roots about March, which mould

be afterwards planted in rich mould, and placed on a fhelf in the hot-houfe; where
they will flower

in May or June. From an imported plant, in the Hibbertian collection, our drawing was made this
year.
A continual harping on the fame fubjedt, may perhaps appear rather tirefome; but, as almoft

every real new fpecies of Geranium, which under our obfervation, feems to add a frefh proof of
falls

the futility of the new arrangtment, we cannot forbear noticing it. This fpecies, for inftance, has
every other eflential generic charafter of Monfieur L'Hcritier's Pelargonium, but unfortunately the
moft [Link] an accurate examination of a number of flowers, before they had expanded,

(the only time when it can be. truly afcertained), in no one inftance, was there more than five tips to

be found. Where to place it, with Erodinm, or Pelargonium?

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PROTEA LONGIFOLIA. JVigra.

Long-leaved Protect. Biachflouer.

CLASS IV. ORDER T.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 4-fidafeu -1-petala. Antherae lineares, Blossom 4-cleft or 4 petals. Tips linear, ia-
infertae petalis intra apiceni. Calyx pro- ferted into the petals below the point Cup
prius nullus. Semina lblitaria. proper, none. Seeds folitary.
See PROTEA FORMOSA, PI. XVII. Vol.1.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Protea foliis fublinearibus, anguftis, obliquis, ri- Protea with leaves nearly linear, narrow, oblique,
gidis, longiffimis; fquamis interioribus, ca- harfh and very long; the inner fcales of
lycis lanceolatis, eredtis; florum plumis the cup are lance-fliaped and upright; the
atro-purpureis. plume of flowers of a black-purple.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Bloflbm complete, with the feed-bud attached.
2. The Petals of the flower opened, to fhew the fituation of the Tips.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit.

This fpecies of Protea, from the Cape of Good Hope, of which we have drawings of three varie-
ties, is as yet, very fcaice in this kingdom. The variety here figured, as well as the others of this
fpecies, have been hitherto confidered as varieties of P. fpeciofa; with which, however, they have
lefs connexion, than with P. mellifera; but from both they ftand quite diltinct. Wherefore, we
have given them the fpecific title of longifolia, from the extreme length of their leaves, which are
confiderably longer, than could be expreifed in the figure. We believe this is the firlt year it ha3
flowered in England, or in any other collection, than the nurfery, Hammerfmith; where our drawing
was made in November. It is mod difficult, or indeed ahnoft impracticable, to increafe it, as it
puts out no fide moots, and certainly damps off", if laid down, where it touches the earth.
From Boerhaave's having arranged this fpecies of Protea, (See his Index to the Leyden Garden,
Part 2. from P. 185 to 18C),) with his Lepidocarpodendrons, after./zg. 187- which is our P. mellifera;
Willdenow has been led into an error; fince he has given this plant, the 188 Fig. of Boerhaave, as

a fynonim to P. fpeciofa, which ought not to be fo taken, unlets we underftand, that he meant all
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his Lepidocarpodendrons as only varieties of each other; the principal ditlinguilhing feature, in P.

fpeciofa, being the incurved and fringed character, of the inner fcales of the empalement.
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PROTEA LONGIFOLIA. Ferruginojo-purpurea.

hong-leaved Protea. Rusty-purpkjiouer,

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 4-fida feu 4-petala. Anthers; lineares, Blossom 4-cleft or four petals. Tips linear in-
inlertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx prc- ferted into the petals below the point. Cup
prius nullus. Semina folitaria. proper none. Seeds folitary.
See Pkotba speciosa. PI. XVII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Protea foliis fub-linearibus, anguftis, obliquis, Protea with nearly linear leaves/narrow, oblique,
rigidis, longifiimis; fquamis interioribus ca- harfh and very long; the inner fcales of the
lycis lanceolatis erectis; florum plumis fer- cup are lance-fhaped and upright; the
ruginolb-purpureis; conus fubglobofus. plume of flowers are of a rusty-purple; the
cone nearly globe-fhaped.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Bloflbm complete, with the feed-bud attached.
2. The Petals of the flower fpread open, to expofe the fituation of the Tip:..

3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit.

That the attention of the fcientific and other collectors and cultivators of exotics, in this kingdom,
may be brought to a better acquaintance, with this fine, very extended, yet much neglected Genus;
the fpecies of which, now in Britain, amount to more than feventy, has been our chief aim, in endea-
vouring to lay before them, figures of fome of the moft rare and beautiful one of which we deem
;

the prefent. *
This variety of Long-leaved Protea, is figured in Boerhaave's Index to the Leyden garden, Part 2.
p. 186, as one of his Lepidocarpodendrons, and has been given, byWilldenow in his Sp. plant. Tom. I.
p. 531. as a fynonim of P. fpeciofa, quoted from Thunberg's prod. T] '.
Dill", de Prot.
The culture and treatment of this plant, is the fame as P. fpeciofa, to which we refer our readers.
From a fine plant, in the Hibbertian collection, our drawing was taken in the month of July this
year. It was introduced to us from the Royal Ga r dens at Schonbrun in Germany, communicated by

the fuperintendant to Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, the feeds having been received from
the collector for the Emperor, at the Cape.
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PLATE CXXXIV.

IXIA CROCATA. J'ar. ni". maculata.

