MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN LIBRARY > Conservation of this volume completed through a grant from the Camelot Fund 1978-79 : o> a om, Taxing : > | Db bx ec Ving te / iS ON Z TUES Wr, Liles So GNM 1 PS ae Fs lc a / / BOTANIST’S REPOSITORY, ‘© ¥ “THE No VA. FOR M combs NEW, AND RARE PLAWTS. '°''- COLOURED FIGURES OF SUCH PLANTS, AS HAVE NOT HITHERTO APPEARED IN ANY SIMILAR PUBLICATION; WITH ALL THEIR ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS, BOTANICALLY ARRANGED, AFTER THE SEXUAL SYSTEM OF THE’ CELEBRATED LINNAEUS; IN ENGLISH, AND LATIN. TO EACH DESCRIPTION IS ADDED, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PLANT, AS TO ITS TIME OF FLOWERING, CULTURE, NATIVE PLACE OF GROWTH,. WHEN INTRODUCED, AND BY WHOM. od ” THE WHOLE EXECUTED BY HENRY ANDREWS, AUTHOR OF THE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF HEATHS, IN FOLIO. LONDO N: | PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, “AND PUBLISHED BY THE preiios, N°5, KNIGHTSBRIDGE. To be had of J. Wars, Fleet-ftreet, and all the Bookfellers. 1797. PRErac f Tue utility of this undertaking at a crifis, when the tafte for Botanical purfuits fo univerfally prevails, will, it is prefumed, be readily admitted by all thofe engaged in them, whether as theorifts, colletors, or cultivators. Such a work, under the immediate direction of fome principal leader in the fcience, of this country, has been a defideratum of long expe€tance; but either from the great expence ne- ceffarily incurred, before any adequate return could be made, or from the trouble attendant on publi- cations, where colouring forms fo confiderable a part, as yet, every fimilar attempt has proved abortive. The Bot. Mag. of Mr. Curtis, a work of fingular merit in its way, has occafionally furnithed, it is true, a few {pecimens of new plants; but the greateft part, as its title-page indicates, confifts of thofe well known, common plants, long cultivated in our gardens; the direét reverfe of the propofals and intentions of the author, in the profecution of this. From a with to prevent confufion, it was a determined principle at the outfet of the work, not to give any generic or fpecific fynonims; but to. follow the moft generally accepted names, of known and named plants, without a cavil, of our a Englith botanifts, or cultivators, if no flagrant error was perceptible, according to the Linnean fyf- tem: being fatisfied, nothing contributed fo much to reprefs the ardour of young botanifts as the difficulty of affixing the right name to thofe plants, which, (from a captious defire in every publither, to foift in fomething of his own coinage, upon the moft trifling fuppofed difference,) have undergone feveral changes of title, If the plant was a certain novelty, with us, to have followed the fexual, fyftem, without a fchifm; upon that truly grand and comprehenfive feale of nature; when. the — formation of a new genus was neceflary; if not, to refer it to fome one already made, if fach was to be found, in any orthodox author: the fpecific name to be formed from fome oppofed, leading feature, in the habits of the different fpecies of the genus. But although fuch were the Author's intentions, when he entered on this bufinefs, yet, from a with to oblige many of the fupporters of the work, who have fignified a with that fynonims fhould be given, an alphabetical Index, with all the various Synonims collated from the beft authorities, fhall be printed feparate for the — of thofe who may with for fuch an addition. As a fair excufe for the Author, (who throws himfelf upon the candour of the Public,) in exte- nuation of the inaccuracies which have, and will neceffarily occur in the profecution of the work, it is juft to fay, that the difficulties to be encountered, and of which none but thofe engaged in fimilar concerns can form any adequate idea, are incalculable; arifing chiefly from the nature of a monthly publication, compofed entirely of novelty, which cannot be anticipated, and of courfe, fo very little time can be allotted for revifal or correction. To remedy as far as poflible fuch me a litt | of Errate will be given, with the Index, at the clofe of each volume. Kyicutspripge, O&. 1799. — 4 val, FEAT E- ‘i, CORTUSA MATTHIOLL. Alpine Sanzcle. CLASS VY. ORDES -I- PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4.._ Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caxryx. Perianthium quinquefidum, perfiftens; laciniis obtufis, concavis. : Coroxtxa. Monopetala, rotata, quinquepartita, laciniis fub-rotundis, ad quarum bafin pro- minent tubercula quinque. Stamina. Filamenta quinque brevia. Antherz bipartite, oblonge, erecte, exteriori parte affixe. Pistintum. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma fimplex. Pericarrium. Capfula ovata-oblonga, utrinque longitudinaliter fulcata, unilocularis, apice quinquevalvi, valvularum marginibus in- volutis, Semina numerofa, oblonga, fcabra. SPECIFIC Cortufa, foliis cordatis, laciniatis, petiolatis; calycibus corolla brevioribus. Empatement. Cup with five divifions, perma- nent; the fegments blunt, and concave. Brossom. One leaf, wheel-thaped, five divifions, fegments nearly round, having five promi- nent tubercles at their bafe. Cuives. Five fhort threads. Tips divided in two, oblong, upright, and fixed to the bloffom by their backs. Porintat. Seed-bud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread- fhaped. Summit fimple. Seep-vEssEL. Capfule oblong egg-fhaped, channelled on each fide, of one cell, the top has five valves, which are turned in- ward at their margins. Sezps many, oblong, and rough. CHARACTER. Sanicle, with heart-fhaped jagged leaves that have foot-ftalks; empalements fhorter than the bloffoms. en REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The Empalement, and Fruit-ftalk. ' 2. The Bloffom cut, and {pread open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives. 3. The Pointal, magnified. a ee Tuts beautiful little herbaceous plant, a native of the Germanic Alps, was known to, and defcribed by all the elder, as well as modern botanical theorifts; yet till this time, has there not been one good reprefentation of it. Having been nearly loft to us for a number of years, it may be confidered as deferving a place amongft thofe plants we deem rare; as a fpecimen of fuch it has been given. It delights much in fhade; is perfe€tly hardy; thrives beft in a light but pure foil; as dung, or other mixtures, are apt to rot the roots when in a ftate of ination 3 flowering in May and June, and producing feeds. But the fureft mode of propagation is by the root, which may be divided with fuccefs about September. : Misacua, Soran cAk Bagsogyn LipRary PLATE IL. SPRINGALIA INCARNATA. ~ Star-flowered Springalia. CLASS XIX. ORDER VI. SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers fimple. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- Empatement. Cup one leaf, cut into five um, perfiftens. fegments, and remaining. - Cororra. Monopetala, quinquefida, rotata, Brossom. One leaf, cut into five fegments, jaciniis acumenatis. wheel-fhaped, the divifions fharp pointed. Sramina. Filamenta quinque, lineares, recepta- Cuives. Five threads, linear, fixed into the culo inferta. Anthere pilofe, ereéte, co- receptacle. Tips hairy, upright, united natz in cylindrum. into a cylinder. Pistirtum. Germen fuperum, turbinatum. Pointat. Seed-bud above, turban-fhaped. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtufum. Shaft thread-fhaped. Summit blunt ended. Pericarrium. Capfula quadrivalvis, quadri- Srep-vesseL. Capfule four valves, four cells. aris. Semrna plurima, minima, rotunda. SEEDs many, {mall, and round. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, : Springalia, foliis alternis, amplexicaulibus, mu- Springalia, with alternate leaves, embracing the cronatis; corollis fub-folitariis, incarnatis, || m, and fharp pointed; bloffoms moftly tigidis, micantibus. fingle, fleth-coloured, harfh, and fhining. OY AER REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. The Empalement, (natural fize). 2. The Bloffom divided from the Empalement. 3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, (magnified). 