SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY. 168-3372 Shelf number.... rocartog. 12 (94-95 dlheldeals Date..... From whom. 2.44 Cost.. PARKE, DAVIS & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 21817 ARTES SCIENTIA VERITAS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SUNUM TUEBOR SI QUERIS PENINSULAMAN M-AMENAM CIRCUMSPICE WADUSIDUD. WD1.V00). THE GIFT OF PARKE, DAVIS AND COMPANY (ironicoqalermo PROPERTCOOL PARIS Bioco, Richard & Fanny Birch 1804 Jolan . Botanists Repocitong Coteurd Engraving 3 New and Rare Plantis ONLY o With Botanical Dexorifilistina C in Л. ☺ Cating and English after the Linnæan System lay Oro Adren's Botanical fainterEngraver Ge. Museuris QK . ЧB «АБ 1 и 3 accccc t.е. Transf. To Museums 10-31-61 INDEX TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. III. O. May. ... . May. Herb. July Herb. May. .. . . . . May. .. . . . I GA te-9-10 H. H. Shrub. February. Plate 145 Hillia longiflora Long-flowered Hillia.. 146 Pſoralea aculeata.. Prickly Pſoralea...... G. H. | Shrub. | Auguſt. G. H. | Bulb. 147 Gladiolus cuſpidatus.. Spear-ſpotted Gladiolus.. December. G. H. Bulb, 148 Lachenalia quadricolor Four-coloured Lachenalia .. G. H. | Shrub. Auguſt. Fringed-leaved Struthiola. 149 Struthiola ciliata.... 150 Geranium præmorsum Bitten-leaved Geranium.. H. H. | Shrub. | March. G. H. | Shrub. | May. 151 Pittoſporum coriaceum Thick-leaved Pittoſporum 152 Geranium fpathulatum. Spathula-leaved Geranium G. H. Shrub. April, Har. Bird's-foot-leaved Violet ... Herb. May 153 Viola pedata.. Echium argenteum. 154 Silvery-leaved Viper's Buglofs G. H. Shrub. July. G.H. Bulb. May. 155 Ixia polyſtachia. Many-ſpiked Ixia ..... 156 Bankfia ericafolia. Heath-leaved Banksfia.. . G. H. Shrub. March H. H. Shrub. April. 157 Cordia Sebeſtena.. Rough-leaved Cordia .. 158 Geranium echinatum Shrub. March. Prickly-ſtalked Geranium H. H. Shrub. 159 Ixia capitata,Var. flo.albo, fundo nigro. Bunch-flowering Ixia. Var. white fl. black bottom... G. H. | Bulb. 160 Ariſtea major, .... Spike-flowered Ariftea G. H. | Herb. . 161 Hermannia pulverata .. Shrub. April. Powdered Hermannia... G. H. Shrub. Har. 162 Verbaſcum ferrugineum.. Ruſty-flowered Mullein .. April. 163 Amaryllis Fothergillia. Fothergillian Lily-Daffodil. H. H. | Bulb. 164 Galaxia grandiflora Large-flowered Galaxia G. A. Bulb, February 165 Echium glaucophyllum Sea-green-leaved Viper's-Buglofs. G. H. Shrub. May. 166 Gladiolus abreviatus Bulb. G. H. March. Shortened-petalled Gladiolus 167 Brunsfelfia undulata.. Waved-flowered Brunsfelfia. H. H. Shrub. | March. 168 Geranium pictum Painted-flowered Geranium. G. H. Shrub. April. 169 Crinum giganteum. Gigantic Afphodell-Lily... H. H. | Bulb. Auguſt. | Bulb. March. 170 Ixia Bulbocodium Var. fl. Speciofifſimo Crocus-leaved Ixia. Var.moſt beautiful flower G. H. G. H. Linear-leaved Hypoxis Bulb, March. 171 Hypoxis linearis. 172 Anemone palmata Cyclamen-leaved Portugal Anemone Har. Herb. 173 Geranium rofeum Roſy Geranium .. March, H. H. Shrub. Tubular Antholyza 174 Antholyza tubulofa G. H. Bulb. June. 175 Melaleuca ericæfolia. Heath-leaved Melaleuca. G. H. Shrub. July, 176 Cratæva Capparoides Caper-like Cratæva... H. H. Shrub. | June. 177 Ixia punctata . Dotted-flowered Ixia.. G. H. | Bulb. May. 178 Ferraria pavonia.. Mexican Ferraria. H. H. | Bulb. July. 179 Amaryllis reticulata.. Netted-flowered Lily-Daffodil H. H. | Bulb, May. 180 Atragene auſtriaca . Auſtrian Atragene .. Har. Herb. May. 181 Vaccinium virgatum Green-twigged Whortle-berry Har. Shrub. June. 182 Malva divaricata .. Straddling-branched Mallow G. H. | Shrub. Shrub. | Tune. 183 Gardenia tubiflora Tube-flowered Gardenia... H. H. Shrub. July. 184 Pergularia minor .. Smaller Weft-Coaſt Creeper H. H. Shrub. Auguft. 185 Pergularia odoratiſſima. Sweet Pergularia, or Chineſe Creeper. H. H. | Shrub. Auguſt. 186 Ixia ſpecioſa ..... Deep Crimſon Ixia. G. H. | Bulb, 187 Echites fuberecta Oval-leaved Echites. H. H. Shrub. May. 188 Gladiolus campanulatus. Bell-flowered Gladiolus. G. H. | Bulb, May. 189 Zinnia verticillata .. Double Zinnia ... Har. Ann. Auguſt. 190 Geranium aſtragalifolium . Aſtragalus-leaved Geranium. H. H. Shrub. Shrub. July . 191 Platylobium icolopendrum. Scolopendra-like-ſtemmed Platylobium. G. H. Shrub. May. 192 Antholyza fulgens . Refulgent-flowered Antholyza . G. H. | Bulb. May. 193 Geranium lineare. Linear-petalled Geranium. H. H. Shrub. July. 194 Hemerocallis alba. White Day-Lily..... G. H. Herb. Auguft. 195 Hypoxis obliqua. . Oblique-leaved Hypoxis G. H. | Herb. June 196 Ixia maculata... Spotted-flowered Ixia G, H. Bulb. May. 197 Nymphæa cærulea Blue Water-Lily... G. H. Aqua, July, . 198 Bauera rubioides.. Three-leaved Bauera. G. H. Shrub. Auguſt, 199 Camellia japonica. Var. fl. rub. pleno | Double Red Camellia. G. H. Shrub. January, 200 Melaleuca hypericifolia St. John's-wort-leaved Melaleuca. G. H. Shrub. September. Aizoon canarienſe Purſlane-leaved Aizoon H. H. | Herb. July. 202 Samyda ferrulata .... Sawed-leaved Samyda.. H. H. | Shrub. July. 203 Ixia columnaris ... Columnar-chived Ixia.. G. H. | Bulb. Tune. 204 Geranium laciniatum. Var. flo. purp. Ragged-leaved Geranium. Purp. fl. Var.. H. H. Shrub. June. 205 Platylobium lanceolatum.. Lance-ſhaped-leaved Flat-Pea... G. H. | Shrub. November. 206 Dracena borealis Oval-leaved Dracæna.. Har. Herb. July 207 Mimoſa longifolia Long-leaved Mimoſa. G. H. Shrub. March. 208 Laſiopetalum ferrugineum Ruſty Woolly-bloffom.. G. H. Shrub. March. 2,09 Geranium melananthum Black-flowered Geranium. H. H. Shrub. June. 210 Antholyza Æthiopica . . Broad-leaved Antholyza. G. H. Bulb. July. Ixia columnaris. Var. verſicolor... Columnar-chived Ixia. Changeable ft. Var. G. H. Bulb. June, 212 Pogonia debilis... Twining Pogonia G.H. Shrub. September. 213 Ixia columnaris. Var. latifolia. Columnar-chived Ixia. Broad-leaved Var. G.H. Bulb. | Tune. 214. Weſteringia roſmarinacea.. Roſemary-like Weſteringia. G. H. | Shrub. September. 215 Embothryum falignum.. Willow-like Embothryum GH Shrub. May . 216 Epidendrum finenfe .. Chineſe Epidendrum. . . H. H, Shrub. September. May. . . . . 201 . . . @p . . . 211 . • X1 ERRATA. Plate 153. Order, dele polygamia. *363, Sp. Ch. lin. 2, xenetalibus, lege, genitalibus. 17 , Sp. Ch. lin 2, longiore, lege, longior. 175, Sp. Ch. lin. 2, enerviis, lege, enervis. Ref. lin. 1, for, one which, read, one of which, 184, Gen. Ch. Nect. lin. 1, exterium, lege, exterius. Lin. 4, interiurn, lege, interius. 188, Sp. Ch. lin. 2, longior, lege, longiore. 189, Sp. Ch. lin. 1, for, without, read, with. 191, Gen Ch. Stam. lin. 3, aſſurentia, lege aſſurgentia. 197, Gen. Ch. Corol. lin. ', quindecem, lege, quindecim. 20%, Sp. Ch. lin 2, uninerviis, lege, uninervis. 202, Gen. Ch. Stam. lin 2, octodecem, lege, o&todecim. 206, Order, for Pointals, read, Pointal. Gen. Ch. Piſt, lin. 2, ftaminium, lege, fluminum 207, Sp. Ch. lin. 1, poſt, integris, inf. (,) 210, Sp. Ch. lin. 2, corolla, lege, corolla. PU murati dibers) SIN alt Saw 10% Hillia longiflora Dyna Pour me thertortes in Andrende PLATE CXLV. HILLIA LONGIFLORA. Long-flowered Hillia. CLASS VI. . ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. EMPALEMENT. Cup fix-leaved; leaflets oblong, ſharp pointed and upright. Blossom one petal, tube cylindrical, very long; border fix-cleft; ſegments oblong, flat. CALYX. Perianthium hexaphyllum; foliolis ob- longis, acutis, erectis. COROLLA monopetala; tubus cylindricus, lon- giſſimus; limbus ſexfidus; laciniis oblongis, planis. STAMINA. Filamenta ſex, breviſſima. Antheræ oblongæ, erectæ, intra faucem corollæ. PISTILLUM. Germen inferum, oblongum, ob- ſolete hexagonunt Stylus filiformis, lon- gitudine tubi. Stigma atum. PERICARPIUM oblonglim compref, vilocu- lare. SEMINA numeroſa, minima, Chives. Threads fix very Short, Tips oblong, upright, within the mouth of the bloſſom. POINTAL. Seed-bud beneath oblong, ſlightly fix-fided. Shaft thread shaped, the length of tl SEED-VE and two celled. SEEDS SPECIFIC CHARARACTER Hillia corollis His lanceolatis, Ni convexis; foliis ovatis, acutis, glabris. Hillic with blof ſhaped, er pointed Jance- g-ſhaped, REFERENCE TO THE 1. A flower cut open, to expoſe the number and ſituation 2. The Shaft and its ſummit, natura! ſize, placed by the length to the tube. 3. The Seed-bud with the le ilets of the Empalement attached, cui the diviſion of cells in the center. Tiel This fpecies of Hillia was firſt introduced r gardens in the year 1789, from til badoes, ſent in plants, by Mr.J. E. ite, to effrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith. Originally this ſhrub was ſpecifically term ilice by profeſſor Jacquin when he firſt formed, and titled the Genus, after Dr. J. Hill, us taemory; fri já fupra that it was to be found growing, only, upon ſome of wircunaſtance, whitinig dens-ir wartz, he has altered it to longiflora. We have iter name that po ith the author of the laſt Species plantaru jublika by Willdenow, ** los profe. who in his edition of Miller's Diction. follower swartz; they appearing u bë ils se, as well as the moſt read and follower moderi Botanical authorities. It í a tech unt, ftrikes eaſily from cuttings, thriv sich ld and flowers about the cloi Hon. Lord Viſcount Valenti are i lebted, for the ſpecimen from whi ſent from his Lordſhip’s fame collect' n at Arley near Bewdley, Staffordſhire; Well, has flowered for the firſt time.. England. he Right taken, ve, it ANIS 8 ä 9) Psoralea aculeata 5 PLATE CXLVI. PS OR A L E A ACUL EAT A. Prickly Psoralea. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives in two ſets. Ten Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, tubercu- lis punctatum, quinquefidum; laciniis acu- tis, æqualibus, perfiftentibus; infima du- plo longiore. COROLLA papilionacea, pentapetala. Vexillum subrotundum, emarginatum, af- furgens. Alee lunulatæ, obtufæ, parvæ. Carina dipetala, lunulata, obtuſa. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, dotted over with ſmall tubercles, and five-cleft; the feg- ments equal and remaining, the lower one twice the length of the others. Blossom butterfly-ſhaped, five petalled. Standard nearly round, notched at the end, turned upwards. Wings half-moon-ſhaped, obtufe, ſmall. Keel two-petalled, half-moon-Chaped, ob- tuſe. CHIVES. Threads in two ſets (a fingle one like a briſtle, and nine united), aſcending. Tips nearly round. POINTAL. Seed-bud linear. Shaft awl-ſhaped, aſcending, the length of the chives. Sum- mit blunt. SEED-VESSEL. A pod the length of the сир, flat- tened, aſcending, and tapered to the point. SEED, one, kidney-ſhaped. STAMINA. Filamenta diadelpha (fimplex ſeta- ceum et novem coalita), adſcendentia. An- theræ fubrotundæ. PISTILLUM. Germen lineare. Stylus ſubula- tus, adſcendens, longitudine ftaminum. Stigma obtufum. PERICARPIUM. Legumen longitudine calycis, compreffum, adſcendens, acuminatum. SEMEN unicum, reniforme. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pſoralea foliis ternatis, minimis, confertiffimis, recurvatis, in ſpinulam definentibus. Pſoralea with three-leafletted leaves, very ſmall, very crowded, bent back, and ending in a ſmall ſpine. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, 2. The Standard of a Bloffom. 3. One of the Wings of the ſame. 4. The two Petals of the Keel. 5. The Chives, a little magnified. The Prickly Píoralea is not a new plant in our collections; for, it was firſt introduced by Mr. F. Maf- ſon to the Royal Gardens at Kew, as we learn from the Catalogue, in the year 1774. But although ſo long a fojourner with us, it is not found in many collections, owing to the difficulty in its increaſe, as it ſeldom ripens its ſeeds; and cuttings, the only remaining method, but seldom ſucceed; although by taking them from a vigorous growing plant and giving them the aſliſtance of the bark bed of the hothouſe, early in March, a few plants have been procured occasionally. Our drawing was made from a moſt beautiful plant in the Clapham Collection, laſt year, in the month of Auguſt. ATTRO ALOE Go Oy bodo od gume Decor obra, ollestoler og 1930 19h freguesia di mingu intendent Di 3 2 1 التالي G10 Gladiolus cuspidatas . PLATE CXLVII. GLADIOLUS CUSPIDATUS. Spear-ſpotted Gladiolus. CLASS III. ORD ER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA ſexpartita, ringens. Stamina adſcen- dentia. Blossom fix diviſions, gaping. Chives aſcend- ing. See GLADIOLUS ROSEUS. Plate XI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER Gladiolus foliis lineari-enfiformibus, glabris; co- rolla ringente; laciniis longiffimis, acumi- natis, undulatis, ſubæqualibus, tribus in- ferioribus in medio macula oblonga notatis. Gladiolus with leaves that are linearly ſword- ſhaped and ſmooth; bloſſom gaping; ſeg- ments very long, tapered to the point, waved and nearly equal, the three lower in the middle have an oblong ſpot. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 2. A bloſſom cut open, with the Chives remaining attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. The Gladiolus here figured, repreſents a variety of one of the moſt errant ſpecies of the Genus, known commonly by the name of Spade Gladiolus, and of which we have drawings of eight, quite diſtinct; yet all, unqueſtionably, originating in one common parent. It was introduced in 1796, from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. R. Williams, nurſeryman of Turnham-green, near Brentford; is a very hardy greenhouſe bulb, increaſes from the root in abundance, if planted in very ſandy peat earth, and flowers about the Month of April, or May. 3 4. 2 اور ان o Lachenalia quadricolor 6 Andreas PLATE CXLVIII. LACHEN ALIA QUADRICOLOR. Four-coloured Lachenalia. CLASS VI. ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CoR. 6-petala, infera; petalis 3 interioribus longioribus. Stamina erecta. Capſula ſub- ovata, trialata. Semina globoſa. Bloss. 6-petals, beneath; the three inner pe- tals the longest. Chiyes erect. Capſule nearly egg-ſhaped, three winged Seeds globular. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. -Lachenalia foliis geminis, lineari-lanceolatis; ſcapo erecto; corollis propendulis, cylin- dricis, quadricoloratis, cum limbo petalo- rum interiorum patulo. Lachenalia with leaves in pairs, linearly lance- ſhaped; flower-ftem erect; bloſſoms hang- ing down, cylindrical, and four-coloured, with the border of inner petals ſpreading out. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining. 2. An inner Petal, with its Chive, fhewn from the infide. 3. An outer Petal, ſhewn from the outſide. 4. The Pointal complete. ABOUT the year 1789, this very handſome ſpecies of Lachenalia was firſt received by Meſſrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, ſent in bulbs to them by J. Pringle, Eſq. It is as hardy as the L, tricolor, to which it much inclines, well known to collectors, and is equally eaſily propagated; an excellent figure of which is to be found, in the 82d Plate of the Botanical Ma- gazine of Mr. Curtis. The L. quadricolor is given as a ſynonym by Willdenow to L. pendula, a plant we have already figured, and from which this ſtands quite diſtinct in the conformation of every part; they are both to be found in the 2d Vol. of Icon. of Jacquin, from whom we copy our ſpecific title, the pendula, t. 400, the quadricolor, t. 396. Яo1 орта ар Аалина 1 голова htto viр е на рулона бто з настріти та ангооd арга еро іt Барилга уг болоор этот раз Болгаа Бcoli si. Броо PU 1 SMILE 2 U 0103 3 Struthiola ciliata PLATE CXLIX. STRUTHIOLA CILIATA. Fringed-leaved Struthiola. CLASS IV. ORDER 1. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. PERIANTHIUM diphyllum. Corolla tubuloſa, 4-fida; Nectarium, glandulæ octo fauci cir- cumpofitæ. Semen unum, ſubbaccatum. Cup two-leaved. Bloffom tubular, 4-cleft; Ho- ney-cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth of the bloffom. One feed like a berry. See STRUTHIOLA IMBRICATA, PI. CXIII. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Struthiola foliis ovato-lanceolatis, mucronatis, ciliatis, concavis, quadrifariam imbricatis, apice incurvis; corolla ſubalbida. Struthiola with leayes between egg and lance- ſhaped, pointed, fringed, concave, tiled in four rows, turned inwards at the point; bloffom whitiſh. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A leaf ſhewn fide-ways that the incurvature of the upper part may be ſeen. 2. A flower complete. 3. The two leaves of the Empalement, magnified. 4. A bloſſom cut open, to expoſe the ſituation of the chives, at the mouth of the tube, magnified. 5. The Pointal, a little magnified. This is the variety of Struthiola ciliata promiſed in the laſt number. It varies from the other in the largeneſs and incurvation of the leaves, and colour of the flower, as well as, in the growth of the plant; in this, the ſtem riſes to three feet; in that, it ſeldom exceeds one. With rather leſs difficulty it is increaſed and preſerved than the red variety, and makes a very handſome figured plant, flowering in the month of Auguſt, at which ſeaſon, laſt year, our drawing was taken from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection. This Var, has the advantage of the other, in having the bloſſoms extremely fragrant, in the evening. TARTALOITUTE toista bo Blog । I SA الا 2 low Geranium unpinum PLATE CL. GERANIUM PRÆMORSUM. Bitten-leaved Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER. IV. of Suppl. Syst. Veg. 1781. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rof- tratus, penta-coccus. One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furniſhed with long awns, five dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pl. XII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis inciſo-lobatis, reniformibus; lobis cuneiformibus, præmorfis; floribus fubfolitariis, heptandris; caule flexuoſo, fubcarnoso. Geranium with leaves deeply cut into lobes and kidney-ſhaped; lobes wedge-ſhaped, and bitten at the ends; flowers generally foli- tary, with ſeven fertile tips; ſtem grows zig-zag, rather fleſhy. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular ſtructure. The Chives and Pointal. 3. The Chives ſpread open. 4. The Pointal and Seed bud. The Geranium præmorſum offers a moſt beautiful addition to this already very extenſive genus, but is without doubt a true ſpecies. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced to us, from thence, in the year 1798, by Captain Quarrel; brought in ſeed, and communicated to Mr. J. Colville of the King's Road, Chelſea; who informs us, that it flowers from March, till November, that he keeps it in rich dungy earth, and that it is raiſed, pretty freely, by cuttings; requiring the heat of a dry' ftove in the winter months. Our figure was made at the nurſery, Chelſea, about the begin- ning of March this year. което предлаа 3. + 1 ER 2 TO Pittosporum coriaceum PLATE CLI. PITTOSPORUM CORIACEUM. . Thick-leaved Pittoſporum. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium pentaphyllum, inferum, deciduum. COROLLA. Petala quinque; ungues concavi, in tubum urceolatum conniventes; laminæ ovato-oblongæ, patentes. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, recep- taculo inſerta. Antheræ fagittatæ, erectæ, filamentis dorſo affixæ. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, fuperum, com- preſſum. Stylus breviflimus, cylindricus. Stigma capitatum, planum. PERICARPIUM. Bacca ſubgloboſa, 2-5 locularis, 2-5 valvis; loculamentis pulpa refinoſa ſca- tentibus ; diffepimenta valvulis contraria. Semina tria feu quatuor, angulata, oblonga, ob- tuſa, ofſea. EMPALEMENT. Cup five-leaved, beneath, and falling off. Blossom. Five petals; claws concave, clofing into a tube pitcher-ſhaped ; the borders ob- long.egg-ſhaped, ſpreading. Chiyes. Threads five, awl-ſhaped, inſerted into the receptacle. Tips arrow ſhaped, up- right, fixed by the back to the threads. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-ſhaped, above, flat- tened. Shaft very ſhort, cylindrical. Sum- mit headed, flat. SEED VESSEL. A roundifh berry 2-5 cells, 2-5 valves; the cells filled with a reſinous pulp; partitions contrary to the valves. Seeds, three or four, angulated, oblong, ob- tuſe, and bony. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pittoſporum foliis ovalibus, obtufis, glaberrimis, | Pittoſporum with oval leaves, blunt ended, coriaceis, integerrimis. very ſmooth, leathery, and quite entire. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Petal of the Bloffom, 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. The Pointal ſeparated from the Chives. 5. A Berry of the fize when ripe. ABOUT the year 1783, this plant was firſt raiſed in Britain, from ſeeds which had been received from the Iſland of Madeira, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith. It forms one of the moſt deco- rative and conſpicuous plants, either in the Conſervatory, or Green-houſe; and if encouraged in its growth, by being planted in the border of the one; or kept in rich earth, in a large pot in the other, will attain the height of from 6 to 8 feet. The fineſt ſpecimen we believe, in England, of this plant is to be found in the elegant Conſervatory of the Right Honourable Lord R. Spencer, Woolbedding, Suſſex. The flowers, which grow in cluſters from the ends of the branches in May, have the flavour of Jaſmine ; but are rather tranſitory. It is propagated but ſlowly and with difficulty, as it does not perfect its ſeeds with us, and it is not to be increaſed by laying: the only method is cuttings, which Thould be taken whilft very young and tender from the plant, about April, and put from 6 to 8 in a pot, fixed very tight, in ftiffith loam; they must remain under a hand-glaſs on a fhady border till Autumn, when they may be removed into the hot-houſe and plunged into the bark bed, where they will begin to grow the enſuing ſpring, 2 3 GNIG OH Geranium wpathuiatzen. bayan PLATE CLII. GERANIUM SPATHULATUM. Spatula-leaved Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. of Suppl. Syst. Veg. 1781. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fructus roſ- tratus, penta-coccus. One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furniſhed with long awns, five dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pl. XII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. GERANIUM foliis integerrimis, ſpathulatis, gla- bris, obtufis, radicalibus; calycibus mono- phyllis; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus; ra- dice tuberofa. GERANIUM with quite entire leaves, ſpatula- ſhaped, ſmooth, blunt, and growing from the root; cups one-leaved ; five fertile chives; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its hollow ſtructure. 2. The Chives and Pointal natural fize. 3. The Chives ſpread open, to Mew the number and ſituation of the fertile ones, which are alternate. 4. The Pointal magnified, The greater number of Geraniums which have been introduced of late, are of the tuberous herba- ceous kind; drawings of 14 we have, independent of thoſe already figured; conftituting a diſtin- guiſhed, and diſtinct natural branch of this extenſive family. For the moſt part, they have only five fertile chives with tubular empalements, ſome only two, and others ſeven, with the footſtalk of the flower folid up to the bottom of the cup. This ſpecies is as yet, we believe, only in the Hibbertian Collection, 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 ſame management as G. punctatum, and like it, may be increaſed by the root. M 3 'S 1 4 6 les。 Viola pedata PLATE CLIII. VIO LA PED AT A. Bird's-foot-leaved Violet. CLASS XIX. ORDER VI. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers fimple. GENERIC CHARACTER. Cup five-leaved, ſhort, permanent; leaflets ob- long-egg-ſhaped, erect, ſharpiſh at the point, blunt at the bottom, joined together above the baſe, equal, but variouſly diſpoſed; of which, two ſupport petal d. one each petal ß y. and one the two petals ò. £. together. CALYX. Perianthium pentaphyllum, breve, per- fiftens; foliolis ovato-oblongis, erectis, apice acutioribus, baſi obtufis, fupra baſin affixis, æqualibus, ſed difpofitione variis; quorum duo fulciunt petalum a.; fingula fingulum petalum ß. 7.; unicum duo petala d. e. fi- mul. COROLLA pentapetala, irregularis, petalis inæ- qualibus; quorum Petalum a. supremum rectum, deorſum fpec- tans, latius, obtufius, emarginatum, defi nens baſi in nectarium corniculatum, obtu- fum, inter calycis foliola prominens. B. y. Lateralia paria, obtufa, oppoſita, reeta. d. 2. Infima paria, majora, furſum reflexa. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, minima, quo- rum duo petalo a. proxima appendicibus annexis intrant nectarium. Antheræ ſæ- pius connexæ, obtufa, membranis ad api- cem auctæ. PISTILLUM. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus fi- liformis, extra antheras prominens. Stig- ma obliquum. PERICARPIUM. Capſula ovatá, trigona, obtuſa, unilocularis, trivalvis. SEMINA plura, ovata, appendiculata, valvis af- fixa. Receptaculum lineare, per ſingulam valvulam lineæ inftar excurrens. Obs. Stigma vel in hamum simplicem reflecti- tur, vel capitulum est concavum apice per forato. BLOSSOM five petals, irregular, unequal petals, of which The upper petal a. is upright, bent back, broader, and blunter than the reſt, notched at the end, terminating at the baſe in a blunt horn- ſhaped honey-cup, protruding between the leaflets of the cup. The lateral petals B. y. grow in pairs, obtuſe, oppoſite, upright. The lower petals d. e. grow in pairs, larger, and reflexed upwards. CHIVES. Five threads, very ſmall; of which the two neareſt to the petal a. have ſmall appendages which enter the honey-cup. Tips generally united, blunt, enlarged by ſkinny ſubſtances at the end, POINTAL. Seed-bud roundiſh. Shaft thread- ſhaped, projecting beyond the tips. Summit oblique. Seed-VESSEL. Capſule egg-ſhaped, three-ſided, blunt, one cell and three valves. Seeds many, egg-ſhaped, having appendages, fixed to the 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. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. VIOLA acaulis; foliis pedatis, feptempartitis; laciniis dentatis. VIOLET without a ſtem, leaves formed like a bird's foot, with ſeven diviſions; ſegments toothed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. One of the upper Petals of the Bloſſom. 3. One of the lateral Petals. 4. The lower Petal, with its Honey-cup. 5. The Chives and Pointal with the Appendages that fall into the Honey-cup from the two hinder threads. 6. The Pointal magnified. The Bird's-foot-leaved Violet is a native of North America near Philadelphia; and (according to the Kew Catalogue) was cultivated by Mr. P. Miller, in 1759, at the Phyfic Gardens, Chelſea. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, but is ſometimes deſtroyed by the wetneſs of our autumnal months: the flowers, if kept in the open air, expand about May, or the beginning of June; but if kept in pots they, with a flight protection from the Spring froſts, will be produced in April . Peat earth is the ſoil it approves molt, and it ſhould not be expoſed to too much wet, whether planted in the borders or in pots. The roots may be parted in March. ЛЕО ГЬЕ ГИ ARGEO ottaa son et abistadilat ATO Swib 2 그 ​I Echium argenteum the sot PLATE CLIV. E CHIUM A R G EN TE U M. Silvery-leaved Viper's-Bugloſs. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA irregularis, fauce nudâ. Blossom irregular, mouth naked. See ECHIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pl. XX. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER Echium foliis lanceolatis, acutis, fericeo-villoſis; ſpicis terminalibus; corolla violacea, ſubæ- qualia. Viper's-buglofs with lance-ſhaped leaves, ſharp- pointed and filkily-hairy; ſpikes terminate the branches; bloſſom violet colour, nearly equal. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining attached. 3. The Seed-buds, Shaft, and Summit. This fine fpecies of Echium, was raiſed from feeds received from the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1789, at the nurſery, Hammerſmith; where our drawing was made, laſt year, from a plant which had been planted in the open ground, for the ſummer months; and where it had grown to the height of four feet. It is a hardy green-houſe plant, and grows beſt in light earth, either peat, or leaf mould; and flowers about July. It is as difficult to propagate as either, the E. grandiflorum, or E. ferociſſimum; but only to be increaſed, like them, by cuttings. 1 做 ​ V 1 2 3 MID long Irva polystachia PLATE CLV. I XIA POLYSTACH I A. Many-Spiked Ixia. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives.One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-partita, patens, equalis. Stigmata 3, erectiuſculo-patula. Blossom 6-diviſions, ſpreading, equal. Summits three, nearly upright and ſpreading. See IXIA REFLEXA, Vol. I, Plate XIV. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis linearibus; fcapo fpicis pluribus; flo- ribus oppofitis, fpicatis ; corollis albidis. Ixia with linear leaves; flower-ſtem with many ſpikes; flowers grow oppoſite and ſpiked ; bloſſoms white. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two ſheaths of the Empalement. 2. A flower cut open to ſhew the fituation of the Chives. 3. The Pointal natural fize. This is the plant which is figured by Miller, in the coloured plates which correſpond with the di&tionary, 104, t. 155. fig. 2, under the ſpecific title it here bears; and, ſays the Kew Catalogue, was cultivated by him 1757. Since this is the firſt which bore the title of Polyftachia, and being of the colour we think is moſtly primitive in flowers, we have given it the preference; and ſhall conſider all the other 18, (of which we have drawings and decidedly of this ſpecies) as varieties from this. The flowers of this ſpecies are more laſting than moſt of the others; and are in general, eſpecially this fort, very hardy. It propagates freely by the root and by feed. Our drawing was made at the nurſery, Ham- merſmith, laft year, in the month of May. > - 3 2 4 78° Banksia ericafelea Pute, as the PLATE CLVI. BANKSIA ERICÆFOLIA. Heath-leaved Bankfia. CLASS IV. ORDER I. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Receptaculum commune elongatum, ſquamoſum. Corolla tetra-petala. Stamina limbo inſerta, Capſula bivalvis, diſperma, interjecto ſemi- nibus difſepimento mobili. Semina alata. Common receptacle elongated, ſcaly. Bloffom of four petals. Chives inſerted into the limb of the bloffom. Capſule with two valves, two ſeeds, and a moveable partition betwen them. Seeds winged. See BANKSIA SERRATA, PI. LXXXII. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Bankſia foliis linearibus, margine revolutis, truncato-emarginatis, ſupra glabris. Bankſia with linear leaves, rolled back at the edge, appearing cut off at the ends, which are notched and ſmooth on the upper fide. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Bloffom complete. 