Crocus flowered Ixia. var. black spotted.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MO NOG YN I A. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. Blossom 6-petals, fpreading, equal.
Stamina tria, ere&iufculo-patula. Chives three, upright and fpreading.
See Ixia reflexa. PI. XIV. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis falcatis, flaccidis; floribus alternis, fef- Ixia with fcimitar-fhaped limber leaves ; flowers
filibus; petalis tribus exterioribus bafi gib- grow alternate and clofe to the item; the
bis maculatifque. three outer petals are gouty and fpotted at
the bafe.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Spaths of the Empalement.
2. The Flower cut open and expanded, with the Chives attached.
3. The Seed bud, Shaft and Summits, the Summits detached and magnified.

This variety of Crocus -flowered Ixia was introduced, according to the Kew Catalogue, Vol. I. p. 60,
in the year 1/74, by Mr. F. Maflbn, from the Cape of Good Hope, and there, is treated as a diltinft
fpecies, under the name of [Link]. From the number of drawings we poffefs of this tribe of plants,
having nineteen diftincl: varieties of this one fpecies, and in the clofe inveftigation we have given them,
in their flowering, for a number of years; having found them to fport in colour, &c. from the lame
root, but much more from feed enables us decifively to place this plant as a variety to I. crocata.
fo ;

It is one of the moft hardy of the Genus, and propagates itfelf by the root. The flowers are produced
about May, in which month 1799* our drawing was taken, at the Hammerfmith nurfery; fince, we
have not feen it in any collection ; which leads us to think it is not a free blower, as the roots are not
fcarce.

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MALVA REFLEX A.
Reflex -flowered Mallow.

CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. o/[Link].

Plant. I/89.

MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium duplex; exterius triphyl- Empalement. Cup double; the outer three
lum, anguftius; foliolis cordatis, acutis, per- leaved, narrower; leaflets heart - fhaped,
fiftentibus; interim monophyllum, femi- fharp, and remaining; the inner one-leaf,
quinquefidum, majus, latius, perfiftens. half rive-cleft, larger, broader, and remain-
ing.
Corolla. Petala quinque, obcordata, prse- Blossom. Five petals, inverfely heart-fhaped,
morfa, plana, tubo ftaminum bafi affixa. appearing bit at the ends, fiat, fixed to the
tube of the chives at the bafe.
Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, inferne coalita Chives. Threads numerous, united below into
in tubum, in hujus apice et fuperficie fece- a tube, at its top and furface parted and

dentia et libera. Antherae reniformes. loofe. Tips kidney-fhaped.

Pistillum. Germen orbiculatum. Stylus cy- Pointal. Seed-bud orbicular. Shaft cylindri-
lindraceus, brevis. Stigmata plurima, fe- cal and fhort. Summits many, briftle-
tofa, longitudine ftyli. fhaped, the length of the fhaft.
Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda, compofita Seed-vessel. Capfule roundifh, compofed of
e loculamentis pluribus, (tot quot ftigmata) many cells (as many as there are tips) two-
bivalvibus, virticillatim inarticulatis circum valved, forming a whorl round a columnar
receptaculum columnare, tandem dilaben- receptacle not jointed, at length falling
tibus. off.

Sbmina folitaria, rarius duo feu tria, renifor- Seeds folitary, feldom two or three, kidney-
mia. fhaped.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Malva foliis cuneiformibus, inequaliter incifo- Mallow with wedge-fhaped leave*, unequally
lobatis; petalis reflexis. gafhed into lobes; petals reflexed.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, the inner and outer Cup feparated from the
Bloffom.
2. A Bloffom fpread open.
3. The Chives and Pointal.
4. The Chives, the connecting tube cut open.
5. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified.

Some light doubts, at firft, arofe in our minds, that this plant might bethe [Link] in M. virgata,
Profeffor Martyn'anew arrangement of But, from the extraor-
Miller's Dictionary, vide art. Malva.
dinary length of the branches of M. virgata, there defcribed to be fix feet and a half long, and only
the thicknefs of a wheat ftraw at the bafe! with dark purple flowers; we cannot but confider this,
which never riles to more than a foot and a half or two feet in the Item, with white flowers, ex-
cepting a fmall ftreak of red at the bafe of the petals, as a diftiniSt and new fpecies. It is a native of
the Cape, and was received in feeds, from thence, in the year i'gi. As a hardy green-hotife plant
it is moll ornamental; the bloflbms, which are quite reflexed when full blown, bein^ produced in

fucceflion from March till November, upon every part of the plant. It is increafed by cuttings made
in Ma) , and placed under a hand-glafs on a lliady border. Light loam with a fmall mixture of peat..
is the belt foil to make it flourifh.
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GERANIUM CRASSIFOLiU M.
Thick-leaved Geranium.

CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. °f Suppl. Syftem.

Feg. 1781.

MONA DELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Monogyna. Stigmata 5. Fru£tus roftratus, One Pointal. Five fummits. Fruit furnifhed
penta-coccus. with long awns, five dry berries.
See Geranium grandiflorum, PI. XII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis acuminatis, lobato-pinnatis, fub- Geranium with leaves tapering to the point,
camolis, laciniis inequaliter dentatis; pe- winged in lobes and rather fleiliy, the feg-
dunculis fubquadriflorisj fioribus pentau- ments unequally toothed; foot-ftalks gene-
dris; petalis asqualibus, purpureis. rally four flowers; the flowers have five fer-

tile tips; petals equal and purple.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.
2. One Petal of the Bloflbm.
3. The Chives and Pointal.
4. The Chives, fpread open.
5. The fame, magnified.
6. The Pointal, magnified.

