i . SX i 4 . \ 4: x £ io ) f a — i tans a? = F ; : Z ve : . an La fd wi > 3) R F Linwdéa na Kq ¢ Add WOR VA 18h vi 3 corre ae EG otis”: Dama RRS 5: ‘iia: es oie ae ; see BQ? es OURO CEng My POUENOS Sx Oe Ss ye Pas S pet S ( MM PLATE CXLV. “HILLTA LONGIFLORA. Long: flowered Hilla. CLASS VI. HEXANDRLA MONOGYNL4. Six Chives. ORDER I. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthium hexaphyllum; foliolis ob- longis, acutis, erectis. CoroLta monopetala; tubus cylindricus, lon- giffimus; limbus fexfidus; laciniis oblongis, nis. Sramina. Filamenta fex, breviffima. Antherz oblonge, erectz, intra faucem corolle. EmpaLeMent. Cup fix-leaved; leaflets oblong, fharp pointed and upright Bossom one petal, tube cylindrical, very long; border fix-cleft; fegments oblong, Cuives. Threads fix very fhort. Tips oblong, upright, within the mouth of the bloffom. Pistittum. Germen inferum, oblongum, ob- Ponta. Seed-bud beneath oblong, flightly folete hexagonum. Stylus filiformis, lon- fix-fided. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the tube. Summit headed. gitudine tubi. Stigma capitatum. Pericarrium oblongum, compreffum, bilocu- lare. ‘ __ Semiva numerofa, minima. Po . SEED-vEssEL oblong, flattened and two celled. Sexps many, very {fmall, SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hillia with bloffoms fix cleft, fegments lance- fhaped, convex above; leaves egg-fhaped, pointed and {mooth. Hillia corollis fexfidis, laciniis lanceolatis, fupra convexis; foliis ovatis, acutis, glabris. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. ?. A flower cut open, to expofe the number and fituation of the Chives. . 2. The Shaft and its fummit, natural fize, placed by the flower, to thew its 2 Manager length to the tube. 3. The Seed-bud, with the leaflets of the Empalement attached, cut iransvertely! to fhew — divifion of the cells in the center. Paci of Hillia was firft introduced to our gardens in the year 1789, from the Ifland of Bar- » fent in plants, by Mr.J. Elcock, to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. Originally fhrab was fpecifically termed, parasitica by profeffor Jacquin, when he firft formed, and titled the Genns, after Dr. J. Hill, of voluminous memory ; from a fuppofition that it was to. be found ae _-Srowing; only, upon fome other plant; a circumftanee, which being denied by Swartz, he has altered BS to longiflora, We have followed the latter name that ours may go in unifon with the author of ~ the laft Species plantarum now publifhing by Willdenow, as well as profeffor } Martyn, who in his edition of Miller’s DiGtionary has followed Swartz; they appearing to be the moft accurate, as well as the moft read and followed of any modern Botanical authorities. It is a tender hot-houfe plant, ftrikes eafily from cuttings, thrives in rich mould and flowers about the end of February. To the Right Hon. Lord Vifcount Valentia we are indebted, for the [pecimen from which our figure was taken, _ fent from his Lordfhip’s famed collection at Arley near “ogee tare where, we believe, it ~ has flowered for the firft time in England. ey Mis sdk HOTA Nic at MARDEN ee, wi Z? bag Tha ec ee ee : a 6 Pe, , rie a Killen Cong Cora rae 5 PLATE CXLVI. PSORALEA ACULEATA. AS Prickly Psoralea. CLASS XVII ORDER IV. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.. Chives in two fets. Ten Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, tubercu- EmpALeMENT. Cup one leaf, dotted over with jis punétatum, quinquefidum; laciniis acu- mall tubercles, and five-cleft; the feg- tis, aequalibus, perfiftentibus; infima du- ments equal and remaining, the lower one lo longiore. twice the length of the others. Coxoxxa papilionacea, pentapetala. Bossom butterfly-fhaped, five-petalled. Vexillum subrotundum, emarginatum, af- tandard nearly round, notched at the end, furgens. turned upwards. Ale \unulate, obtufe, parve. Wings half-moon- thaped, obtufe, fmall. Carina dipetala, lunulata, obtufa. 20s Red. two-petalled, half-moon-fhaped, ob- tufe. Sramina. Filamenta diadelpha (Simplex feta- Cuives. Threads in two fets (a fingle one ceum et novem coalita), aticoeate An- like a briftie, and nine united), afcending. ~ there fubrotunde. Tips nearly round. Pistittum. Germen lineare. Stylus fubula- Pointat. Seed-bud linear. Shaft awl-fhaped, tus, adfcendens, longitudine , ftaminum. afcending, the length of the chives. Sum- Stigma obtufum. mit blunt PERICARPIUM. Legumen longitudine calycis, Seep-vesseL. A pod the length of the cup, flat- compreffum, adfcendens, acuminatum. - tened, afcending, and tapered to the point. SEMEN unicum, reniforme. © Seep, one, kidney-fhaped. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pforalea with three-leafletted leaves, very fmall,. very crowded, bent back, and ending | ina fmall fpine. Pforalea foliis ternatis, minimis, confertiflimis, recuryatis, in {pinulam definentibus, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. The Empalement. The Standard of a Bloffom. One of the Wings of the fame. The two Petals of the Keel. The Chives, a little magnified. oF S Be Tue Prickly Pforalea is not a new plant in our collections; for, it was firft introduced by Mr. F. Maf- fon to the Royal Gardens at Kew, as we learn from the Catalogue, in the year 1774. But although fo long a fojourner with us, it is not found in many collections, owing to the difficulty in its increafe, as it feldom ripens its feeds; and cuttings, the only remaining method, but seldom fucceed ; although by taking them from a vigorous growing plant and giving them the affiftance of the bark-bed of the © _ hothoufe, early in March, a few plants have been procured occasionally. Our drawing was made - from a moft beautiful plant in the Clapham Collection, laft year, in the month of Auguft. \ ae er ie : ee ee a ee Ss 2 ag hl ake target AR Sok me ~~, ot. en ¢ EEE dae Saoradea acttleali a EE ETORIT: AK EEE REIS AIRES, iS a tee Dies PLATE CXLVIIL. - GLADIOLUS CUSPIDATUS. ‘Spear-fpotted Gladiolus. CLASS I. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corotta fexpartita, ringens, Stamina adfcen- Brossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend- ing. See GLapiotus rosgus, Plate XI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis lineari-enfiformibus, glabris; co- rolla ringente; laciniis longiffimis, acumi- natis, undulatis, fubzqualibus, tribus in- ferioribus in medio macula oblonga notatis. Gladiolus with leaves that are linearly fword- fhaped and fmooth; bloffom gaping; feg- ments very long, tapered to the point, waved and nearly equal, the three lower in the middle have an oblong fpot. (0 ne REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement, 2. A bloffom cut open, with the Chives remaining attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, eee Tue Gladiolus here figured, reprefents a : known commonly by the name of of eight, quite diftin&; yet all, unqueftionably, originating in one common parent. It was introduced in 1796, from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. R. Williams, nurferyman of T from the root in abundance, if planted in very fandy peat earth, and flowers about the Month of April, or May. Oe eS ee ony, Ss oe ee ee g PLATE €XLVIII. LACHENALIA QUADRICOLOR. Four-coloured Lachenalia. CLASS VI ORDER IL HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, Cor. 6-petala, infera; petalis 3 interioribus Bross, 6-petals, beneath; the three inner pe- ‘longioribus. Stamina ere@a, Capfula fub- tals the longest. Chives erect. Capfule ovata, trialata. Semina globofa. nearly egg-fhaped, three winged. Seeds ce a a Whe ee “3 fs Pape . ta Riek ta We ee, ee see Pe renl aaia i. PLATE cxirs STRUTHIOLA CILIATA.. Fringed-leaved Struthiola. CLASS I[YVy. ORDER I. TETRANDRIA MON OGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, PeRIANTHIUM diphyllum. Corolla tubulofa, Cup two-leaved. Bloffom tubular, 4-cleft; Ho- 4-fida; NeCtarium, glandulz oéto fauci cir- ney-cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth cumpofite. Semen unum, fubbaccatum. of the bloffom. One feed like a berry. See SrruTHIoLA IMBRICATA, Pl. CXIII. Vol. Il. Ld SPECIFIC CHARACTER. a Struthiola foliis ovato-lanceolatis, mucronatis, Struthiola with leaves between egg and lance- ciliatis, concavis, quadrifariam imbricatis, fhaped, pointed, fringed, concave, tiled in apice incurvis; corolla fubalbida. _ four rows, turned inwards at the point; _bloffom whitith. ; eer i = : REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. A leaf thewn fide-ways that the incurvature of the upper part may be feen. 2. A flower complete. 3. The two leaves of the Empalement, magnified, 4. A bloffom cut open, to expofe the fituation of the chives, * magnified, 5. The Pointal, a little magnified, at the mouth of the tube, ac Tuis is the variety of Struthiola ciliata promifed in the laft number. It varies from the other in the largenefs and incurvation of the leaves » and colour of the flower, as well as, in the growth of the t; in that, it feldom exceeds one, With rather lefs difficulty ‘ ‘ the Hibbertian Colle&tion. This Var. has extremely fragrant, in the evening, acs — ie es = Ue < a PLATE CL. GERANIUM PREMORSUM. Bitten-leaved- Geranium. eemiainiaiienieen came CLASS — ORDER IV. ¢¥ Fae over Syst. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Pipbnsts united. ‘Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monoeyrna. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rof- One Pointal. tratus, penta-coccus, Five summits. Fruit farnifhed with long awns, five dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, P], XII. Vol, I. ee : SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Geranium foliis incifo-lobatis, reniformibus ; lobis cuneiformibus, pramorfis; aR Cpe 3 caule flexuoto, fubcarnos Geranium with leaves deeply cut into lobes and floribus kidney-fhaped; lobes wedge- fhaped, and bitten at the ends; flowers generally foli- tary, with feven fertile tips; ftem grows zig-zag, rather flefhy. re » REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. - The Empalement cut a ; The Chives and Pointa to fhew its tubular ftruQure. 3. The Chives fpread me 4. The Pointal and Seed. bud. I Tue Geranium premorfum offers a mott is without doubt a true fpecies. It is a ' J. Colville of the King’s Road, Chelfea; that he keeps it in rich dungy earth, wid of a dry ftove in the winter months, native of the Cape of Good Hope, » by Captain Quarrel; beautiful addition to this already very extenfive genus, but and was introduced to us, 3 brought in feed, and communicated to Mr, who informs us, that it flowers from March, till N. ovember, that it is raifed, pretty freely, by cuttings; requiring the heat Our figure was made at the nurfery, Chelf = ning of March this year. Ty, Cnellea, about the begin meer a, V, 30 at i | ‘ ee G CUMIN {Utenorsum PLATE CLI. PITTOSPORUM CORIACEUM. Thick-leaved Pittof/porum. ~ CLASS V. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. ORDER .§ One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx. | a. pentaphyllum, inferum, Corgis: "Petala quinque ; ungues concavi, in tubum urceolatum conniventes; laminz ovato-oblonge, patentes. _ Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, recep- lo inferta. filamentis ott apc PisTILLUM , fuperum refit, Stylus brevis Sfintsieas Stigma capitatum, p PERICARPIUM. Bacca fabglobofa, 2-5 locularis, Semina tria feu quatuor, angulata, oblonga, ob- SPECIFIC Pittofporum foliis ovalibus, obtufis, glaberrimis, _ coriaceis, integerrimis. Anthere fagittate, erecta, EMPALEMENT. falling off. Buossom. Five petals; tes a tube pitcher-fhaped ; g-egg-fhaped, fpreading . Threads five, awl- “thaped, inferted into Cup five-leaved, beneath, and claws concave, clofing the borders ob- fhap , flat tened. Shaft nd fhort, eilindrical "Salis. mit headed, flat SEED VESSEL. A roundifh berry 2-5 cells, 2-5 valves; the cells filled with a refinous pulp; partitions contrary to the valves Seeps, three or four, angulated, oblong, ob- tufe, and bony, CHARACTER. | Pittofporum with oval leaves, blunt ended, very {mooth, leathery, and quite entire. _— Oe REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1, The Empalem 2. A Petal of the | Bloom, 3. The Chives an intal. 4 ones Pointal repre vege the Chives, A Berry of the fize when __—_l ree _ Asour the year 1783, this plant was firft raifed in Britain, from feeds which had been received from : : moft d the Ifland of Madeira, by Mefirs. Lee will begin to grow the enfuing {prin : y and tender from the jant, about ina oy fixed very cat in fifth loam ; they must pier sone aha utumn, may be removed into the hot-houfe and plunged into the bark bed, where ring. It is , propagated i ‘lowly hey with “difficiey as it does not nly method is cuttings, which April, and put from 6 to 8 and-glafs on a fhady border till ree Stig es LE ; 3 : dl * , 3 : 4 | , a | —4 ' j 4 | j : } | - | 3 ¥ ta Lis ficrp 4 5 a “NM COTLACCIUIN ‘ tes UNS rae ie sa a $ i s ‘oa : - * 2 @ : , PLATE CLIL GERANIUM SPATHUL ATUM. Spatula-leaved Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. o Suppl. Syst. Veg. 1781. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furnifhed with long awns, five dry berries, - See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pl. XII. Vol. I. --—— Moxxoeyna. Stigmata quinque. Fruétus rof- tratus, penta-coccus. a : _ SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Genanrum foliis integerrimis, fpathulatis, gla- Geranium with quite entire leaves, fpatula- bris, obtufis, radicalibus; calycibus mono- fhaped, fmooth, blunt, and growing from phyllis; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus; ra- the root; cups one-leaved; five fertile dice tuberofa. chives; root tuberous. * : a REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its hollow ftructure: 2, The Chives and Pointal natural fize. 3. The Chives fpread open, to fhew the number and fituation of the fertile ones, : which are alternate. 4. The Pointal magnified. , Tue greater number of Geraniums which have been introduced of late, are of the tuberous herba- ceous kind; drawings of 14 we have, independent of thofe already figured; conftituting a diftin- guifhed, and diftin& natural branch of this extenfive family. For the moft part, they have only five _ fertile chives with tubular empalements, fome only two, and others feven, with the footftalk of the = cick up to the bottom of the cup. This fpecies is as yet, we believe, only in the Hibbertian he Clapham, where our drawing was taken in April this year. The roots had been received in the autumn of 1800 from the Cape. It appears to require the fame management as G, punctatum, and like it, may be increafed by the root. a A sg 7 eS e Gerancum wfealtiiclatiom SE as Oe te ee a ee PLATE CLIIL. ViQ@uaA PEDAT A. Bird’s-foot-leaved Violet. CLASS XIX. ORDER. VI. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA MONOGAMLIA. Tips united. Flowers fimple. foil it approves moft, and it th GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthium pentaphyllum, breve, per- fiftens; foliolis ovato-oblongis, ereétis, apice m ngulum petalum 8. y.; unicum duo petala ¢. «. fi- mil. Corotxa pentapetala, irregularis, petalis ina- qualibus; quorum Petalum a. supremum reGtum, deorfum fpec- tans, Jatius, obtufias, emarginatum, defi- nens bafi in ne¢ttarium corniculatum, obtu- fum, inter calycis foliola prominens, B. y. Lateralia paria, obtufa, oppofita, recta. 8, ¢. Infima paria, majora, furfum reflexa. Stamina, Filamenta quinque, minima, quo- a‘ petalo a. proxima appendicibus annexis intrant neétarium, _. pius connexz, obtuf, membranis ad api- cem autte. Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus fi- _ liformis, extra antheras prominens, Stig- ma obliquum. PericarPium. Capfula oyata, trigona, obtufa, unilocularis, trivalvis. Semrna plura, ovata, appendiculata, valvis af- _ fixa. Receptaculum lineare, per fingulam _ Valvulam linez inftar excurrens, Ols. Stigma vel in hamum simplicem reflecti- tur, vel capitulum est concavum apice per- Sorato. *. SPECIPIC VioLa acaulis; foliis pedatis, feptempartitis; _ Jaciniis dentatis, _ \ _1. The Empalement. 2. One of the upper 3. One of the lateral Peta] 4. The lower Petal, wi 5. The Chives and Pointa Antherze fe- — rr REFERENCE TO THE PLATE Brossom five petals, irregular, unequal petals, of which The upper petal a. is upright, bent back, broader, and blunter than the reft, notched at the end, terminating at the bafe in a blunt horn- aped honey-cup, protruding between the . leaflets of the cup. The lateral petals 8. ¥- grow in pairs, obtufe, oppofite, upright. er petals 3. &. grow in pairs, larger, and reflexed upwards, : Five threads, very {mall; of which the two neareft to the petal a. have fimall ud roundifh. Shaft thread. thaped, projecting beyond the tips, Summit oblique. : SEED-VEssEL, Capfule ege-thaped, three-fided, blunt, one cell and three valves, SEEDs many, egg-fhaped, having appendages, fixed to valves. Receptacle linear, running like a line along each valve, Obs. The summit is either reflexed into a sim- ple hook, or a concave small head perforated at the end CHARACTER, = without a ftem, leaves formed like a ird’s foot, with feyen divifions; fegments toothed. Petals of the Bloffom. s. th its Honey-cy : | with the Appendages that fall ; : “from the two hinder oe ag Ppendages all into the Honey cup 6. The Pointal Magnified.. -_ Tue Bird’s-foot-leaved Violet is a native of N, the Kew Catalogue) was cultivated by Mr. P. M: or in pots. The roots may be parted in March %, orth America near Philadelphia; and (according to ar “ 1759, at the Phyfic Gardens, Chelfea. i e the wetnefi : upon sisetuieionn Moy, ry etneis of our autumnal months: the ion TEN ay SPS aes pee ax z id is aie i il ce aN te ala ral Viole predate a # Fie PLATE .CLIV. ECHIUM ARGENTEUM. ; Silvery-leaved V iper’s-Buglo/s. CLASS V. ORDER’ I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. ‘ , ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corowa irregularis, fauce nuda. | Bossom irregular, mouth naked, : See Ecu1um GRANDIFLORuM, Pl. XX, Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Echium foliis lanceolatis, acutis, fericeo-villofis ; Viper’s-buglofs with lance-fhaped leaves, tharp- fpicis terminalibus; corolla violacea, fub- pointed and filkily-hairy; fpikes terminate qualia. the branches; bloffom violet colour, nearly ; ‘ equal. Nee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining attached. 3. The Seed-buds, Shaft, and Summit. i ae Tuis fine fpecies of Echium, was raifed year 1780, at the nurfery, Hammerfmith ; where our drawing was made, laft year, from a plant which ’ had been planted in the open ground, for the fummer months; and where it had grown to the height pa me It is a hardy green-houfe plant, and grows beft in “light earth, either peat, or leaf 3 and flowers about July. « It j as either, the E, grandiflorum, or E. ferociffimum; but only to be in : f ee ee =. se & io Iehitm argenteu m a init PLATE . CLY. TA EA POLY STACHTA. Many-/piked Ixia. ee CLASS If. ORDER Ek. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIZ. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corotxra 6-partita, patens, equalis. Stigmata Brossom 6-divifions, fpreading, equal. Summits 3, ere&tiufculo-patula. three, nearly upright and fpreading, : See Ixra ReEFLExa, Vol, I. Plate XIV. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia with linear leaves ; flower-ftem with many {pikes ; flowers grow oppofite and fpiked ; bloffoms white. Ixia foliis linearibus; {capo fpicis pluribus; flo- ribus oppofitis, fpicatis ; corollis albidis, | i er —— REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 2. A flower cut open to thew the fituation of the Chives, 3. The Pointal natural fize. IE Beer Tas is the plant which is figured by Miller, in the coloured plates which correfpond with the diGtionary, 104, t. 155. fig. 2, under the {pecific title it here bears 3 and, faysthe Kew Ca _ by him 1757. Since this is the firft which bore the ti think is moftly primitive in flowers, we have given it the preference ; and fhall confider all the other 18, (of which we haye drawings and decidedly of this {pecies) as varieties from this. The flowers of © fan,2 SO ee Ne eee WR co a fie Re ape eres LN i rue. B. CLVYI. BANKSIA ERICAFOLIA. Heatleaccil Bank/fia. a CLASS iv. ORDER: I: TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, Receptaculum commune elongatum, {quamofum, Common receptacle elongated, {caly. Bloffom Corolla tetra-petala. Stamina limbo inferta, _ of four petals. Chives inferted into the Capfula bivalvis, difperma, interje€to femi- — limb of the bloflom. Capfule with two nibus diffepimento mobili. Semina alata. valves, two feeds, and a moveable partition betwen them. Seeds winged. See BANKsIA sERRATA, Pl, LXXXII. Vol. IT. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Bankfia foliis linearibus, margine revolutis, Bankfia with linear leaves, rolled back at the truncato-emarginatis, fupra glabris. edge, appearing cut off at the ends, which are notched and fmooth on the upper fide. ———— ae REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, A Bloffom complete. 2. The fame fpread open. 3. The Petals of a flower, with their chives magnified. 4. The Pointal natural fize, with the Summit detached, magnified. 5. The rudiments of a cone, cleared from the flowers. . Tue feeds of this fpecies of Bankfia were amongft the firft which arrived from New Holland, and plants were raifed at the nurfery, Hammerfmith, in the fame year as the B. ferrata. To the direc- tions in the management and increafe of which plant, we refer our readers for the treatment of this, as it requires no other. It grows to the height of five, or fix feet, very bufhy from the bottom, and the leaves, which are harfh and numerous, are not very fubject to decay. Although it has flowered in mahy collections, where we have feen it, we have had no opportunity of making an accurate draw- ing until aft month, March 1801, from a fine plant in the colleétion of G. Hibbert Efq. Clapham. é# am WEL Cc mM WAN | He hati PCA OL . ~ PLATE CLYIIL CORDIA SEBESTENA. : Rough-leaved Cordia. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Canyx. Perianthium monophyllum, tubulatum, apice dentatum, perfittens. CoroLra monopetala, infundibuliformis; tu-. bus patulus, longitudine calycis; limbus erecto-patens, fectus in quinque (quatuor vel fex), lacinias obtufas. Filamenta quinque, fubulata. An- there oblong, longitudine tubi. PisTILLuM. min tum. Stylus fimplex, longitudine ftami- - num, fuperne bifidus, laciniis bifidis, Stig- mata obtufa. -Pericarriu. Drupa globofa, acuminata, ca- lyce accreta Semen, Nux fulcata, quadrilocularis. SPECIFIC __ Cordia foliis oblongo-ovatis, fcabris; floribus ‘ ndris, miniatis, crifpis, hexandr - and {preading, cut into five (four or fix) obtufe fegments. Five threads, awl-fhaped. Tips ob- long, the length of the tube, PointTat. Seed-bud roundith, tapered. Shaft fimple, the length of the chives, two.cleft at the upper part, fegments two - cleft. Summits blunt. wg tes pulpy, globular, tapered, growing ecu Seep. A furrowed, four-celled nut. CHARACTER. Cordia with - oblong egg-fhaped rough leaves; . owers deep orange colour, crumpled, and with fix chives, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Emp ] ; alement. a 2. A Bloflom fpread open, with the Chives in their place. - 6. The Pointal and Seed-bud. ae _ As it fhould feem a determined principle in the infcrutabl _ the greater humiliation of our very limited underftandings; that no eff perfect; fo muft we be content [ of a fyftem decidedly defective; yet certainly, the beft we have to _ hending a number of {pecies, but muft be re € arrangement of nature’s productions, to ort as emanating folely from | f. b ftrained in its clafs or order, for the introduétion of one, or » the plant is retainéd under the Genus fo charatterifed. This difquifition is the 3 natural refult of our examination of the prefent plant, which, although the chives are fix, is placed eae PLATE CLVIIL GERANIUM ECHINATUM. “«foreraim Prickly fialked Geranium. Red-purple lowered Var. C LASS AVI. ORDER Iv. . MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. . Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. One Porntar. Five Summits, Fruit furnifhed : with long awns, five dry berries. See Geranium GRANDIFLORUM. Pl. XII. Vol. 1. Monocyna. Stigmata 5. Fruétus roftratus, penta-coccus, SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis fericeis, cordatis, inequaliter Geranium with filky heart-fhaped leaves, une-' entatis; caule f{pinofo, fubcarnofo, fpinis —qually toothed; ftem fpiny, rather flethy, retrofractis; floribus hexandris, rubro-pur- {pines turned downwards 3 flowers with fix pureis; calycibus pilofis, fertile tips and red-purple; cups hairy. ll ————__ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, The Empalement. An upper Petal of the Bloffom. ; An under Petal of the Bloffiom, _ . The Chives and Pointal, . The Chives {pread open. 6. The Pointal, magnified. cf ee Tuts fine variety of the Prickly-ftalked Geranium, was introduced, at the fame time with the white variety, by Mr. Francis Mafton, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1795. It isa tender plant,. and requires the heat of the hot-houfe, through the winter months to preferve it, being a native of that part of Africa near the Namaqua land, which is in moft parts a barren, arid fand, extremely hot and parched, experiencing little change through the whole year. The propagation is either pro- duced by cuttings, or from the roots, which are tuberous, in moft inftances, if the plant is kept in light fandy peat earth. The drawing was made, in March this year, at the N urfery of Mr.J. Colville, King’s Road, Chelfea, FH, ws ; aes FOCI 222 CORR realm ler He % andor fierpret PLATE CLIX. - I X I A | G A P T ZS A + A. Var. flore alto, Sundo nigro. . . . Var. white flowered, Bunch floweri ug Ixia. black Lottom. cm CLASS Ill... ORDER IL TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. . ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARA CTER. tria, erectiufculo-patula, three, nearly upright, {preading. Coroiza 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata Bvossom fix petals, {preading, equal. Summits : See Ixta REFLEXA, Vol, I Plate XIV. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia, foliis enfiformibus; floribus capitatis, con- Ixia, with {word-fhaped leaves; flowers grow in fertis, albidis, petalis bafi_ nigrifime no- clofe bunches, whitith, the petals very dark, marked at the bafe. - tatis REFERENCE TO* THE PLATE, 1. The two theaths of the Empalement. 2. A Bloffom fpread open, with the Chives remaining, | 3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, one Summit detached, magnified. ; ete, ae , As no difference, either in culture or increafe; is neceffary for this plant, more than js required for the other varieties of this {pecies of Ixia; we thal] refer our readers to the dire@ions for the treatment of them, for the management of this. Our figure is from a drawing taken at the Hammierfinith nur- fery in the year 1799, about the month of May. It is one of thofe introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew by Mr. F. Maffon about the year 1774, although loft to us for fome years, but fince received Le e Kru } lore até, cuplala © fuvdo igre bile Tues ek CLA. | ARISTEA MAJOR. - Spike-flowered Arifica. Siento SEE akc a SS OLASS Tk DRDER I TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, PeTata 6. Stigma concavum. Capfula tri- Petras 6. Summit concave. Capfule three- loba, trilocularis, loculis compreflis. Semina lobed, three celled; cells flattened. Seeds in fingulo loculo bina, compreffa truncata. | two in each cell, flattened and appearing - | cut off at the end. ; See AristEA Cyanea, Pl. X. Vol. L SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ariftea foliis enfiformibus longiffimis; floribus | Ariftea with very long leaves; flowers grow in fpicatis, caruleis, fpikes, and blue. ‘ ——— ie __ os REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The two fheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Bloffom with the Seed-bud, both cut open and remaining attached, the Shaft removed. -- 3. The Pointal natural fize, with the fummit detached magnified. A. A ripe feed-veffel, natural fize. 5. The fame with the cells laid open to thew the fituation of the feeds. TE Tue Genus Ariftea, having certainly been formed from a dried fpecimen of the plant, the alterations we have made in our Generic and Effential characters, will, upon infpecting the diffeCions, appear abfolutely neceflary ; as the thaft is not bent, in either fpecies we have examined, whilft the flower is perfe&t; but'affumes that appearance on its decay, as it becomes involved with the petals, which twift up in the manner of Morera, Iris, &c. The Summit likewife, is not funnel-fhaped, but merely a little concave, with a border: other fmall variations have been made, in the character of the feed- veffel and feed. In the year 1794, this fine plant was raifed by Mefirs, Lee and Kennedy, from feeds . received by them from the Cape of Good Hope, where it is native. It is one of the very hardieft inhabitants of the greenhoufe, and is propagated, either from the feed, which ripens with us; or by the offsets made from the root. The plant is perfiftent, but does not acquire a ftem; the leaves growing to the length of from two, to three feet, the flower-ftem fometimes to the height of four feet; which was nearly that of the plant in the Colle@tion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham, from which our drawing was taken in the month of July 1800.’ It thould be planted in fandy peat, * a Ve t . Tristeg Ab tF yon . a : PLATE CLXI. | HERMANNIA PULVERATA. Powdered Hermannia. CLASS: AVI. - ORDER Il. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Threads united. Five Pointals, GENERIC CHARACTER, : Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- Empatement. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, roundith fidum, fubrotundum, inflatum; lacinulis and {welled out; fegments turned inwards; inflexis ; perfiftens. maining. Coroxva pentapetala, fpiralis; ungues longitu- Bossom, five petals, fpiral; claws the length ine calycis, utrinque auéti: membranula ot the cup, widened on both fides by a {mall connivente in tubum cucullatum nectari- fkinny fubftance forming a honey-bearing, ferum; limbus patens, latiufculus, obtufus. cow]-fhaped tube; border {preading, broadith, blunt Stamina. Filamenta quinque, latiufcula, in- Cuives. Five threads, broadith, Mlightly joined ferne leviflime in unum corpus coalita. at the bafe into one body. Tips upright, Anthere ereéte, acuminate, conniventes. red, and approaching each other, Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum, pentago- Pointat. Seed-bud r. ndith, five-fided, fiye- num, quinquangulare. Styli quinque, fili- angled. Shafts five, thread-thaped, clofe formes, approximati, fubulati, ftaminibus together, awl fhaped, longer than the Chives, longiores. Stigmata finiplicia. Summits fimple. Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda. pentagona, SEED vesseL. Capfula roundith, five-fided, five- quinque-Jocularis, apice dehifcens. celled, fplitting at top. : Semina plurima, parva. | SEEDs, many, {mall. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Hermannia foliis bipinnatifidis, deabriufculis, Hermannia with doubly wing-cleft leaves, rather _ albicantibus; pedunculis bifloris, longif- rough and whitith; flower-ftems t fimis; corollis fordidé luteis, si haa very long; bloffoms of a dirty yellow. i . . < REFERENCE TO_.THE PEAT R. 1. The Empalement. - 2. A leaf of the Blotfom, to thew its incurved charaéer at the bafe. 3. The Chives, magnified, with the pointals remaining, to thew their length with regard to the Chives, 4. The Seed-bud, Shafts, Summits, magnified. ee, ‘Tical diftinétion refts, approaches very near to thofe in Mahernia; for, although they have not abfo- i than is ufual in Hermannia, as may be ; the t offoms which terminate the flower-ftems, each taking a to damp, though not to cold; therefore, th Id ; _ native of the Cape, from nes it Wa ould be kept in rd hg ae vt ws mae ri aS : may be preferved, and increafed, as it is not a long-lived ‘ » WIth a ima portion o ol rotten dur a . P| a “aan ask at the Nurfery, Hammerfinith, in June 1800, | : = goth — il Sid ae => By Be oy Seen likewife that fingularly curious tio POA tase a Ade oe ‘ i 2 He TMa Rng filvcriata PLATE CLXIIL. VERBASCUM FERRUGINEUM. — Rufty flowered Mullein. CLASS V. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. GENERIC Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- partitum, parvum, perfiftens; laciniis erec- tis, acutis. Coroxia -Monopetala, rotata, fub-inzequalis; tubus cylindraceus, breviffimus; limbus pa- tens, quinque-partitus; laciniis ovatis, ob- t STAMINA. ob coca ta quinque, fubulata, co- rolla breviora. Anthere fubrotunde, com- pr ; Pisritio, en fubrotundum. Stylus fi- liformis, Seomieodig ftaminum, inclinatus. tufum Stigma craffiufculum, o Pericarrium. Capfula fubrotunda, bilocula- Tis, bivalvis, fu uperne dehifcens. Recepta- cula dimidiato-ovata, diffepimento affixa, SEMINA numerofa, angulata Obs. In e Gating roctieate fant, villifque coloratis inferne veftita SPECIFIC Verbafcum — fubvillofis, rugofis; caulinis Saas ualiter crenatis; radicali- ds chloe peta duplicato-crenatis, ORDER I. Five Chives. One Pointal.- CHARACTER. EmpaLement. Cup of one leaf, with five divi- fions, fmall, somata; fegments upright, ted. rp po Hebi ine petal, wheel- -fhaped, rather un- equal; tube cylindrical, very thort; border Steading, — divifions ; fegments egg- fhaped, blun a a "fv ve, awl-fhaped, fhorter than the bloffom. Tips roundith, flattened, up- two —. {plitting at the top ‘ies - cles the form of half an egg, fixed = the pirction SEEDs “geet angular. n the greateft number of fpecies the chives are bent downward, and clothed with _ Soft, coloured hairs on the lower part. CHARACTER. Mallein with leaves a little hairy and rough; em -leaves almoft without foot - ftalks, equally fcolloped; leaves from the root ob- long, heart-haped, and doubly fcolloped. saad a : REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Leaf of the oma from the lower part. : ~ The Empaleme - A Blofiom, peor from the front, 5. One Chive magnified, : The fame cut open from the fide, to thew the infertion of the chives. 6. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified, nt two months; that is . the Hon, W. H. Irby, 5 of, the Kew Catalogue, badly our plant 3 but, though to Pag from Apri, beng ot “Hex from his “e at the Diinads, Farnham fori, Buc tina from Gatievina ty Hortus Medicus Edin- 2 it ftands § a name in the book rds, for above a enh Magu rp J CTL g ¢ WCU We PLATE CLXIII. AMARYLLIS FOTHERGILLIA. Fothergillian Lily Daffodil Ima at CLASS VI. ORDER L HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ° ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Coroxra 6-petala, campanulata. Stigma tri- {| BLossom 6-petalled, bell-fhaped. Summit three- fidum cleft. / See AMARYLLIs RADIATA, Pl. XCV. Vol. I. - SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Amaryllis fpatha multiflora; petalis lanceolatis, Lily Daffodil with many flowers in the fheath; apice revolutis; genetalibus ere¢tis; foliis petals lance-fhaped, rolled back at the point; linearibus, {ub-canaliculatis, obtufis, glau- parts of fructification upright; leaves linear, cis. . rather channelled, obtufe, and of a fea-green _ colour. _ rr REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Petal, with its Chive attached. 2. The Seed-bud, and Pointal. 3. A ripe Seed-veffel, with the Seeds. _—_— Even amidft this {plendid family, Amaryllis Fothergillia ftands confpicuoufly preeminent; the flowets have the fame vivid charaéter of refulgence, when expofed to the fun’s rays, which is perceived in A. Sarnienfis, or the Guernfey Lily, to which it is nigh affined. The late Dr. Fothergill (to whom the botanical world is fo much indebted, for the zeal and extraordinary liberality he conftantly mani- fefted, in advancing the fcience) received this plant from China at the fame time with A. aurea, A. radiata, &c. about the year 1777. It is rather a {carce and tender bulb, as it is fubje& to rot by overmuch wet. It has hitherto been kept, as are moft plants on their firft arrival from China, in the hot-honfe; but, from every appearance, we thould be led to fuppofe, it would not perith if kept in the Green-houfe, as we queftion much, whether it is not equally hardy with the Guernfey Lily, and a native, originally, as well as the latter, of Japan. It fhould be planted in fandy loam, with a {mall quantity of rough peat, above the tiles in the pot, ‘to make it flower. The propagation is from offsets, which are produced but rarely from the old * ee rng Our figure was taken from a plant in the Hammerfmith nurfery this year, 1801, in the month ,. FLAT E - CLXIV. GALAXIA GRANDIFLORA. : Large-flowered Galaxia. CLASS XVI. ORDER I. MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Threads united. Three Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, SPATHA univalvis. Corolla monopetala, 6 fida, SHEATH of onevalve. Bloffom one petal, 6-cleft, tubus filiformis. Stigma multipartita. tube thread-fhaped. Summit many divi- fions. See GaLaxra ovata, Pl. XCIV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Galaxia with channelled leaves, tapered to the point, and arched; bloffom large, yellow, and the length of the leaves. Galaxia foliis canaliculatis, acuminatis, arcuatis ; corolla magna, lutea, folia zequantia. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The fheath of the bloffom. 2. A Bloffom fpread open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, the fummit detached, magnified. * ne re ‘Tue figare of this delicate little bulb was taken from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection, which had been imported in the laft, and flowered in February this year 1801. It is a tender plant, and the roots are very fubje& to decay after flowering, for which reafon, they fhould be removed from the pot before the leaves are quite decayed. Mr. Allen informs us he has kept it, in the greenhoufe, with. the other Cape bulbs, planted in light fandy peat earth, * a a (A, dif Cora *4 “ ae OXY GAR s oe ‘ FLATE CLAY. ECHIUM GLAUCOPHYLLUM. _Sea-green-leaved Viper’s-Buglo/s. —— I CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corotta irregularis, fauce nuda. | Brossom irregular, mouth naked. See Ecu1um GRanpiFLorum, Pl. XX. Vol, I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Echium caule fruticofo; ramis calycibufque gla- Viper’s-Buglofs with a fhrubby ftem; branches bris; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, glaucis, gila- very {mooth; leaves between egg and lance- bris, margine ferrulatis; corollis fubequa- fhaped, of a fea-green colour, fmooth, and libus, flightly fawed at the margin; bloffoms nearly equal. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The Empalement. : 2. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the infertion of the chives. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. | : ences Tuts fhrubby fpecies of Echium was introduced, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, by Mr. F, Maffon, in the year 1792, from the Cape of Good Hope. It grows to the height of three feet, or more, rather bufhy at the top, flowers about the month of May, and perfeéts its feeds with us; by which only method, it is to be propagated. It thrives beft in a light loamy foil, with a {mall proportion of fandy peat, about one fourth. Profeffor Martyn, in his Miller’s Dic. has collated two defcriptions of Echiums under the titles of levigatum, and glabrum; the firft, No. 9, from Lin. Sp. Plant. 199; the fecond, No. 19, from Vahl. Symb. 3. 22. Thunberg has likewife, in his Prodromus, 33. two names of plants. as E. levigatum, and E. glabrum; from whom Willdenow, in his new Edition of Sp. Plant. p. 785, has copied them under the same titles; adding, the various fynonims, from Linnzus’s Sp. Plant. to the one; and to the latter, Prof. Jacquin’s {pecific of glaucophyllum, taken from his Ic. rar. 2. t. 312, and his Colle&. 2. p.325. Now, we have little hefitation in declaring our opinion, and we think, thofe who choofe to compare our figure with the different defcriptions here mentioned, will coincide with us, that this is the plant from which they muft all have originated, except the E. glabrum of Vahl, which we take to be a different plant; as, the cup is defcribed hairy, the length of the tube of the bloffom ; the chives longer, and the flower {maller. Wherefore, we have taken, for our plant, the fpecific title of Jacquin, as being, in our idea, the moft appropriate. . * \ PLATE CLXVI. GLADIOLUS ABREVIATUS. Shortened-petalled Gladiolus. —_— ——_ a GiaASe 1h. ORDER 1. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Brossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend- in Corotia fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen- Bees g. See GiapioLus rosgEvs, Pl, XI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis linearibus, cruciatis, fcapo lon- Gladiolus with linear leaves, crofs fhaped, longer gioribus ; corolla tubulofa, ftriata, ima an- than the flower-ftem; bloffom tubular, guftata, lacinia fumma magna, reéta, ovata, ftreaked, and narrowed at the lower part, i vero parve, abreviate. the upper petal is large, grows ftraight out, and egg-fhaped, the others are fmall, and | appear as if fhortened, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. . 1. The outer fheath of the Empalement. 2. The inner fheath of the Empalement. 3. A Bloffom fpread open, with the Chives attached. : 4, The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits. Sa cae Turs moft fingolar Gladiolus was received, amongft a variety of others, in the year 1799, from the Cape of Good Hope, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith; at whofe nurfery it flowered in March, this year 1801, for the firft time. It is a hardy bulb, and propagates freely from the root; grows about two feet high, and, before flowering, has much the appearance of G. triftis. | Ehs'? = PLAT E CLXVII. NSFELSIA UNDULATA-.- ~~ Waved-flowered Brunsfelsia. BRU | CLASS XIV. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMLA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, campanu- atum, quinquedentatum, obtufum, mini- "mum, perfiftens. CoroLa monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus longiffimus, fubincurvus; limbus planus, , quinquefidus, obtufus, Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, breviffima. An- there oblonge, ereéte, filamentis dorto affixe Xa, Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum, parvum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi. Stigma craffiufculum. PERICARPIUM, Capfula extus baccata, globofa, unilocularis, bivalvis. Semina plurima, comprefla, hinc convexa, inde angulata, punctato-fcabra. Recepracutum fundo capfulz adnatum, pale- aceum; paleis coadunatis, apice fubulatis, femina diftinguentibus, SPECIFIC Brunsfelfia foliis lanceolato-obovatis, utrinque $ pa- acuminatis, petiolis breviflimis 3; tubu rum incurvatus, laciniis limbi undulatis, ORDER UW. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. EmpaLement, Cup one leaf, bell-fhaped, five- ‘toothed, blunt, very {mall, remaining. Biossom. One petal, funnel-fhaped ; tube ve long, rather curved; border flat, five-cleft, btuf obtufe. Cuives. Four threads, very fhort. Tips ob- long, upright, fixed by the back to the threads. PortnTaL. Seed-bud roundifh, fmall. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the tube, Sum. mit rather flefhy. SEED-VESSEL, Capfule on the outfide a berry, n the other, roughly punétured. of the capfule, y; chaffs joining at the bafe, awl fhaped at the point, feparating the feeds, CHARACTER. Brunsfelfia with leaves between lance and in- verfely egg-fhaped, tapered to both ends, footftalks very fhort; tube a little incurved, the fegments of the border waved. eee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The tube of the blofiom cut o the Chives. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud. t Tue Genus Brunsfelfia edited in 1530 a Botanical work with ) prefent plant about Mareh, is very {weet {cented, and is eafil in “a — 1784, by Mr. Elcock f, merfmith. Our drawing. was made from thould be planted in rich earth, y propagated rom the Ifland of Barba a plant in the Clapham Colleétion, in March 1800, It pen, ‘to thew the infertion and chara@er~ named, in. honour of Otho. Brunsféls a monk, the firft who- gures, it contained 238 plates) has undergone a very deed, it appears h fingular that Father Plumier, from ave committed. fo great an overfight, as to. {port of nature, in plants of this Gen. and Spe. Plant. and of the Sytt. : a capfule; rather than.a his reafon, that it fj plits determinately, by a future, y are all natives of the Weft India Iflands. The B. maculata is but little known by cuttings, d oes, to Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, Ham- bye eae Aru niflaa undulata. ee » “a f er oe ene ne oe eee a are Oe PLATE CLXVIII. ‘ GERANIUM PICTUM. Painted-flowered Geranium. CLARE: 2Vi: ORDER IV. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. _ Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. One Pointar. Five Summits. Fruit furnithed with long awns, five dry berries. ~ Monocrna. Stigmata 5. Fru@us roftratus, penta-coccus. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM. PI, XII. Vol. L SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Geranium foliis cordato-oblongis, obtufis, in- || Geranium with oblong heart-fhaped leaves, equaliter incifis, tomentofis, humi adpref- blunt, unequally gafhed, downy, and ly- fis; corolla alba, petalis fuperioribus pro- ing clofe to the ground; bloffom white; fandé fupra medium rubro maculatis; fta- the upper petals deeply marked with red minibus feptem fertilibus; radice tuberofa. : about the middle; feven fertile chives; root tuberous, —— REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 3. The Chives fpread open, magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified. ee No Genus of Plants claims our notice, for its beauty, more than Geranium, and this fpecies, cer- tainly, ranks amongft the foremoft. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and we believe only to be found in the Clapham Colleton; where, our figure was taken in April this year, from a plant, the bulb or root of which had been received the preceding autumn. It is nearly the only one, amongft twenty two fpecies of the tuberous kind, all having irregular petalled bloffoms and tubular cups, of which we poflefs drawings, that has feven fertile chives; the greater number have two, four, or five. It appears to flourith under the treatment given it by Mr. Allen, which is, by keeping it in fandy peat, on a fhelf, very dry, in the green-houfe, The propagation appears to be the fame for this, as the other tuberous kinds, that is, by the root. ane cal ee {2 os 4 — . 7? ; 704, mA CHH4 Ps ; : tcl CEN (id | PLATE CLXIX, Pag. CRINUM GIGANTEUM. | Gigantic A/phodel-Lily. CLASS VI. ORDER 1. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, Corotra fupra, infundibuliformis, fexpartita, BLossom above, funnel -fhaped, fix-parted, equal; xqualis; filamenta tubi fauci inferta ; fe- threads inferted into the mouth of the tube ; mina ad bafin corollarum, vivipara. feeds at the bafe of the bloffoms, viviparous. See Crinum spirate, Pl. XCII. Vol, I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Crinum foliis flaccidis, undulatis 3. floribus fefti- _ dibus, umbellatis ; petalis concayis, fub- alt . li . Afphodel-Lily with flaccid, waved leaves; flow- ers fitting clofe to the flower ftem in um- bels; petals concave, nearly white. Se REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. : 1. A miniature reprefentation of the whole plant. 2. A Petal with its chive. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. a eee Tue coatt of Africa bordering on our fettlement at Sierra Leone, has furnifhed us with a number of beautiful plants; but none more fo, than thofe of the natural order of Lily; witnefs our prefent figure, which was taken from a plant in the Hammerfmith collection, in the month of Auguft 1800. The bulbs of this grand {pecies of Crinum, were received by her Ladyfhip, the Right Honourable the Marchionefs of Rockingham, about the year 1792, from Sierra Leone ; they may be confidered as hardy hothoufe plants, and may be kept in any part of it; will flower, freely, about the month of Auguft, the flower-ftems rifing, fometimes, to the height of three feet. A mixture, of leaf mould, or fandy Peat one half, and light loam the other, is the beft compoft to make them flourifh. It is propagated pre ya offsets. —Having made a {mall alteration, in the Effential Character of the Genus; chew Woods. + ho ee — fome other {pecies of Crinums fhortly ; we think it neceffary to add ‘above 40 f ppecide Cena. “ a oftenfible difference, we have been able to trace, in comparing tin@ion; can, taiciaal cals — 8 s, and on which to reft, with certainty, for generical dif- thud, dod. all of thi Si i — only, from the feeds; as thefe in moft fpecies of Pancratium, a. "elects token Seats P%e sinionl belie — or formed like flethy bulbs, producing plants, like 4 cup; and equally fo from San oe it is diftin@, in being deftitute of the Honey- _ >> Upright, and the chives, twice & leah e Pet laa of many leaves, the flowers and chives Ral et e PLATE CLXX. I XIA B U L B O c O D I U M. Var. flore speciosissimo, Crocus-leaved Ixia. — Var. with most beautiful flower. Sd GLASS HE .ORDER Tf. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Brossom 6-petals, fpreading, equal. Chives Corotxa 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stamina tria, ere@tiufculo-patula. three, upright, fpreading. - See Ixra REFLEXA, Pl, XIV. Vol. pe SPECIFIC CHARACTER.: Ixia feapo unifloro; foliis linearibus, canalicula- Ixia with one flower on the ftem; leaves linear, tis, fcapo zquantibus; corolla declinata, and channelled, the length of the flower- tubo brevi; ftigmatibus fextuplicibus. - ftem; bloffom declined, with a fhort tube; fummits fextuple, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Bloffom cut and fpread open, with the Chives, fhewn from the infide. 3. The fame, fhewn from aa back or outfide. 4. The Pointal, with the Summits, magnified. i a - z Tuis extremely delicate, and beautiful little Ixia, flowered, for the firft time, in March this year, 1801, in the colle&tion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham Common; the bulbs having been received the ing autumn from the Cape of Good Hope. It appears to be one of thofe plants, which feldom furvive the fecond feafon, in this climate; and we much fear, without a frefh fupply, it will be foon loft this country ; as it does not ripen its feeds, and the roots do not feem as if inclined to increafe by offsets, eter a le ecisig alaa Mie Me ge pe ir Caan OMe pte oa a " PLATE CLXXI. Hyer onwitsS LEANEARIS. Linear-leaved Hypoxis. | CLASS VR ORDER eI. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Buossom 6-parted, remaining, above. Capfule narrower at the bafe.. Sheath 2-valved. See Hypoxis sterxatra, Pl. CI. Vol. II. Corouta 6-partita, perfiftens, fupera. Capfula bafi anguftior, Spatha 2-valvis. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, _ Hypoxis foliis linearibus, glabris, canaliculatis, Hypoxis with linear leaves, fmooth, channelled, ‘longiore fcapo unifloro; corolla intus au- _and longer than the flower-ftem, which rea, extus viridis. has but one flower; bloffom orange within, green without. ri REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Chives and Seed-bud. . 2. Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified. 3. The Seed-bud cut tranfverfely. Ar firft, we had fome doubts whether this plant fhould not be confidered as a variety of Hypoxis ftel- lata, to which it undoubtedly affines; but, upon due examination, find it a diftin& and new fpecies; as well, from the fhape and length of the leaves, as the fhape, charaéter, and colour of the bloffom, and figure of the root. * “ : Like Hypoxis ftellata it is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced, from thence, by Mefits. Lee and Kennedy, in the year 1792. For its treatment, &c. we muft refer our readers to the above fpecies, Pl. 101. Vol. 2. Our drawing was taken in March 1801 from a plant in the Hib- bertian Colleétion, Clapham Common. The flower of this plant, like many of the Ixias, &c. is expanded but a few hours each day, and that only, whilft under the influence of a ftrong morning - fun; as, if the weather is gloomy, it keeps clofe fhut, but does not fpeedily decay, for it will conti- hue to open, with equal brilliancy, for eight or ten days, ‘ tt. H, : Yfreres leneare, PLATE CLXXII. ANEMONE PAL MAT A. Cyclamen-leaved Portugal Anemone. CLASS XIil. ORDER VIL. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. Many Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx nullus. Corotra. Petala duorum triumve ordinum, in fingula {erie tria, oblongiufcula. Sramina. Filamenta numerofa, capillaria, co- rolla dimidio breviora. Anthere didyme, erecte, Pistitta. Germina numerofa, in capitulum colleéta. Styli acuminati. Stigmata ob- tufa, Pericarrium nullum, Receptaculum globo- fum, five oblongum, excavato-punétatum. SemiNa plurima, acuminata, ftylum retinentia. SPECIFIC Anemone foliis reniformibus, fub-lobatis, cre- natis; involucro multifido; petalis exteri- . Oribus villofis, majoribus. . — : EMPALEMENT none, Biossom. Petals in two or three rows, three in a row, rather oblon Cuives. Threads numerous, hair-like, half the length of the bloffom. Tips doubled, ereét. PoinTats. Seed-buds numerous, collected into a fmall head. Shafts tapered. Summits blunt. SEED-VEssEL none. Receptacle globular or ob- long, hollowed and dotted. Szeps many, tapered, retaining the thaft. ' CHARACTER. Anemone with kidney-fhaped leaves, a little lobed, fcolloped; fence many-cleft; the outer petals hairy and larger. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. An outer Petal of the Bloffom, fhewn from the infide. _2. The Chives, as they ftand on the receptacle. . 3. The fmall Head, as formed by the pointals. : 4. A Seed-bud and its appendages, a little magnified. ne, ‘Tats fpecies of Anemone, isa native of Portugal, having been brought from thence about the year 1788, - and firft cultivated at the Hammerfmith Nurfery; the fpecitic title of Lufitanica obtained for a time, but little doubt refts now of its being the A. palmata of Linnzeus’s Sp. Pl. p. 758, and of Vahl, Desfon- taines, &c. How the plant could firft acquire the name of palmata, is certainly a myftery; unlefs it might be, from the appearance of the fence, which neverthelefs but ill accords with that charater. Bauhin’s affination, as Cyclamen-leaved, is certainly the moft appropriate, as the leaves both in fhape, and the colour of the upper and under part, are exaé with C. coum. It is rather too delicate for our winters, if expofed in the open borders; but, makes a pretty appearance, in {pring, if kept in a pot, in light, rich earth. Like moft Anemonies, it propagates beft by dividing the roots, which are long and cylindrical; but, care muft be taken not to water the pots, for.fome time after planting, as they ~ are apt to rot, where they are broken, a PLATE CLXXIII. GERANIUM ROSEUM. - Rofy Geranium. CLASS XVL ORDER Iv. . MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ? ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Mownoerna, Stigmata quinque. Fruétus rof- tratus, penta-coccus. One Pointat. Five Summits. Fruit furnithed with long awns, five dry berries, SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis incifo-lobatis, tomentofis, lobis Geranium with deeply-gafhed, lobed, downy crenatis, obtufis; pedunculis multifloris ; leaves, the lobes {colloped and blunt; flower- floribus ereétis, confertis, rofeis, pentan- stems many flowered; the flowers erect, dris; calycibus monophyllis; radice tube- crowded, rofe-coloured and with five tips; rofa, eo cups one-leaved; root tuberous. = * ee REFERENCE TO THE-PLATE, 1, The Empalement, with its hollow tube cut open. 2. The Chives cut open. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits. ci a Pee ne Asour the year 1794, this fpecies of Geranium was firft introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Francis Maflon, ‘from the Cape of Good Hope. Of all the tuberous kind, this is, certainly, the fpecious yet in England; it flowers generally about March, in which month, our drawing was made, from a fpecimen in the us, that the propagation is very produce nwo branches, and that the feeds do not ripen; he Keeps it in a mixture of rotten leaves, and fandy peat, in which, it has every appearance of luxuriant health, ¢ See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM. PI.XII.Vol.I. ~ nurfery of Mr. J. Colville, King’s Road, Chelfea. Mr. Colville informs difficult, and only to be'performed by the root; as the plant does not eS Se Hl G CVEMEULM §=POSCUM € PLATE CLXXIV. ANTHOLYZA TUBULOSA. far.for sarge - Tubular Antholyza. Striped flowered Var. GLASS IH. - ORDER. I. TRILANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corotta tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- Biossom tubular, irregular, and bent backward. fula infera. Capfule beneath. See ANTHOLYZA RINGENS, Pl, XXXII, Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antholyza floribus tubulofis, fubcylindraceis; , Antholyza with tubular, nearly cylindrical flow- feapo difticho, foliis lanceolato-enfiformi- ers; flower-ftem with the bloffoms pointing bus, breviore. i and {word-fhaped, fhorter. ae eee enim REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Bloffom of a variety, differing in the palenefs, and fize of the flowers, and without variegation. 2. The Empalement. 3. A flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, one Summit magnified. a Tats fine fpecies of Antholyza was received by Meffrs. Grimwood and Wykes, Kenfington, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1796; they poffefs three varieties, and we fhould have been happy to have given a bloffom of the third, but, it was out of flower before our drawing was taken, which was, in the end of June, this year. It is a hardy bulb, and increafes freely, either by the feed, of from the root, and fhould be planted in fandy peat, with a fmall mixture of loam. two oppofite ways, leaves between lance ye A ; a lubulosa 5 Tan! “lore verncpals thely An ‘ planted out in the novel and elegant confervatory of the Ri ht Hon. Som PLATE CLXXV. MELALEUCA ERIC AFOLLA. Heath-leaved Melaleuca. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. POLYADELPHIA POLYANDR IA. Threads in many fets. Many Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. 5 ie me Catyx. Perianthium turbinatum, g EmpaLemMent. Cup turban-fhaped, growing to tum, quinquefidum feu quinquedentatum. the feed-bud, five-cleft or five-toothed. Corotza. Petala quinque, rotundata, calycis Biossom. Five petals rounded, inferted into margini interior! inferta. the inner margin of the cup. Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, filiformia, in Cuives. Threads numerous, thread-fhaped, fafciculos quinque connata. Antherz in- united in five bundles. Tips incumbent. — cumbentes. Porntat. Seed-bud turban-fhaped, growin Pistirtum, Germen turbinatum, fundo calycis to the bottom of the cup. Shaft thread. adnatum. Stylus filiformis, erectus. Stigma fhaped, erect. Summit fimple. fimplex. SgEED-veEssEL. Capfule nearly globular, coated Pericarpium. Capfula fubglobofa, calycis ven- y the belly of the cup, the upper part tre corticata, fummitate nuda, trilocularis, naked, three-celled, partitions contrary. ntrariis. SeEeDs many, oblong, or rounded with angles, or Semina_ plurima, oblonga, feu rotundato-angu- winged, lata, feu alata. : — SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Melaleuca foliis. fparfis oppofitifve, linearibus, Melaleuca with fcattered or oppofite leaves, li- enerviis, fubrecurvis, muticis; floribus fef- near, without nerves, a little turned back filibus, apicem verfus ramulorum confertis, | and beardlefs; flowers grow clofe to the fpicatis. © ftem, crowded together near the end of the fmaller branches in fpikes. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Prop, one which is to be found at the bafe of each flower. 2._A Bloffom, natural fize. 3. The fame magnified. 4. One of the five bundles of Chives, with its Petal, to which it is attached at the bafe, magnified. : 5. The Cup, Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, natural fize, the fummit detached and magnified. re ———— : ; : the Mar White Knights, near Reading, Berks, from a branch of which, obligingly communicated by his Lord- r It grows beft in a mixture of two thirds fand hi ed b ings made, frc : y peat, and one third loam; may be propagated by Op wy e, from the tender fhoots, in the month of March, and kept under a Hels, in the tan bed Ya e Te This fpecies of Melaleuca and the Metrofideros Nod . or ca : ofa of Gaertner, 1ft Vol. de fruct. p. 172, t. 34 stk Gee confider as the fame, though made by Dr. Smith, fee Linn. Tranf. Vol. III. p. 270 ent parts of the counter. om tpecimens gathered at different times, differently dried, or from differ- i Ae Sven PLATE CLXXVI. : CHAS AVA CA PPAROIDES. 7 ae: Caper-like Crateva. een ————— ~ ee Aes Xt ORDER. DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Schrel. Gen. Plant. Vol. I. p. 320. Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifi- dum, deciduum, bafi planum ; laciniis pa- tentibus, ovatis, inzequalibus. ; Corotra. Petala quatuor, oblonga, unguibus tenuibus, longitudine calycis, divifuris in- ferta. STA MINA. Filamenta fedecim vel plura, fetacea, corolla breviora, Antherze erecte, oblonge. PistiiiuM. Pericarpium. Bacc ma, pedicellata, Semina plura, lantia. 