2. The ſame ſpread 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, The ſeeds of this ſpecies of Bankfia were amongſt the firſt which arrived from New Holland, and plants were raiſed at the nurſery, Hammerſmith, in the ſame year as the B. ſerrata. To the direc- tions in the management and increaſe 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 ſix feet, very buſhy from the bottom, and the leaves, which are harſh and numerous, are not very ſubject to decay. Although it has flowered collections, where we have ſeen it, we have had no opportunity of making an accurate draw- ing until laſt month, March 1801, from a fine plant in the collection of G. Hibbert Efq. Clapham. in many DOTMAM 2 Led 2 Cordia Sebestena Pater was then they are PLATE CLVII. CORDIA SEBESTEN A. Rough-leaved Cordia. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, tubulatum, EMPALEMENT, Cup one leaf, tubular, toothed apice dentatum, perſiſtens. at the upper part, remaining, COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis; tu- Blossom one petal, funnel-ſhaped; tube widen- bus patulus, longitudine calycis; limbus ing, the length of the cup; border upright erecto-patens, ſectus in quinque (quatuor and ſpreading, cut into five (four or fix) vel fex), lacinias obtuſas. obtuſe ſegments. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, ſubulata. An- Chives. Five threads, awl-ſhaped. Tips ob- theræ oblongæ, longitudine tubi. long, the length of the tube. PISTILLUM. Germen fubrotundum, acumina- POINTAL. Seed-bud roundiſh, tapered. Shaft tum. Stylus fimplex, longitudine ſtami- fimple, the length of the chives, two cleft num, ſuperne bifidus, laciniis bifidis. Stig- at the upper part, ſegments two - cleft. mata obtuſa. Summits blunt. PERICARPIUM. Drupa globoſa, acuminata, ca- Seed-vessel, pulpy, globular, tapered, growing lyce accreta. SEMEN. Nux ſulcata, quadrilocularis, Seep. A furrowed, four-celled nut. to the cup. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Cordia foliis oblongo-ovatis, fcabris; floribus miniatis, criſpis, hexandris. Cordia with oblong egg-ſhaped rough leaves ; flowers deep orange colour, crumpled, and with fix chives. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Er nalement. 2. A Bloſſom ſpread open, with the Chives in their place. 6. The Pointal and Seed-bud. As it ſhould ſeem a determined principle in the inſcrutable arrangement of nature's productions, to the greater humiliation of our very limited underſtandings; that no effort as emanating ſolely from thence, ſhall be perfect; ſo muſt we be content to purſue our Botanical travel, under the guidance of a ſyſtem decidedly defective; yet certainly, the beſt we have to boaſt. Scarce a genus, compre- hending a number of ſpecies, but muſt be ſtrained in its claſs or order, for the introduction of one, or more ſpecies, evidently of the ſame family. So convinced was our great maſter of the ſcience, of the impoflibility of forming ſuch certain data, that to prevent the confuſion and difficulty, which muſt have ariſen, from ſuch an accumulation of Genera, if every ſexual character was attended to, that, where certain other characters (called by him effential, and adopted as a ſubſtitute for ſuch occaſional hiatus) are formed, the plant is retained under the Genus fo characteriſed. This diſquiſition is the natural reſult of our examination of the preſent plant, which, although the chives are fix, is placed The Rough-leaved Cordia is a native of the Weſt India Iſands, and was cultivated, ſays Martyn's Dictionary, from Dillenius, in the year 1728, by Dr. Sherard. It is a tender hot-houſe plant, may be increaſed by cuttings made about the month of April, if kept from too much moiſture, in a pot of ſandy loam, under a ſmall ſtriking glaſs in the bark-bed. At preſent it is rather a ſcarce plant in our collections, and as it is rather difficult to propagate, is likely to continue ſo, at leaſt for ſome years. From an imported plant, received by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith, from the iſland of Bar- badoes, our figure was taken in the year 1789, about the month of July. It is grown to the greateſt perfection by keeping it in a mixture of rotten dung and loam. in the fifth class ! да изтезата даяр одаването едно тако анатор . . robaiga Негісі кеудедегі 3 Auto के UME 2 You 5 6 num Var: flore rubro purpureo PLATE CLVIII. GERANIUM ECHINATUM. Var.flore rubro- purpureo. Prickly-ſtalked Geranium. Red surple flowered Var. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. of Suppl. Syst, Veg. 1781. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Fructus roftratus, MONOGYNA. Stigmata 5. penta-coccus. ONE POINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furniſhed with long awns, five dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM. Pl. XII. Vol.I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis fericeis, cordatis, inequaliter dentatis; caule ſpinoſo, ſubcarnoſo, ſpinis retrofractis; floribus hexandris, rubro-pur- pureis; calycibus pilofis. Geranium with ſilky heart-ſhaped leaves, une- qually toothed; ftem fpiny, rather fleſhy, ſpines turned downwards; flowers with fix fertile tips and red-purple; cups hairy. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. An upper Petal of the Blofſom. 3. An under Petal of the Bloſſom. 4. The Chives and Pointal. 5. The Chives ſpread open. 6. The Pointal, magnified. This fine variety of the Prickly-ſtalked Geranium, was introduced, at the ſame time with the white variety, by Mr. Francis Maffon, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1795. It is a tender plant, and requires the heat of the hot-houſe, through the winter months to preſerve 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 moſt inſtances, if the plant is kept in light ſandy peat earth. The drawing was made, in March this year, at the Nurſery of Mr.J. Colville, King's Road, Chelſea. 2 1 r 3 Ixia capitala Var flore albo fundo nigro PLA TE CLIX. I XIA C Α ΡΙ Τ Α Τ Α. Var. flore allo, fundo nigro. Bunch-flowering Ixia. Var. white flowered, Dlack bottom. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-petala, patens, æqualis. Stigmata tria, erectiuſculo-patula. Blossom fix petals, ſpreading, equal. Summits three, nearly upright, ſpreading. See IXIA REFLEXA, Vol. I. Plate XIV. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia, foliis enſiformibus; floribus capitatis, con- fertis, albidis, petalis baſi nigriſſime no- tatis. Ixia, with ſword-ſhaped leaves; flowers grow in cloſe bunches, whitiſh, the petals very dark, marked at the baſe, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two ſheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Bloſſom ſpread open, with the Chives remaining. 3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, one Summit detached, magnified. As no difference, either in culture or increaſe, is neceſſary for this plant, more than is required for the other varieties of this ſpecies of Ixia; we ſhall refer our readers to the directions for the treatment of them, for the management of this. Our figure is from a drawing taken at the Hammerſmith nur- ſery in the year 1799, about the month of May. It is one of thoſe introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew by Mr. F. Maſſon about the year 1774, although loft to us for ſome years, but ſince received from the colle&tions in Holland. 1 (889 2 3 Instea mazor Pub, as the sold hy H Andrea PLATE CLX. ARISTEA MAJOR. Spike-flowered Ariſtea. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. PETALA 6. Stigma concavum, Capſula tri- loba, trilocularis, loculis compreſſis. Semina in fingulo loculo bina, compreſſa truncata. PETALS 6. Summit concave. Capſule three- lobed, three celled; cells flattened. Seeds two in each cell, flattened and appearing cut off at the end. See ARISTEA CYANEA, Pl. X. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ariſtea foliis enſiformibus longiffimis; floribus ſpicatis, cæruleis. Ariftea with very long leaves; flowers grow in ſpikes, and blue. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two ſheaths 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 ſummit detached magnified. 4. A ripe ſeed-veſſel, natural fize. 5. The ſame with the cells laid open to ſhew the ſituation of the ſeeds. twift up The Genus Ariſtea, having certainly been formed from a dried ſpecimen of the plant, the alterations we have made in our Generic and Eſſential characters, will, upon inſpecting the diffections, appear abſolutely neceſſary; as the ſhaft is not bent, in either ſpecies we have examined, whilſt the flower is perfect; but affumes that appearance on its decay, as it becomes involved with the petals, which in the manner of Moræa, Iris, &c. The Summit likewiſe, is not funnel-ſhaped, but merely a little concave, with a border: other ſmall variations have been made, in the character of the feed- veſſel and ſeed. In the year 1794, this fine plant was raiſed by Meffrs, Lee and Kennedy, from ſeeds received by them from the Cape of Good Hope, where it is native. It is one of the very hardieſt inhabitants of the greenhouſe, and is propagated, either from the ſeed, which ripens with us; or by the offsets made from the root. The plant is perſiſtent, but does not acquire a ſtem; the leaves growing to the length of from two, to three feet, the flower-ſtem ſometimes to the height of four feet; which was nearly that of the plant in the Collection of G. Hibbert, Eſq. Clapham, from which our drawing was taken in the month of July 1800. It ſhould be planted in ſandy peat. XEA 12 JA Code HOTOVO ALAT DIPER on luool cloisol osanid for at afgreditati is som 2 콤 ​2 GMG 4 Hermannia pulverata گری که از کار در مورد Goalie دارد و کار را انکار کر سکا PLATE CLXI. HERMANNIA PULVERATA. Powdered Hermannia. CLASS XVI. ORDER II. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Threads united. Five Pointals, GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, roundiſh fidum, fubrotundum, inflatum; lacinulis and ſwelled out; ſegments turned inwards; inflexis ; per fiftens, remaining COROLLA pentapetala, ſpiralis; ungues longitu- BLOSSOM, five petals, ſpiral ; claws the length dine calycis, utrinque aucti membranula of the cup, widened on both ſides by a ſmall connivente in tubum cucullatum nectari. ſkinny ſubſtance forming a honey-bearing, ferum; limbus patens, latiuſculus, obtufus. cowl-ſhaped tube; border ſpreading, broadiſh, blunt STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, latiuſcula, in- Chives. Five threads, broadiſh, Nightly joined ferne leviffime in unum corpus coalita. at the baſe into one body. Tips upright, Antheræ ere&tæ, acuminatæ, conniventes. tapered, and approaching each other. PISTILLUM. Germen ſubrotundum, pentago- Pointal. Seed-bud roundiſh, five-ſided, five- num, quinquangulare. Styli quinque, fili- angled. Shafts five, thread-ſhaped, cloſe formes, approximati, fubulati, ſtaminibus together, awl ſhaped, longer than the Chives. longiores. Stigmata fimplicia. Summits ſimple. PERICARPIUM. Capſula fubrotunda, pentagona, Seed vessel. Capſula roundiſh, five-ſided, five- quinque-locularis, apice dehiſcens. celled, ſplitting at top. SEMINA plurima, parva. SEEDs, many, ſmall. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hermannia foliis bipinnatifidis, fcabriuſculis, Hermannia with doubly wing-cleft leaves, rather albicantibus; pedunculis bifloris, longif- rough and whitiſh; flower-ſtems two- fimis; corollis ſordidé luteis, flowered, very long; bloſſoms of a dirty yellow. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A leaf of the Blotlom, to fhew its incurved character at the baſe. 3. The Chives, magnified, with the pointals remaining, to fhew their length with regard to the Chives. 4. The Seed-bud, Shafts, Summits, magnified. This plant appears to ſtand an intermediate character, between Mahernia and Hermannia : the general habit affines moſt to the former, and indeed, the ſhape of the threads, on which the eſſential gene- rical diſtinction reſts, approaches very near to thoſe in Mahernia; for, although they have not abſo- lutely foot. ſtalks, they are much larger, above the middle, thau is uſual in Hermannia, as may be ſeen on the plate; where theſe parts are fhewn, magnified. It has likewiſe that fingularly curious character, ſeen in Mahernia, of the two blofſoms which terminate the flower-ſtems, each taking a contrary direction, in its ſpiral twiſt, to the other. As a greenhouſe plant, it is rather tender in regard to damp, though not to cold; therefore, ſhould be kept in the mott airy part of the houſe. It is a native of the Cape, from whence it was introduced in the year 1796, to the Royal Gardens, Kew. By cuttings made in the month of April, it may be preſerved, and increaſed, as it is not a long-lived plant. Loam, with a ſmall portion of old rotten dung, it thrives in moſt. Our drawing was taken, at the Nurſery, Hammerſmith, in June 1800. A 3 4 6 y, 1 2 zo berbascum ferrugineum 5 Te Andrews PLATE CLXII. VERBASCUM FERRUGINEUM. Ruſty-flowered Mullein. CLASS V. V. ORD ER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- partitum, parvum, perſiſtens; laciniis erec- tis, acutis. COROLLA, monopetala, rotata, fub-inæqualis; tubus cylindraceus, breviffimus; limbus pa- tens, quinque-partitus; laciniis ovatis, ob- tuſis. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, co- rolla breviora. Antheræ fubrotundæ, com- preffæ, erectæ. PISTILLUM. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus fi- liformis, longitudine ſtaminum, inclinatus. Stigma craſſiuſculum, obtuſum. PERICARPIUM. Capſula ſubrotunda, bilocula- ris, bivalvis, luperne dehiſcens. Recepta- cula dimidiato-ovata, diſlepimento affixa. EMPALEMENT. Cup of one leaf, with five divi- fions, ſmall, remaining; ſegments upright, ſharp pointed. BLOSSOM one petal, wheel-ſhaped, rather un- equal; tube cylindrical, very ſhort; border ſpreading, five diviſions; ſegments egg- ſhaped, blunt. CHIVES. Threads five, awl-ſhaped, ſhorter than the bloſſoin. Tips roundith, flattened, up- right. POINTAL. Seed-bud roundiſh. Shaft thread- ſhaped, the length of the chives, bent downward. Summit rather thick and blunt. Seed-Vessel. Capſule roundiſh, with two cells, two valves, ſplitting at the top. Recepta- cles the form of half an egg, fixed to the partition. Seeds numerous, angular. Obs. In the greateſt number of ſpecies the chives are bent downward, and clothed with soft, coloured hairs on the lower part. SEMINA numeroſa, angulata. Obs. In pleriſque ftamina inclinata ſunt, villiſque coloratis inferne veſtita. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Verbaſcum foliis ſubvillofis, rugofis; caulinis fubfeffilibus, æqualiter crenatis; radicali- bus oblongis, cordatis, duplicato crenatis. Mullein with leaves a little hairy and rough; ſtem - leaves almoſt without foot - ſtalks, equally ſcolloped; leaves from the root ob- long, heart-ſhaped, and doubly ſcolloped. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Leaf of the plant, from the lower part. 2. The Empalement. 3. A Bloſſom, ſhewn from the front. 4. The ſame cut open from the ſide, to fhew the inſertion of the chives. 5. One Chive magnified. 6. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified. The ruſty flowered Mullein of the Kew Catalogue, collated from Sutherland's Hortus Medicus Edin- burghenfis, is undoubtedly our plant; but, though it ſtands a name in the book, we much queſtion its having graced the garden, at the time of its publication. It certainly has been loſt to us above a century, and but recently introduced to the Oxford Botanic Garden by the late Dr. Sibthorpe. Being a hardy biennial, it will perfect its ſeeds about July, which may be lown in Auguſt the ſame year. ſoil, but a ſandy compoſt of light peat and loam fuits it moſt. The flowers on the ſpikes, which grow ſometimes to the length of four feet, continue to expand, upwards, for above two nionths; that is to ſay, from April, till June. Our figure was taken from a ſpecimen ſent by the Hon. W. H. Irby, from his garden at the Parſonage, Farnham Royal, Bucks. It will grow in any ARTECEDENCUENT pen 3 1 ܡܳܐ ܬ݁ܶܥܟ JOM 2 Amaryllis Sothergilia PLATE CLXIII. A MARYLLIS FOTHERGILLIA. Fothergillian Lily Daffodil. CLASS VI. ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . Six Chives. One Pointal, ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, COROLLA 6-petala, campanulata. Stigma tri- fidum. BLOSSOM 6-petalled, bell-ſhaped. Summit three- cleft. See AMARYLLIS RADIATA, Pl. XCV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Amaryllis fpatha multiflora; petalis lanceolatis, apice revolutis; genetalibus erectis; foliis linearibus, fub-canaliculatis, obtufis, glau- cis. Lily Daffodil with many flowers in the ſheath; petals lance-ſhaped, rolled back at the point; parts of fructification upright; leaves linear, rather channelled, obtuſe, and of a ſea-green colour. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Petal, with its Chive attached. 2. The Seed-bud, and Pointal. 3. A ripe Seed-vefſel, with the Seeds. Even amidſt this fplendid family, Amaryllis Fothergillia ſtands conſpicuouſly preeminent; the flowers have the ſame vivid character of refulgence, when expoſed to the fun's rays, which is perceived in A. Sarnienſis, or the Guernſey Lily, to which it is nigh affined. The late Dr. Fothergill (to whom the botanical world is ſo much indebted, for the zeal and extraordinary liberality he conſtantly mani- feſted, in advancing the ſcience) received this plant from China at the ſame time with A. aurea, A. radiatá, &c. about the year 1777. It is rather a ſcarce and tender bulb, as it is ſubject to rot by overmuch wet. It has hitherto been kept, as are moſt plants on their firſt arrival from China, in the hot-houſe; but, from every appearance, we ſhould be led to ſuppoſe, it would not periſh if kept in the Green-houſe, as we queſtion much, whether it is not equally hardy with the Guernſey Lily, and a native, originally, as well as the latter, of Japan. It ſhould be planted in ſandy loam, with a ſmall 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 bulbs. Our figure was taken from a plant in the Hammerſmith nurſery this year, 1801, in the month of May. АТГолно be 도 ​2 3 PICH 1 Cataxua grandiflora PLATE CLXIV. GALAXIA GRANDIFLORA. Large-flowered Galaxia. CLASS XVI. ORD ER I. MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Threads united. Threads united. Three Chivesa ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. SPATHA univalvis. Corolla monopetala, 6 fida, tubus filiformis. Stigma multipartita. SHEATH of one valve. Bloſſom one petal, 6-cleft, tube thread-ſhaped. Summit many divi- fions. See GALAXIA OVATA, Pl. XCIV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Galaxia foliis canaliculatis, acuminatis, arcuatis; corolla magna, lutea, folia æquantia. Galaxia with channelled leaves, tapered to the point, and arched; blofſom large, yellow, and the length of the leaves. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The ſheath of the bloſſom. 2. A Bloſſom ſpread open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, the ſummit detached, magnified. The figure of this delicate little bulb was taken from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection, which had been imported in the laſt, and flowered in February this year 1801. It is a tender plant, and the roots are very ſubject to decay after flowering, for which reaſon, they ſhould be removed from the pot before the leaves are quite decayed. Mr. Allen informs us he has kept it, in the greenhouſe, with the other Cape bulbs, planted in light ſandy peat earth. VIDE19 Адолатида КАТА 7 그 ​2 Echium glaucophyllum Pub 3 air the form by Re Abonarea PLATE CLXV. ECHIUM GLAUCOPHYLLUM. Sea-green-leaved Viper's-Bugloſs. CLASS V. ORDER 1. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 3 COROLLA irregularis, fauce nuda. Blossom irregular, mouth naked. See ECHIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pl. XX. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Echium caule fruticoſo; ramis calycibuſque gla- bris; foliis oyato-lanceolatis, glaucis, gla- bris, margine ſerrulatis; corollis fubæqua- libus. Viper's-Buglofs with a fhrubby ſtem; branches very ſmooth; leaves between egg and lance- ſhaped, of a ſea-green colour, ſmooth, and ſlightly ſawed at the margin; blofſoms nearly equal. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Bloſſom cut open, to ſhew the inſertion of the chives. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. This ſhrubby ſpecies of Echium was introduced, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, by Mr. F. Maſſon, in the year 1792, from the Cape of Good Hope. It grows to the height of three feet, or more, rather buſhy at the top, flowers about the month of May, and perfects its ſeeds with us; by which only method, it is to be propagated. It thrives beſt in a light loamy ſoil, with a ſmall proportion of ſandy peat, about one fourth. Profeſſor Martyn, in his Miller's Dic. has collated two deſcriptions of Echiums under the titles of lævigatum, and glabrum; the firſt, No. 9, from Lin. Sp. Plant. 199; the ſecond, No. 19, from Vahl. Symb. 3. 22. Thunberg has likewiſe, in his Prodromus, 33. two names of plants. as E. lævigatum, 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 Linnæus's Sp. Plant, to the one; and to the latter, Prof. Jacquin's ſpecific of glaucophyllum, taken from his Ic. rar. 2. t. 312, and his Collect. 2. p. 325. Now, we have little heſitation in declaring our opinion, and we think, thoſe who chooſe to compare our figure with the different deſcriptions here mentioned, will coincide with us, that this is the plant from which they muſt all have originated, except the E glabrum of Vahl, which we take to be a different plant; as, the cup is deſcribed hairy, the length of the tube of the blofſom; the chives longer, and the flower ſmaller. Wherefore, we have taken, for our plant, the ſpecific title of Jacquin, as being, in our idea, the moſt appropriate. MU.ITAHOOTH, za 2. 41 3 7 Gladiolus abreviatus at the do PLATE CLXVI. GLADIOLUS ABREVIATUS. . Shortened-petalled Gladiolus. CLASS III. O R D ER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA ſexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen- dentia. Blossom fix diviſions, gaping. Chives aſcend- ing. See GLADIOLUS ROSEUS, PI. XI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis linearibus, cruciatis, fcapo lon- gioribus ; corolla tubuloſa, ftriata, ima an- guſtata, lacinia fumma magna, reca, ovata, reliquæ vero parvæ, abreviatæ. Gladiolus with linear leaves, croſs ſhaped, longer than the flower-ſtem; bloſſom tubular, ſtreaked, and narrowed at the lower part, the upper petal is large, grows ſtraight out, and egg-ſhaped, the others are ſmall, and appear as if ſhortened. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The outer ſheath of the Empalement. 2. The inner ſheath of the Empalement. 3. A Bloſſom ſpread open, with the Chives attached. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits. This moſt fingular Gladiolus was received, amongſt a variety of others, in the year 1799, from the Cape of Good Hope, by Meſſrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith; at whoſe nurſery it flowered in March, this year 1801, for the firſt 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. BU TALES UOTTATO Goth akt pl 7 $10 2 3 Brunsfelsia undulata. PLATE CLXVII. BRUNSFELSIA UNDULATA. Waved-flowered Brunsfelsia. CLASS XIV. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. ORDER II. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. GENERIC CHARACTER. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, bell-ſhaped, five- toothed, blunt, very ſmall, remaining. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, campanu- latum, quinqucdentatum, obtuſum, mini- mum, perfiftens. COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus longiffimus, ſubincurvus; limbus planus, quinquefidus, obtuſus. STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, breviſſima. An- theræ oblongæ, erectæ, filamentis dorſo affixæ. PISTILLUM. Germen fubrotundum, parvum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi. Stigma crafliuſculum. PERICARPIUM. Capſula extus baccata, globoſa, unilocularis, bivalvis. Semina plurima, compreſſa, hinc convexa, inde angulata, punctato-ſcabra. RECEPTACULUM fundo capſulæ adnatuin, pale- aceum; paleis coadunatis, apice ſubulatis, ſemina diſtinguentibus. Blossom. One petal, funnel-ſhaped; tube very long, rather curved; border flat, five-cleft, obtuſe. CHIVES. Four threads, very ſhort. Tips ob- long, upright, fixed by the back to the threads. POINTAL. Seed-bud roundiſh, ſmall. Shaft thread-ſhaped, the length of the tube. Sum- mit rather fleſhy. Seed-vessel. Capſule on the outſide a berry, globular, one cell, two valves. Seeds many, flat, convex on one ſide, angular on the other, roughly punctured. RECEPTACLE fixed to the bottom of the capſule, chaffy; chaffs joining at the baſe, awl ſhaped at the point, ſeparating the ſeeds. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Brunsfelfia foliis lanceolato-obovatis, utrinque acuminatis, petiolis breviffimis; tubus pa- rum incurvatus, laciniis limbi undulatis. Brunsfelfia with leaves between lance and in- verſely egg-ſhaped, tapered to both ends, footſtalks very ſhort; tube a little incuryed, the ſegments of the border waved. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The tube of the bloffom cut open, to fhew the inſertion and character of the Chives. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud. The Genus Brunsfeldia (by Plumier ſo named, in honour of Otho Brunsfels a monk, the firſt who edited in 1530 a Botanical work with good figures, it contained 238 plates) has undergone a very neceſſary reviſion ſince the days of Linnæus; indeed, it appears ſingular that Father Plumier, from whom Linnæus quotes his Generic character, ſhould have committed ſo great an overſight, as to deſcribe it with five chives; a feature ſcarcely to be expected, from a ſport of nature, in plants of this Clafs. So however it is on record, and the fifth Claſs of the Gen. and Spe. Plant, and of the Syſt. Nat. tom. ii. each includes this Genus; from which, we ſhould be induced to think he had deſigned ſome other plant; if the figure, and the reſt of the deſcription, did not confirm it. Schreber, in his Gen. Plant. has likewiſe an obſervation, that the fruit ſhould be named a capſule, rather than a berry; as given by Linnæus, Miller, and Swartz; his reaſon, that it ſplits determinately, by a ſuture, from the top to the baſe. Our ſpecies, is the third now in Britain; they are all natives of the Weſt India Iſlands. The Iſt B. americana has been long an inhabitant of our hothouſes; the 2d B. maculata is but little known to noft, though long cultivated here; as it has been treated as a variety of the firft ſpecies, notwith- ſtanding the ſtrong ſpecific difference, in the fhape of the leaves and bloſſoms; which in the B.. maculata, are beautifully marked at the baſe, and as large as the undulata; the leaves inverſely egg- Jhaped and more downy. The preſent plant ſeldom grows more than four feet high, flowers freely. about March, is very ſweet ſcented, ar is eaſily propagated by cuttings. It was firſt ſent to England: in the year 1784, by Mr. Elcock from the Inand of Barbadoes, to Meſſrs. Lee and Kennedy, Ham- merſmith. Our drawing was made from a plant in the Clapham Collection, in March 1800. It ſhould be planted in rich earth. ТА І Лаи UA 2 аяги Uяа istoria botuell boon II 32A so bile polvido out SOLD LIMITG ÁRATOTO tamento childgono di that ayadi phobiti Date po and si ot qon or shenim od nie hostes bougiesimo snolilna lotno burcler 200 bolo 023rd time allo do or ulla montage 26 Odriman dite9 choir af barnsle od birol 2. Geranium pictum 4. PLATE CLXVIII. GERANIUM PICTUM. Painted-flowered Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. . MONADELPHIA DE CANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Fructus roftratus, MONOGYNA. Stigmata 5. penta-coccus. ONE POINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furniſhed with long awns, five dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM. Pl. XII. Vol.I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis cordato-oblongis, obtufis, in- equaliter incifis, tomentofis, humi adpref- fis; corolla alba, petalis ſuperioribus pro- fundè fupra medium rubro maculatis; fta- minibus ſepten fertilibus; radice tuberoſa. Geranium with oblong heart - ſhaped leaves, blunt, unequally gaſhed, downy, and ly- ing cloſe to the ground; bloffom white; the upper petals deeply marked with red about the middle; ſeven fertile chives; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 3. The Chives ſpread open, magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified. No Genus of Plants claims our notice, for its beauty, more than Geranium, and this ſpecies, cer- tainly, ranks amongſt the foremoſt. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and we believe only to be found in the Clapham Collection; 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, amongſt twenty two ſpecies of the tuberous kind, all having irregular petalled bloffoms and tubular cups, of which we poſſeſs drawings, that has ſeven fertile chives; the greater number have two, four, or five. It appears to flouriſh under the treatment given it by Mr. Allen, which is, by keeping it in ſandy peat, on a ſhelf, very dry, in the green-houſe. The propagation appears to be the ſame for this, as the other tuberous kinds, that is, by the root. MUT TOIT 13 Orinum giganteum WOW PLATE CLXIX. CRINUM GIGANT EU M. Gigantic Aſphodel-Lily. CLASS VI. ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA fupra, infundibuliformis, ſexpartita, æqualis; filamenta tubi fauci inſerta; fe- mina ad baſin corollarum, vivipara. Blossom above,funnel-ſhaped, fix-parted, equal; threads inſerted into the mouth of the tube; ſeeds at the baſe of the bloſſoms, viviparous. See CRINUM SPIRALE, Pl. XCII. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Crinum foliis flaccidis, undulatis; floribus fefli- libus, umbellatis; petalis concavis, ſub- albidis. Aſphodel-Lily with flaccid, waved leaves; flow- ers fitting cloſe to the flower ſtem in um- bels; petals concave, nearly white. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A miniature repreſentation of the whole plant. 2. A Petal with its chive. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. The coaſt of Africa bordering on our ſettlement at Sierra Leone, has furniſhed us with a number of beautiful plants; but none more fo, than thoſe of the natural order of Lily; witneſs our preſent figure, which was taken from a plant in the Hammerſmith collection, in the month of Auguſt 1800. The bulbs of this grand ſpecies of Crinum, were received by her Ladyſhip, the Right Honourable the Marchioneſs of Rockingham, about the year 1792, from Sierra Leone; they may be conſidered as hardy hothouſe plants, and may be kept in any part of it: will flower, freely, about the month of Auguſt, the flower-ſtems riſing, ſometimes, to the height of three feet. A mixture, of leaf mould, or ſandy peat one half, and light loam the other, is the beſt compoſt to make them flouriſh. It is propagated from the ſeed, or offsets. --Having made a ſmall alteration, in the Eſſential Character of the Genus; and as it is likely we may figure ſome other ſpecies of Crinums ſhortly; we think it neceſſary to add a few words, to that point. The moſt oftenfible difference, we have been able to trace, in comparing above 40 ſpecies of Crinums and Amaryllis's, and on which to reſt, with certainty, for generical diſ- tinction; can, unqueſtionably, be taken only, from the feeds; as theſe in moſt ſpecies of Pancratium, Hæmanthus, and all of this Genus, are: viviparous or formed like fleſhy bulbs, producing plants, like offsets taken from the original bulbs. From Pancratium it is diftinet, in being deſtitute of the Honey- cup; and equally fo from Hæmanthus, which has its fheath of many leaves, the flowers and chives upright, and the chives, twice the length of the bloſſoms. CITROVICE 4 2 1 Only Tov Tria Bulbecedinim Var: flore specrocifsimo PLATE CLXX. IXIA BULBO CODIUM. Var. flore speciosissimo. Crocus-leaved Ixia. Var, with most beautiful flower. CLASS III. 0 Ꭱ Ꭰ Ꭼ Ꭱ . TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-petala, patens, æqualis. Stamina tria, erectiuſculo-patula. BLOSSOM 6-petals, ſpreading, equal. Chives three, upright, ſpreading. See IXIA REFLEXA, PI. XIV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia fcapo unifloro; foliis linearibus, canalicula- tis, fcapo æquantibus; corolla declinata, tubo brevi; ftigmatibus ſextuplicibus. Ixia with one flower on the ſtem; leaves linear, and channelled, the length of the flower- ſtem; bloffom declined, with a ſhort tube; ſummits ſextuple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two ſheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Bloffom cut and ſpread open, with the Chives, ſhewn from ! the inſide. 3. The fame, ſhewn from the back or outſide. 4. The Pointal, with the Summits, magnified. This extremely delicate, and beautiful little Ixia, flowered, for the firſt time, in March this year, 1801, in the collection of G. Hibbert, Eſq. Clapham Common; the bulbs having been received the preceding autumn from the Cape of Good Hope. It appears to be one of thoſe plants, which ſeldom ſurvive the ſecond ſeaſon, in this climate; and we much fear, without a freſh ſupply, it will be ſoon loft to this country; as it does not ripen its ſeeds, and the roots do not ſeem as if inclined to increaſe by offsets. no oro DATE 3 As L um HO) Hyparis linearis PLATE CLXXI. HYPOXIS LINEARI S. Linear-leaved Hypoxis. CLASS VI. ORD ER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-partita, perſiſtens, fupera. Capſula baſi anguftior. Spatha 2-valvis. BLOSSOM 6-parted, remaining, above. Capſule narrower at the baſe. Sheath 2-valved. See HYPOXIS STELLATA, PI. CI. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hypoxis foliis linearibus, glabris, canaliculatis, longiore fcapo uniforo; corolla intus au- rea, extus viridis. Hypoxis with linear leaves, fmooth, channelled, and longer than the flower - ſtem, which has but one flower; bloffom orange within, green without REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Chives and Seed-bud. 2. Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified. 3. The Seed-bud cut tranſverſely. At firſt, we had ſome doubts whether this plant ſhould not be conſidered as a variety of Hypoxis ſtel- lata, to which it undoubtedly affines; but, upon due examination, find it a diſtinct and new ſpecies; as well, from the ſhape and length of the leaves, as the ſhape, character, and colour of the bloſſom, and figure of the root. Like Hypoxis ſtellata it is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced, from thence, by Meſſrs. Lee and Kennedy, in the year 1792. For its treatment, &c. we muſt 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 Collection, 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 ſtrong morning fun; as, if the weather is gloomy, it keeps cloſe thut, but does not ſpeedily decay, for it will conti- nue to open, with equal brilliancy, for eight or ten days. Гали вулоти діаlауера реда ніfіети и тоо олоороне орай 211 D 4. Vio Anemone palmata. Hi Honda PLATE CLXXII. Α Ν Ε Μ Ο Ν Ε PA L M A T A. Cyclamen-leaved Portugal Anemone. CLASS XIII. ORDER VII. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. Many Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. EMPALEMENT none. BLOSSOM. Petals in two or three rows, three in a row, rather oblong. CHIVES. Threads numerous, hair-like, half the length of the bloſſom. Tips doubled, erect. CALYX nullus. COROLLA. Petala duorum triumve ordinum, in fingula ſerie tria, oblongiuſcula. STAMINA. Filamenta numeroſa, capillaria, co- rolla dimidio breviora. Antheræ didymæ, ere&tæ. PISTILLA. Germina numeroſa, in capitulum collecta. Styli acuminati. Stigmata ob- tuſa. PERICARPIUM nullum. Receptaculum globo- fum, five oblongum, excavato-punctatum. SEMINA plurima, acuminata, ftylum retinentia. POINTALS. Seed-buds numerous, collected into a ſmall head. Shafts tapered. Summits blunt. SEED-vessel none. Receptacle globular or ob- long, hollowed and dotted. Seeds many, tapered, retaining the ſhaft. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Anemone foliis reniforinibus, fub-lobatis, - cre- natis; involucro multifido; petalis exteri- oribus villofis, majoribus. Anemone with kidney-ſhaped leaves, a little lobed, ſcolloped; fence many-cleft; the outer petals hairy and larger. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. An outer Petal of the Bloſſom, fhewn from the infide. 2. The Chives, as they ſtand on the receptacle. 3. The ſmall Head, as formed by the pointals. 4. A Seed-bud and its appendages, a little magnified. . This ſpecies of Anemone, is a native of Portugal, having been brought from thence about the year 1788, and firſt cultivated at the Hammerſmith Nurſery; the ſpecific title of Luſitanica obtained for a time, but little doubt reſts now of its being the A. palmata of Linnæus's Sp. Pl. p. 758, and of Vahl, Desfon- taines, &c. How the plant could firſt acquire the name of palmata, is certainly a myſtery; unleſs it might be, from the appearance of the fence, which nevertheleſs but ill accords with that character. Bauhin's affination, as Cyclamen-leaved, is certainly the moſt appropriate, as the leaves both in ſhape, and the colour of the upper and under part, are exact with C. coum. It is rather too delicate for our winters, if expoſed in the open borders ; but, makes a pretty appearance, in ſpring, if kept in a pot, in light, rich earth. Like moſt Anemonies, it propagates beſt by dividing the roots, which are long and cylindrical; but, care muſt be taken not to water the pots, for ſome time after planting, as they are apt to rot, where they are broken. ATAMINE OMA Sitemap vom AS the 1 2 3 M ow 1 Geranium roseum Put me the tes Simete Argent by RE Sendreww is Finega PLATE CLXXIII. . GERANIUM R O SE U M. Roſy Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. MONADELPHIA DE CANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rof- tratus, penta-coccus. ONE POINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furniſhed with long awns, five dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM. Pl. XII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis inciſo-lobatis, tomentofis, lobis crenatis, obtufis; pedunculis multifloris ; floribus erectis, confertis, roſeis, pentan- dris; calycibus monophyllis; radice tube- roſa. Geranium with deeply-gaſhed, lobed, downy leaves, the lobes ſcolloped and blunt; flower- stems many flowered; the flowers erect, crowded, roſe-coloured and with five tips; cups one-leaved; root tuberous. 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. ABOUT the year 1794, this ſpecies of Geranium was firſt introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Francis Maffon, from the Cape of Good Hope. Of all the tuberous kind, this is, certainly, the moſt ſpecious yet in England; it flowers generally about March, in which month, our drawing was made, from a ſpecimen in the nurſery of Mr. J. Colville, King's Road, Chelſea. Mr. Colville informs us, that the propagation is very difficult, and only to be performed by the root; as the plant does not produce branches, and that the ſeeds do not ripen; he keeps it in a mixture of rotten leaves, and ſandy peat, in which, it has every appearance of luxuriant health, any тра Ол THAI та до bad boot G Lola a ME dat dimana to stop the သည်။ moto trains a tida is bacolod ototron tuono a montal sco HOT parlon dadybos r M c090 3 3 4 10 Antholyza tubulosa Douche sur to Marel Var? flore varegalo PLATE CLXXIV. . ANTHOLYZA TUBULOSA. Var. Flere variegato. Tubular Antholyza. Striped flowered Var. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONO GYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- fula infera. Blossom tubular, irregular, and bent backward. Capſule beneath. See ANTHOLYZA RINGENS, Pl. XXXII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antholyza floribus tubulofis, fubcylindraceis; ſcapo diſticho, foliis lanceolato-enſiformi- bus, breviore. Antholyza with tubular, nearly cylindrical flow. ers; flower-ſtem with the bloſſoms pointing two oppoſite ways, leaves between lance and fword-ſhaped, ſhorter. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Bloffom of a variety, differing in the paleneſs, and ſize 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. This fine fpecies of Antholyza was received by Meſſrs. Grimwood and Wykes, Kenſington, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1796; they poſſeſs three varieties, and we ſhould have been happy to have given a bloſſom 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 increaſes freely, either by the ſeed, or from the root, and ſhould be planted in ſandy peat, with a ſmall mixture of loam. or 에 ​Blow Melaleuca criorfolia PLATE CLXXV. MELALEUCA ERICÆFOLIA. Heath-leaved Melaleuca. CLASS XVIII. ORDER IV. POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads in many ſets. Many Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium turbinatum, germini adna- EMPALEMENT. Cup turban-ſhaped, growing to tum, quinquefidum feu quinquedentatum. the feed-bud, five-cleft or five-toothed. COROLLA. Petala quinque, rotundata, calycis Blossom. Five petals rounded, inſerted into margini interiori inferta. the inner margin of the cup. STAMINA. Filamenta numeroſa, filiformia, in CHIVES. Threads numerous, thread-ſhaped, faſciculos quinque connata. Antheræ in- united in five bundles. Tips incumbent. cumbentes. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-ſhaped, growing PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, fundo calycis to the bottom of the cup. Shaft thread- adnatum. Stylus filiformis, erectus. Stigma ſhaped, erect. Summit fimple, fimplex. SEED-Vessel. Capſule nearly globular, coated PERICARPIUM. Capfula fubgloboſa, calycis ven- by the belly of the cup, the upper part tre corticata, ſummitate nuda, trilocularis, naked, three-celled, partitions contrary. diffepinientis contrariis. Seeds many, oblong, or rounded with angles, or SEMINA plurima, oblonga, ſeu rotundato-angu- winged. lata, feu alata. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Melaleuca foliis fparfis oppofitifve, linearibus, Melaleuca with fcattered or oppoſite leaves, lt- enerviis, fubrecurvis, muticis; floribus feſ- near, without nerves, a little turned back filibus, apicem verſus ramulorum confertis, and beardleſs; flowers grow cloſe to the ſpicatis. ſtem, crowded together near the end of the ſmaller branches in ſpikes. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Prop, one which is to be found at the baſe of each flower. 2. A Bloſſom, natural fize. 3. The ſame magnified. 4. One of the five bundles of Chives, with its Petal, to which it is attached at the baſe, magnified 5. The Cup, Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, natural fize, the fummit detached and magnified. many years to come. in any The plants from New Holland, of the natural order of Myrti; comprized under the different Genera of Metrofideros, Eucalyptus, Leptoſpermum, Myrtus, and this preſent one of Melaleuca; ſeem, from what we yet know, to conſtitute a very diſtinguiſhed part, of the woody vegetable productions of that country: wherefore, we can have little hopes of ſeeing many of them flower with us, at leaſt, for The M. ericæfolia was amongſt the firſt plants raiſed in 1788, by Meſſrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith, from ſeeds; but, till this year, we believe it has not been ſeen to flower, collection in Great Britain ; nor perhaps would it, as yet, had not a large and old plant, been planted out in the novel and elegant conſervatory of the Right Hon. the Marquis of Blandford at White Knights, near Reading, Berks, from a branch of which, obligingly communicated by his Lord- fhip, our drawing was taken, the beginning of July, this The Plant grows to the height of fix or ſeven feet, upright, very branching, the branches weep- ing, and the flowers, which grow in ſpikes or branches of about fix inches in length, project, ſtraight out, from about the middle of the ftem. grows beſt in a mixture of two thirds ſandy peat, and one third loam; may be propagated by cuttings made, from the tender ſhoots, in the month of March, and kept under a glaſs , in the tan bed of the hothouſe, or in a melon frame until rooted. This ſpecies of Melaleuca and the Metrofideros Nodoſa of Gaertner, ift Vol. de fruct. p. 172, t. 34, f. 6, we muſt confider as the ſame, though made by Dr. Smith, ſee Linn. Tranſ. Vol. III. p. 276, diftint fpecies; perhaps from ſpecimens gathered at different times, differently dried, or from differ- ent parts of the country. year. It РТС ЕО 1 2. Cratava capparoides Aware PLATE CLXXVI. . CRA TÆ VA CAPPA ROI DE S. Caper-like Cratava. CLASS XI. ORDER I. DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Schreb. Gen. Plant. Vol. I. p. 320. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifi- dum, deciduum, bafi planum; laciniis pa- tentibus, ovatis, inæqualibus. COROLLA. Petala quatuor, oblonga, unguibus tenuibus, longitudine calycis, diviſuris in- ferta. STAMINA. Filamenta ſedecim vel plura, ſetacea, corolla breviora. Antheræ erectæ, oblongæ. PISTILLUM. Germen, pedicello filiformi, lon- giſlimo, ovatum. Stylus nullus. Stigma ſeffile, capitatum. PERICARPIUM. Bacca? carnofa, globoſa, maxi- ma, pedicellata, unilocularis, bivalvis. Semina plura, ſubrotunda, emarginata, nidu- lantia. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, four-cleft, falling off, flat at the baſe; ſegments ſpreading, egg-ſhaped, unequal. Blossom. Four petals, oblong, claws flender, the length of the cup and inſerted into the diyificns. Chives. Threads fixteen or more, like briſtles, ſhorter than the bloſſom, Tips erect, oblong. POINTAL. Seed-bud on a thread-ſhaped and very long foot-fialk, egg-ſhaped. Shaft none. Summit fitting on the ſeed-bud, headed. SEED-VESSEL. A Berry? fleſhy, globular, large, with a foot-ſtalk, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds many, roundiſh, notched at the end, dif- perſed in pulp. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Cratæva foliolis elipticis, glabris; floribus um- bellatis, terminalibus, luteo-viridibus, petalis longiffimis, apicibus criſpis. Cratæva with eliptical, ſmooth leaflets; flowers grow in umbels, terminal and yellow green; petals very long, criſped at the ends. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Shews the Pointal, part of the Chives, and three Petals of the bloſſom; a few of the Chives, one of the Petals, and the leaves of the Empalement, being removed, the better to exhibit the ſtructure of the bloſſom. 