The thick leaved Geranium is a native of the ifland of Cyprus, and was introduced by Dr. Sibthorpe,
on his return from vifiting the Grecian iflands, in the year 178S. It is, we think, no more than a
biennial plant at beft, as it feldom furvives the fecond winter, and but rarely the firft. If the feeds are
fown in the month of March, the plants will flower the enfuing autumn, and generally produce ripe
feeds, if kept in a fheltered and warm fituation. This plant is unqueftionably the true Erodium of
L'Heritier, and thofe who admit of that innovation, being the one, apparently, upon which he formed
his Generic diitinftion as we believe, no other fpecies, fo denominated, has every conflituent Ellen-
;

tial part neceflary to his Genus.

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GLADIOLUS NANUS.
Dwarf Gladiolus.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIJNDR1A MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Cokolla fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen Blossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend-
dentia.
See Gladiolus koseus. Plate XI. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, plicatis, pilofis; fcapo Gladiolus with lance-fhaped leaves, plaited and
toto florigero longitudine foliorum; corolla hair}'; flower-ftem quitecovered with flowers
ringente, laciniis longiffimis, divaricatis, un- the length of the leaves; bloflbm gaping,
dulatis; fpatha trivalvi. the fegments very long, fpreading different
ways and waved; fheath three valved.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The three valved Sheath.
2. A Bloffom cut open and expanded, the Chives remaining attached.
4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and its Summits, one of them detached and magnified.

The Hibbertian collection has fumilhed us with this extraordinarily handfome Gladiolus. Our draw-
ing was taken at Clapham, in Auguft this year, when we were informed by Mr. Hibbert that he had
received the bulbs but a few months before, from his colleftor at the Cape. It has little likenu"-; to

any one of the Genus yet in England; but from the character of the leaves, we fhould incline to
think, the treatment required for Ixia plicata, (of which fpecies we have drawings of more than
twenty varieties, known under the names of I. villofa, I. rubro-cyanea, I. punicea, I. purpurea, &c. &c.)
that is to fay, to be kept through the winter months, in more heat than is required for the generality
of Ixias and Gladiolufes.
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VACCINIUM AMOENUM.
Broad-leaved Wlior tie-berry.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eisht Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx superus. Corolla monopetala. Cup fuperior. Bloffom one petal.
Filamenta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- Threads fixed into the receptacle. A Berry
locularis, polyfperma. with four cells and many feeds.
See Vac. arctostaphyllos, PI. XXX. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Vaccinium foliis utrinque acuminatis, fubfer- Whortle-berry with leaves tapering to both ends,
rulatis, deciduis; floribus racemofis, pedun- a little fawed at the edges and falling off;
culis bracfeatis, calycibus refiexis, corollis flowers grow in long bunches, foot-ftalks
evlindraceis. Stamina decern. with floral leaves, cups reflexed, bloffoms
cylinder-fhaped. Ten Chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 A Flower complete.
2. The Empalement, with the floral leaves.
3. The Chives, magnified.
4. The Shaft and its Summit, magnified.
5. A nearly ripe Berry.
6. The fame, cut tranfverfely, magnified.

This very handfome fpecies of Whortleberry was introduced, from North America, in the year l~65,
by Mr. John Cree, Nurferyman, of Addleftone, amongft many others. It is a hardy plant, in our
climate. This fpecies inclines to a loamy, rather than a peat foil, and is propagated by fuckers, which
it throws up from the root, or from layers; which may be put down in May, and taken off the
fucceeding year. Its about June or July, in which latter month our drawing was
time of flowering is

made laft year, at Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's, Hammerfmith.

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STRUTHIOLA CILIATA. Far. Jlore rubra

Fringed-leaved Struthiola. Far. redjiowered.

CLASS IV. ORDER 1.

TETRASDRIA MONOGYN1A. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Perianthium diphyllmn. Corolla tubulofa, Cup two-leaved. Blolibm tubular, 4-cleft; Ho-
4-fida; Nedtarium, glandulae octo fauci cir- ney-cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth
cumpoiiue. of the blolibm.
Semen unum, lubbaccatum. One Seed, like a berry.
See Struthiola imbricata, PI. CXIII. Vol. II.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Struthiola foliis ovato-lanceolatis, mucronatis, Struthiola with leaves between egg and lance-
ciliatis, concavis, quadrifariam imbricatis; fhaped, pointed, fringed, concave and tiled
glandula; octo fupra faucem ; corolla ru- in four rows; eight glands upon the mouth
bra. of the blolibm, which is red.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A leaf, natural fize, from one of the younger branches.
2. A Blolibm, with its Cup, or floral leaves.
3. The Cup, magnified.
4. A Blollbni cut open, and magnified.
5. The Seed bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified.