4. The Seed-veffel, and Pointal, (magnified). ee ____ Tue Springalia, mutt certainly rank among the moft beautiful of the various new genera which have been introduced from New Holland 3 the delicacy, brilliancy, and number, of its bloffoms : extreme permanency adds tly to i its; flower being of fach fingular durability, as to retain tials the fate so ox deca i perfeéted, as at their firft opening. The gure before us, was taken from a plant in the nurfery garden of Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, who raifed it from feeds about three years fince, and where it has flowered thefe two fucceffive years, The Botany-bay plants, (as they are generall ; called) are beft preferved in the Agence: but although this is fufficiently hardy for fuch ae: : » being very fufceptible of da flourithing beft i a oa. SER through the whole fummer; and secnaiiie a in sa see — ers, and habit of this genus, like almoft all the plants from New Holland, being perfectly new. Te was a neceflity to form a freth generic name for it; which has been done by the def edly eminent Dr. J. E. Smith, botanical profeffor, and prefident of the Linnean Society J — NEOTTIA | CLASS XxX. GYNAN. eet IA DIANDRIA. GENERIC Shapes vyage. Spadix fimplex. Conouta Petala quinque, longitudine zquila, -lanceolata, erecta. NeGarium monophyllum, indivifum, acumina- , intra petala interiora pofitum, bafin al femiamplectens, ereCtum, fuperne pa- ii. Bilamenia duo, e; ex limbo ftyli dorfali nceeolata. A S -adnatus labio fuperiori neétarii. obfoletum. PERICARPIUM. Capfula unilocularis, carnofa, ma, trivalvis. PLATE - II. SPECIOSA. Flefh-coloured Neottia. i ——-——— ORDER IU. Chives on the Pointal. ‘Two Chives. CHARACTER. Empatement. Sheath fcattered. Fruit-ftalk imple. Brossom. Petals five, of equal length, of a narrow fpear-fhape, and upright. Honey-cup one leaf, undivided, fharp pointed, placed between the two inner petals, naam embracing the bafe of the fhaft, upright, fpreading at the top. Two threads, rifing out of the back of the thaft, fpear-fhaped. Tips two, linear, long, placed in the cells of the threads Pointa. Seed-bud beneath, curved, furrowed, tapering at the bafe. Shaft thick, growing to the upper lip of the honey-cup. Summit indiftiné. Seep-vessex, Capfule with one cell, flefhy, very long, three valves. SEMINA ean minutiffima. SEEDS numerous, very {mall. CHARACTER. Neottia, with leaves growing from the root, waved, of a broad fpear-fhape, tapered at the bafe; flowers prefled together in a fpike, flefh-coloured, and moft beautiful. - SPECIFIC Neottia, foliis ridiellibius, undulatis, lato- _ Janceolatis, bafi attenuatis; floribus con- fertis, fpicatis, incarnatis, {peciociflimis, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Bloffom, Seed-bud, and Sheath, — fize). 2. The Seed-bud, and three Petals of th —— the two inner cut out, to fhew the pofition : of the Honey-cup, (natural fize). ss 8, Seed-veffel, and Honey-cup magnified; fhewing the fituation, and fhape of the Chives, , s within the sie ‘ 4. The fame magnified; thewing the fituation of the Pointal, at the back of the Honey-cup. a Proressor Jacquin of Vienna, having figured the Neottia in the third yolume of his Colleétanea, with juftice has determined it a new genus, and given it the name it here bears; the whole habit of the plant being entirely diffimilar to any old. genera. It certainly nent be placed fomewhere near Limodorum, or Epidendron, from either of y diftin&. This is the Line ail lant from that ifland, it requires the heat of a 3 : | pine-ftove, and rich earth, to make it flourith ; — a | PLATE IV. RHODODENDRON DAURICUM. Dauric Rhododendron. rrans x ORDER. IT DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx quinquepartitus, perfiftens. Empatement of five divifions, and remaining. Corotza. Monopetala, rotato-infundibulifor- Brossom. One leaf, of a roundith funnel-fhape: mis: limbo patente; laciniis rotundatis. the limb fpreading; and its fegments rounded. Stamina. Filamenta decem, filiformia, longitu- Curves. Ten hair-like threads, the length of dine corollz, declinata. Antherz ovales. the bloffom, bent downward. Tips oval. Pistiztum. Germen pentagonum, retufum. Poinrat. Seed-bud five-fided, and dented. Stylus filiformis, longitudine corolle. Stig- Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the ma um. bloffiom. Summit blunt-ended. PericarPium. Capfula ovata, quinquelocularis. Szep-yesseL. Capfule oval, five-celled. Semina numerofa, minima, lineares. Szeps many, fmall, and linear. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. dendron, foliis glabris utrinque nudis, Rhododendron, with fmooth leaves, naked on petiolis longiffimis; corolle violacez, foliis both fides, and long foot-ftalks; the blof- ampliores, rotate. foms light purple, larger than the leaves, and wheel-fhaped. aiieedatetes. "ncaa : REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The Bloffom, (natural fize). 2. The Chives, and Pointal, (natural fize); one ti : i > 2 Pp detached ma fied *. 3. The Seed-veffel, and Pointal, (magnified). = eee ‘ = — been deferibed, and is well known to botanifts, it has not, till within thefe ~—" “ si wth 2 een = Great Britain, It is a perfeétly hardy plant, being a native of the coaft + hee a — €as, ane parts adjacent; from whence it has been conveyed to Peterfburg peep as, and figured by him in his Flora Ruffica, Mr. Buth was the perfon who brought it = ~ “: : = ae a Ruffia. The flowers begin to appear in the month of March, con- pas - BR : y- As yet (from its fearcity) the beft method of cultivating it can hase miele ae — a theltered fituation, and light foil, like moft of the genus; mee - fers . drawing was made from a plant, at the nurfery of Mefirs. Lee — PEALE Fequires an airy, warm fituation in the greenhoufe, flowering readily about the month of July, hae: Tequiring to be kept in a {mall pot, the foil a light loam, It propagates by feeds, and PEATE Xs GLADIOLUS Rofe-coloured Gladiolus. | CLASS. III. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. a ROSEUS. ORDER I. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. “Canyx. Spathe bivalves. Corotta, fexpartita ringens, Petala oblonga, . omnia unguibus in tubum conata. Stamina. Filamenta’ tria, fubulata, divifuris ® __ alternis petalorum inferta. Anthere ob- longe. Pistiztum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex, longitudine ftaminium. Stigma trifidum, concavum, Pericartivm. Capfula oblonga, obtufa, trilo- ‘cularis, trivalvis. Seana plura, fubrotunda. - 4 EmraLtement Sheath two valves. Biossom, of fix divifions, and gaping. Petals oblong, having their claws formed into a tube. Cuives. Three awl-fhaped threads fixed into the alternate divifions of the — bas. oblong. : Potnrat. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, the — of the chives. Summit cut into” and concave. ‘Aeon Capfale oblong, beat one three cells, three valves. *. SzEps many, nearly round. Ae ie SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _ Gladiolus, foliis lanceolatis, tortis, rabro margi- Gladiolus, with fpear-fhaped leaves, twifted, # natis, pubefcentibus; floribus rofeis odora- red-edged, and downy; bloffoms rofe co- —— tiffimis. lour, and fweet-fcented. REFERENCE TO 7 PLATE. ¥: Phe fase Midee Ad Bs Sinath. 2. A Flower cut open, to expofe the infertion of the Threads, the Threads, and Tips remaining at 3. The Seed. bud, Shaft, and Summit magnified, > A Seed natural fize, inclofed in its Tunic, ) figured this plant, in bis lat Fas no idea of the brilliancy _ and kept dry till O&ober ; when it should be x : eee and flowers abont the month of ye ly A a Ts lata al * oS a GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM. x “~~ Largeft flowered Crane’ s- bill. — EEE CLASS XVI. ORDER IL MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. . Caryx. Perianthium pentaphyllum: foliolis * ovatis, acutis, concavis, perfiftentibus. Corotra. Petala quinque, obcordata, feu ovata, patentia, magna. Sramrya. Filamenta decem, fubulata, corolla breviora, Anthera oblonge, verfatiles. Pistittum. Germen quinquangulare, roftra- tum. Stylus fubulatus, ftaminibus longior, perfiftens. Stigmata quinque, reflexa. Pexicarrium nullum, Fruétus pentacoccus, roftratus. Semina folitaria, reniformia, fepe arillata; i ngiflima, demum fpirali. . : SPECIFIC Geranium, calycibus monophyllis, foliis quin- ~que-lobis, glabris, dentatis; floribus am- pliffimis, fub-albidis. Empatement. Cup five leaves: leaves egg- fhaped, fharp pointed, concaye, and pert- manent. Bossom. Five petals, inverfely heart-fhaped, or egg fhaped, fpreading, and large. Cuives. Ten threads, awl-fhaped and fhorter than the bloffom. Tips oblong, eafily turn- ed round. Pointat. Seed-bud five-angled, and beaked. Shaft awl-fhaped, longer than the chives and remaining. Five reflexed fummits. SEED-vessEL none. Fruit five dry berfies, beaked. “ Szeps, folitary, kidney-fhaped, often furnifhed with a dry hufky coat, and a very long - awn, which become fpiral. CHARACTER. Geranium, empalements of one leaf; leaves five- ed, fmooth, and toothed; the flowers very large, nearly white. : REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular ftru@ture. 2. The Chives, and Pointal, as placed in the flower, (natural fize.) 3. The Shaft, Summits, and Seed-bud, (magnified.) < . : Or all the {pecies of this numerous tribe, introduced to us, fingularly pre-eminent; whether for delica finithed drawing would conve valuable colleétion of G. to the Royal’Gardens at Kew, by Mr. F. Maffon. fhould be kept in a window of the ftove, that feafon. It flowers in July, ture of rotten dung, and loam; To diffent from moft of the confidered, from the Cape of Good Hope, this flands acy of foliage, or beauty of flower, of which, the moft hvey but a faint idea. The figure before us, was taken from a plant in the Hibbert, Efq. Clapham; from whom we underftand, that it was fent in 1794 To keep this plant in a flourifhing condition, it in winter, as the heat of a greenhoufe is fcarce fufficient at or Auguft, and requires the foil generally ufed for Geraniums, a mix- being eafily propagated by cuttings. late publications on the feience of Botarfy, may feem prefuming; yet, that we take Linneus for our fole guide, where that great mafter has a charatter, to a tribe of plant . his in{pe@tion ; from his didates, ibe of plants, which undoubtedly, came clearly under throughout all its numerous fpecies ‘ ours muft emanate, although his authority may be queftioned by been found, to difunite a Genus, which nature has fo palpabty diftin- he certainly, who had minutely examined fo many, ied them; though nature had apparently fo done. We * moment to create two new Genera on, Erodium and