2. The Pointal, complete. To Mr. Eldred Elfzelius, a native of Sweden, we are indebted for this ſpecies of Cratæva; by whom it was brought to Great Britain, on his return from Sierra Leone, in the year 1795. As a native of that burning clime, it will not endure our winters, without the protection of the hothouſe; to which, as a climber, it is a conſiderable ornament, both in foliage, and flower; the flowers coming, in fucceflion, from June, till Auguſt; perhaps, much later, as we believe, this is the firſt time its bloſſoms have been produced in England. The propagation is extremely eaſy, by cuttings; but, to give the plant ſufficient vigour for flowering, it muſt be planted in a border, prepared of old rotten dung, fandy peat, and loam, of each, equal parts ; ſeparated from the tan-bed by a partition of boards, ſufficiently ſtrong to ſupport the earth, upon the removal of the tan. This method of treating many of the tropi- cal climbers, and even the common Caper, though a native of the ſouth of Europe, has been found neceſſary to their production of flowers in this country. Our figure was taken from a plant, treated in the above manner, in the Stepney collection; from whence, through the kind indulgence of the truly urbanic, and indefatigable proprietor, T. Evans, Eſq. we are in hopes of gratifying our botanical friends, with the figures of a number of plants, new to this country; and of which he is, at preſent, the fole poffeffor. 2 1 2 3 10W Ixra puncata Put us the Art Directie H Andrews hing PLATE CLXXVII. I XIA PUNCT AT A. Dotted flowered Ixia, CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-partita, patens, æqualis. STIGMATA 3, erectiuſculo-patula. Blossom 6 diviſions, ſpreading, equal. SUMMits three, nearly upright, ſpreading. See Ixia reflexa, Pl. XIV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis linearibus, fcapo vaginantibus; ſcapus geniculatus, ſubtriflorus; laciniis corollæ obovatis, lineato-punctatis, purpureis. Ixia with linear leaves ſheathing the ſtem; flower- ſtem jointed, moſtly three flowered; ſeg- ments of the bloſſom inverſely egg-ſhaped, dotted in lines, and purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two valves of the ſheath. 2. A Bloffom cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; a diviſion of one of the ſummits magnified. This curious Ixia was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1800, by G. Hibbert, Eſq. and is, we believe, in the poſſeſſion of no other in this kingdom. It is a tender bulb, flowering about April, or May, and appears, either by the bulb, or ſeed, to be flow of increaſe. The bulb, from which our figure was taken, was planted in light, ſandy peat earth. Plige 米 ​R n 3. 2 2 2 WN 。 M 6 IC 47100 5 4 Ferrari karci PLATE CLXXVIII. FERRARIA PAVONIA. Mexican Ferraria. CL ASS XVI. ORDER I. MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Threads united. Three Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. Schreb. Gen. Plant. V. II. p. 451. Calyx. Spathæ binæ, alternæ, carinatæ, invo- EMPALEMENT. Sheaths two, alternate, keeled, lutæ, uniflora. involute, one-flowered. COROLLA monopetala, ſupera, ſexpartita; laci- Blossom one petal, above, fix divided; ſeg- niis oblongis, erecto-patentibus, undulato- ments oblong, upright-ſpreading, criſp- criſpatis, maculatis; tribus alternis exteri- waved and ſpotted; the three alternate outer oribus latioribus. ones the broadeft. STAMINA. Filamenta tria, in tubum cylindra- Chives. Threads three, in a cylindrical tube ceum, corolla breviorem, connata, ſuperne ſhorter than the bloffom, joined together, diftincta. Antheræ fubovatæ, didymæ. ſeparate at the top. Tips nearly egg-ſhaped, double. PISTILLUM Germen oblongum, triquetrum, POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong, three-fided, blunt, obtufum, inferum, Stylus filiformis, lon- beneath. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length gitudine tubi. of the tube. STIGMATA tria, profundè bifida. Summits three, deeply two cleft. PERICARPIUM. Capſula oblonga, triquetra, tri- SEED-VESSEL. Capſule oblong, three-ſided, three- locularis, trivalvis ; diffepimentis contrariis. celled, three-valved; partitions contrary. Semina numeroſa, fubrotunda, pulpa involuta. Seeds many, roundifh, covered with a pulp. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ferraria corollis ſub campanulatis, fpeciofiflimis; laciniis planis, tribus interioribus haftatis, nectariferis; foliis plicatis, baſi ſpathaceis. Ferraria with bloſſoms nearly bell-ſhaped and very ſhewy; ſegments plain, the three inner ones are halbert-ſhaped, and have honey- cups, leaves plaited, ſheathing at the baſe. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement, 2. An outer Petal of the Flower. 3. An inner Petal of the Flower. 4. The Chives and Pointal. 5. The Chives fpread open. 6. The Pointal complete, one of the ſummits magnified. This is, without doubt, the Mexican plant given in the 2nd. Vol. t. 31. f. 2. of Swertius's Florilegium, publiſhed in 1612; 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 whom it has been copied into the Suppl. Plant. of the younger Linnæus, p. 407. and continued by Profeffor Martyn in his Mill. Dic. Art. Fer- raria 2. This Genus, which was originally formed on the Ferraria undulata of the Cape, and placed to the claſs Gynandria by Linnæus, has been ſo continued by Martyn, &c. but upon what grounds, we are unable to determine; unleſs the miſtake aroſe from the impracticability of dividing the tube of the chives, from the ſhaft, in a dried ſpecimen; which, in ſuch tranfitory flowers as thoſe of Ferraria, Siſyrinchium. Galaxia, &c. all of this claſs , ſeem, in that ſtate, to form a perfect uniſon. Schreber has referred theſe Genera, in his Ed. of Linn. Gen. Plant. to where they certainly muſt ſtand, to Mo- nadelphia. But, although we have continued the plant under the title by which it is generally known, from an adherence to our original principle; yet do we think, it equally neceffary to ſtate our opinion, why we conſider its generical reference to have been as ill taken up, as the Genus had been ill claffi. fied. This plant, as may be ſeen from our diffections, is much nigher affined to Sifyrinchium, as it wants every effential character of Ferraria, ſuch as a ſheath of one leaf, undulated criſped petals, hooded and fringed ſummits, &c. for we do not conſider the length of the tbe of the blottom of any moment, as it is not conſtant. Now, every diftinguifhing feature of Siſyrinchium are here extant, viz. a ſheath of two leaves, flat or plain petals, fummits neither hooded or fringed; but our figure will better explain, than words, theſe itrong marked differences. If indeed we were to give an opinion, it certainly would not be in coincidence with Thunberg, by placing the whole Genus to Moræa; but to create a new one from this plant; whoſe whole ſtructure, but eſpecially from the Nectaria or honey- cups upon the margin of the inner petals, ftands eminently diftinguifhed from all others. This moſt diſtinguiſhed plant, was firſt introduced to this country by Mrs. Hudſon of Mancheſter, about the year 1797; but is now found in inoft collections round the Metropolis. It is increaſed by the ſeed, which ripens in this climate, and from the root, which makes abundance of offsets. The flow- ers expand in rotation, three or four upon each ſtem at the interval of a few days; the ſtem growing to the height of about two feet. So very rapid is the progreſs of the bloffom in its decay, from the time of its opening, which is generally about feven o'clock in the morning ; that before twelve, the luſtre is gone, and it is quite decayed by three, or four. Our drawing was made at the Hammerſmith Nur- ſery in July; and fill there were a number of flower ftems, which had not, as yet, made an appear- ance of flowering. It is beſt grown in peat earth, TALAISAI 1 2 HO Amaryllis reticulata Pulis Pub the Met Breite PLATE CLXXIX. AMARYLLIS RETICULAT A. Netted-flowered Lily-Daffodil. CLASS VI. ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, COROLLA 6-petala, campanulata. Stigma tri- fidum. BLOSSOM 6-petalled, bell-ſhaped. Summit three- cleft. See AMARYLLIS RADIATA, Pl. XCV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Amaryllis fpatha multiflora ; corollis reticulatis, purpureis; foliis oblongis, reticulatis, baſi attenuatis. Lily Daffodil, ſheath many flowered; blofſoms netted and purple; leaves oblong, netted, and tapered at the baſe. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Petal and its Chive, attached, as it is in the flower. 2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. The Amaryllis reticulata, a native of Brazil, South America, was firſt cultivated in the year 1772, at the Hammerſmith nurſery; the bulbs had been received from Portugal by Edward Whittaker Gray, M. D. of the Britiſh Muſeum; and were by him communicated to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy. Our drawing was made this ſpring, in May, from a plant in the invaluable, and extenſive collection of hothouſe plants, at Stepney, belonging to T. Evans, Eſq. where it flowers annually. To enſure the flowering of this plant, it is neceſſary to plunge the pot in the heat of the bark-bed of the hothouſe; and, during the winter months, to keep the earth rather dry, as the bulbs are very fubject to rot, without that precaution. It ſhould be planted in a compoſition of old rotten dung, or leaf mould, and a ſmall proportion of loam. ). 3 1 2 PINS 5 Ho Atragene ene austriaca. Pulmaa tha to Boras po PLATE CLXXX. A TR A GENE AUSTRIA C A. Auſtrian Atragene. CLASS XIII. ORDER VII. POLY ANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. Many Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 4-phyllus. Petala. 12. Semina caudata. EMPALEMENT 4-leaves. Petals 12. Seeds with tails. See ATRAGENE CAPENSIS, P. IX. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Atragene foliis oppofitis, triternatis; foliolis ru- goſis, ſerratis; floribus ſolitariis, tomentofis, cernuis; calyce magno, cæruleo, marginato. Atragene with oppoſite, twice-three-divided leaves ; leaflets rough and ſawed; flowers folitary, downy, nodding; empalement large, blue, and bordered. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Leaf of the empalement. 2. A Petal of the flower. 3. A Chive complete. 4. The Pointals as they ſtand in the flower. 5. A ripe ſeed, with its feathered tail. This is, unqueſtionably, the Auſtrian 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 diftinet ſpecies. It is a hardy, climbing ſhrub; growing frequently, eight or ten feet in a ſeaſon, and covers itſelf pretty abundantly with foliage; the foot-ſtalks of the old leaves becoming cirrhi or tendrils, and the wood growing to a conſiderable thickneſs. The flowers begin to appear about May; and continue in ſucceſſion, till July. It may be propagated by layers; but, the ſureſt inode is by ſeed, which may be ſown as ſoon as ripe, and which will be perfected from the firſt flowers, by Auguſt. It the moſt flouriſhing in light rich eårth; but will live in the moſt common. Our figure was made from a plant in the Hammerſmith collection, to which it was firſt introduced in the grows year 1792. ADALETTO 2 1 4 TO 3 Vaccinum virgatum But as the Set Dareds of the Har PLATE CLXXXI. VACCINIUM VIRGATU M. Green-twigged Whortle-berry. CLASS VIII. ORDER I. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Fila- Cup ſuperior. Bloffom one petal. Threads fixed menta receptaculo inſerta. Bacca quadri- into the receptacle. A berry with four cells locularis, polyſperma. and many feeds. See VACCINIUM ARCTOSTAPHYLLOS. Pl. XXX. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Vaccinium foliis oblongo-ovatis, ſerrulatis, de- ciduis, ramulis viridibus; floribus, fub-um- bellatis, axillaribus; corollis, ſub-cylin- draceis; calycibus apice reflexis. Stainini- bus decem. Whortle-berry with oblong egg-ſhaped leaves, Alightly ſawed, deciduous, the ſmall branches green; flowers grow rather umbelled from where the leaves are fixed to the ſtem; blof- ſoms nearly cylindrical; cups reflexed at the upper part. Ten chives. 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. This ſpecies of Whortle-berry was, according to the Kew Catalogue, introduced by Mr. Young in the year 1770. It is a hardy plant; and, as a native of North America, where it is an under ſhrub of the woods, should be planted in a ſhady ſituation, in peat earth. It is rarely killed by our froſts; grows about two feet high, and loſes its leaves in winter. Our drawing was made in June, this. year, at the Nurſery, Hammerſmith, where it is propagated by layers. MTALY 1 2 Bior 3 Malva divaraala Plains the Ani Brod PLATE CLXXXII. MALVA DI V A RICAT A. Straddling-branched Mallow. CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX duplex; exterior 3-phyllus. Arilli plu- rimi, monoſpermi. CUP double; outer three-leaved Seed-coats many, one-ſeeded. See MALVA REFLEXA, PI. CXXXV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Malva foliis lobatis, plicatis, dentatis, fcabridis ; ramis ramuliſque divaricatis, flexuoſis. Mallow with lobed leaves, plaited, toothed, and rough; the large and ſmall branches grow ſtraddling, and zig-zagged. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The double Cup. 2. A Flower ſpread open, with the threads remaining. 3. The Chives cut open, and magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, magnified. As a lively, but little, green-houſe plant, this ſpecies of Mallow has not many equals; and its pro- perty of continuing to flower from June, till December, muſt conſiderably enhance its value. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced to us, about four years ſince. Moſt collections now poſſeſs it, from its facility of increaſe, may be planted in rich earth, and is increaſed by cuttings, or ſeeds, which ripen perfectly in this country. The drawing was made at the Nurſery, Hammer- ſmith. ARASTAV San on 2 Cardena lubilera PLATE CLXXXIII. GARDENIA TUBIFLORA. Tube-flowered Gardenia. CLASS V. ORD ER I. PENT ANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives, One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- fidum, fuperum, laciniis erectis, perſiſten- tibus. COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus planus, quinquepartitus. STAMINA. Filamenta nulla. Antheræ quinque, ore tubi inſertæ, lineares, ftriatæ, longitu- dine dimidia limbi. PISTILLUM. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- mis ſeu clavatus. Stigma exſertum, ova- tum, obtuſum, bilobum, fæpe ſulcatum. PERICARPIUM. Bacca ficca, uni bis ſeu-quadri- locularis, Semina plurima, depreffa, per feries imbricatim fibi impofita. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, above, ſegments upright, permanent. Blossom one petal, funnel-ſhaped; tube cylin- drical, longer than the cup; border flat, five diviſions. Chives. Threads none. Tips five, fixed into the mouth of the tube, linear, ftriped, half the length of the border. POINTAL. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread ſhaped or club-ſhaped. Summit ſtanding out, egg-ſhaped, obtuſe, two-lobed, often furrowed. SEED-VESSEL. A dry berry, one, two, or four- celled. Seeds many, flattened, lying upon one another in tiers. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gardenia inermis; foliis elipticis, undulatis, flo- ribus ternis; corolla laciniis tortis, lineari- bus, reflexis, tubo filiformi, longiſſimo. Gardenia without thorns; with eliptical, undu- lated leaves; flowers grow by threes; the ſegments of the bloſſom are twiſted, linear, reflexed, the tube thread ſhaped, very long. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Cup and Seed-bud. 2. A Bloſſom cut open, with the Chives remaining at the mouth. 