The two varieties of this fpecies of Struthiola, the other with a white flower being intended foi
our next number, were introduced at the fame time with the Struthiola imbricata, to which they
much affine, in general habit. But, the strong diftin&ion in the number and chara&er of the glands,
induced us to confider them of a diftincrt fpecies; in this, they are eight, in S. imbricata there are
but four; the leaves likewife not lb clofely fet upon the ftem, and they are much more fringed.
For the culture and treatment of this, we mult refer our readers to the directions, for managing the
above named plant. "We had our fpecimen, for the figure, from the Clapham collection in May 1800.
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VACCINIUM FRONDOSUM.
Obtufe-leaved Wliortle-berry.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Fila- Cup fuperior. Bloffom one petal. Threads
menta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- fixed into the receptacle. A berry with

locularis, polyfpetma. four cells and many feeds.

Sec Vac. arctostaphyllos, PI. XXX. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Vaccinium racemis foliofis ;

pedicellis braftea- Whortle-bcrry with fmall leaves on the flower-
tis; corollis campanulatis ; foliis obtufis, ftems ; foot-ftalks of the flowers with leaf-

oblongis, fubtus fub-glaucis, deciduis. Sta- lets ; bloffoms bell-fhaped ; leaves, obtufe,

mina decern. oblong, rather glaucous underneath and de-

ciduous. Ten Chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, natural size.
2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified.
5. A nearly ripe Berry cut tranfverfely.

The Obtufe-leaved Whortle-berry was introduced, according to the Kew Catalogue, Vol. II. p. 12,

from North America, 1770 by Mr. William Young but neverthelefs, although faid to be
in the year ;

an inhabitant of our gardens fo long as 20 years, it is, we believe, known to very few cultivators. It
is a deciduous ihrub, growing to the height of about two or three feet; and will, in general, furvive

the inclemency of our winters.

It is increafed with difficulty by layers, and the berries feldom ripen with us ; light peat earth,
with a fmall mixture of loam, it thrives in moft. The drawing for our figure was taken, from the
Hibbertian collection, in July 1800. This fpecies has like wife ten Chives, five divifions of the
cup, &c.
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PLATE CXLI.
CYANELLA CAPENSIS.
Cape Cyanella.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx nullus. Empalement, none.
Corolla. Petala lex, unguibus eohaerentia, Blossom. Six petals, adhering by the claws,
oblonga, concava, patulaj tribus interiori- oblong, concave, spreading; the three in-
bus propendentibus. terior ones hanging forwards.
Stamina. Filaments lex, bafi contigua, bre- Chives. Threads fix, contiguous at the bafe,
viflima, patentiufcula ; infimo declinato. very fhort, fpreading a little; the lower one
Antherarum quinque oblongae, curvatse, bent down. Five of the tips are oblong,
erectae, apice dehifcentea dentibus quatuor curved, upright, fplitting at the end, with
obtufis ; altera vero declinata, maxima, four obtufe teeth; but the other is bent
apice bifida. down, very large, and two-cleft at the end.
Pistillum. Germen trigonum, obtufum. Sty- Pointal. Seed-bud three tided, obtufe. Shaft
lus filiformis, declinatus, longitudine infimi thread -fhaped, bent downward, and the
ftaminis. Stigma acutiufculum. length of the lower chive. Summit rather
iharp-pointed.
Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda trifulcata, Seed-vessel. Capfule roundifh, three-furrowed,
trilocularis, trivalvis. three cells, three valves.
Semina plura, oblonga. Seeds many, oblong.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Cyanella caule foliofo, paniculato; racemis di- Cyanella with a leafy ftem growing into a pani-
varicatis foliis lanceolatis, undulatis; rlo-
; cle; branches ftraddling; leaves lance-
ribus coeruleis. fhaped, and waved; flowers blue.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 . The Chives and Pointal, natural fize, the petals of the bloilbm cut aw ay
2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified.
3. The fame thrown open, to fhew their connection at the bafe.
4. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified.

The Cape Cyanella has been long known in many herbariums, and to moft botanifts by name, but we
much queftion whether a living plant has, till now, been feen in our gardens. The defcription, in
his dictionary, of a plant cultivated by Miller in lj6S, where he fays,
" the leaves are long, narrow,
" with a groove on the upper fide, the peduncle anting immediately from the root, fupporting one
" flower, of a fine blue colour;" fnrely can have no connection with our plant, but in the colour of
its bloffom. From every appearance of the plant, even in an abortive fpecimen, more than one flower
muft be produced, if any. It is enumerated, in the Kew Catalogue, as one of the fpecies of Cyanella
but, we fuppofe, only from an accepted idea, that the plant defcribed by Miller was the C. capenfis;
and, as having been cultivated in Britain, might be therefore introduced with propriety into the book,
though it had never graced the garden; otherwife, if this plant, which is inconteftibly the true C. ca-
penfis of Linnaeus, had ever been feen in the Royal Gardens, no affinity would have been traced to
that of Miller.
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A few fmall inaccuracies occur in the generic character of this Genus, which we" have rectified;
one is, that the inner, and not the outer petals, are thofe which hang forward; the others may be ob-
ferved by thofe, who may confider them worthy notice. This fpecies is a bulbous-rooted plant, flow-
ering freely in the green-houfe; although the roots had been received, late in the feafon, from the
collector for theHibbertian Collection now at the Cape; which, perhaps, is the reafon the flowers are
produced at this time of the year (February). Mr. Allen informs us, that, it has had no other treat-
ment, than what is given to Cape bulbs in general. From the fwelled appearance of the feed-veffels
we have little doubt of ripe feeds being produced.
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PLATE CXLIL