2? carnofa, globofa, maxi- unilocularis, bivalvis. fubrotunda, emarginata, nidu- » ‘ SPECIFIC Crateva foliolis elipticis, glabris ; floribus um- bellatis, terminalibus, luteo-viridibus, petalis giffimis, apicibus crifpis. $$$ f | | EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, four-cleft, falling off, flat at the bafe; fegments fpreading, ego-fhaped, unequal. Sica: fous petals, oblong, claws flender, the length of the cup and inferted into the divificns. : : Cuives. Threads fixteen or more, like briftles, fhorter than the bloffom, Tips erect, oblong. Poinrar. Seed-bu -fhaped and very long foot-fialk, egg-fhaped. Shaft none. Summit fitting on the feed-bud, headed. SeED-veEssEL. A Berry? flefhy, globular, large, with a foot-ftalk, one-celled, two-valved, SzEps many, roundith, notched at the end, dif- ‘fed in pulp. CHARACTER. Crateva with eliptical, fmooth leaflets; flowers w in umbels, terminal and yellow green; petals very long, crifped at the ends. REFERENCE TO THE PLA‘TE. £ 1. Shews the Pointal, part of the Chives, and three Petals of the bloffom ; a few of the Chives, one ©: th e Petals, and the leaves of the Empalement, being removed, the better to exhibit the ftructure of the bl : 2. The Pointal, complete, — ~ LL EEE a native of Sweden, we are indebted for this fpecies of Crataeva; by whom it was brought to Great Britain, on his return from Sierra Leone, in the year 1795. Asa native of that burning clime, it will not endure our winters, without the protection of the hothonfe; to which, asa climber, it is a confiderable ornament, both in foliage, and flower; the flowers coming, in gee i much later, as we believe, this is the firft time.its bloffoms by cuttings; but, to give the plant n a border, prepared of old rotten dung, fandy m the tan-bed by a partition of boards, fufticiently ftrong to fupport the earth, upon the removal of the tan. This method of treating many of the tropi- ! the common Caper, _ neceffary to their produ@ion of flowers in this co >» = friends, with the fi _ the fole poffeffor. thou gh a native of the fouth'of Europe, has been found unt the above manner; in the Stepney colleGtion ; from urbanic, and indefatigable proprietor, T. Evans. Ef Our figure was taken from a plant, treated in whence, through the kind indulgence of theta - we are in hopes of gratifying our gens gures of a number of plants, new to this country; and of which he is, at pre = = By fy, he ra Cofifia POtCAGS PLATE CLXXVII. IXIA PUNCTATA. Dotted flowered Ixia: CLASS fll. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, Corotxa 6-partita, patens, zqualis, | Stiemara 3, erectiufculo-patula, | Brossom 6 divifions, fpreading, equal. Summits three, nearly upright, f{preading. See Ixia reflexa, Pl, XIV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis linearibus, feapo vaginantibus; feapus | Ixia with linear leaves fheathing the ftem; flower-_ geniculatus, fubtriflorus; laciniis corolla ftem jointed, moftly three flowered; feg- ‘obovatis, lineato-pundtatis, purpureis. ments of the bloffom inverfely egg-fhaped, dotted in lines, and purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1, The two valves of the fheath. 2. A Bloffom cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits 3 a divifion of one of the fummits magnified. _ Tuts curious Ixia was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1800, by G. Hibbert, _ -Efq. and is, we believe, in the poffeffion of no other in this kingdom. It is a tender bulb, flowering about April, or May, and appears, either by the bulb, or feed, to be flow of increafe, The bulb, from whieh our figure was taken, was planted in light, fandy peat earth. ‘task. tact line all bd by He Rnbrevatt $s: by PLATE CLXXVIIL a FERRARIA PAVONIA. | Mexican Ferraria. CLAS@ &Vi ORDER 1.” MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Threads united, Three Chives, GENERIE€ C ZARACTER. Schrel. Gen. Plant. V.1L. p.451, Caryx. Spathe bine, alterne,carinate, invo- || Empatement. Sheaths two, alternate, keeled, lute, uniflore. if involute, one-flowered. Coro.xa monopetala, fupera, fexpartita; laci- — 3 Brossom one petal, above, fix divided; feg- niis oblongis, erecto-patentibus, undulato- |} ments oblong, upright-fpreading, crifp- crifpatis, maculatis; tribus alternis exteri- __ waved and {potted ; the three alternate outer oribus latioribus. ones the broadeft. Stamina. Filamenta tria, in tubum cylindra- Cuives. Threads three, in a cylindrical tube ceum, corolla breviorem, connata, fuperne _ fhorter than the bloffom, joined together, diflin&a. Antherz fubovate, didyme. feparate at the top, Tips nearly egg-fhaped, euples “. %,. Pistittum. Germen oblongum, triquetrum, Pointat. Seed-bud oblong, three-fided, blunt, obtufum, inferam, Stylus filiformis, lon- beneath. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length gitudine tubi. of the tube. Sricmara tria, profundeé bifida. Summits three, deeply two cleft. Pericarrium. Capfula oblonga, triquetra, tri- || Srep-vessex. Capfule oblong, three-fided, three- ocularis, trivalvis ; diflepimentis contrariis. celled, three-valved ; partitions contrary. Semina numerofa, fubrotunda, pulpa involuta. SEEDs many, roundifh, covered with a pulp. ECIFIC CHARACTER. Ferraria corollis fub campanulatis, fpeciofiffimis; Ferraria with bloffoms nearly bell-fhaped and aciniis planis, tribus interioribus haftatis, very thewy; fegments plain, the three inner nettariferis; foliis plicatis, bafi {pathaceis. ones ‘are halbert-{haped, and have honey- cups, leaves plaitéd, fheathing at the bafe. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. An outer Petal of the Flower. 5. The Chives fpread open. 6. The Pointal complete, one of the fummits magnified: Turs is, without doubt, the Mexican plant given in the 2nd. Vol. t. 31. f. 2; of Swertius’s Florilegium, publifhed in 1012; by F. Hernandez, in his Nov. Plant. &c. Mex. Hift. p- 276, in 1648; and of Mutis, under the title it here bears, in his Flo. Amer. 1. t. 15; from whomit has been copied into the Suppl. Plant. of the younger Linnzus, p. 407. and continued by Profeffor Martyn in his Mill. Dic, Art. Fer- to the clafs Gynandria by Linnzeus, has been fo continued by Martyn, &c. but upon what grounds, we are unable to determine; unlefs the miftake arofe from the impraéticability of dividing the tube of the chives, from the thaft, in a dried fpecimen; which, in fuch tranfitory flowers as thofe of. Ferraria, be: te we confider its generical reference to have been as ill taken up, as the Genus had been ill clafli- . This plant, as may be feen from our diffeétions, is much nigher affined to Sifyrinehium, as it wants every effential charaéter of Ferraria, fuch asa fheath of one leaf, undulated crifped petals, hooded and fringed fammits, &c. for we do not confider the length of the tube of the bloffom of any _ fery in July; and ftill there were a number o f flowering. It is beft grown in peat earth manson its PLATE CLXXIX. AMARYLLIS RETICULATA. Netted-flowered Lily- Daffodil. CLASS. VI. ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corota 6-petala, campanulata, Stigma tri- Brossom 6-petalled, bell-fhaped. Summit three- fidum. cleft. See AMARYLLIS RaDiata, Pl. XCV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Amaryllis fpatha multiflora ; corollis reticulatis, purpureis; foliis oblongis, reticulatis, bafi attenuatis, Lily Daffodil, fheath many flowered; bloffoms netted and purple; leaves oblong, netted, and tapered at the bafe. rE. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Petal and its Chive, attached, as it is in the fower. 2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. ep ———____. Tue Amaryllis reticulata, a native of Brazil, South America, was firft cultivated in the year 1772, at the Hammerfmith nurfery ; the bulbs had been received from Portugal by Edward Whittaker Gray, M. D. of the Britith Mufeum; and were by him communicated to Meffrs, Lee and Kennedy. Our drawing was made this fpring, in May, from a plant in the invaluable, and extenfive colleGtion of hothoufe _ plants, at Stepney, belonging to T. Evans, Efq. where it flowers annual y- To enfure the flowering of this plant, it is neceflary to plunge the pot in the heat ‘of the bark-bed of the hothoufe; and, during the winter months, to keep the earth rather dry, as the bulbs are very fubjeét to rot, without that precaution. It fhould be planted in a compofition of old rotten dung, oF leaf mould, and a {mall Proportion of loam, we , #. + PLATE CLXXX. APOAGENE AUSTRIA-CA, Aufirian Atragene. CLASS XIll. ORDER VIL, POLYANDRIA POLYGYNLA. Many Chives. Many Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, EMPALEMENT 4-leaves. Petals 12. Seeds with tails. See ATRAGENE Capensts, Pl. IX. Vol. I. Caryx 4-phyllus, Petala. 12, Semina caudata. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. : Atragene foliis oppofitis, triternatis; foliolis ru- Atragene with oppofite, twice-three-divided gofis, ferratis; floribus folitariis, tomentofis, leaves; leaflets rough and fawed; flowers cernuis; calyce magno, ceruleo, marginato. folitary, downy, nodding; empalement large, blue, and bordered. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Leaf of the empalement. . \2. A Petal of the flower. - A Chive complete. _ 4. The Pointals as they ftand in the flower, _ 5. A ripe feed, with its feathered tail. ie) ta j Tuis is, ‘unqueftionably, the Auftrian Atragene of Jacquin’s Vind. 249; and, we think, no one who has had an opportunity of comparing the A. alpina with this plant, but will determine it a diftin® fpecies. Itisa hardy, climbing fhrub; growing frequently, eight or ten feet in a feafon, and covers itfelf pretty abundantly with foliage ; the foot-ftalks of the old leaves becoming cirrhi or tendrils, and the wood growing to a confiderable thicknefs. The flowers begin to appear about May; and continue’ in fucceffion, til] July. It may be propagated by layers; but, the fureft inode is by feed, which. may be fown as foon as ripe, and which will be perfected from the firft flowers, by Auguft. It grows the moft flourifhing in light rich earth ;_ but will live in the moft common. Our figure was made from a plant in the Hammerfinith collection, to which it was firft introduced in the year 1792. # At, Bo CU Were austrraca. PLATE CLXXXI. VACCINIUM VIRGATUM. et ing died Green-twigged Whortle-berry. CLASS Vill. ORDER I. ‘ OCTANDRIA MONOGYNI4. Eight Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Cur fuperior. Bloffom one petal. Threads fixed into the receptacle. A berry with four cells and many feeds. ‘Caryx fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Fila- _ menta receptaculo inferta. Bacca quadri- locularis, polyfperma. - ; See VACCINIUM ARCTOSTAPHYLLOs. Pl. XXX. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Vaccinium foliis oblongo-oyatis, ferrulatis, de- Whortle-berry, with oblong egg-fhaped leaves, ciduis, ramulis viridibus; floribus, fub-um- flightly fawed, deciduous, the fmall branches bellatis, axiilaribus 3 corollis, fub - cylin- _ green; flowers gtow rather umbelled from ‘ draceis; calycibus apice reflexis. Stamini- where the leaves are fixed to the ftem ; blof- bus decem. foms nearly cylindrical; cups reflexed ‘at the upper part. Ten chives. I REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower complete. 2. The Cup, 3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, the cup cut off, magnified. 4. A nearly ripe berry ‘Tus fpecies of Whortle-berry was, according to the Kew Catalogue, introduced by Mr. Young in the year 1770. It is a hardy plant; and, asa native of North America, where it is an under fhrub | of the woods, fhould be planted in a thady fituation, in peat earth. It is rarely killed by our frofts ; | SFows about two feet high, and lofes its leaves in winter, Our drawing was made in June,’ this : “year, at the Nurfery, Hammerfmith, where it is Propagated by layers. enum. x Mum vurgatum y a i i a PLATE CLXXXII. MALVA DIVARICATA. Straddling-branched Mallow. CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. a MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, Caryx duplex; exterior 3-phyllus. Arilli plu- i, monofpermi. > rimi, mon Cur double; outer three-leaved. Seed-coats many, one-feeded, See Marva reriexa, Pl. CKXXV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Mallow with lobed leaves, plaited, toothed, and rough; the large and fmall branches grow _ ftraddling, and zig-zagged. Malva foliis lobatis, plicatis, dentatis, fcabridis; ramis ramulifque divaricatis, flexuofis, ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1, The double Cup. 2, A Flower fpread open, with the threads remaining. 3. The Chives cut open, and magnified, 3 A, The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, magnified, # As a lively, but little, green-houfe plant, this {pecies of Mallow has not many equals; and its pro- perty of continuing to flower from June, till December, mutt confiderably enhance its value. It is a now poffefs it, from its facility of increafe, may be planted in rich earth, and is increafed by cuttings, or feeds, which ripen perfectly in this country, The drawing was made at the Nurfery, Hammer- * ee Ce ae ee J a’ Malra dvarteala PLATE CLXXXIIL "GABRDENTA TUBIFLOR A. a Tube-flowered Gardenia. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- fidum, fuperum, laciniis ereétis, perfiften- tibus CoroLta monopetala, infundibulifermis; tubus cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus planus, : quinquepartitus. ; Stamina, Filamenta nulla. Anthere quinque, ore tubi inferte, lineares, ftriate, longitu- dine dimidia limbi. Pistittum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- mis feu clavatus, Stigma exfertum, ova- tum, obtufum, bilobum, fepe fulcatum. Pericarrium. Bacca ficca, uni bis feu-quadri- ocularis, Serna plurima, deprefla, per feries imbricatim fibi impofita. SPECIFIC Gardenia inermis; foliis elipticis, undulatis, flo- ribus ternis; corollz laciniis tortis, lineari- bus, reflexis, tubo filiformi, longiffimo. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, above, fegments upright, permanent. Brossom one petal, funnel-fhaped; tube cylin- drical, longer than the cup; border flat, five divifions. Threads none. ‘Tips five, fixed into the mouth of the tube, linear, firiped, half the length of the border, Pointat. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread- fhaped or club-fhaped. Summit ftanding out, egg-fhaped, obtufe, two-lobed, often urrowed. Serp-vesset. A dry berry, one, two, or four- celled, SgEps many, flattened, lying upon one another in tiers, CHARACTER. Gardenia without thorns; with eliptical, undu- lated leaves; flowers grow by threes; the fegments of the bloffom are twifted, linear, reflexed, the tube thread thaped, very long. _e REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Cup and Seed-bud. 2. A Bloffom cut open, with the Chives remaining at the mouth. 3. The Shaft and its Summit, the fummit detached and maguified. DIE Deere muft, therefore, be treated as a tender hot- feet before it flowers; and, from the Tae Tube-flowered Gardenia was introduced to Britain, in the year 1789, from Sierra Leone, and houfe plant. It grows, with us, to the height of about two beauty and fize of the leaves, the regular, oppofite manner. in which it forms its branches, becomes a very handfome fhrub. The flowers, which are produced in July, grow generally three together, at right angles, from the infertion of the leaves, in a bunch, which lafts about fix or eight days, having but one flower open and perfect at a time, the decaying ones becoming brown. It is propagated, with eafe, by cuttings, made in the month of March, and kept under a bell-glafs, in a pot of ftiffith loam, The agreeable charaéter, of a delicate fragrance, in the bark-bed of the hot-honfe, or a melon frame. attendant on the bloffoms of moft fpecies of this ge- nus, is eminently powerful in this. Our drawing was made at the Hammerfmith purfery ; where, it was -. raifed, from feeds received in a prefent, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, from the Hon. Sierra ompany. 2. biflora sardenta ti ARIA’ MINO R. a Smaller Pergularia, or Weft-coaft Creeper. 35 Xk ORDER VI. of Lian. Gen. Plan. 1764. CLA : GYNANDRIA DECANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Ten Chives. 4 GENERIC CHARACTER. Caxyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- EmPatement. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, up- dum, erectam, acutum fifi right, pointed and remaining. CoroLva mono petala, hypocrateriformis; tubus cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus quin- i iis oblongi E a} » - c o oS £ av, $= = S wn ™“ oe 2 g oe a — w acutis, incurvis, apice cor- niculis nutantibus, approximatis ; interim glands que ftigmati affixis fixed to the fummit. Tips tran{parent, yel- lutee, fubrotunde. - low, roundith. é PisTILLuM. rmina duo oblonga. Stylus Porntat. Seed-buds two, oblong. Shaft very breviflimus, carnofus. Stigma corpufculurh fhort, flefhy. Summit a conical, obtufe, -conicum, obtufum, carnoium. thy fubftance. PericarPium. Folliculi duo, uniloculares, in- Two follicles, trorfum dehifcentes per longitudinem. one-valved, {plit- infde,.. ** SEMINA numerofa, parva, fubrotunda. : SPECIFIC Pergularia foliis cordatis, acutis, apicibus tor- tis; laciniis eoroll ovatis, erectis, luteis, An outer Scale magni . An inner Scale magnified The Seed-buds, Shaft, TOP ROR & raéters of fuch as may come under our review Upon the changing the clafs of this ~ has juttly taken, the parts fi The Genus is where, , _ obfervations and alliftance) info genus, there needs no comment: have not followed the hint, that it js xed to the five glands, for wh i j through the whole order of Orchidez, where the c. 1 scare Maps Fg ting lengthways from the in SEEDs numerous, fmall, roundith, CHARACTER. Pergularia with heart-fhaped leaves, fharp- pointed and twifted at the ends; the feg- ments of the bloffom ] ; are egg-fhaped, up- right, and yellow. magnified. Two Scales of tne honey-cup as they are attached together, magnified. fied. Summit, and Chives magnified. - upon what gtounds we have taken up a fpecific diftin@tion, fo diffimilar in our opinion, but, which have much abler botanifts innzan sexual principles; which, we muft 7 n the orig ft in the prefent bewildered chaos, from the intricacy, fingularity and minute- pe rom critical and aétual obfervations, taken from of being able to illuftrate, and corre&t where neceflary, the cha- 3 as moft authors seem to Vere, Efq. Kentington Gore; we muft beg our fincere acknowledgments for his frequent and ready ner, 3) *aulane Wilpoer PLATE CLXXXv. PER GULARIA- ODORATISSIMA. Sweet Pergularia, or Chinefe Creeper. CLASS: 3X. ORDER VI. of Linn. Gen. Plant. 1764, GYNANDRIA DECANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Conrorta. Neétarium duplex, genitalia in- Conrort. Honey-cup double, concealing the volvens; fquamulz exteriores quinque, cut- parts of fruétification; the outer fcales are _ pidatee; quinque interiores, membranacez, five, and fpear-fhaped; the five inner are fingula fquamula occultans ftamina duo fkinny, each fcale covering two alternate alterna. chives. Corotia hypocrateriformis, Biossom falver-fhaped. ’ See Percurarta minor, Pl. CLXXXIV. Vol. IIL SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pergularia foliis cordatis, fenioribus fubtomen- Pergularia with heart-fhaped leaves, the older : tofis; laciniis corolla margine revolutis, ones rather downy; the fegments of the tortis, linearibus, reflexis, viridibus. bloffom rolled back at the margin, twifted, linear, reflexed, and green. ere eee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The Empalement. 2. A Bloffom. 3. The fame, cut open. 4. The parts of fructification, as they appear when covered by the honey-cups, magnified. 5. The outer fale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 6. The inner feale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 7. The two Scales, as they are conneéted together at the bafe. 8. The Pointal, with the Chives; the Shaft, Summit, and Chives, with the- bodies conneéting the Chives, detached and magnified. Ee Tus fpecies of Pergularia is a native of China, from whence it was received in the year 1789, by _ Lady Hume; in whofe colleétion at Wormleybury, Herts, it firft flowered in 1791. It is cultivated and increafed in the fame manner as the P. minor, and is equally fragrant. We have little doubt that our two [pecies comprife four, of the different authors who have collated from each other; we fhall take the laft, Willdenow. The P. glabra and P. Japonica as our P. minor; and the P. purpurea and tomentofa as our P, odoratiflima. The P. edulis of Thunberg is certainly Cynanchum. eis é Ooralifsima , BY ergy PLATE CLXXXVI.. TREA SPE CIOS very long, one led, one valved. Seeps many tiled, crowned with a long feather. CHARACTER. Echites with bunched foot-ftalks; leaves ol obtufis, mucronatis; 3 floribus luteis, am- blunt and pointed at the ends; flowers yel- pliffimis ; corollz tubus hirfutus, low and very large; the tube of the bloffom > hairy. ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. ‘1. The Cup. 2. A Flower cut open, with the chives remaining, but detached from each other. 3, The Chives and Pointal as they are in the flower, the lower part of the bloffom remaining, ; the upper cut away, magnified. eee 4. One of the Chives a little magnified. a 5. The Pointal and Seed-buds, magnified. nee ere eR RRC Stents Pur Lady Dowager De Clifford received this plant from the ifland of St. Vincent's, in the year 1704; Kew Catalogue, p. 289, Vol. I. ve ‘the month of of May. and we much queftion, whether it was ever feen in Britain prior to that period; although faid to be cultivated in 1759, by Millar, in the 7th Edit. of his Dictionary, and from thence, collated into the It is a climbing plant, if fupported; but does not grow to any con- fiderable height, if kept in a pot. The beft method of i this plant, is the fame as that propofed for the. Crateva capparoides, Pl. 176. Vol. III. re ~Browne, tuft undoubtedly have been taken from the plants which grow in the Savannas; where, they” feldom | acquire above the height of two feet. or broken, there iffues a milky fubftance, is confidered by Dr. Browne as poifonous. Our figure was oe taken at Meffrs, Lee and Kennedy’s, this ie in Augutt. It is propagated by cuttings, put in about The fpecific name Suberecta, of Jacquin and The whole plant, from which, if any part is cut Ae, f orerte o/,. Chiles : PLATE CLXXXVIIL. GLADIOLUS CAMPANULATUS Bell-flowered Gladiolus. CLASS: Hl ORDER I TRIANDRIA MONOGYN I.4. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, Biossom fix divifions, gaping. Cuives afcending. See Pl. XI. Vol. I. Guapiorus ROSEUS, Coro.ta fexpartita, ringens, Stamina adfcendentia. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, nervofis, glabris; Gladiolus with lance-fhaped leaves, nerved and - feapo fubtrifloro, foliis longior ; corolla fub- {mooth; flower-ftem moftly three-flowered, cainpanulata, palidé purpurea, laciniis fub- longer than the leaves; bloffom rather bell- equalibus; ftigmatibus bifidis, thaped, of a pale purple, the fegments near- ly equal, with the fummits two-cleft. ere REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Flower fpread open, with the Chives attached, 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, one Summit detached and magnified. ee Tue Bell-flowered Gladiolus, was amongft the number of thofe imported from Holland, in the year 1794, by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith ; when they partook of that large collection, brought to Haarlem by a Frenchman 3 who had been long refident at the Cape of Good Hope, where he had cultivated moft of the bulbs prior to his bringing them to Europe. Nothing particular is required for the management of this, more than the moft common of the Genus, from theCape. It flowers in May, | PLATE CLXXXIX. ZINNIA VERTICILLATA. Double Zinnia. CLASS XIX. ORDER II. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Recerracutum paleaceum. Pappusariftis2erec- Recerracrechafty. Feather with 2 uprightawns. tis. Calyx ovato-cylindricus, imbricatus. mpalement cylindrical-egg-fhaped, and Flofculi radii 5, perfiftentes, integri. tiled. Florets of the ray 5, remaining and Ba entire. See ZINNIA VIOLACEA. PI. LV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Zinnia with leayes growing in whorls without — foot-ftalks clofe to the ftem; flowers with foot-ftalks; the florets of the ray often three rows. Zinnia foliis verticillatis, feffilibus; floribus pedunculatis ; flofculi radii fepe tria feries. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. An outer female Floret of the ray, the feed attached, a little larger than nature. _ 2. An inner hermaphrodite Floret of the difk, with its feed and fkinny chaff, magnified. 3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed of an hermaphrodite Floret, divefted of its corolla, magnified. --e re Tus Englith fpecific title to this plant, fhould feem to imply, that the flowers are fuch, as fhould not come into our arrangement; but, as the charaéter is not conftant in all the flowers, even on the fame plant, it cannot be confidered but as a {pecific charaéter in this particular fpecies, though the name has its proper force, in contradiftinétion to its congeners, in our language. It is a native of Mexico, South America; and was introduced to our gardens about the year 1789, by Mons’ Richard, from the Paris gardens, at the fame time with the Virgilia; a moft beautiful annual, of the habit of Arétotis, now — loft in both countries from the difficulty of procuring ripened feeds, It is to be raifed in the fame manner as the other fpecies, on a gentle hot-bed, in March, and planted out the beginning of May. The flowers make their appearance about the beginning of Auguft, and continue, in fucceffion, till they are deftroyed by the froft. To be certain of the feed, the heads muft be taken from the plant, whilft : they appear yet freth; as the petals are perfiftent, and have not the appearance of entire decay, though the feed is nearly ripe; for if the receptacle once begins to rot, (which it is very fubject to,) the feeds are immediately contaminated and fpoilt. Our figure was taken, this year, at the Hammerfmith Nur- fery, where, it was grown firft in this kingdom. ; penne i ‘ ict = : i naa SS Fl Ba ve rhellala PLATE CXc. | GERANIUM ASTRAGALIFOLIUM. Afiragalus-leaved Geranium. ’ _— CLASS XVI ORDER IV. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Mownoeyrna. Stigmata quinque. One Pointat. Five Summits. RucTus roftratus, penta-coccus. Fruit furnithed with long awns; five dry erries. See Geranium GRANDIFLORUM, PI. XII.Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis pinnatis, hirfutis, foliolis Geranium with winged, hairy leaves; leaflets -rotundato-ovatis; calycibus §monophyllis; of a roundifh-oval thape; cups one-leaved; petalis undulatis ad bafin tortis; ftaminibus petals waved, twifted at the bafe; five fer- quinque fertilibus; radice tuberofa. tile chives ; root tuberous. 3 St. John’s-wort-leaved Melaleuca. CLASS XVIII. ORDER IV. POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads in manySets. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 3 5 Caxyx quinquefidus, femifuperus. Petalaquin- || Cup five-cleft, half above. Petals five. Threads “ que. Filamenta mulia, longiffima, connata numerous, very long, united into five bodies. in quinque corpora. Pifti!lam unum, Cap- | Pointal one. _ fala trilocularis. * Sie Capfule three-celled. See MELALEUCA ERICHFOLIA, PI, CLKXV. Vol. IIT. “Eh os SPECIFIC CHARACTAk. 3 ~ Melaleuca foliis oppofitis, eliptico-oblongis, uni- 4. Melaleuca with oppofite leaves, eliptic-oblong, : nerviis; floribus confertis; filamentis lon- | one-nerved ; flowers cluftered; threads very giflimis, linearibus, apice radiato-multifidis, long, linear, rayed and many-cleft at the top. . * i ‘ : ; : REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower, natural fize. ~ 2. One of the five bundles of Chives, with its petal, to which it is attached at the bafe, magnified : 3. The cup, feed-bud, thaft and fummit, natural fize, the fummit detached and mag- ified, Agour the year 1792 this plant was firft raifed from feeds, by the late Mr. William Malcolm, Nurferyman, at Stockwell, Surry ; and was, from the very great refemblance it bears to the St. John’s- worts, fo denominated, until it flowered. It has now become one of the commoneft, of what are wood, in a horizontal direétion, is common to many other fpecies of the Genus. It grows to the height _ of four or five feet, very erect in every part; is eafily increafed by cuttings, and thrives beft in peat earth. Although it is faid to grow in {wampy grounds in New South Wales, fee Linnean Tranfactions, Vol. III. p. 279, neverthelefs, with us, a dry, or damp fituation in the green-houfe, appears equally Mi, Ca hy, Creel, ola. PLATE CCI. AIZOON Pe ae ENS E. Purflane-leaved Aizoon. CLASS XII. ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNI4A. Twenty Chives. ORDER Iv. Five Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- rtitam ; laciniis lanceolatis, perfiftentibus. CoroLia nulla a. Stamina. Filamenta plurima, capillaria, finui calycis per phalanges in ferta. Anthere -_ ices. SPECIFIC Aizoon foliis cag ary floribus folita- riis, fubfeffilibus, axillaribus EMPALEMENT. Cup oj e leaf, ‘ee eH feg- ments istics tuabed, remainin BLossom pone -'Threa -bud _five-fi — above. five, fimple. Summits fimple. SEED-vEssEL. Capfule bellied dented, five-fided, five-celled, five-valyed SeEeps many, roundith, Shafts CHARACTER. Aizoon with leaves between _wedgeand egg-fhaped; flowers folitary, growing almoft _— to the ftem from the infertion of the leay rr REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement thewn ng the infide. utfide. 2. The fame _— from the 3. A Chive m 4. The Pointale eral fize. 5. The fame, magnified. $$ Tuts plant is herbaceous, and is found near the fea coaft, in moft parts of the world, within the t has a chara¢ter common to man extend from t inta Iflands,) Linnzus took up the plant, faid to ae bu different parts ; as ASgypt, ‘Seeds recei i. Kenfington Gore; fince whic h time = cuttings, made chew in the year, and putin the plant faid to be cultivated by Miller in the Hort. Kew nie: in referring that, to the Aizoon canarienfe of the fame wor bei c diftinGion of chara&ter the gratis pret of Miller “ Burmann, in : Jimus; and Plukenet as Portulaca from Eatt Indian egies ‘Ila pa era of the natural order of fucculents, fuch as Me- feesbryanthemum, Craffula, &c. that of an fader rthtncte number of pointals; which, in this genus, ree, to five, on different plants ; this circumftance not having been fufficiently attended ved from Spain ws our eee were Siro, by Mr. Anderfon in 1 ‘6, at the gardens of ‘J. Vere, ovember, and PLATE CCH. SAMYDA SERRULATA. Sawed-leaved Samyda. CLASS KX ORDER. 1 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. TenChives. One Pointal, GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, interne eae mre one one leaf, coloured within; coloratum; tubus campanulatus, decemftri- tube bell-fhaped, ten-ftriped; bordex five- atus; limbus quinque = laciniis ovatis pore fergucis egg-fhaped, fmooth, very planis, patentiffimis, obtufis, duabus acu- much fpread, obtufe, two lengthened by a mine auctis, pointed end. Corotta nulla. Bossom none. Nectarium monophyllum, conicum, trun- Honey-cup, one leaf, conical, appearin catum, decemftriatum, longitudine fere ca- cut off, beaded, nearly the length of lycis, ejufque limbo ad — infertum, ore the cup and fixed to it at the bafe of the obtufe 10 ad 18-dentat : alee obtufely from 10 to 18-toothed at : uth. Sramina. Filamenta nulla. Anthere decem Curves. "Threads one. Tips from 10 to 18, oblong, erectx, parve, oblong, epright, fmall, fixed to the teeth of dentibus nettarii Godidientes: ho Pistrtium. Germen ovatum. ere en Pointat, Seed-bud d egg-fhaped. Shaft awl- err a Tongitudine nectaril. Stigma ca fhaped, upright, the length of the honey- obtufum cup. Summit headed, blunt, be citahovoms Capfula feos aco quadriful- Sgep-vessex. Capfule roundith, four-furrowed, ca coriacea, craffa, uni aris, quadri- ~ leathery, thick, one-celled, four valves. iia 3 piri, fubovata, obtufa, bafi fora SEEDs many, nearly egg-fhaped, blunt, marked with a fmall hole at the bafe, fixed to the valves, furrounded with a flight pulpy kin. a, valvulis affixa, obvoluta valli. cula ag SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Samyda Pee — = yaaa 3 foliis ovato- Samyda with rofy coloured flowers having twelve oblongis, ferrulat ives; leaves between egg-fhaped and ob- long, flightly fawed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The Empalement, with its honey-cup, and the tips, cut and fpread open. 2. The Pointal and feed-bud natural fize, the fummit detached and magnified. 