3. The Shaft and its Sumrnit, the ſummit detached and magnified. The Tube-flowered Gardenia was introduced to Britain, in the year 1789, from Sierra Leone, and muſt, therefore, be treated as a tender hot-houſe plant. It grows, with us, to the height of about two feet before it flowers; and, from the beauty and ſize of the leaves, the regular, oppoſite manner in which it forms its branches, becomes a very handſome fhrub. The flowers, which are produced in July, grow generally three together, at right angles, from the inſertion of the leaves, in a bunch, which laſts about fix or eight days, having but one flower open and perfect at a time, the decaying ones becoming brown. It is propagated, with eaſe, by cuttings, made in the month of March, and kept under a bell-glaſs, in a pot of ſtiffith loam, in the bark-bed of the hot-houſe, or a melon frame. The agreeable character, of a delicate fragrance, attendant on the bloſſoms of moſt ſpecies of this ge- nus, is eminently powerful in this. Our drawing was made at the Hammerſmith nurſery; where, it was firſt raiſed, from ſeeds received in a preſent, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, from the Hon. Sierra Leone Company Володарска honda 4 mas 6 ?iܬ 1 5 2 bios 3 7 Pergulana minor PLATE CLXXXIV. PER GU LARIA M I N O R. Smaller Pergularia, or Weſt-coaſt Creeper. CLASS XX. ORD ER VI. of Linn. Gen. Plan, 1764. GYNANDRIA DECANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Ten Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, fwe-cleft, up- fidum, erectum, acutum, perfiftens, right, pointed and remaining. COROLLA monopetala, hypocrateriformis; tubus Blossom one petal, ſalver-ſhaped; tube cylin- cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus quin- drical, longer than the cup; border five- quepartitus, planus; laciniis oblongis. divided, flat, ſegments oblong. Nectarium, duplex; exterium quinque- Honey-cup, double; the outer, five-cleft, fidum, quinquedentatum, plicato-angula- five toothed, plaited into angles, with the tum, dentibus acutis, incurvis, apice cor- teeth pointed, incurved, approaching at the niculis nutantibus, approximatis ; interium point by ſmall nodding horns; the inner quinquefidum, exteriori bafi adnatum, ſqua- five-cleft, growing to the baſe of the outer, mulæ membranaceæ, apice denticulatæ, ob- ſcales ſkinny, toothed at the end, blunt, tuſæ, fingula involvens ftamina duo, alterna. each covering two oppoſite chives. STAMINA. Filamenta decem, capillaria, brevia, Chives. Threads ten, hair-like, ſhort, ſtrad- divaricata, per paria adnexa glandulis quin- dling, connected by pairs to five glands que ftigmati affixis. Antheræ pellucidæ, fixed to the ſummit.' Tips tranſparent, yel- luteæ, fubrotundæ. low, roundiſh. PISTILLUM. Germina duo oblonga. Stylus POINTAL. Seed-buds two, oblong. Shaft very breviſſimus, carnofus. Stigma corpuſculum ſhort, fleſhy. Summit a conical, obtuſe, conicum, obtufum, carnofum. fleſhy ſubſtance. PERICARPIUM. Folliculi duo, uniloculares, in- Seed-VESSEL. Two follicles, one-valved, ſplit- trorſum dehiſcentes per longitudinem. ting lengthways from the infide. SEMINA numeroſa, parva, ſubrotunda. Seeds numerous, ſmall, roundiſh. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pergularia foliis cordatis, acutis, apicibus tor- Pergularia with heart-ſhaped leaves, ſharp- tis; laciniis corollæ ovatis, erectis, luteis. pointed and twiſted at the ends; the ſeg- ments of the bloſſom are egg-ſhaped, up- right, and yellow. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A flower cut open. 3. The parts of fructification magnified. 4. Two Scales of the honey-cup as they are attached together, magnified. 5. An outer Scale magnified. 6. An inner Scale magnified. 7. The Seed-buds, Shaft, Summit, and Chives magnified. That a juſt judgment may be formed, upon what grounds we have taken up a fpecific diſtinction, between the only two ſpecies we pofſeſs of this genus; ſo diffimilar in our opinion, but, which have been confidered as ſcarcely to be deemed varieties, by much abler botaniſts than ourſelves profefs to be; we have given the figures of both in conſequence. Much is it to be regretted, that the whole na. tural order of plants forming the Apocineæ of Juffieu, fo charactered in themſelves, have not under- gone a proper reviſion, in claflification, upon the original Linnæan sexual principles; which, we muſt ſuppoſe, have been left in the prefent bewildered chaos, from the intricacy, fingularity and minute- neſs of the parts, being ſo difficult to develope. From critical and a&tual obſervations, taken from the living plants, we are in hopes of being able to illuſtrate, and correct where neceſſary, the cha- racters of ſuch as may come under our review. Upon the changing the claſs of this genus, there needs no comment; as moſt authors seem to allow, though they have not followed the hint, that it is properly Gynandrous; although they have not equally agreed as to the Order; ſome taking the glands, ſurrounding the ſummit, for the chives, and ſome, for the ſumınits themſelves, of a columnar fhaft. Dr. Smith, who has figured our other ſpecies, has juſtly taken, the parts fixed to the five glands, for what they certainly are; as may be eaſily traced through the whole order of Orchideæ, where the chives are nearly ſimilarly placed and ſo hooded. The Genus is by no means new, in name, having been fo titled by Linnæus, from the names of Pergulans and Pergulanus of Burman and Rumphius; who derived them from the uſe made of the plants by the natives, of the weftern coaſt of the peninſula of India; where, they are cultivated to form arbors, for the agreeable flavour of their flowers. This ſpecies was firſt introduced about the year 1784, by Sir Joſeph Banks, Bart. ſome time before the other ſpecies; wherefore, we have given it the preference. It is propagated by cuttings, and ſhould be treated in the fame manner as directed for the Cratæva capparoides of our laſt Number, to have it flower in perfection. The figures of both ſpecies were taken, in Auguſt , from two plants in the collection of J. Vere, Eſq. Kentington Gore; where, Mr. Anderſon (to whom we muſt beg our fincere acknowledgments for his frequent and ready obſervations and affiſtance) informs us, they are treated in ſuch mauner. 09 PO 6 2 8 4 5 Porculara odoratifsima PLATE CLXXXV. PERGUL ARIA ODORATISSIMA . Sweet Perg'ularia, or Chineſe Creeper. CLASS XX. ORDER VI. of Linn. Gen. Plant. 1764. GYNANDRIA DECANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CONTORTA. Nectarium duplex, genitalia in- volvens; fquamulæ exteriores quinque, cuſ- pidatæ; quinque interiores, membranaceæ, fingula fquamula occultans ſtamina duo alterna. COROLLA hypocrateriformis, CONTORT. Honey-cup double, concealing the parts of fructification; the outer ſcales are five, and ſpear-ſhaped; the five inner are ſkinny, each ſcale covering two alternate chives. Blossom falver-ſhaped. See PERGULARIA MINOR, PI. CLXXXIV. Vol. III. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pergularia foliis cordatis, ſenioribus fubtomen- toſis; laciniis corollæ margine revolutis, tortis, linearibus, reflexis, viridibus. Pergularia. with heart-ſhaped leaves, the older ones rather downy; the ſegments of the bloſſom rolled back at the margin, twiſted, linear, reflexed, and green. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Bloſſom. 3. The ſame, cut open. 4. The parts of fructification, as they appear when covered by the honey-cups, magnified. 5. The outer ſcale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 6. The inner ſcale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 7. The two Scales, as they are connected together at the baſe, 8. The Pointal, with the Chives; the Shaft, Summit, and Chives, with the bodies connecting the Chives, detached and magnified. This ſpecies of Pergularia is a native of China, from whence it was received in the year 1789, by Lady Hume; in whoſe collection at Wormleybury, Herts, it firſt flowered in 1791. It is cultivated and increaſed in the ſame manner as the P. minor, and is equally fragrant. We have little doubt that our two fpecies compriſe four, of the different authors who have collated from each other; we ſhall take the laſt, Willdenow. The P. glabra and P. Japonica as our P. minor; and the P. purpurea and tomentoſa as our P. odoratiflima. The P. edulis of Thunberg is certainly Cynanchum. Det be DELEGANT فر Ý Szia speciosa Sound on the PLATE CLXXXVI. I XI A. SPECIOS A. Deep crimſon Ixia. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA ſexpetala, patens, æqualis. Stamina tria, erectiuſculo-patula. BLOSSOM fix petals, ſpreading, equal. Chives three, upright ſpreading. See IXIA REFLEXA, Pl. XIV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis linearibus, medio coftatis, gramineis; ſcapus biflorus, filiformis; corollis ſub- campanulatis, profunde coccineis. Ixia with linear leaves ribbed in the middle and graffy; flower-ſtem two-flowered and thread- ſhaped; blofſoms rather bell-ſhaped and of a deep crimſon. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open. 3. The Pointal, one of the tips magnified. ALTHOUGH this ſpecies is not ſcarce, yet, from the general method of treating it, that is, by giving it no more heat than has been found necefſary for the generality of Cape Ixias, few have ſeen its bloſſoms, though they pofſeſs the roots. To enſure their flowering, as ſoon as the bulbs are well rooted, which will be about January, if planted in O&tober; they may be then put into the heat of a melon or cucumber frame, or taken into the hothouſe, where they will flower about the latter end of May. This Ixia was firſt introduced, from Holland, about the year 1778, under the name of Ixia Kermofina ſpecioſa; and, under that title, is to be found, in moſt collections; wherefore, conſidering it a diſtinct ſpecies, having drawings of two varieties, we have continued the ſpecific name of fpeciofa. Our drawing was made at the Hammerſmith nurſery, in May 1799. А от Die ansten besoj for wrofida bela Sad NA 2 3 1 Echites suberecta PLATE CLXXXVII. ECHITES SUB ERECTA Oval-leaved Echites, CLASS V. ORDER I. PENT ANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. G] TERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium quinquepartitum, acu- tum, parvum. COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis; lim- bus quinquefidus, planus, patentiſſimus. Nectarium glandulis quinque, germen cir- cumftantibus. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, tenuia, erecta. Antheræ rigidæ, oblongæ, acuminatæ, apice convergentes. PISTILLUM. Germina duo. Stylus filiformis, longitudine ſtaminum. Stigma oblongo- capitatum, bilobum, glutine antheris ad- EMPALEMENT. Cup five-parted, pointed, and ſmall. Blossom one-petal, funnel-ſhaped ; border five- cleft, flat and ſpreading very much. . Honey-cup five glands, ſtanding round the bud. Chives. Five threads, ſlender, erect. Tips ſtiff, oblong, tapered, and cloſing together at the top nexum. POINTAL. Seed-buds two. Shaft thread-ſhaped, the length of the chives. Summit oblong- headed, two-lobed, attached to the tips by a glutinous ſubſtance. Seed-vessel. Two follicles, very long, one celled, one valved. Seeds many tiled, crowned with a long feather, PERICARPIUM. Folliculi duo, longiſſimi, uni- loculares, univalves. Semina plurima, imbricata, coronata pappo longo. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Echites pedunculis racemofis; foliis ovalibus, Echites with bunched foot-ſtalks ; leaves oval, obtufis, mucronatis; floribus luteis, am- blunt and pointed at the ends; flowers yel- pliſſimis; corollæ tubus hirſutus. low and very large; the tube of the bloſſom hairy. 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 bloſſom remaining, the upper cut away, magnified. 4. One of the Chives a little magnified. 5. The Pointal and Seed-buds, magnified. The Lady Dowager De Clifford received this plant from the iſland of St. Vincent's, in the year 1794; and we much queſtion, whether it was ever ſeen in Britain prior to that period; although ſaid to be cultivated in 1759, by Millar, in the 7th Edit. of his Dictionary, and from thence, collated into the Kew Catalogue, p. 289, Vol. I. It is a climbing plant, if ſupported; but does not grow to any con- fiderable height, if kept in a pot. The beſt method of treating this plant, is the ſame as that propoſed for the Cratæva capparoides, Pl. 176. Vol. III. The ſpecific name Suberecta, of Jacquin and Browne, muſt undoubtedly have been taken from the plants which grow in the Savannas; where, they ſeldom acquire above the height of two feet. The whole plant, from which, if any part is cut or broken, there ifſues a milky ſubſtance, is conſidered by Dr. Browne as poiſonous. Our figure was taken at Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's, this year, in Auguft . It is propagated by cuttings, put in about the month of May. ATO V/488 CAT Best SANA 1 CU Slow 2 Gladiolus campanulatus het LA SELVA PLATE CLXXXVIII. GLADIOLUS CAMPANULATUS. Bell-flowered Gladiolus. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives, One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA ſexpartita, ringens. STAMINA adfcendentia. Blossom fix diviſions, gaping. Chives aſcending. See Pl. XI. Vol. I. GLADIOLUS ROSEUS. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, nervoſis, glabris; ſcapo ſubtrifloro, foliis longior; corolla ſub- cainpanulata, palidè purpurea, laciniís ſub- æqualibus; ftiginatibus bifidis. Gladiolus with lance ſhaped leaves, nerved and ſmooth; flower-ſtem moſtly three-flowered, longer than the leaves; bloffom rather bell- ſhaped, of a pale purple, the ſegments near- ly equal, with the ſummits two-cleft. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Flower ſpread open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, one Summit detached and magnified. The Bell-flowered Gladiolus, was amongſt the number of thoſe imported from Holland, in the year 1794, by Meſſrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith; when they partook of that large collection, brought to Haarlem by a Frenchman; who had been long reſident at the Cape of Good Hope, where he had cultivated moſt of the bulbs prior to his bringing them to Europe. Nothing particular is required for management of this, more than the moſt common of the Genus, from the Cape. It flowers in May, and increaſes by the root; the feeds rarely ripen. the BULEUITO Stomu M blow Zinnia verticillata Op PLATE CLXXXIX. ZINNIA VERTICILLATA. Double Zinnia. CLASS XIX. ORDER II. SYNGEN ESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLU A. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals, ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. RECEPTACULUM paleaceum. Pappus ariftis 2 erec- tis. Calyx ovato-cylindricus, imbricatus. Flofculi radii 5, perſiſtentes, integri. RECEPTACLe chaffy. Feather with 2 uprightawns. Empalement cylindrical-egg-ſhaped, and tiled. Florets of the ray 5, remaining and entire. See ZINNIA VIOLACEA. Pl. LV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Zinnia foliis verticillatis, feffilibus; floribus pedunculatis; floſculi radii fæpe tria ſeries. Zinnia with leaves growing in whorls without foot-ſtalks cloſe to the ftem; flowers with foot-ftalks; the florets of the ray often three rows. 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 diſk, with its ſeed and ſkinny chaff, magnified. 