GLADIOLUS CRISPUS.
€urled- leaved Gladiolus

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDR1A MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen- Blossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend-
dentia. ing.
See Gladiolus roseus. Plate XI. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus foliis enfiformibus, ad oras crifpus; Gladiolus with fword fhaped leaves, curled at
floribus fecundis, palide rubris ; laciniis the edges ; flowers point all one way, and
corolla rotundatis; tubo gracili, longif- are of a pale red ; fegments of the bloffom
fimo. rounded ; tube flender, and very long.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1 The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, the Chives remaining attached.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.

A. Figure of this Gladiolus may be found in the Ic. rar. 2. of Profeflbr Jacquin, t. 267, by thofe who
pofiefs that elegant and invaluable work. The plant from which our drawing was taken, and we
believe the first that has been feen in Britain, flowered in the collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clap
ham Common, laft year in the month of July. We do not perceive that the treatment of this plant,

fhould differ from the reft of its congeners.

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PLATE CXLIII.

LIMONIA TRIFOLIATA
Three-leqfletted Limonia.

CLASS X. ORDER 1.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllimi, tri-feu Empalkment. Cup one leaf, three or five-
quinquefidum, acuUim, minimum, perfif- cleft, pointed, very fmall, and remaining.
tens.

Corolla. Petala tria ad quinque, oblonga, ob- Blossom. Petals from three to five, oblon<\

tal'a, erefta, apice patentia. obtufe, upright, fpreadirjg at the end.

Stamina. Filamenta i'ex ad decern, fubulata, Chives. Threads from fix to ten, awl fhapid,
erecla, corolla breviora. Antherae lineares, upright, ilioi tcr than the bloffom. Tips
eredte. linear, and upright.
Pistillum. Germen oblongum, superum. Sty- Pointal. Seed bud oblong and fuperior Shaft
lus cylindraceus, longitudine ftaminum. cylindrical, the length of the Chives. Sum-
Stigma capitatum, planum. mit headed, and flat.

Pericarpium. Bacca ovata leu globoi'a, trilo- Seed-vessel. An oval, or globular berry with

cularis; diffepimentis membranaceis. three cells; partitions lkinny.

Semina lblitaria, ovata. Seeds folitary, and egg-lhapej.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Limonia foliis ternatis; fpinis geminis, axilla- Limonia with leaves compofVd of three leaflets;
ribus. lpines grow by pairs at the footftalka of the
leaves clofe to the ftcm.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement, magnified.
2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified, as they ftand in the BlofTom
3. The Pointal natural fize.
4. The fame, magnified.
5. A ripe berry.
6. A Seed.

This plant, a native of China, has fince its introdu&ion, as are moft plants coming from thence,
been cultivated with us as a hot-houfe plant but from every natural affinity, wc fhould be led to fup-
;

pofe it would endure our winters, in the green-houfe. As yet it is in t\\v collection., and fearce
therefore, becomes more plenty, it will, molt likely, not undergo that ordeal. Our drawing
till it

was taken from branch in high perfection, communicated by Mr. Anderfon, from the colleftion
a
of J. Vere, Efq. Kenfington Gore, laft year 1800, in the month of July; who informs us, he has
been enabled to propagate it by cuttings and that he keeps it in a mixture of loam and rotten dung.
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PROTEA LONGIFOLIA. Far. cono [Link].

hong-leaved Protea. Far. top-shaped

CLASS IV. ORDER 1.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 4-fida leu 4-petala. Anthers lineares, Blossom 4-cleft or 4 petals. Tips linear, in-

infertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx pro- ferted into the petals below the point. Cup
prius nullus. Semina folitaria. proper none. Seeds folitary.

See Protea Formosa, PI. XVII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Protea foliis fublinearibus, anguftis, obliquis, Protea with nearly linear leaves, narrow, oblique.
rigidis, longiffimis; fquamis interioribus harili and very long; the inner icales of the

calycis kinceolatis, erectis; florum plumis cup are lance-fhaped and upright; the
:itro purpureis ; conus turbinatus. plume of flowers are of a dark purple; the
cone top-fhaped.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Bloffom complete, with the feed-bud attached.
2. The Petals of the flower fpread open, to fhew the fituation of the Tips.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit.

This is the third variety of Long-leaved Protea, as mentioned p. 132, and equally fcarce with the
preceding ones. It was raifed from feed at the lame time with the other two, which were received

by MelTrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hatmmerfmith, from the superintendant of the Imperial Gardens at
Schonbrun. This variety, at prefent, is in no collection, that we know of, in England, but that of
G. Hibbert, Efq. where our drawing was made, in the month of January 1801. The fame unfor-
tunate character attaches to this, as to the other varieties, from the great difficulty of increafing it;

although, it flourifhes in growth, if planted in a light, loamy foil.

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TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. I.

Plate I Cortufa Matthioli Alpine Sanicle Har. Herb. May, June.