3. The Seed-bud cut tran{verfely and magnified, to thew the number of valves and fituation of the feeds, ee eens _ Tue Sawed-leaved Samyda is an inhabitant of moft of the Weft India Hands, but was received in England, ~— the year 1795, from the Ifland of St. Vincent; tranfmitted from thence, by Mr. An- derfon, curator of the Botanic garden, originally eftablithed there » under the fanétion of our govern- tender plant, grows to about three feet i in height, making but few nches, and rather weak in the ftem ur drawing was taken in July this s year at the gar- den of T Evans, Be Stepney, who we believe firft had it to flower in this kingdom. It is propagated by cuttings; muft be kept ir in the bark-bed of the hot-houfe, and fhould be planted in very rich mould. a. SCT UA AaE i ee Oe Yd L 4 : a PLATE CCIII. IXIA COLUMNARIS. Columnar-chived Ixia. CLASS IIL. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corotra 6-petala, patens, zequalis. | Brossom 6 petals, fpreading, eqial. Srigmara tria, ereCtiufculo-patula. Summits three, upright-fpreading. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia filamentis bafi coherentibus 3 floribus capi- | Ixia with threads united at the bafe; flowers -tatis; corollis purpureis. grow in heads; bloffoms purple. ——E ae REFERENCE £0 TRE PLATE, 1. The two Valves of the empalement. 2. A Bloffom cut open. ‘ 3. The Chives and Pointal, with the tube of the bloffom, the border cut off. 4, The Chives cut and {pread open, with the tube of the bloffom, magnified. 5. The Pointal and Seed-bud, with one of the Summits detached and magnified. a Here we have a plant which prefents one of thofe obftacles, matic arrangement of the produ@tions of nature. but in the unison of the Threads F fuch fingular moment, that a numb hinging on this only charaéter. But, as this plant has been named, and to his garden 36, n. 18; and continued, fro article Ixia, 50; in the following proper, not to make any alteratio The extreme brilliance of the flo conftantly met, in all attempts to a fyfte- Every feature of Ixia we find pofitively expreffed, a circumftance, which Linneus in his fyftem, always deemed of er of Genera have been formed, from this natural order of plants, not exceeded by any in the whole Genus; they generally, are not longer ex- only under a hot fun; from about eight, till twelve o'clock; elefs they have a permanence not ufual in Ixias, as the fame is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and came » about the year 1794. It flowers in June and July, amongft and increafes by the root in abundance. Our figure was taken at the Hammer- firft to England, by the way of Holland the lateft of the tribe, fmith Nurfery. © — WMUAI A ra eli: PLATE CCIV. GERANIUM LACINIATUM. Ragged-leaved Geranium. Var. flore purpureo, Purple lowered Variety. CLASS XVI.° ORDER Iv' - MONADELPHI4A DECANDRIA. Tiireads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, - Monoeyrna. Stigmata quinque. {| One Pornrar. Five fummits. Fructus roftratus, penta-coccus, Fruir furnifhed with long awns; five dry berries. . SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis radicalibus, integris laciniatif- Geranium with leaves growing from the root, que, petiolis filiformibus; calycibus mono- entire and jagged, footftalks thread-thaped ; phillis; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus 3 radice cups one-leaved; five fertile chives; root tuberofa; floribus purpureis, tuberous ; flowers purple. ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. The Chives fpread open. 3. The Pointal and feed-bud magnified. TT Tuts very handfome variety, (for we cannot confider it was imported in 1800, from the Cape of Good Hopi - flowered, laft-year, in the month of as a fpecies,) of the Geranium laciniatum, by G. Hibbert Efq.; in whofe colle@tion it care that colleétion is preferved in fuch high order and perfection, and to whofe kind communicati he has not, a t, from every appearance, the plant, he has no doubt, fs uberous charaéter ; and that he did not treat it differently from the reft of the Geraniums which compofe this branch of that interefting family. ELATE CCV. PLATYLOBIUM LANCE OLATUM. Lance-/haped-leaved Flat-pea. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives in two Sets. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx campanulatus, quinquefidus ;~ laciniis Cur bell- — five-cleft ; the two upper feg- duabus fupremis maximis, obtufis. Stamina ments very large and obtufe. Chives all omnia coalita. Legumen pedicellatum,com-_ || ented Pod on a footftalk, compreffed, preffum, dorfo alatum ; polyfpermum. inged along the back; many feede See Plate CXCI. “Vol Il, Prartcoston SCOLOPENDRUM, . SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ee iy ai pe diftichis Acie Flat-Pea with very {mooth leaves pointing oppo- lanceolatis; fl ed; us folitariis, gxillarib te ways, linear-lance-fhaped ; flowers grow ramis rect ws ae mpreffis. __ folitary from the lower part of the leaves clofe to the branches; the younger branches are rather flatifh. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, The Empalement of the flower. 4 The Standard, or upper petal of the bloffom. = One of the Wings, or fide petals of the bloffiom. . The two lower Petals, or ead of the bloffom. 5. The Chives, natural fize tural fize, ; 8, The fame magnified, but rather more mature. Se _ = , No. Clafs, amongft the 24, is more difting i in its natural chara@ter than ee 3 yet, fince the dif- covery of New South Wales, no one has prefented more difficulty to the botanist. From the great number of plants of that country, appertaining to this Clafs, and the ftrong differing chara@ters which moft of them exhibit, fuch indeed, as might formerly have been thought of fufficient moment to confti - time become doubled i in number ; a matter of no {mall moment to weak although willing memories. se Hae sae the P. Solent this Volume, Pl. CXCLI., and our prefent plant to the Genus but mode than from the feed; fome of which has been procured from the P. formofum, only. The _ -Fequire to be kept in the dryeft part of the ar -houfe, 2s they are impatient of damp. Our drawing _ Was made in November 1801, at the Nurfery of M leffrs. Lee and K ennedy, Hammerfmith, by whom it Was firft raifed in 1792. The genera ht of the Pl. is ab a half, at moft, _ In this country, and they do not pa os uthy fhrubs. They spre a light, fandy peat foil, with rather ‘ les root room, than is in 1 general eceffary for ea of equal fize SaReseheehiamteetiersin: os AUNon-anenit ate attain aie.” ets ot Soe ne ‘ , PLATE. CCVI. DRACENA BOREALIS. Oval leaved Dracaena. GLASS 71; HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. ORDER —f. One Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx nullus OROLLA, Petala fex, oblonge, erectiufcula, qualia, unguibus coheren Filamenta fex, sipaibed inferta, fubulata, medio craffiora, bafi membra nacea, Jongitudine vix corolle. Waisted oblong, incumbentes. Pistittum. Germen ovatum, fexftriatum. Sty- lus filiformis, longitudine ftaminium. Sti ig- : ma trifidum, obtufum + sy meng Bacca ovata, fexfulcata, trilocu- Seminal folitaria, ovato-oblonga, apice incurvata. Oss. Charatter fere Afparagi, habitus diverfus. EMPALEMENT none. Brossom. Petals fix, oblong, Moser upright, equal, cohating by the claw Curives. Threads fix, satereed init the claws, awl-fhaped, thicker about Scie folitary. a turned in- t the end. Ozs, The Charsier is very near Afparagus, ' the habit different. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Dracena, herbacea, fubcaulefcens, foliis elip- Dracena, Se eens rather afpiring to a ftem, ticis. | leaves eliptic Ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. A A Petal with its chive. . A Chive, magnifie 4. Ari 3. The Pointal, magnified. ripe Berry. 5. The fame, cut tranfverfely. rr _ Asourt the year 1776, yeas Montreal, Canada, N. A ca. New nd; propagates -ittelf by the root, a sree in Les border, which ‘thou Id pent was firft Sas. ~ England; by Mefirs Lee and Kennedy from t is a native of all the northern parts of that country, as far as It will not thrive but on a fhady Draceena, even in the fexual chara@ters. How- ever, we — ftate our opinions, without even n einkng of change, as the plant is known as Dracena, f the Kew Catalogue, page 454, under the pre- TD eo ee eee a ai Ss PLATE CCVIL. MIMOSA LONGIFOLIA. Long-leaved Mimo/a. CLASS XIN ORDER I. POLYGAMIA MONOECI4. Various difpofitions. Upon one Plant. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Hermaphrod. Caryx 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Hermaph. Cup five-toothed. Blofs. 5-cleft. _ Stam. 5 feu plura. Pist. 1. Legumen. Chives 5 ormore. Pointal one. A pod. Mafcul. Catyx 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. Male. Cup 5-toothed. Blofs, 5-cleft. Chives 5, 10, plura. 5, 10, or more. See Mimosa stricta. Pl. LIII. Vot. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Mimofa foliis integris. longiffimis, utrinque gla- Mimofa with entire, very long leaves, {mooth on bris, obtufis; capituli geminati, racemofi, : both fides and blunt; flower heads grow longiffimi, oppofiti, lutei, fubcernui. by pairs in very long bunches oppofite to each other, yellow and rather nodding, reenter sec ece ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, A flower, magnified, fhewn fideways. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Bloffom, magnified, 4. A Chive, magnified. 5. The Pointal, magnified, a cee Aszourt the year 1792 J. Ord, Efq. of Purfers Crofs, Fulham, received the feeds of this Mimofa from New South Wales; the plants were raifed, the enfuing year, by Mr. White, who has managed, much ~ to his credit, the fele& colleGtion of that Gentleman near 20 years, and who obligingly fent us a fine fpecimen in March 180}, taken from a plant near 18 feet in height. Of the Mimofas now in Britain, we think, this fpecies is likely to exceed them all in height ; making a very handfome plant; and moft beautiful at the feafon when covered with its long pendulous bunches of flowers. It is increafed by cuttings, but with difficulty; and, as yet, feeds haye not been perfe&ted in this country. A light -fandy earth is what it thrives in moft, but it will gtow in almoft any foil, = + a hes PLATE CCVIIL. : LASIOPETALUM FERRUGINEUM. Rufty Woolly-bloffom. -CLASS’V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal, se GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthiam triphyllum, foliolis fubu- EMPALemMeNT. Cup three- leaved, leaflets awl- latis, tomentofis, perfiftentibus, ferrugino- aped, downy, permanent, and of ar fis. iron colour. CoRoLLa monopetala, rotata, Januginofa, quin- Bossom, one petal, wheel- -fhaped, woolly, and quefida ; laciniis ovatis, apicibus acutis, in- ve-cleft; fegments egg-fhaped, har rp : curv inted and incurved at the point, STAMINA, Filamenta quinque, brevia, ereéta, Cuives. Threads five , thort, upright, fixed to s bafi affixa, Antherz re erect, d orfo the bafe of the feed- bud. Tips upright, two- germini bilobz, apice poris duobus, PisTiLtuM. Germen ovatum, fuperum. Stylus “rom filiformis, erectus. Stigma ‘ob- Puniciasicw. Capfula fubrotunda, fupera, tri- ulcata, trilocularis, trivalyis, diffepimen- io valvularum. “Taig numerofa, fubrotunda. SPECIFIC Latietsbomn foliis fublinearibus, obtufis, ine- qualiter finuatis, fupra glabris, fubtus lanu- ginofis; floribus racemofis, axilla ribus lobed at the back, and two pores at the int. Ponta. Seed-bud egg-fhaped, above. Shaft —— Biya -thaped, upright. Summit obi tele sen Capfule roundith, above, three- furrowed, three cells, three valve, parti- tions from the middle of the valve SEEDs numerous, roundi th. CHARACTER. Woolly bloffom with nearly unequally rene — h above, wooll beneath ; S grow in long bunches aoa he: satiation of the! leaves into the ftem. linear leaves, blunt, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1, The toa 2. The B 6. The fame asides. THe i Reraiarity of this plant recommends i it to New South ales, “near Por i nit urfery, from feed a cen fom tees young fhoots, ants, near an inch in breadth, and dliree in ae in ith, . &c. giving fpecific names and siggacra - d gests where only € Genus, although a little from Linnzan mencement of the work. This ~~ t was firtt raifed at the Ham- eeds Teceived from New in April; thould be is in flower nearly the whole year. It is propagated by cuttings peat earth, and kept very dry PLATE CCIX. GERANIUM MELANANTHUM. Black-flowered Geranium. , CLASS XVE ORDER IV. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Mownoeyrna. Stigmata quinque. Frudus rof- | One Pointar, Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed tratus, penta-coccus with long awns, five dry berries. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis lobatis integrifque, hifpidis, ob- Geranium with lobed, and entire leaves, hair tufis ; calycibus monophyllis, laciniis line- d obtufe; cups one leaved, fegments li- aribus; floribus nigricantibus, dioicis; ra- near; flowers blackith, with the chives and * dice tuberofa. pointals diftin& ; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. ~ The Empalement, natural fize, the tube cut open. The Chives of a male bloffom, natural fize. The fame, cut open and magnified. The abortive Pointal of a male bloffom, natural fize. The fame, magnified. The abortive Chives of a female bloffom, natural fize. PI AMR OD - e fame, magnified. The Pointal of a female bloffom, magnified. ——— ease ftance as this {pecies being Dioecious, or with male and female flowers on different plants; we may be ed to fuppofe, that it has not flowered in Germany ; or that the fpecimens-he had feen, were from m cannot Turnip, Carrot, Parfnip, Radith, &c. where it applies. It muft be planted in light peat earth, and kept in the ttof the green-houfe, where it will flower about the month of July. Our figure was taken at Clapham in June, this year, from a male plant in the Hibbertian Colle&ion. - Pp LAT E CCX. -ANTHOLYZA SraUrica _ Broad-leaved Antholyza. | CLASS Ill. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, ‘Corotta tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- Bossom tubular, irregular, and bent backward: infera. Capfule beneath. See ANTHOLYZA RINGENS, Pl. XXXII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ee: — “gage mir cenn, lacinia Antholyza with the leaves as well as the flowers orolla » i » bai fe ae pathula er- Spe oppofite ways; the upper fegment ee on ata, foathis rigidis, adpreflis. of the bloffom ftraight, fpathula-thaped, 3 _and fawed at. the pe fheaths harfh and oe preffed to the bloffom RE ca en REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, : 1. The whole piney apee a diminithed {cale. 8 2. The Empalem 3. A Bloffom on ook , with the died a epeining. 