Pelargo- pret. — us for ranking one of his Pelargoniums under the old ftandard. ten perfeét Chives. Monf. LiHeritier and - EPIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM. | — Purple flowered Epidendrum. CLASS XX. ORDER I. Ss GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 3 ae GENERIC CHARACTER. nee Caryx. Spathe vage. Spadix fimplex. Pe- EmpaLementT. Sheaths fcattered. Fruit-ftalk =) - rianthium nullum. mple. Cup none. ‘ Corotxa. Petala quinque, oblonga, longiffima, Brossom. Five petals, oblong, of a great length, patentiffima. and fpreading much. _ Neéarium bafi tubulatum, turbinatum, Honey-cup tubular at the bafe, turban- intra petala deorfum pofitum, ore obliquo, fhaped, placed between the lower petals, a bifido: fuperiori labio breviffimo, trifido; mouth oblique and divided : the uppet inferiori in acumen produdto. lip very fhort, cut into three divifions; the *. _-Sramina. Filamenta duo, breviffima, piftillo am infidentia. Anthere teétz labio fuperiore Pistirtum. Germen tenue, longum, contor- _ tum, inferum. Stylus breviffimus, adnatus ____ labio fuperiori neGarii. Stigma obfoletum, ERICARPIUM. Siliqua longiffima, teres, car- lower terminating in a point. Cuives. Two very fhort threads, fixed on the pointal. Tips covered by the upper lip of the honey-cup. lip of the honey-cup. Summit blunt. SEED-vesseL. Pod very long, round, and PoinTat. Seed-bud flender, long, twifted, and - el beneath. Shaft very fhort, fixed to the upper Pas : efh _ Seotwa numerofa, minutiffima. SEEDs numerous, extremely {mall. Beier anc SPECIFIC CHARACTER. —- Epidendrum. foliis oblongis, geminis, glabris, Epidendrum with oblong leaves growing by __ bulbo innatis; feapo multifloro; neGario pairs, fmooth, rifing from the bulb; ftalk ____ €ordato, purpureo, many flowered; honey-cup heart-fhaped , and purple. " Sestiaesielaialleiitaca REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Bloffom, without the Honey-cup; difpofed to thew the fituation of the Chives, and i Pointal, which are covered by the Honey-cup. P- . nn -__Orall plants, none furnish a more agreeable fpeculation to the Botanift, than thofe of this clafs; the ___ fingular conftruétion of the whole flower, leads the obferver to form a of which ifland it is a native; therefore mutt be kept fiove. It is propagated by dividing the bulbs. i + i a a PLATE XIV. IXIA REFLEXA. Reflex flowered Ixia. CLASS HE. ORDER I. ay TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx. Spathz bivalves, oblongz, perfiftentes, germina diftinguentes. Corotzra. Petala fex, oblonga, zqualia, lan- ceolata. Sramina, Filamenta tria, fubulata, - corolla -__ breviora, fitu zequalia. Antherz fimplices. Pistiztum. Germen inferum, ovatum, tri- : fimplex, erectus, longi- Stigma trifidum, craffi- guetrum. Stylus eae um. ‘Psricareium. Capfula fubovata, triquetra, trilocularis, loculis comprefiis, trivalvis. Semina fubrotunda, plurima. SPECIFIC Txia floribus fpicatis, reflexis; foliis enfiformi- bus, glabris. EmpaLeMeNtT. Cup two valves, oblong, re- maining, and dividing the feed-buds. ‘ Biossom. Six oblong petals of an equal length, and {pear-fhaped. : Cuaives. Three awl-fhaped threads, fhorter than the bloffom, placed equally. Tips fimple. Pointau. Seed-bud beneath egg fhaped, and three-fided. Shaft fimple, upright, the length of the chives. Summit cut into three, and thickith. Srzp-vesseL. Capfule, nearly egg-fhaped, three-fided, three cells, prefled together, three valves. Seeps many, nearly round. CHARACTER. Ixia, with flowers growing ina fpike, and bent backward; leaves fword-fhaped, and fmooth. Sa REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The two Sheaths of the Empalement (magnified). 2. The Bloffom. 3. The Chives (magnified). A. The Pointal (magnified). i _ No genus exhibits greater diverfity, either in the figure, or colour of the bloffoms, of its various {pe- cies than Ixia; the extreme delicacy of their colours, rendering it abfolutely neceffary to protect them ~~ both ) h from wind and rain ; ven watering them over their heads (as is ufual with greenhoufe plants), at once deftroys their brilliancy. The bulbs of this {pecies were gathered at the Cape, by J. Pringle, _ -Efq. from whom they were fent to Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy in 1795, at whofe nurfery they flowered ae a a ie — “pi figure was taken. No particular treatment is neceffary for this plant, _. other than what is given to Cape bulbs in general, viz, an airy fituati light foil. Is propa- = gated by feeds, and by the roots. sib ituation, and light fo P' | PRAT.E XY. ANTHYLLIS ERINACEA. “Blue Broom of Spain. ination CLASS 3VuE ORDER. HL 'DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives in two fets. Ten Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER, Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, ovato- EmpaLement. Cup of one leaf, oblong egg-- oblongum, parum inflatum, villofum; ore fhaped, a little fwelled, and hairy; mouth quinquedentato, ‘inzequali ; perfiftens. cut into five unequal teeth ; permanent. Corot a papilionacea : Biossom, butterfly-fhaped. Vexillum longius, lateribus reflexis, ungue Standard longer, fides bent back, the claws longitudine calycis. as long as the cut. Alz duz, oblonge, vexillo breviores. Wings two, oblong, fhorter than the ftandard. Carina compreffa, longitudine alarum, alis Keel compreffed, as long as the wings, and — fimilis. like them ‘ Stamina. Filamenta decem, connata, affur- Cuives. Ten threads, connected, rifing up- gentia. Antherz fimplices. wards. Tips fimple. Pistittum. Germen oblongum. Stylus fim- Pointat. Seed-bud oblong. Shaft fimple, plex, adfcendens. Stigma obtufum. afcending. Summit blunt. _Pericarrium. Legumen fubrotundum, te@um Seep-vessex. Pod roundith, covered by the intra calycem, minimum, bivalve. cup, very fmall, of two valves. ‘SEMEN unum, alterumve. Seeps. One or two. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _ Anthyilis fruticofa, {pinofa; foliis fimplicibus; || Broom, fhrubby, and covered with prickles; floribus ex czruleo purpurafcentibus, | leaves fimple; bloffoms of a purplifh blue. cc a REFERENC : = The Cup. E TO THE PLATE 2. A Bloffom, the cup taken off to thew the exa@ fituation and fhape of its various parts. - 3. — Chives, as they inclofe the pointal (natural fize.) 4. The Threads magnified, and cut open, to fhew their tubular fhape. 5. The Pointal, magnified, ee Owine to the difficulty in - femiely more dealt sqision. ‘This ea Fate Rape ivi authors from Clufius downwards, Mr. T. Johnfon, in his edition of Decors ha ven a ints, . Se : : +h ‘are excellent (confidering the defeription of this plant from Clufius, and a cut; both of whic ‘i . then infant ftate of the art of engraving), under the title of Genifta Azalea, foliis ovato-oblongis, pilofis, alternis; ~ feet, and that the flowers are of — are indebted for this fine plant. 7 _ Many other forts, the next year. | PLATE XVI. AZALEA PONTICA. Yellow Pontic Azalea. Ctass ¥.. ORDER LI. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. : _ Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf with five divi- partitum, acutum, erectum, parvum, per- fions, fharp pointed, upright, fmall, and fiftens. : permanent. e: h Corotzta. Monopetala, campanulata, limbus Biossom. One petal, bell-fhaped, margin five- -quinquefidus: laciniarum lateribus in- cleft: fegments with the edges bent in- flexis. . wards. Sramina. Filamenta quinque, filiformia, recep- Cuives. Threads five, thread-thaped, fixed to taculo inferta, libera. Antherz fimplices. the receptacle, and loofe. Tips fimple. Pistittum. Germen oyatum. Stylus filifor- PoinTaL, Seed-bud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread- | mis, longitudine corolla, perfiftens. Stigma fhaped, the length of the bloffom, perma- obtufum. : nent. Summit blunt. — Be Pericarpium. Capfula ovata, quinquelocularis, Seep-vessEL. Capfule egg-fhaped, with five quinquevalvis. cells, and five valves. Z Semin plurima, comprefia. Seeps many, and flat. - Oss. Figura petali in aliis infundibuliformis, in Oss. The fhape of the petal in fome is funnel- _aliis campaniformis eft; ftamina in quibuf- fhaped, in others bell-fhaped; the chives dam declinata longiffima. fome are bent downward, and very long. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ; j Azalea, with oblong egg-fhaped leaves, hairy, and alternate; flowers very large, and ye low; chives very long, and bent downward. floribus ampliffimis, luteis ; ftaminibus lon- giffimis, declinatis, OU REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. __ 1. The Empalement, (natural fize.) 2. The Chives as they appear within the bloffom. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. 