2 Sprengelia incarnata Star-flowered Sprengelia G.H. Shrub. AllSummer.
3 Neottia fpeciofa Flefh-coloared Neottia H. H. Herb. Mach, April.
4 Rhododendron Dauricum Dauric Rhododendron Har. Shrub. April, .May.

5 Gladiolus longiflorus , Long-flowered Gladiolus G.H. Herb. June, July.

6 Hemerocallis caerulea Blue Day Lily H. H. Herb. Septem. or Feb.
7 Primula Cortufoides I
Siberian Pi imrofc Har. Herb. June, July.
8 Gladiolus alatus Wing-flowered Gladiolus G.H. Herb. May, June.
9 Atragene Capenfis Cape Atragene , G. H. Shrub. March, April.
lo Ariftea cyanea Blue-flowered Ariftea G. H. Herb. July, Augufl.
1 Gladiolus rofeus Rofc-colourcd Gladiolus G. H. Herb. May, June.
u Geranium grandiflorum Largeft-flowered Geranium G.H. Shrub. July, Augufl.
13 Epidendrum cochleatum Purple-flowered Epidrndrum H. H. Herb. July.
14 Ixia reflexa Reflex-flowered Ixia G. H. He.b. May, June.
J? Anthyllis erinacea Blue Broom of Spain G.H. Shrub. April, May.
16 Azalea Pontica Yellow Pontic Azalea Har. Shrub. May, June.
17 Protea formofa Coronet Prorca G.H. Shrub. Auguft.
18 Cornea alba
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White C01 rca » G.H. Shrub. April, May.
19 Gladiolus verficolor Changeable Gladiolus G.H. Herb. June.
20 [Link] grandiflorum Large-flowered Viper's Buglofs G. H. Shrub. April, May.
Vereia crenata ,
Scolloped-lcaf Vereia H. H. Shrub. July.
Goodenia calendulacea Cape Maiygold-leaved Goodenia G. H. Shrub. Auguft.
Ixia capicata. Var. ovata Bunch-flowering Ixia. Var. egg-lhaped G.H. Herb. April.
-4 Cineraria aurita Two-colourcd-lcaved Cineraria G.H. Herb. All Summer.
25 Camellia Japonica. Var. flo. dbo pleno. Double white Camellia G.H. Shrub., Oclob. Novcm.
;6 C affula odoratiffima Sweet-fccnted Craffula G.H. Shrub. April, May.
27 Gladiolus riogens. Var. cinereo odorato. Gaping Alh-coloured fweet Gladiolus. . G.H. Herb. June.
23 Geranium clegans Round-leaved Geranium G.H. Shrub. May.
29 Ixia fp cata. Var. vindi nigra Sea-crCen fpiked Ixia G.H. Herb. May, June.
30 Vaccinium Anftoftaphyllus Madeira Whortle-berry Har. Shrub. July, Auguft.
31 Borbonia cordata Hiait-fhape-lcaved Borbonia G.H. Shrub. July-
3* Antholvza ringens Gaping Antholyza G. H. Herb. June.
33 Diofma latifblia Broad. leaved Diofma G.H. Shrub. Augufl.
3* Chelone Rupioides Scarlet Chcrlonc Har. Herb. Auguft.
35 Ixia crifpifolia. Var. flo. caeruleo. . . Crifpcd-leavcd Ixia, blue variety G.H. Hctb. July.
36 Rhododendron punctatum Dotted-lcavcd Rhododendron Har. Shrub. July.
37 Geranium fragile Brittlc-ftalkcd Geranium G. H. Shrub. Augufl.
3« Gladiolus precox. Var. florc rubro. '.
Red early-flowering Gladiolus G. H. Herb. April.
39 Echium ftrociflimum Prickly Viper's Buglofs G.H. Shrub. July.
40 Chelone campanuloides Bell-flowered Chelone Har. Herb. Augufl*) Septem
4' Lickcnalia pendula Drooping-flowcred Lachcnalia G.H. Herb. September.
42 Orchis ciliaris Fringed Orchis Har. Herb. July.
43 Bignonia Lcucoxylon Oleander-flowered Trumpet Flower. . H.H. Shrub. July.
44 Ixia cinnamomca Cinnamon-fmelling Ixia G.H. Herb. June.
45 Iris longifolia Long-!caved Iris G. H- Herb. June.
46 Maflonia violacea Purplc-flowcrcd Maflonia P. H. Herb. Scj tcmber.

47 Mufa coccinca Scarlet-flowered Plantain-tree , H. H. Shrub. Decern. Jan.

48 Ixia bulbifera. Var. flo. lutco Bulb-bearing Ixia. Var. yellow-flowered. G. H. Herb. May.
49 Malpighia craffifolia Thick-leaved Malpighia H.H. Shrub, September.
5° Ixia capitate. Var. florc aurantio Bunch-flowering Ixia. Var. gold colour. G. H. Herb. May.
5' Xcranthcmum fpeciociffimum Largeff -flowering Evcrlafting Flower. . G.H. Shrub. .September.
5* Gnidia pinifolia Pine-leaved Gnidia G. H. Shrub. Feb. March.
53 Mimofa flricla Harfh-lcavcd upright Mimofa G. H. Shrub. [Link], April.
54 Aletris farmentofa j
Creeping-rooted Baitard Aloe G.H. Herb. Decern. Jan.
55 Zinnia violacea Purple Zinnia Har. Ann. Au£u(r, Sept.
56 Antholyza Ipicata Spike-flowered Antholyza Ci. II. He.b. June.
Mefcmbrynntlumum glabrum Smooth-leaved annual Fig Marygold. . G.H. Ann. J"iy-
-

Boionia pinnata Haw thom-ftentcd Boronia G. H. Shrub. All Summer.