4, The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits |e a SRA d long a inhabitant e our as So oe ago as 1759; it is faid to have been cultivated by Miller; oad from the firm and hardy charaéter of the root, we fhould queftion its having been fince that perio ever, like many others of this natural order, lor tous. The unfrequency of its flowering has, per- h: » occafioned the inattention, which is in general thewn to its cultivation; though moft collectors 3 the bulbs, few have feen their flowers. Our figure was taken in the month of July, this year, ae a plant in the colle@tion of T. Evans, Efq. Stepney. It is increafed from the roots, which be removed from the pots in J bee and Seyree the end of O&tober. We have not been able to pro any certain data on which t e direGtions to infure its flowering; but the plant in quettion, was planted in a very large pot, “the ‘earth was a compound of light peat one part, ftiff loam aa Narrow-leaved Var: taken — a stele plant, to which, as well as to our garg: ‘Agure, it | ee afl hetagledies of one Pei St oe eae ee tS PE, tL LIE i TRA? CCAL I XIA c O L U M N A R I S, Var. versicolor. Columnar-leave d Ix ld. Changealle- coloured var, % a, CLASS Ill ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corottra 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata tria, ere€tiufculo-patula. Bossom 6-petals, {preading, equal. Summits three, upright-fpreading. . SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia filamentis bafi coherentibus ; floribus fub- | Ixia with threads united at the bafe; flowers capitatis; corollis verficoloribus. gtow nearly in heads; bloffoms change- . able-coloured. Z . ‘ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. : - A Bloffom fpread open. ons 3. The Seed-bud, with the Chives, as they ftand upon the mouth of the bloffom; the petals being cut off, and the fummits as they appear through the tips, the whole magnified. oe A. The Threads cut open, magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, magnified. al _ Tuts moft beautiful variety, of the Columnar-chived Ixia, was introduced to us, from Holland, in _ the year 1799. It flowers about the beginning of June, and continues in bloffom about three weeks. ‘The beautiful manner in which the colours of the flowers, of this variety, are blended, and which appear to change, as regarded from different. points of view, is beyond the painter's fkill; the beft that can be done is but a faint imitation. ‘The roots of this plant are rather more delicate than the PLATE CCXII. Uwe nln PEP FLSsS, Slender-flemed Pogonia. CLASS VY... ORDER: £L PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Car Lyx. Perianthium pentaphyllum perfiftens ; EMPALEMENT. Cup five-leaved, permanent; he —a erectis, acutis, apicibus leaflets lance-fhaped, upright, pointed, and reflexed at the ends. CoroLia showagae infundibuliformis, tubus Brossom one petal, funnel- fhaped, tube cylin- lindricus, longitudine calycis, ore villis drical, the length of the cup, the mouth auto; imbus f femiquinquefidus, laciniis clofed with foft hairs; border half five- concavis, acutis. cleft; fegments concave and pointed. Stamina. Filamenta quinque, tubo fupra me- Cuives. Threads five, inferted into the tube dium inferta. Anthere ere@e, fogittater, above the middle. Tips upright, arrow-. intra faucem, — fhaped, within the mouth. PistiLLuM. Germen ovatum. Stylus filifor- Ponta. Seed-bud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread- mis, apice param curvatus, longitudine aped, a little curved at —— the length a table Sahay = Stigma concavum of the tube, remaining. Sum Baeca ovata, compreffa, calyci SeED-vesseL. An egg-fhaped, Gaiteoed berry, rowing to the cup, x qu Geaueilgaalaris, 5 eae durifli- “Seep. A four-celled nut, thell very hard; ker- clei oblongi._ els oblong. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pogonia foliis Vaceolait apis feepe ferrula- -Pogonia with lance-fhaped leaves, often flightly tis, diftich is; floribus a, axillaribus, fawed at the ends, and pointing oppofite enten age cortice feabr ofa. w _infertion of the leaves into the ftem, and == bark rough. ner Bibs cz TO THE PLATE. ‘The Empalement. a A Flower cut open, with vod Chives as pees sort in the bloffom. A Chive, magni mined. s; The Pointal. “Dh Summit, with part of the Shaft, Sraghticd e Cup, with the ripe Berry, the fhaft remainin , and the cup a little ous A Berry. t tr. raniverily, 1 to thew the fituation of t he mares i in the cells ees ees Tue regent figured, is the Jackfon, New Sou 1 Wales, an It is a climbing - ant, {mall tu me facce ‘iatiber of feandean _ from fathion, a trellis ie as ‘become a = the leat of a cucumber-frame, or hot-houfe, till they. re rooted. ~ t is grown bedt je n (silly peat. = See was taken at the Hammerfmith Nur urfery, where was firft raifed in this agg oe The » Pogonia, is derived from the appearance of the soul of the flower which is Desens, Pogonion, fignifying a little beard. PLATE CCXIII. Ix 7 A &: O L U M N A R 1s _ Far. latifolia. Sg gta Columnar-chived Ixia. Brond-leaved var. Ciao tf, O82 DER i. of TRIANDRIA MONOGYNILA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. : Conon 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata | Buossom $6-petale ff = equal, Summits tria, ereCtiufculo-patula. three, upright-fj gee i SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia filamentis bafi coherentibus; floribus fub- capitatis; corollis pallide wks 3 foliis la- tioribus, falcatis. Ixia with threads cohering at the bafe; flowers grow nearly in heads; bloffoms pale-blue; leaves broader, fcymitar fhaped. EE REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Eimpalement. 2. A Bloffom cut open, with the chives remaining attached. . 3. The Tube of a bloffom, with the chives, the petals cut off. 4. The fame, cut open and magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; the fummits detached and magnified. Tue vieaity ess given, was oroauaal to to England, with the chaaiable Bowers variety, in 1799, from Holland. Itis the ftrongeft marked variety of the fix we poffefs; it flowers in May. The : petals of this variety are remarkably thick at the infertion into the tube, and have a foft, beautiful - _ brown on the outfide, when the flower is « ed, which ftill is never fo fully fo, but a finall margin of ~ Bases, appears 5 which gives them.a oft beautiful appearance in that fiate. No particular ar, “ to this 2 es more than at is —e to all - common {pecies. PLATS CCXIV. WESTERINGIA ROSMARINACEA. Rofemary-like Wefteringia. CLASS Il. ORDER I. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, fub-cy- Empacement. Cup one-leaf, nearly cylindrical, lindricum, ere&tum, perfiftens, quinqueden- upright, remaining, five-toothed, equal; tatum, zquale; braéteis binis fuffultum, — fupported by two leaflets. CoroLta monopetala; petalum tubulatum ca- Bxossom one petal; petal tubular, rather longer lyce paulo longius; limbus patens, quinque- than the cup; border fpreading, five-di- partitus, fub- — laciniis duabus fape- vided, nearly equal; the two upper feg- rioribus emargina ments notched at the end. Stamina. Filamenta a" filiformia, fauci Cutves. Four threads, thread-fhaped, inferted __tubi inferta, quorum duo fuperiora lon- into the mouth of the tube, of which the ~ giora, fertilia; duo breviora fterilia. An- two upper ones are longer, and fertile; two ‘there loculis oblongis, duz fuperiores de- fhorter, and fterile. Tips with oblong cells, pendéntes; duz inferiores ereétx, fagittate, | the two upper ones hang down; the two fquamife iformes. lower are upright, arrow-fhaped, and like i thin feales. _ Pistittum. iP tmen tetragonum. Stylus fili- : PoiwTat. : Seed-bud four-fided. Shaft thread- formis, he curvatus, longitudine tubi. | thaped, a little curved, the length of the Stigma bifidum, reflexum. . tube. Summit two-cleft, reflexed. Paincunnitte nullum. — in fundo = SEED-vEsseL none. Cup containing the feeds continens, a at the bottom. SEMINA quatuor, ovalia. — Brat So ‘SzEps four, oval. _ spEcrFic: ‘CHARACTER. ; - Welteringia foliis verticillatis, “fab-linedribus, _ Wefteringia with leaves powlag 3 in whorls, ; acutis, fubtus fericeis; floribus axillaribus, nearly linear, pointed and filky underneath ; {picatis. _ flowers grow from the bafe of the leaves to E clofe to the ftem, in fpikes. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. xy age Empalement, with the two props attached to the bate. . A Flower fpread open, with the chives in their place, _— 3. The Pointal, natural fs ize, 4. The fame magnified. er Tue prefent plant was introduced to our gardens, i in the year 1791, from New South Wales, by Meff. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfinith. - Tt was firft named Cunila verticillata, and, from what we can judge, it might, without much forcing of the chara@ters of the genus, have been fo continued; but our _ opinions thall always give way, when the cectien.i is pat from fuch fuperior talents as thofe of Dr. Smith; by whom it has been thought to. poffefs a fuffic of diftin@ive charaéter, on which to form a new’ _ genus, under the title it here bears. It isa se de fhrub, grows to the height of. three feet, the branches ftanding out almoft horizontally, i in whorls, and the whole plant bearing a great refemblance 3 6 the Rofemary. It is propagated by cuttings made in March from the end of the imall branches; syprores molt of light fandy Peat, sak is in flower from March till November. The whole plant is tcentlefs. 2 a if = : - : Wer gtd vOsMartnaced os CG PLATE CCXV. EMBOTHRIUM SALIGNUM. Willow-like Embothrium. CLASS IV. ORDER I. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, Catyx nullus. Cor. tetrapetala. Stamina limbo Empalement none. Blofl. four-petalled. Chives es petalorum inferta. Folliculus poly{permus, inferted into the limb of the petals. One- Sem. alata. celled-pod, many feeded. Seeds winged. See EMBOTHRIUM sERIcevM, Pl. C. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. , ey ee Fe A Int ‘ * : yee SE SSR a Pa qi t ninervis, utringue one nerved 2 glaberrimis ; umbellulis axillaribus; corollis _ very fmooth on both fides ; the fmall umbels - fubalbidis. of flowers grow from the infertion of the leaves into the ftem ; bloffoms whitith. — att Bene Pe ctaet REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. t. A flower complete, with the fummit relieved from the petals, magnified. 2. The fame with the fummit yet reftrained by the petals, 3. One petal with the tip, magnified. _ 4, The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified, _ Tats Genus, if we may judge from what we already poffefs, amounting to 6 {pecies, promifes to furnith an ample feaft for Botanitts; for we have no doubt, but the {pecies are as numerous as of any one from New Holland. The Willow-like Embothrium makes a the leaves are not fubjeét to damp, and the ftem acquires th May, and from the manner in which the leaves rather fall downwards, from their infertion, leaving the » at their bafe, it has a very picturefque appearance, as the whole _ tings, made about March, or April, and placed in the heat of the Hot-houfe, or a cucumber frame. 25701. : Our figure was taken at the Hammerfmith Nurfery ; where, it was firft raifed from feeds, in the year PLATE CCXVIL EPIDENDRUM SINENSE. Chinese Epidendrum. ere RE RRR meteor = CLASS X&% - ORDER. I. GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA, Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Necrartum turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum, || Honey-cup top-fhaped, oblique and reflexed. See Plate XIII, Vol. I. EpipzeNpDRUM COCHLEATUM. : SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Epidendrum foliis enfiformibus, nervofis, radica- libus; ne@ario revoluto, punétato; petalis ftriatis. ; Epidendrum with fword-fhaped leaves, nerved, andjgrowing from theroot ; honey-cuprolled back, and dotted ; petals firiped. a at REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower, one of the petals and the honey-cup cut off ; to thew the fituation, and place of the parts of fruétification. 2. The Honey-cup. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, Summit, and Chives; the {mall hood which covers the Chives, lifted up. — 5 ee __ Tuis long genus of plants, fo little known hitherto, but in our books, bids fair to become one of the greateft ornaments of our hot-houfes; 20 {pecies we already enumerate, in the different colle@ions in _ the vicinity of London; one of which, the prefent plant, has not flowered in this kingdom, till this year, _ although introduced, fo long ago as 1793, by the late J- Slater, Efq. of Layton-ftone ; at the fame time _ with the two varieties of the Double Camellia, from China. Our figure was taken in September 1801, _ from a plant which had been placed in the {pring of the fame year, in the Confervatory built on pur- pofe for the protection of Chinefe plants, and where they flourith to a degree, not feen before in this country, inthe garden of G, Hibbert Efq. Clapham common. It is propagated by offsets, from the root ; is rather a hardy hot-houfe plant ; and thrives moft in a mixture of fandy loam, and peat; about one fourth of the loam, and three fourths peat, or leaf-mould. Upon the firft obfervation of this plant, we were inclined to think it the fpécies defigned by Thun- berg in his Icon. Plant. Japon. 28, under the Genus Limodorum 3 and afterwards, altered by him, in the Linnzan Tranf. Vol. ii. p. 327, to Epidendrum ftriatum. But upon clofe examination of it, as an- {wering his defcriptions, &c.. we cannot but think it, if not a different fpecies, at leaft a very ftrong va- riety of his plant ; wherefore, we have retained the name it is in common known by, in the various collections in which we have feen it. If we were to decide on the fubje&, it fhould be to place both’ that and this plant again to Limodorum; to which, they hold greater affinity than to Epidendrum ; but indeed, we have an opinion, that one title might readily ferye for the plants conftituting both genera, f POP AA cat gem 4 a yr cote i a ieee SENET LS 2 2 # ms ‘ ae ¥ Ws A 7 se a gs 43 ¥ f - = ie, : : he ‘ie ~, & .: TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. III. : . _ Plate 145 = Hillia longifiora +++. | Long-flowered Pili viheeter tines > 1 Be [ Sheab. | Perea, 5 ‘ 146 Pioraled aculeata,.......5...% see Prickly Pforale tle s 6s weGee in i Liem. | Shrab Ponies 147 Gladiolus cufpids teseeesees | Spear-fpotted Gladiolus, aN ce G. H.| Bulb. y. 148 Lachenalia ‘quadricolor t+ese%eeeeees | Four-coloured Lachenalia «-+.- | G.H.} Bulb, | December, I she eteee Fringed-leaved Struthio is sa tees G. H. | Shrub. | Auguft, 15 Geranium PremorsuM ....0...+-. ; -leaved Geranium .. | H. H.} Shrub. | March, 151 Pittofporum coriaceum -++++ | Thick-leaved Pittofporum ...4....0..... G. H.| Shrub. | Ma 152 Geranium ipathalatum: ...2 45. 4%... Spathula-leaved Gagetines Fee go G. H. | Shrub. | April, : ae OR OOM os. 6 eis ks eee vowed ird’s-foot-leaved Violet ............005 Har. | Herb. | May, 154 Echiu aigenteum : Silvery- leav ed Vipers Boglok Peete ay. G. H.| Shrub. | July. "155 Ixia polyftachia. ......,........... Many-ff eas iesita | Gi Beh, i ey 35° Bankfia ericefolia...-..<--,.:..... | Heath-leaved Bankfia................., G. H.| Shrub. |} March, ~ 357 pie coger a i Rough-leaved Cordia . S Paks wa H. H. Shrub April. 158 Geranium echinatum.............. Prickly-ftalked Geranium .. H. H.| Shrub. | March, - 159 taeeh ates Fat. "fio.aibo, Fustl migroe | Bunch-flowering Ixia, Var. ‘tohite. te fi "black : may i eS gr ee G..H. | Bulb. | May, 160 Ariftea major............ Spike-flowered Ariftea............... -. |G. H.| Herb. | July, 161 Hermannia pulverata.. Powdered Hermannias............005 .- | G. H. | Shrub, | April, - 162 Verbafcum ferrugineum.... Rutty -flo Hein guei| Ebr. lerb. | April 163 \maryllis Fothergil Fothergillian Lily~Daffodil.............. | H.H ulb. | May, ib ~ 764 Galaxia gran a mi - | Large-flowered Galaxia . | G8 ulb, February 165 hium glaucophy ae Sea-green-leaved Viper’ s Bagot aie pis) «in G.H brub. | May, . 166 Gladiolus abreviatus ............ Shortened-petalled Gladiolus .