4. A Capfule cut horizontally, expofing the number of its cells. i | : * _ America has furnifhed our gardens with an extenfive variety of beautiful fhrubs; amongft them, the ; Azaleas hold a diftinguifhed place; fome for the beauty, others for the fragrance, of their bloffoms: the prefent fpecies far furpaffes all of them for both. It is a native of the coaft of the Black Sea, oF ae Pontus Euxinus, through the whole of its extent, on the Afiatic fide, from the city of Trebifonde; from whence its trivial name. That a plant of fuch extreme beauty, and fweetnefs, fhould fo long have been a ftranger to our European gardens, though known to, and defcribed by, fo many botanical a feem matter of wonder; but ftill it is an uncontefted fa&t. Monf. Tournefort, in afl Voyage to the Levant, has given an ample defcription of it, under the title of Chamerhododendros : Pontica maxima, mefpili folio, flore luteo; where he fays, it grows to the height of feven or eight ‘ a moft exquifite flavour. Dr. P. Pallas, in his Flora Roffica, has ike-®, : wife figured, and defcribed it, under the | from a dried fpecimen, as the brilliancy name it here bears; but apparently his drawing was - é - of the flower is by no means preferved ; but it is a as he j , his voyage to the Crimea and countries adjacent, in "ae procured the feeds of this, amongft many other valuable and rare plants; parcels of moft of which Ee were fent by him to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith; by whom plants were raifed of it, = f ane | , It is a deciduous fhrub, extremely hardy, and blows early’ ya ‘pring; — = other Azaleas, by layers and feeds; grows beft in peat earth, with a _ aoe PLA: &° AVI. PROTEA. oe ke be te. FORMOSA. Coronet Protea. . ORDER LIL. ~~ TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. ~Catyx. Perianthium commune, imbricatum; oer {quamis inzqualibus, perfiftentibus. Proprium vullum. - Corotra tetrapetala. Petala fepe coherentia, ius divifa, lineari-oblonga: unguibus erectis, limbo patenti. Sramrna. Filamenta nulla. Antherz quatuor, lineares, vel oblonge, fub apice limbi co- rollz inferte. Pistittum. Germen fuperum, oblongum. Sty- lus filiformis, corolla longior. Stigma fim- plex, clavatum. ; ‘PerrcarPium nullum. Calyx patens, indura- _ Semina folitaria, fubrotunda, vel compreffa. RecerTacuLuM commune nudum, villofum, oS um, vel conus. Sis SPECIFIC Protea, foliis Janceolatis, pubefcentibus; caule * yillofo; fore aurantio flavo; femine fub- rotundo, glabro, magnitudine pifi majoris. . Empanement. Cup common, fcaled; fcales unequal, and remaining. Proper none. F Brossom four-leaved. Petals frequently ad- hering, oftener divided, of a linear oblong. fhape: claws upright, border fpreading. Cuaives. Threads none. Tips four, linear, or oblong, fixed within the border of the bloffom. Pointat. Seed-bud above, and oblong. Shaft thread-fhaped, longer than the bloffom. Summit fimple, and club-fhaped. SrED-vEsseL none. Cup fpreading, hard, and f{carcely changing. Sexps folitary, nearly round, or flat. RecerTacte the common, is naked, hairy, chaffy, or a cone. CHARACTER. Protea, with lance-fhape downy leaves; ftem hairy; bloffom orange yellow; feed nearly round, {mooth, the fize of a large pea. mn REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. ee te. : , 1. The Flower complete, as it ftands on the Receptacle. 2. The Bloffom expanded, to thew the fituation of the Chives. Or all the varied genera of plants which decorate that mine of botanical riches, the Cape of Good * Hope, and the adjacent country, no one ftands more confpicuous than Protea. Few travellers who te@ion. It is have not noticed the fingularity and beauty of their foliage; indeed they are of fuch extreme bril- liancy, that no one, however indifferent to botanical refearches, can pafs them unobferved; forefts of them being fo numerous, the Protea Argentea, or Silver Tree, produces almoft the only wood ef the country; growing to the height of thirty or forty feet. But although the leaves of this numerous tn be are moftly beautiful, many of their bloffoms are but trifling, except in the eye of the botanift: the Protea Formofa, however, is one amongft many which ftand as powerful exceptions: the grea = ee charming plant has induced us to adopt the trivial name it here bears. Tt has been to the Royal Gardens at Kew by Mr. F. Maffon, botanical collector to his prefent Majeftys | from whofe liberal patronage the feience of Botany has of late been brought into fuch general efti- — This fpecies, from the downy charaéter of the whole plant, is apt to damp, if not kept in an in winter; though the warmth of a common greenhoufe is quite fufficient for its pro- Soe with difficulty propagated by cuttings; and has not hitherto perfected its feeds in this Kingdom. Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered in the nurfery of Mefirs. Lee = ) seneniy, in the year 1796, about the month of Augutt. f ™ | =” ~X\ f ZY he fot sy 8 CAE S U5 <5 \ | M/Z ON OG a i ) we PLATE XVIII. CORREA ALBA. White Correa. CLASS VIII. ORDER I. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadriden- tatum, campanulatum, erectum, perfiftens. Coroira. Petala quatuor, oblonga, concava, api exa, marginibus craffis. Filamenta ofto, ere€ta, filiformia, Pistizrum. Germen turbinatum, fuperum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine ftaminium. Stigma obtufum. Pericarrium. Capfula coriacea, lanata, qua- drilocularis, quadrivalvis. Semina quatuor, folitaria, fubrotunda. SPECIFIC Correa, foliis fubrotundis, fupra tomentofis, fub- tus lanigeris; floribus terminalibus, qua- ternis, albidis. | Empatement. Cup of one leaf, five-toothed, bell-fhaped, upright, and-permanent. Brossom. Four petals, oblong, concave, reflexed at the end, and thick at the edges. Cutves. Eight threads, upright, thread-fhaped, and fixed into the receptacle. Pointat. Seed-bud turban-fhaped, and above. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the chives. Summit blunt. Seep-vesser. Capfule leathery, and woolly, four cells, four valves. Seeps four, folitary, and nearly round. CHARACTER. Correa, with leaves nearly round, downy on the upper furface, woolly on the under furface; flowers terminate the branches by fours, and are white. rE REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. * 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives, and Pointal. . 3. A Thread, and Tip, (magnified.) 4. The Shaft and Summit, (magnified.) rd a Correa is a native of Port Jackfon, in New Holland, and commonly termed a Botany-bay plant: Tue ¢ raifed in the year 1793, from feeds which were given by Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. to J. Vere, Efq. of Kenfington-gore, and from a plant in whofe colleétion our figure was taken. It receives its generic title from Mr. Jofeph Correa de Serra, a native of Portugal; a gentleman of very diftinguithed — _ talents as a man of fcience in general, and botany in particular. Of this genus there are as yet but few fpecies difcovered; the Alba grows to a fhrub of the height of four or five feet, woody and tough; 3 both ftem and leaves are covered with a thick flannelly fubftance, particularly the under fide of the ___ leaves, which gives the whole plant a whitith appearance. It continues to flower through the months = of April, May, and June; may be ; ‘plant, and thrives beft in peat earth propagated eafily by cuttings, fhould be kept as a hardy PLATE XIX. GLADIOLUS VERSICOLOR. Changeable Gladiolus. CLASS Ill. -“TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. ORDER I. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyrx. Spathz bivalves. Corotta, fexpartita, ringens. Petala oblonga, omnia unguibus in tubum connata. Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, divifuris alternis petalorum inferta. Antherze ob- jonge. Pistittum, Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex, longitudine ftaminum. Stigma trifidum concavum. Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga, obtufa, tri- locularis, trivalvis. Semina plura, fubrotunda. : SPECIFIC Gladiolus, foliis lineari-cruciatis; floribus maxi- mis, verficoloribus. Empatement. Sheath two valves. Buossom, of fix divifions, and gaping. Petals oblong, having their claws formed into a tube. Cuives. Three awl-fhaped threads, fixed into the alternate divifions of the petals. Tips oblong. Ponrat. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, the length of the chives. Summit cut into three, and concave... , Sgep-vesset. Capfule oblong, plunt-ended, ' three cells, three valves. Serps many, nearly round. CHARACTER. Gladiolus, with linear crofs.fhaped leaves; flowers very large, and changeable. ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. The Pointal, and Seed-bud; one of the divifions of the Summit magnified. 3. A ripe Seed, natural fize, in its tunic. ee Tuar colour bears the charaéter given it by Sir Ifaac Newton, our prefent fubje& (as did the prifm) adds another proof. The Gladiolus verficolor might, like the camelion, equally be a fubject of pes tention, to thofe who have feen its bloffom at different periods of the fame day; for, firange t - it is brown in the morning, and continues to change from that colour till it becomes light er night. During the night it regains its priftine colour; and this change is effected diurnally, Ze g the flower is in its vigour; but upon the decay, the change is leis powerful, gradually fixing aa dark brown; which, however, does not take place in lefs than nine or ten days. This is the 0 y flower, we have ever noticed, to regain the colour that has once forfook it. A drawing was begae about ten o'clock in the morning, but before it was finithed the plant was fo totally altered in o- that there was an abfolute neceffity for taking a fecond day to complete it. The bulbs of this pa? were fent from the Cape of Good Hope by J. Pringle, Efq. of Madeira, in 1794, amongft many a to Mefits, Lee and Kennedy, of Hammerfmith, where the drawing was made. It flowers about ‘month of June; is increafed by the root or feed; and thrives beft in peat earth. OF a _ Large-flowered Viper’s Buglo/s. CLASS. ¥. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. -Catyx. Perianthi 1 . quer tit , erectum ‘ perfiftens; laciniis fubulatis ereétis. Cororra. Monopetala, campanulata. Tubus iffimus. Limbus ereétus, fenfim ampli- -atus, quinquefidus obtufus; laciniis feepius inequalibus; fuperioribus duabus longiori- bus, infimis minoribus, acutis, refléxis. Faux pervia. Sramina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, longi- __ tudine corolle, declinata, inzequalia therze oblonge, incumbentes. Pistittum. Germina quatuor. Stylus filiformis, longitudine i Stigma obtufum, bifidum Pericarrium “nullum. Calyx rigidior, in finu femina fovens. : A {nhrotunda ohli a - §PECIFIC “Echium, foliis nitidis, lanceolatis, hifpidis; caule fruticofo; corollis maximis, zequali- bus, rubris. EmpaLemMenT. Cup with five divifions, upright, permanent; fegments awl-fhaped, upright. Biossom. One petal, bell-fhaped. Tube very fhort. Border gradually widening, with five clefts, blunt. Segments ofteneft unequal, the two upper ones the longeft; the lower ones fmaller, fharp, and reflexed. The mouth open. Cuives. Five threads, awl-fhaped, the length of the bloffom, declined, and unequal. Tips oblong, fixed fideways to the threads. Porntat. Seed-buds four. Shaft thread-thaped, the length of the chives. Summit blunt, and two-cleft. - SrEep-vessEL none. The cup growing more harfh, contains the feeds. Szeps four, roundifh, obliquely tapering. CHARACTER. Viper’s Buglofs, with fhining, lance-fhaped, hairy leayes; ftem fhrubby; bloffoms very large, equal, and red. RR REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Bloffom cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives. 3. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. 4. A ripe feed. Tue Echium Grandiflorum is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was fent from thence by Mr. F. ~ __ Maffon to the Royal Gardens at Kew, about the year 1791. The fuperior beauty of this {pecies to the reft of its congenors makes it confidered as a valuable greenhoufe plant, although its intrinfic _ merit is fufficient to enfure it that charaéter;- the rich green of its foliage, contrafted to the colour of the bloffoms, gives to each a fingular brillian i se Aocmas : cy. It is rather a tender greenhoufe plant, grows 4 two feet high, and becomes naked at the lower part of the ftem; is with difficulty propagated by * =e feldom perfeéting its feeds; thrives beft in rich earth, and flowers in April and May. drawing was made from a plant in the collection of the Marguis of Blandford, Bill-hill, Berks. PLATE -XXI. VERELA CRENATA. : ~ Scolloped-leaf Vereia. CLASS VIII. OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Eight Chives. ORDER IV. Four Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caryx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, _foliolis - Janceolatis, concavis, ere€tis, acutis, per- fiftentibus. ‘. CoroxLia monopetala, ventricofa; limbus pa- ; : tens, revolutus quadripartitus; laciniis ovatis, acuminatis. e@araria quatuor; fingulum fquamula debilia, minima, fingulo germini ad bafin extrorfum inferta Filamenta oéto, brevia, quorum -quatuor medio, quatuor vero ad bafin corollz adnate. Anthere fubrotunde fimplice: : S. _° Pistizzum. Germina quatuor, oblonga, defi- e nentia in ftylos fubulatos. Stigmata ob- ‘ tufa. ; Pericarrium. Capfule quatuor, ovate acu- minate, rette, trigonz, longitudinaliter : futura introrfum dehifcentes. Sema plurima minima. SPECIFIC patentibus ; Vereia, foliis oppofitis, crenatis, 1. The Empalement, (natural fize.) racemis longiffimis laxis; floribus luteis. _ Emparement. Cup four leaved, which are lance-fhaped, concave, upright, fharp- pointed, and permanent. Biossom of one leaf, big bellied; border fpreading, rolled back, and divided into four egg-fhaped, pointed fegments. Honey-cups four, each confifting of a fmall flight fcale, fixed on the outfide the bafe of each feed-bud. Cuives. Eight fhort threads, four of which are fixed to the middle, and four to the bafe of the bloffom. ‘Tips nearly round, and fimple. Ponta. Four feed-buds, oblong, ending in awl-fhaped fhafts. Summits blunt. Sgep-vesseL. Four capfules, egg-fhaped, ta- pering, upright and three fided, opening inwards along the feam. Seeps many, very fmall. : CHARACTER, | Vereia, with oppofite, fcolloped, fpreading leaves; very long loofe fpikes, and yellow flowers. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 2. A Bloffom cut open to fhew the fituation of the Chives. 3. The Seed-veffel, Shafts, and Summits, with the fcales of the Honey-cups, as they fiand in the bloffom, (magnifi 4. One Capfule of the Seed-veffel detached. ed.) : Ee ——___ _ Tuts genus of Plants muft clafs with Linnzeus’s natural order of Succulents, nearly approaching Craf- fala in habit; but as the Sexual Syftem is the bafis of our theory, we cannot admit it under that or any other yet defcribed genus; we have therefore named it after James Vere, Efq. long and well known for his extended and liberal patronage to the profeffors and cultivators of the fcience; in whofe beautiful and feleé colleGtion at Kenfington Gore, the prefent fpecies, has for the firft time, flowered in this kingdom. Mr. Anderfon the gardener informs us, that this plant is a native of Sierra Leone; from whence it was fent to England, by Profeffor Eld. Elfzelius, in the year 1793; that he has treated it as a tender hot-houtfe plant, keeping it conftantly in the tan bed, by which means he has made it flower; but from every appearance of the plant, we fhould be led to think the common treatment of hot-houfe Succulents would anfwer for this. It is eafily propagated by cuttings; grows to the height of three haces or four feet, having when in flower the appearance of a middle fized fhrub; blows in the winter T nan the tet sos By og He Arai PLATE XXII. GOODENIA CALENDULACEA. | Cape Marygold-leaved Goodenia. . CLASS Vi. ORDER L PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. : GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthium quadrifidum, fuperum, Empatement. Cup four-cleft, above, and re- perfiftens. maining. Cornotza monopetala, fupra longitudinaliter Bossom of one leaf, cleft longitudinally on the _ fiffa, genitalia exferens; limbo quinquefido, upper fide, expofing the organs of fructifi- fecundo. cation; border five-cleft, leaning one way. Sramina. Filamenta quinque, receptaculo in- Curves. Five threads fixed into the receptacle. Serta, therz lineares. Tips linear. Pistittum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex. Porntat. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple. Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum. Summit pitcher-fhaped, and fringed. . Pericarrium. Capfula oblonga, bilocularis, Sgep-vesseL. Capfule oblong, with two cells, o _ bivalvis; diffepimento parallelo. and two valves; partition parallel to the tee valves. Szzps many and rough. Semina plura, fcabrida. cs SPECIFIC CHARACTER. os _ Goodenia, foliis obovatis, craflis, {cabridis; Goodenia with inverfely egg-fhaped, thick rough = __. floribus axilaribus, czruleis. leaves; flowers fitting clofe to the ftem, rn si _ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Flower with all its parts complete. 2. A Bloffom without the organs of fruétification. - 3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud (magnified). Tae Goodenias are all natives of New Holland, and received their generic name of Dr. J. E. Smith, Prefident of the Linnzean Society; in honour of the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, whofe valuable differtation on the Britith fpecies of Carex, does him the higheft honour, as a botanift. The {pecies of this gent Se (as yet difeovered) are ten, from which we may infer that they are numerous; thofe only yet intro- aoe Guced fo: Britain are, the levigata, ovata, and the prefent fpecies; the others are defcribed by Prefident, in the fecond volume of the Linnean Tranfaétions. This plant, though not to be ranked é . in a handfomeft productions of that country, fo replete with novelty, is yet poffeffed of fuffi- a eek, et it a place in our collections ‘of greenhoufe plants, flowering about the month : [oi osaeesian ting moft in an airy fituation, and light foil. It is eafily propagated by cuttings i se! és oo eS a plant which flowered at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in 1797; where tt ge aia. | eeds, oad @ by Colonel Paterfon, then commanding at Port eee Se eer mock iid s in colle@ing feeds, &c. the cabinets and colleétions of our natural oe a PLATE XXiIil. IXIA CAPITATA. Jar. ovata. Bunch-flowering Inia. Var. Egg-/haped purple Petals, CLASS Il. ORDER L TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIAZ. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Cororta 6 petala, patens, zqualis. Stigmata Bossom fix petals, fpreading equal. Summits 3, ereétinfculo-patula. three, nearly upright, fpreading. See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV. ’ SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia, foliis radicalibus, enfiformibus; floribus capitatis, confertis, purpureis, petalis bafi | Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and fword-fhaped; bloffoms in clofe bunches, ~~ obfcuris, | purple, and dark at the bafe. ¥ ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. Se ; A flower cut open, to thew the infertion of Chives. a The Chives as attached to the tubular part of the bloffom, the border cut off . (magnified). 