59 Hollow-leaved Ixia G. II. Herb. June.
60 Geranium pun<5latum Dotted -flowered ranium G G. H. Herb. April.
61 After dcnta'us 1
-leaved Starwort
I G. H. Shrub. AH Summer.
62 ' .j'. gramiiv u:
.
Grafs' like Gladiolus G. H. Herb. [Link], Juribi
« 1
1 fcandcni Climbing Ufteria C. 11. B '..! All Summer.
64 Pxoiiia albiriora White P*«>ny [Link]. Herb. June.
«5 Ophrys lilifolta \ ed Ophrys Har. Herb. July.
66 Gladi '
him :

ig Gl G. H. Herb. fuly.
«7 Geranium malum fagged-1 inium I G G. II. Shrub. All Summer.
61 1

nia ovata Oval-le ived Goodenia <;. 11. Shrub. Augufl, Sept.
6, rnofj. Var. longifolia. . R lowei ILarol [Link] ivedvar. c;. 11. Shrub. J"'>'-
70 1 nmplci (, 11. Sh ub, April, Sept.
7' Ctcm itis viorna 1; ue th < k-pttai'd Virgin I -
rci 11 11. He.b. All Summer.
71 Styphtlu tnl! ra 1 -lowered Styphclia G. 11. Shrub. June.
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INDEX
TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. II.

Plate 73 Daphne pontica Pontic Spurge Laurel Har. I

Shrub March, April.
74 Perfoonia lanceolata Lance-ihape-lcaved Perfoonia G.H Shrub. All Summer.
75 Phyfalis proftrata Trailing Winter cherry H. H. Ann. July, Auguft.
76 Protea pinifolia Pine-leaved Protea G.H. Shrub. July, August
77 Perfoonia linearis Linear-leaved Protea G. H. ! Shrub Auguft, Sept.
7? Ixora Pavetca Sweet Ixora H. H. Shrub. Auguft, Sept.
79 Crowea faligna Willow leaved Crowea G.H. I
Shrub July, till Nov.
So Buchnera fcetida Stinking Buchnera G.H. j
Ann. Auguft, Sept.
Si Soweibia juncea ;. . Ruih-like Sowerbia. . t G. H. j
Herb. All Summer.
Si Bankfia ferrata Sawed-leaved Bankfia G.H. Shrub. March, Apr!:.
«3 Morcea tricolor Three-coloured Moraea G. H. Eulb. May, June.
84 Buchnera pedunculata Solitary-flowered Buchnera G. H. Shrub, July till Nov.
«5 Mahernia odorata Sweet Mahernia G.H. Shrub. All the year.
S6 Bignonia pandorana Norfolk Ifland Trumpet Flower G.H. Shrub. March till June.
87 Ixia ariftata. Var, atro-purpurca . . . Ragged flleathed Ixia. Var. dark purple, G. H. Bulb. May, June.
88 Eranthemum pulcbellum Blue-flowered Eranthemum H. H. Shrub. Jan. till May.
89 Gnidia laevigata Shining-leaved Gnidia G. H. Shrub. July, Auguft.
90 Septas capenfis Cape leptas G. H. Herb. May till Auguft.
Camellia japonica. [Link] Double-ftriped Camellia G. H. Shrub. Auguft May.
91 till

91
Crinum fpirali [Link] [Link] Lily G. H. Bulb. Jan. till April.
After reflexus. Reflex-leaved Starwort. G. H. Shrub. All the year.
93
9+ Galaxia ovata Oval-leaved Galaxia G.H. Bulb. June, July.
95 Amaryllis radiata '
Rayed Lily D-iffbdil H. H. Bulb. Feb. March.
96 Punica granatum. Var, JJo, a/So. ... White Pomegranate G. H. Shrub. April, May.
97 Vaccinium formofum Red-twigged Whortleberry Har. Shrub. May, June.
98 Pultenaea daphnoides Daphne-like Pultenaea G.H. Shrub. May, June.
99 Gladiolus blandus Large white flowered Gladiolus G. H. Bulb. May.
loo Embothrium fericeum Silky Embothrium G.H. Shrub. All the year.
IOI Hypoxis ftellata Star-tlowered Hypoxis G.H. Bulb. June, July.
102 Epigaea repens Creeping Epigjea Har. Shrub. April, May.
103 Prorea fpeciofa, nigra Black-flower.d Protea G.H. Shrub. July, August.
101 [Link] Eriocephala Woolly-headed Lachnaea G.H. Shrub. March till Aug.
105 Vaccinium crarfifolium Thick-leaveJ Whortle-berry Har. Shrub. Juiv, July.
106 Houftonia coccinea Scarlet Houftonia G. H. Shrub. Auguft till Dec.
107 Allium gracile Sweet-fcented Garlic H. H. Bulb. March till June.
108 Geranium reniforme Kidney-ihapc-leaved Geranium G. H. Shrub. July, Auguft.
109 Chryfanthemum tricolor Three coloured Corn-Marygold G.H. Ann. July till October.
no Protea fpeciofa, latifclia Broad-leaved shewy Protea G. H. Shrub. Auguft.
III Gladiolus ftriatus Streaked-flowered Gladiolus G. H. Bulb. July, Auguft.
112 Vaccinium cumofum Bufliy Whortle berry Har. Shrub. June.
113 Struthiola imbricata Tiled-leaved Struthiola G.H. Shrub. March and Sept.
114 Geranium quinquevulnerum Variegated-flowered Geranium G.H. Shrub. June, July.
"5 Geranium tomentofum Downy-leaved Geranium G. H. Shrub. August.
116 Gaultheria procumbens Trailing Gaultheria Har. Shrub. March till Aug.
117 Gentiana purpurea Purple-flowered Gentian Har. Herb. July, August.
118 Gladiolus grandiflorus Large-flowered Gladiolus, G.H. Bulb. fune.
1

ng Struthiola ovata Oval-leaved Struthiola G.H. I

Shrub. March till June.
120 Fuchlia lycioides Box Thorn-like Fuchfia G.H. Shrub. Auguft till Nov.
121 Geranium cortufaefolium Cortufa-leaved Geranium G.H Shrub. :

.Hy-
G ladio! us
,

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Gladiolus galeatus Helmet-flowered G.H. Bulb. May, June.
'23 Thunbergia fragrans , Twining Thunbergia H. H. Shrub. May til] Sept.
I

•i* Heliconia pfittacorum Parrot billed Heliconia H. 11. Shrub. September.

•25 Vaccinium parviflorum Small, flowered Whortle berry Har. Shrub. May, June.
Hi'nbertii volubilis Twining Hibbertia
126 G. H. Shiub. May till Sept.
117 Jafminum gracile SJender-ftemmed Jafmine G. H. Shrub. |ulv till Nov.
128 Ixia polyftachia Many fpiked Ixia G. H. Bulb. April.
129 Gloriofa fuperba Superb Gloriofa H. H. Bulb. Auguft.
130 Cubera undulata Waved-leaved Cerbera H. H. Shrub. .!«iy-
'3' Geranium taciniatum Ragged-leaved Geranium G. H. Shrub. May, June.
'3* Piotea longifolia. Nigra Long-leaved Protea. Black fivwer. . G. H. Shrub. Novern. Decern.
i!3 Protea longifolia. Ferruginosv-purpurea Long-leavedProtea Rusty purple Jlciver, G. H. Shrub. July, Auguft.
'34 Ixia crocata. Var. nigra macular a.. . . Crocus-flowered Ixia. I'ar. black spotted. G. H. Bulb. May, June.
'35
Malva reflexa Reflex-flowered Mallow G. H. Shrub. March till Nov.
136 Geranium crafTifolium Thick-leaved Geranium G. H. Ann. August, Sept.
Gladiolus nanus Dwarf Gladiolus G. II. Bulb. May, June.
'37 ;

.38 Vaccinium amcenum Broad-leaved Whortle beny Har. Shrub. June, July.
Struthiola ciliati. [Link] rubro, Fringcd-lcaved Struthiola. Var, red-
•39 . .

Ji ivcred G.H. Shrub. August.

Vaccinium frondofum. Obtufc-lcavcd Whortlc-berry Har. Shrub.
140 June, July.
141
[Link] capenfis C ipe Cyanclla G. H. Bulb. M.n June. ,

Gladiolui crifpus Cuilcd leaved Gladiolus G. II. Bulb.

142 June, July.
Limonia trifoliata.. Thrce-lcaflcucd Limonia Shrub. .An guff.
'43 II. II
,., Protea longifolij. I'ar. am iutbi>iji,.. Long-leaved ProtC I'm ...r.c tcp-ibapcl
•
G.H. 1 Shrub. Nov. Dec.
 ERRATA.
Plate 7j ( Sp. Ch. pedunculu', lege, peduncufiu
74, Gen. Ch. Netflariae, leg?, Neelaria,
76, See P. fpeciofa, Tezd t f^rmofa.
79, Gen. Ch. Pointal, for Secd-buds, read, Secd-bud,
8 1, Gen. Ch. Chives, for bear two chive , each parted, read, bear two tips each, parted, Sec.
84, Defer, line 7, for plotted, Tad, potted.
90, Gen. Ch. Pericarp. Capfula, lege, Capfula.
91, Englifh name, for Double-flriped, read, Double Striped» Claf?, lege, ftfonade'pkia.
96, Seed-veflel, for five-celled, read, nine-celled,
106, Defer, line 5, for Hememeris, read, Hemimerh.
120, Gen. Ch. Calyx, monophyllum. Infundibuliforme, lege, [Link], infundibulif-irrne. Poll Jvpe~
rum, adde (,)
13-, Defer, line penult, for O borbonica, read, 0. borbonica.
131, Clafs, Monodelphia, lege, Mcnadelpbia. From a Angular oversight, in tranferibing, this Erratum his
bem overlooked, snd continued, with every Geranium.
T33» Sp. Ch. line 3, poft lanceolatis, adde, (,)
137, Sp. Ch. line 5, for three valved, read, three talked* Defcrip. line 4, after but, put (,)

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