4. The Shaft, Summits, and Seed-bud (magnified), a ape of Good Hope, was introduced to our colleétions about nurferymen; they having raifed it from feeds rece! ‘ ; is certainly amongft the tendereft of its tribe: the root, | is ne Pyee to injury by wet, it thould be dried as foon as it has done flowering. It is aro Ixias in bloom, being in high perfection about the middle of April; is increafed cant ~ = = thriving beft in very fandy peat, or fand only. The figure here given was _ ingens about mid-day has the flavour of violets fo powerfully, that a fingle plant is fufficient to ioe = a whole greenhoufe. It is with difficulty preferved from rotting at the root; therefore fhould be grown in very fandy peat, and fhould be expofed to dry as foon as the flower is gone. Is propagated ae she root, or by feed, which may be procured by great care not to over-water the bulb after flower. ing; but herein there is great danger, ee PLATE XXVIII. GERANIUM ELEGANS. Round-leaved Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER II. MONODELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monoeyrna. Stigmata 5. Fruétus roftratus, One Poinrat. Five Summits, Fruit furnithed S-coccus. with long awns, 5 dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Plate XI. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium pedunculis multifloris; calycibus mo- Geranium, the fruit-ftalks fapporting many flow- nophyllis, foliis orbiculatis, ferratis rigidis, ers; cups of one leaf; the leaves petiolis longiffimis; caule herbaceo, fawed, and harfh, with very long foot-ftalks; ftem herbaceous. ne —— REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular fhape to its bafe. 2. The Chives, and Pointal, natural fize. 3. The Pointal, magnified. aneenIEnnEnees._.ccceeeeeee Tats truly elegant {pecies of Geranium was introduced to us from the Cape of Good Hope; in the B08 17053 being raifed from feeds, received from thence, by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, in whole : collection it flowered for the firft time this year, about the latter end of May, and from which {peci- er “7 pal was taken. It is one of thofe that have in general feven fertile tips, and, therefore, a : “ey ‘ — = LHeritier’s genus Pelargonium, by thofe who follow his new *, eds which aie .. ne . sate only a common greenhoufe for its proteCtion, where wo beft in rich earth, eit mode of propagating it, as it produces but very few branches; : PLATE XXIX. : IXIA SPICATA. Par. viridi migra. | Sea-green fpiked Ixia. CLASS Il ORDER IL. ' TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIZA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Cororra 6 petala, patens, xqualis. Bossom fix petals, fpreading, equal. Sticmata 3, erectiufculo-patula. Summits three, nearly upright, fpreading. See Ix1a rnervexa, Plate XIV. ‘ SPECIFIC CHARACTER. , Ixia foliis linearibus, coftatis; corolla viridi, Ixia with linear, ribbed leaves; green bloffom, petalis bafi obfcuris; fpicis longiffimis. the bafe of the petals dark; {pikes very long. (nn eR *: REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew its tubular charaéter, and the infertion of the Chives at the h. ; mouth. 3. The Pointal complete, one of its Summits magnified, EE Tae fingularity of colour exhibited in this very fine fpecies of Ixia, the extraordinary length of the Be -fpikes, the flowers of which are moftly all expanded at the fame time; and which grow fometimes to the length of a foot, or more; will certainly entitle it to a place in every colleétion of exotics. We are indebted to the Hollanders for this plant, as they firft introduced it from the Cape; and it 1s Hess a them we received it but a few years fince. It is amongft the hardieft, and eafieft propagated of oS genus; requiring a {mall degree of heat when near blowing, to make the flowers expand with __luftre; thriving beft in peat earth; propagating itfelf by the bulb; and flowering during the months _ of May and June. = SS eesec ts | PLATE XXX. oe VACCINIUM ARCTOSTAPHYLLUS. oe a Madeira Whortle-berry. a ‘CLASS VHE ORDER *1 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. ‘Catyx. Perianthium minimum, fuperum, per- EmrPatemMent. Cup very fmall, above, and per- : : , : manent. — oe = Corouta. Monopetala, campanulata, quadri- Biossom. One petal, bell-fhaped, four-cleft; au ; laciniis revolutis. fegments rolled back. Stamina. Filamenta otto, fimplicia. Antheraz Curves. Eight threads, fimple. Tips with two ___ bicornes, dorfo ariftis duabus patentibus horns, and furnifhed with two fpreading inftruéte, apice dehifcentes. | awns at the back, opening at the points. _ Pisrittum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex, | Poinraz. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, = ftaminibus longior. Stigma obtufum. longer than the chives. Summit blunt. Pericarpium. Bacca globofa, umbilicata, qua- | Sgrep-vessex, A globular berry, with a hollow * drilocularis. dimple, and four cells. SeMINa pauca, parva, Szeps few, and fmall. “oe SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _ Vaccinium, floribus racemofis; foliis crenulatis, Whortle-berry, with flowers growing in bunches; ovatis, acutis; caule arboreo. leaves flightly fcollopped, egg-fhaped, and pointed; ftem woody. ee ee . 3 REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, Pointal, and Chives; the bloffom removed. 2. A Chive (magnified). = 3. The Shaft, and its Summit (magnified). “a 4. A ripe Berry (natural fize). a Si... tata : | _F.M 1786. The winters 10 _ common of this climate are too fevere for it, therefore fhould be protected, although it will furvive — _ amild one: it is beft preferved in a pot, and kept as a greenhoufe plant, where it is very ornamenia';— i flowering about the months of July and Auguft; thriving beft in light mould, or peat; and is Pro = pagated by cuttings, or the feed, which it produces in abundance, ee | PLATE XXXI. BORBONIA CORDATA. Heart-fhape leaved Borbonia. | : CLASS XVII. e -DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads in two fets. Ten Chives. ORDER IV. _ GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- fidum, turbinatum, corolla dimidio bre- vius; laciniis lanceolatis, acuminatis, fub- zequalibus. Coro.ra pentapetala papilionacea. Vexillum reflexum, obtufum, ungue calycis longitudine. @ femicordate, vexillo paulo brevi- ores. Carina dipetala, lunulata, obtufa. Stamina. Filamenta decem, coalita in cylin- arnm Fl 5 Po Lat 7" AP args ek Sa od ‘4 apicibus affurgentia. Anthere parve. Pistirtum. Germen fubulatum. Stylus bre- __-Viffimus, adfcendens. Stigma obtufumy, - emarginatum. ; Pericarrium. Legumen fubrotundum, acumi- natum, uniloculare, {pina mucronatum, ‘Semina reniformia. SPECIFIC Borbonia foliis cordatis, multinerviis, integer- rimis. Empacement. Cup one leaf, cut into five feg- ments, turban-thaped, fhorter by half than the bloffom; fegments Jance-fhaped, point- ed, nearly of the fame length. — Bossom of five leaves, butterfly-fhaped. Standard bent back, blunt, the claw the length of the cup. oe Wings half heart-fhaped, a little fhorter than the ftandard. ; Keel of two leaves, half moon-fhaped, and blunt. i Cuives. Threads ten, joined in a cylinder, fplitting at the upper fide, turned up at the ends. Tips fmall. Pornrat. Seed-bud awl-fhaped. Shaft fhort, turned up at the end. Summit blunt, and bordered. Seep-yesseL. Shell roundith, pointed, of one cell, and pointed with a fpine. Seeps kidney-fhaped. CHARACTER, Borbonia with heart-fhaped leaves, many-nery ed, and very entire. i 1, The Empalement. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 2. The Standard, or upper petal of the Bloffom. 3. A Wing, or fide petal of the Bloffom. 4. The Keel, or lower petals of the Bloffom. 5. The Pointal and Chives, natural fize. 6. The Seed-veffel, attached to the Empalement. ee __ “PLATE XL. e* CHELONE CAMPANULOIDES. | : -Bell-flowered Chelone. | grt CRASS MY... ORDER —Cororza 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata Brossom fix petals, {preading, and equal. Sum; * . {i lo pa 2 . . SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis falcatis, crifpis; floribus alternis, no&i- florens, cinnamomi odore. Ixia with fcimitar-fhaped leaves, waved at the edge; flowers alternate, blowing at night, and fmelling of cinnamon. ie REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, = 1, The Empalement. “A 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. =, 3. The Chives, attached to the tubular part of the Bloffom, the border cut off, (magnified). 4. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified). EE _Amonesr this moft extenfive genus no fpecies ftands more diftin@ than this. The extreme fweetnefs and delicacy of its bloffoms, which expand only by night, and clofe in the morning, give it a decided : fuperiority over many of its congeners. Thunberg, who faw it at the Cape, has defcribed it under ____ the name it here bears; but till the year 1792 we had no knowledge of it, when it was firft intro- duced by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope; at whofe nurfery - flowered the following year; where it continues to blow annually, and whence this figure was taken. __ It israther a tender bulb, fmall, and eafily rotted; ‘fhould therefore be placed in the warmeft part of ____ the greenhoufe, and kept dry when out of flower; is rather difficult to increafe, as each bulb feldom ce : produces more than one offset, nor that always, and rarely feeds. a PLATE XLV. IRIS LONGIFOLIA. Long-leaved Iris. CLASS III. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. ORDER I. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Spathe bivalves, flores diftinguentes, ftentes. ae Corotia fexpartita; petala oblonga, obtufa, tria exteriora reflexa, tria interiora erecta, acutiora; omnia unguibus conata. Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, petalis re- flexis incumbentia, Anthere oblonge, rect, depreffz. Pistittum. Germen inferum, oblongum. Sty- lus fimplex, breviflimus. Stigma maximum, tripartitum, laciniis petala mentientibus, latis, reflexis, ftamina et petala alterna de- _ primentibus, apicibus bifidis. Pericarrium. Capfula oblonga, angulata, tri- laris, trivalvis. - SEMINA plurima, ovata, glabra. © SPECIFIC Iris foliis linearibus, canaliculatis, longiffimis, glaucis; fcapus teres, multiflorus; radix bulbofus, aw. Empa.ement. Sheaths of two valves, feparat- ing the flowers, permanent. Biossom with fix divifions; petals oblong, blunt, the three outer ones reflexed, the three in- ner ones upright, and fharper; all conneéted by the claws. Cuives. Threads three, awl-fhaped, laying on the reflexed petals. Tips oblong, ftraight, deprefie Porntat. Seed-bud beneath, oblong. Shaft fimple, very fhort. Summit very large, di- vided into three fegments, refembling petals, broad, bent back, and alternately prefling down the chives and petals, cleft at the ends. SrErp-vessEL. Capfule oblong, angular, of three cells, and three valves. SEDs many, egg-fhaped, and fmooth. CHARACTER. Iris with linear, channelled leaves, very long, and bluifh; flower-ftem cylindrical, with many flowers; the root bulbous. ~ TS ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. The Chives as attached to the Seed-bud. 3. The Pointal complete. aie,..< "ee ere ‘Tais Iris is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced to us from the colleétion of of as | Mefirs. Voorhelm and Schnevoght, of Haarlem in Holland, about the year 1792. The leaves of this _ delicate Iris grow fometimes to the length of three feet, giving it a very fingular appearance: it thould be treated like the Cape Ixias, and proteéted from the weather, whilft in bloom, as the flower injured by the lighteft wind, and the duration of each bloffom is but a few hours; there is, however, sl ane fucceffion, which rife diurnally from the fame fheath, feldom more than one at a time. This _ figure was taken in the month of June 1797, at the Hammerfmith nurfery. It has a fingular mode a itfelf; the old root dying. two formed above it, from whence 2 % : , two young ones are above i - ftem arifes: feldom ripe feeds are produced. the flower- - MASSONIA” -VIOLACEA. Purple-flowered Maffonia. | CLASS VL. ORDER I. : HEX ANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. . GENERIC CHARACTER. . a stos EMPALEMENT non es : os gine ae neétario impofita, Biossom fe cceak Petals placed on the a ~ Tanceolata ta, pate: cup, are lance-fhaped and fpreading. = og eee iplindticom, membra- Honey-cup beneath, cylindrical and tkinny. fr ‘Sra ‘ gee fex, neétarii dentibus in- Cuives. Six threads, fixed into the teeth of the # ea filiformia declinata, petalis paulo lon- honey-cup, thread-fhaped, bent downward, ~ giora, Anthera ovate. and a little longer than the petals. Tips ‘ | egg-fhaped. i ~Pistirtum. Germen (refpectu nettarii) fupe- Poinra. Seed-bud (with regard to the honey- rum. Stylus fubulatus, declinatus, longitu- cup) above. Shaft awl-fhaped, and bent ; = ftaminum. Stigma fimplex, acu- downward the le of the chives. Sum- i oe . mit fimple, and point : : Pancanie Capfula triquetra, glabra, tri- Seep-vessEL. Capfule three. iil and fmooth, m : ris, trivalvis, angulis dehifcens. of three cells and three valves, fplitting at a ss the angles. “Benawa Sati globofa, glabra, magnitudine SrEps many, globular, fmooth, the fize of a muf- femi: pios. d feed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ' ‘onl ia, fliis {pathulatis, glabris; {capus fili- Maffonia with {patula-fhaped, and fmooth leaves; bipollicaris; flores pedun- flower-ftalk thread-fhaped, upright, two =” i, violacei, fparfi, pedunculi uni- inches high; the flowers have foot-ftalks, are of a violet colour, and grow feattered; the foot-ftalks have each but one flower. a ——— REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Flower complete. 2. The fame cut open, to fhew the infertion of the Chives. 3. The Pointal. : ae us of plants perpetuates the name, as a botanift, (would it could likewife the mild, unaffam- . univerfally allowed amiablenefs of chara@ter) of Mr. Francis Maffon, botanical colle@tor to Z -_ exploring the untrod regions of North America, to add to the extenfive colleétions 3 -munificent Mafter, which fland fo much indebted to his indefatigable induftry for ent fplendour. The Maffonias are all rather tender, and require the fame fitu ation as s &e; that is, a dry ftove; they are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, or, at leaft, grow that point of Africa generally fo called, but at fome diftance from the Cape town, neat 4 (according to Thunberg) of the name of Bocklands Berg. ‘The root of this {pecies _— = the leaves are , if watered at that time; therefore, like the Ixias, thould ide, or taken out of the pot for two or three months, after flowering. It is very difficult © ate, as the feeds are feldom perfected, and rarely makes any offsets; flowering in mary. - = ein which month this figure was taken, from a plant in the colleétion of Ee : Clapham Com n. It appears to thrive beft in a mixture of peat and fandy lo loam. eh - PLATE XLVII. MUSA COCCINE,A Scarlet flowered Plantain- tree. CLASS ASITL. ORDER 7 POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Various difpofitions, Upon one Plant, GENERIC CHARACTER. Hermaphroditi feminei flores. Hermaphrodite fhrubby. een = REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Em s 2. The Chives aad ee (natural fize). a4 : . e’Chives cut open. ae 4. The Pointal, (qaagnified). 2 : ire . Tuts pretty hae of Opens, from the Gai of Good 3, ae is one of thofe having feven fertile _ tips; therefore a Pelargonium of Monf. L’Heritier. It is a low growing plant, feldom exceeding eight or nine inches in height, Keeping very compaét; but is fubject to damp in the leaves, if kept moift in winter, though | otherwife | ‘pretty hardy. Mr. C. Lodiges, of Hackney, firft raifed it from feeds which he received from Vienna, about the year 1793. Itis readily propagated by cuttings, or feeds, 7 ae continues to flower all the fammer months; Bon iring light rich earth to make it flourith. ce ee eee Be See ee PLATE LXVIII. GOODENIA OVATA. Oval-leaved Goodenta. CUASS:-¥. ORDER 1 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 2 A 1} 1 Fs Coro.ta fupra longitudinaliter fiffa, genitalia | Briossom long fide, exferens, quinquefida. Stigma urceolatum, expofing the organs of generation, ‘and five- ciliatum, cleft. Summit cup-fhaped, and fringed. See GoopENIA CALENDULACEA. Plate XXII. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Goodenia with egg-fhaped leaves, fawed at the edges; bloffoms yellow, the two outer feg- ments grow upright. Goodenia foliis ovatis, ferratis; corollis luteis, laciniis duobus exterioribus ere¢tis. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. The Empalement and Seed-bud. 2. A Bloffom, with the parts of frudtification attached. 3. The Chives, and Pointal (magnified). » ———a__. In the fecond volume of the Linnzan Tranfactions, Dr. Smith enumerates ten fpecies of the genus ; this fpecies makes an addition to the number. The oval-leaved Goodenia is a half woody plant, aking long willow-like branches, which moftly decay in the winter, though a great part of t remains; it is a hardy greenhoufe plant, requiring little trouble either to keep or propagate; the latter of which is done by cuttings. About the year 1793, a parcel of feeds was received by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, fent to them by Colonel Paterfon from Port Jackfon, New Holland; amongft them, the feeds of this plant; it neverthelefs did not flower till the year 1798, about the month of June. It is certainly a defirable plant, never failing to fiower from June till September, if kept growing in vigour, which it will furely do if planted in light peat earth. 3 me o, zn " MT Cet ra) we ay os PLATE LXIX. LAMBE RTIA FORMOSA. Jar. longifolia. Red-flowered Lambertia, Long-leaved variety, : CHASS. iV. GRADER I. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIZA. Four Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx. Perianthium commune, imbricatum, quamis interioribus, longioribus. Corotra. Univerfalis uniformis, feptem-florus. Propria monopetala, tubulofa, limbus qua- - drifidus, lacifiiis revolutis, ftameniferis. Sramina. Filamenta quatuor, fubulata, bre- viffima, inferta limbo corollz, intra fingu- lam laciniam fingula. Antherz lineares, Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum, apice pilo- fum. Stylus fetaceus, erectus, Stigma fubulatum, fulcatum. PericarPium. Capfula tricornuta, unilocularis, difj perma. Semina bina, alata, feabra, nigra. SPECIFIC Lambertia foliis ternis, apice mucronato-pun- gentibus; corollis ftriatis, extus fuave ru- bentibus; antheris czruleis. EmpaLement, Common cup tiled, the inner feales the longest. Biossom. General regular compofed of feven flowers. Individuals of one petal, tubular, border four-cleft, the fegments rolled back, and fupporting the chives. Cuives. Threads four awl-fhaped, very fhort, fixed into the border of the bloffom, one within each fegment. Tips linear, and up- right. Pointat. Seed-bud nearly round, the upper part hairy. Shaft awn-like, upright. Sum- mit awl-fhaped, and furrowed. Srep-vesseL. Capfule three-horned, of one cell, and two feeds. SEEDs two, winged, rough, and black. CHARACTER. Lambertia with leaves growing by threes, the ends terminating in fharp points: blof- foms ftriped, of a light red without ; tips blue. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1, The Empalement. 2. A Bloffom cut open, with the Pointal as it ftands in the Bloflom. 3. One fegment of a Flower, with the Chive attached. 4. The Pointal (magnified). 5. A Capfule. 6. A Seed. ee Or all the Plants yet introduced from New Holland, that have hitherto flowered with us, this un- queftionably takes the lead for beauty, confidering the plant altogether. It is a hardy greenhoufe Plant, growing to the height of fix or eight feet before it flowers ; when the bloffoms break from the ends of almoft every branch. The feeds of this plant were among the firft which arrived from Botany Bay, in the year 1788; when two varieties of it were raifed by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, at their nurfery, who were fortunate enough to procure all the feeds which came home that feafon. This fine genus has received its title, (under the fan@ion of Dr. Smith, /ee the Linn. Tranf. page 214, vol, 3.) from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Efq. fellow of the Royal and Linnzan Societies; a gentleman whofe zeal for the advancement of the fcience is unbounded, and whofe labours to that end, as well as his endeavours to render botany of univerfal benefit, by combining the ufeful with the pleafing ; (witnefs his work on the Cinchonas, or Jefuits Barks) do him the greateft credit. Our drawing was . : . om a plant which flowered for the firft time in this kingdom, in the colleétion of J. Robertfon, , son on Surry, in July 1798. It is without difficulty raifed by cuttings, and thrives 10 i PLATE LXX. GmtipivA SIM PEE xX. Heath-leaved Gnidia. CLASS Vill... ORDER I. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. Eight Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Catyx infundibuliformis, quadrifidus. Petala Empatement funnel-fhaped, and’ four-cleft. -quatuor, calyci inferta, Semen unicum, Petals four, inferted into the empalement. fubbaccatum, One feed, fomething like a berry. See Gnipia ptniroLia, Plate LII. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gnidia, foliis linearibus, acutis, levibus; flori- Gnidia, with linear, pointed, fmooth leaves; bus, feffilibus, luteis. owers terminating the branches, fitting clofe upon them, and yellow. en Ha MII rm REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. A Flower, (natural fize). The fame cut open, and magnified. . The Pointal, (natural fize). . The fame magnified. ie ie Tue flowers of this fpecies of Gnidia, like moft plants of this natural order, are fragrant, which in- creafes much towards night. It is one of thofe delicate Cape plants requiring a dry ftove, or an airy warm fituation in the greenhoufe; where it continues to flower through the months of April and May, and frequently will bloffom a fecond time in September and O&tober. It is eafily propagated by cuttings; delighting moft in peat earth, and feldom grows more than a foot high. Our drawing was made, (by his kind permiffion) at the beautiful and unique confervatory of R. James, Efq. Grofvenor- place, from a plant in his valuable and {ele& colleGion, in May this year. = Unfortunately the G, Simplex having been introduced to our gardens before the G. Pinifolia, (fee Pee our figure, PI. LII.) it was found in moft colleG@tions under that title; but we have no hefitation in __ placing this plant under the {pecific name given it by Linnzeus, in his Mantiffa Plantarum of 1767, page 67 3 where, to the ufual fpecific character, he has fuperadded an accurate defcription of it. PLATE LXXL CLEMATI So VIORN A Blue thick-petal’d Virgin's Bower. CLASS XIII. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. GENERIC Pertantuium. Calyx nullus, Corotta. Petala quatuor, oblonga, laxa. Stamina. Filamenta plurima, fubulata, corolla breviora. Anthere lateri filamentorum ad- . Nate, “ Pistittum. Germina plurima, fubrotunda, com- preffa, definentia in ftylos fubulatos, ftami- nibus longiores. Stigmata fimplicia. Pericarrium nullum. Receptaculum capita- tum, parvum. Semina plurima, fubrotunda, compreffa, ftylo (figura varia) inftru@a. SPECIFIC Clematis foliis compofitis decompofitifque; foli- olis quibufdam trifidis; floribus Violaceis, coriaceis. ORDER _ VII. Many Pointals. CHARACTER. Emratement. Cup none. Bossom. Petals four, oblong, flexible, Cuives. Threads many, awl-fhaped, fhorter than the bloffom. Tips fixed to the fides of the threads. Pointat, Seed-buds many, nearly round, flat- tened, ending in awl-fhaped fhafts, longer than the chives. Summits fimple. SEED-VESSEL none. Receptacle forming a round head, and fmall. SEEDs many, roundith, flattened, retaining the. thaft, which is varioufly fhaped. CHARACTER. Virgin’s Bower, with compound and doubly com- pound leaves; fome of the little leaves fplit into three; flowers blue, and tough. ——— REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Chives, * 2. The Pointals. 3. A Chive, (magnified), 4. A Pointal, (magnified). 5. AA Seed nearly ripe, (natural fize). and Pointals; the petals being removed. re “Dovsts have been entertained, among fome botanifts, Linneus, as given by him, with various fynonims, in his Sp. Plan. adopted by him, to fiower till deftroyed introduétion, though long known by defcription, where it is in high perfection, being planted increafed, by parting the roots in {pring; we have no hefitation in our decifion. it is not fo hardy as fome others from the northern parts of Europe or whether this plant is the Clematis viorna of By collating the different {pecific to bloffom in July, and continue our gardens, being but of a late Our figure was taken at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in a mixture of loam and peat earth: it is moft readily as the feeds feldom come to maturity in this climate. PLATE LXXII. | STYPHELIA TRIFLORA. Three-flowered Styphelia. CLASS ..Y. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. Gp tr hi. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Pertantuium. Calyx imbricatus, perfiftens; foliolis interioribus Re EN acutis, eredtis. Corotza tubulofa, quinquefida; laciniis revo- Jutis, hirfutis. eClarium membranaceum, lacerum, ger- men cingens. Stamina. Filamenta quinque, tubo inferta. Anthere apice bifide, verfatiles. oy Germen globofum, fulcatum, nec- rio cinétum. Stylus capillaris. Stigma saan quinquepartitum --Perscarrrum. Drupa quinguelocularis, ae +. rotunda, glabra Semina, bina. _ SPECIFIC Styphelia, foliis sanbrloatis fparfis, glaucis, ovato-mucronatis; floribus axillaribus, ter- nis, EmpaLement. Cup tiled, and remaining; the inner leaves the longeft, fharp-pointed, and upright. Biossom tubular, five-cleft; the fegments rolled back, and hairy. Honey-cup ikinny, torn, and furrounding the feed-bud. Cuives. Five threads, fixed into the tube of the bloffom. Tips fplit at the top, and loofely fixed by the middle to the threads. Porntar. Seed-bud globular, furrowed, en- circled by the honey-cup. Shaft hair-like. “Summit headed, and of five divifions. Seep-vesseL. A pulpy fruit with five cells, roundifh, and {mooth. SEEDs, two together. CHARACTER. Styphelia, with leaves tiled, fcattered, bluith, egg-fhaped, and fharp-pointed; flowers growing from the lower part of the leaves by threes. - _ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The tube of the 4 The Honey-cup, (magnified). ement. 2. A aac cut Anges the Chives remaining attached, to fhew their infertion into the om. 3, The Pointal, (natural fize,) the Summit detached, and magnified. SaEnEeeeeeenaneEn D> me ha ress or hard; a character which feems invariable in every fpecies that has come under our notice. os although fet off by Dr. Smith, in his fourth number of New Holland Botany, with fo — ~ matt, (and we have no doubt of his concurrence) give place to S. triflora, which un- > dl s the palm from all its congeners hitherto difcovered. ‘The only fpecimen alive or cad fish fi which our figure was taken, of this plant, which has come to our knowledge, is to be _ found in the extenfive colleétion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham-common; from whofe exertions the = exotic colleétions of this kingdom, are likely to acquire fuch confiderable additions. The S. triflora was raifed from feed at Clapham in 1796, but did not flower till this year, in the month of June, oer ae in bloffom through July, and part of Auguft. It grows to the height of aie ching but little; the whole ftem being hid by the leaves. Mr. Allen the gardener, te fe Sind communications we are much neers, informs us he has Bee it in peat earth, and ss : =~ i eee i oe by eer - 5 O OY AAW De * To TO THE Lc CONTAINED IN VOL. I. ortula Matthiols: 644633 si0s 1a s's 0 N D E x M sera ees xia fera. Var. flo. Wales oer ialpighia craffifolia. fon xia capitata, War. fore ‘garantio. .... f 7 f i, i I haley INE ees va ve see sees Geranium punétatum. «. +++ esses d ‘at eee { 1 I { { ( ( ] ‘ ( : Xeranthemum ipeciestim mum. . 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