3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed of an hermaphrodite Floret, diveſted of its corolla, magnified. The Engliſh ſpecific title to this plant, ſhould ſeem to imply, that the flowers are fuch, as ſhould not come into our arrangement; but, as the character is not conſtant in all the flowers, even on the ſame plant, it cannot be conſidered but as a ſpecific character in this particular fpecies, though the name has its proper force, in contradiſtinction 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 ſame time with the Virgilia; a moſt beautiful annual, of the habit of Arctotis, now loft in both countries from the difficulty of procuring ripened ſeeds. It is to be raiſed in the ſame manner as the other ſpecies, on a gentle hot-bed, in March, and planted out the beginning of May. The flowers make their appearance about the beginning of Auguſt, and continue, in fucceffion, till they are deſtroyed by the froſt. To be certain of the feed, the heads muſt be taken from the plant, whilſt they appear yet freſh; as the petals are perſiſtent, 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 ſubject to,) the ſeeds are immediately contaminated and ſpoilt. Our figure was taken, this year, at the Hammerſmith Nur- ſery, where, it was grown firſt in this kingdom. vilgo MOROTADANG TOW 2 41 3 Geranium astragalifolium 2011 HC Andrews s T PLATE CXC. GERANIUM ASTRAGALIFOLIUM. Aſtragalus-leaved Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. . MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fructus roftratus, penta-coccus. One POINTAL. Five Summits. FRUIT furniſhed with long awns; five dry berries. Sec GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pl. XII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. GERANIUM foliis pinnatis, hirſutis, foliolis rotundato-ovatis; calycibus monophyllis ; petalis undulatis ad bafin tortis; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus; radice tuberofa. GERANIUM with winged, hairy leaves ; leaflets of a roundiſh-oval ſhape; cups one-leaved; petals waved, twiſted at the baſe; five fer- tile chives; root tuberous, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal. 3. The Chives ſpread open and magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, magnified. By the Kew Catalogue we are informed, that this ſpecies of Geranium, was introduced to this country, in the year 1789, by Mr. F. Maffon. It is, like many of this branch of the extended family of Geranium, rather a tender Green-houſe plant; and will not flower, in perfection, without the affift- ance of the Hot-houſe. It loſes its foliage after flowering, and remains in a ſtate of inaction for at leaſt three months; during which period, it fhould be watered but ſeldom, and that ſparingly. To propagate it, the only mode is, by cutting ſmall portions of the root off, and putting them into the Atrong heat of a hot-bed, about the month of March ; as hitherto, it has not perfected any feeds with us, and the plant produces no branch, except the flower-ftem may be ſo denominated. Our drawing was made from the Clapham Collection, in July, this year. This ſpecies has been conſidered by Pro- feffor Martyn, (ſee his edition of Mill. Dict. article Pelargonium 2.) as the ſame with G. pinnatum, and G. prolificum of Linn. Sp. Plan. But, however, the ſpecific characters in Linnæus, of thoſe ſpecies, may agree with our figure, the G. Aſtragalifolium of Jacquin and Cavanilles, they are, unqueſtionably, all different plants; drawings of the two former we have, and will be given in due courſe. монолота лига Plig g W 3 4 3 2 5. 9106 Platylobium scolopendrum. VA ( Anders is Kagawa PLATE CXCI. . PLATYLOBIUM. SCOLOPENDRUM. Scolopendra-like ſtemmed Flat-Pea. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. . DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads in two Sets. Ten Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. Perianthium, campanulatum quinque- dentatum ; laciniis tribus inferioribus acu- tis, patentibus; duabus fupremis maximis, obtufis, obovatis, vexillo adpreflis. COROLLA papilionacea. Vexillum, obcordatum, emarginatum, erec- tum, maximum. Ale vexillo breviores, obtufæ, femi-obcor- datæ, baſi denticulatæ. Carina obtufa, compreſſa, longitudine et figura alarum. STAMINA filamenta decem, coalita in vaginam, ſupra ſemififfam, apice libera, æqualia, aſſurentia. Antheræ fubrotundæ, verſa- tiles, PISTILLUM. Germen lineare, piloſum. Stylus incurvatus, glaber. Stigma fimplex. PERICARPIUM. Legumen pedicellatum, com- preffum, obtufum, mucronatum, unilocu- lare, dorſo alatum. Semina, plurima, compreffa, reniformia. EMPALEMENT. Cup bell-ſhaped, five-toothed ; the three lower ſegments pointed, ſpread- ing; the two upper very large, obtuſe, preſſed to the ſtandard. Blossom butterfly-ſhaped. Standard, inverſely heart-ſhaped, notched at the end, upright, very large. Wings ſhorter than the ſtandard, obtuſe, half inverſely heart-ſhaped, toothed at the baſe. Keel, obtuſe, flattened, the length and fhape of the wings. CHives. Ten threads, united into a fheath, half cleft on the upper fide, ſeparate at the top, equal and turned upwards. Tips roundiſh, verſatile. POINTAL. Seed-bud linear, hairy. Shaft turned inwards, ſmooth. Summit fimple. SEED-VESSEL. Pod with a footſtalk, flattened, ob- tuſe, with a ſmall point, one-celled, winged along the back. Seeds many, flattened, kidney-ſhape. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Platylobium foliis ovatis, glabris; ramis ramu- Flat-pea with egg-ſhaped ſmooth leaves, larger liſque compreſſis, alatis, margine, cicatriſa- and ſmaller branches flat, winged and tis, floribus folitariis. hatched at the edges ; flowers folitary. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, natural fize. 2. The Standard of the bloſſom. 3. One of the Wings of the bloffom. 4. The two petals of the Keel. 5. The Chives and Pointal, with part of the cup, maguified. 6. The Seed-bud magnified. This Genus of plants was firſt named by Dr. Smith, in the Linn. Trans. Vol. II. 350, from the P. formofum, which he afterwards figured in the New-Holland ſpecimens, Tab. VI. Our ſpecies was introduced, to Britain, in the year 1792, by Meſſrs. Lee and Kennedy. It is a hardy green- houſe plant; but has not, hitherto, been increaſed in this country. It muſt be planted in very ſandy peat earth, and not much watered, in winter, as too much wet is apt to deſtroy it. The young branches, which in the old plant appear much more like leaves, (as ſeldom any leaves are produced from the upper part of the plant, after a certain age,) are very tender; but in time become as tough as leather, and are almoſt equally pliable. Our drawing was taken in May 1799, from a plant, we believe, the firſt that flowered in England, in the Hibbertian Collection. ЫГ АЛТова сого та сталаасаа тріар сард грн & SA 2 ANIC 4 Antholiza fulgens . Pub, at the Art Director hey PLATE CXCII. Α Ν Τ Η Ο L Y Z A F U LG EN S. Refulgent-flowered Antholyza. CLASS III. ORD ER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA tubuloſa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- Blossom tubular, irregular and bent backward. fula infera. Capſule beneath. See, ANTHOLYZA RINGENS, Pl. XXXII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antholyza floribus tubiformibus, curvatis, cocci- Antholyza with trumpet-ſhaped flowers, 'curved, neis, fulgentibus; laciniis corollæ maximis, ſcarlet, and refulgent; the ſegments of the patentibus; foliis longiſſimis, glabris, bafi bloſſom very large, ſpreading ; leaves very attenuatis. long, ſmooth, and tapered at the baſe. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Part of a Leaf, cut from the upper part. 2. The two ſheaths of the Empalement. 3. The Flower cut open, with the chives attached. 4. The Pointal and Seed-bud; one of the ſummits detached and magnified. This moſt beautiful genus does not poſſeſs amongſt its numerous ſpecies, (drawings of twenty-two of which we have) a rival to A. fulgens; whether, for the ſize of the plant, which grows to the height of three feet, or the extreme brilliancy of its bloſſoms, which frequently make a fpike near a foot in length. The roots ſhould not be taken from the pots, but ſhifted into freſh earth annually, which may be a compoſition of half fandy peat, and half loam, as the leaves do not decay, until freſh ones are produced. Our figure was taken at the Hammerſmith Nurſery, in May 1800, to which it was firſt brought, from the Cape of Good Hope, in 1792. It increaſes by the root. In a cotemporary, and ſomething ſimilar publication to our own, we were forry to obſerve, a riſing itch to do away, what, under the conduct of its original ſcientific proprietor, was allowed by all, to conſtitute its chief merit and utility; eſpecially to thoſe, “ who wiſh to become ſcientifically acquainted with the plants they cultivate." The late Mr. Curtis, purſuing the path he planned, with rigour, to prevent confuſion, and avoid as much as poſſible the greateſt difficulty of the ſcience; feldom altered a commonly known, or eſtabliſhed name; unleſs abſolutely neceſſary to ſyſtematic arrangement. We were naturally led to theſe obvious obſervations, from the hints thrown out in the laſt Number of the Bot. Mag. in which, the A. tubuloſa of all the collections, which poffefs the plant, and ſo named and figured by us, in the preceding Number of the Botaniſts Repoſitory, has a new generic and ſpecific title; and in which a gentleman “with INFINITE ſkill” of the name of Gawler, the acknowledged father of the innovation, is ſpoken of a s qualified to ſcrutinize and re&tify the “errors, falſe ſynonims, and blunders upon blunders, which have from carelessness, &c.” crept into the, of courſe, inſignificant labours of a Linnæus, a Jacquin, a Thunberg, a Willdenow, or a Curtis. It may perhaps be an acquiſition to the ſcience, that, fince ſuch confufion prevails amongſt the moſt learned Botanias," from their “ acknow- ledged inability to determine thoſe plants ;” which, nevertheless, they have all fooliſhly attempted to do, we have one at laſt, whoſe “ ſcrutinizing” eye “ has been able to make out all Linnæus's and even Thunberg's Species.” This elucidation, of ſo intricate a ſubject, by a perſon whoſe knowledge of living plants, we fear, does not lead him, ſcarcely, to an acquaintanceſhip with the difference of face in a Plane from a Poplar, muſt be matter of infinite moment, to thoſe, “ who wiſh to become acquainted with the plants they cultivate;" and the ſmall trouble, to moſt perſons, of learning new, and ouſting the old names for plants, which have been long rivetted to the memory by habitual uſe, will be amply compenſated, by the pleaſure of novelty, which muſt neceſſarily reſult, from the certain alteration in ſome part of the title, of every plant which has hitherto, or is to come under, this learned judge's dictatorial fiat. Our opinions, as do our labours, run counter to theſe new faſhions, of rendering a difficult ſcience eaſy; and our road muft ſtill be in the old track of the trifler Linnæus. А. YOUTMA therani, i is dimild Walankade en 1937703 feuntis Dossd Sot De elismo Plus asulat 1 2 4 3 Geranium linedre Priebe as the Ad Dista. Desde feridos PLATE . CXCIII. GERANIUM LINEARE. Linear-petalled Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. FRUCTUS roftratus, 5-coccus. One POINTAL. Five Summits. FRUIT furniſhed with long awns; five dry berries. See GERANIUM GRANDIFLORUM, PI.XII.Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. GERANIUM foliis lanceolatis, obtufis, ſubſinu- atis; petalis ſubæqualibus, linearibus ; flo- ribus pentandris; radice tuberoſa. GERANIUM with leaves lance-ſhaped, obtuſe, and a little ſcolloped at the edges; petals nearly equal, linear; flowers with five fer- tile chives; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its hollow ſtructure. 2. The Chives and Pointal natural fize. 3. The Chives ſpread open, magnified. 4. The Pointal, magnified. This is another of thoſe curious tuberous Geraniums, which have been introduced, to this country, by Mr. Niven; who was ſent to the Cape of Good Hope by G. Hibbert, Eſq. for the ſole purpoſe of enriching his Gardens and Herbarium, (now, we preſume, the firſt in Europe) with the vegetable pro- ductions of that country. It has no apparent difference, in habit, to require any other treatment than has been mentioned in the former part of this work, as neceſſary to the reſt of its congeners. Our drawing was taken, from the Clapham Collection, in July 1801; the roots having been received the preceding autumn CELYETLEIE SIDE 4 A 2 Hemerocallis alba the Art Direct Du WH Audena s drophisti PLATE CXCIV. HEMEROCALLIS ALBA. White Day-Lily. CLASS VI. ORD ER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA campanulata; tubo cylindrico. Sta- mina declinata. Blossom bell-ſhaped; tube cylindrical. Chives declining. See HEMEROCALLIS CÆRULEA, PI. VI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hemerocallis foliis cordatis, petiolatis; corolla alba, tubo longiſſimo. Day-Lily with heart-ſhaped leaves that have foot-ſtalks, bloſſom white, tube very long. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Chives and Pointal, as they are placed in the flower. 2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. 3. A ripe Seed-veffel of its natural fize. 4. The Seed-veſſel cut tranſverſely, to fhew the ſituation and number of the cells and valves. 5. A ripe Seed, natural fize. any The White Day-Lily is from the ſame country, and of the ſame date in our gardens, as the Blue; figured in the Firſt Vol. Pl. VI. and was introduced through the ſame medium. It is herbaceous, and generally flowers, if kept in the hot-houſe, about Auguft; having that true and conſtant character of the genus, and from which it had its name, the producing but one ſolitary, perfect flower, per diem, till all the bloſſoms on the ſpike are exhauſted; which, in this ſpecies, are much more abundant than in of the others. It is increaſed by the root or ſeed. This plant, we preſume, is the ſame as thoſe ſpecified under the different titles of Lilium Longi- florum, and L. Japonicum, in Willdenow's new edition of the Species Plant.; the L. candidum, and L. Japonicum, of Thunberg's Japan; and the L. Longiflorum of the Linn. Tranſ. Vol. II. P. 333. The Hemerocallis formerly figured by us, under the ſpecific title of Cærulea, we take to be, the Hemerocallis Japonica, and Lilium Cordifolium of Willdenow; the H. Cordata of Thunberg's Japan; and the Hemerocallis Japonica, and Lilium Cordifolium of the Linn. Tranſ. Vol. II. p. 332. Willde- now, who had never ſeen even dried ſpecimens of the plants in queſtion, has hence been led to place the ſame plant, under different genera; and to conſider the Hemerocallis of the Botaniſts Repoſitory, as only a variety of H. Japonica, but ſtill admitting it as an Hemerocallis. Now, as we have no doubt, (nor do we think any one can, that will take the trouble to examine the diffections given with each figure,) that if the one is an Hemerocallis, the other muſt be admitted of the ſame family; ſo, have we made no fcruple in rejecting the generic name of Lilium, for the preſent plant; although we would gladly have adopted the ſpecific one of Longiflora, had not that of Alba, already obtained ſo generally in our gardens; a rule, for our direction, paramount to all others as to ſpecific de- nomination. all 2010 3 2. Hypoxis oblique PLATE CXCV. H Y P Q XI S O B LI Q U A. Oblique-leaved Hypoxis. CLASS VI. ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA ſex-partita, perſiſtens, fupera. Cap- ſula baſi anguſtior. Spatha bivalvis. Blossom ſix-parted, remaining, above. Capſule narrower at the baſe. Sheath two-valved. See HYPOXIS STELLATA. Pl. CI. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hypoxis fcapo fubtrifloro, piloſo, longitudine foliorum; pedunculis flore triplo longiori- bus; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, oblique flexis, glabris; radice fibroſa. Hypoxis with moſtly three flowers on the ſtem, which is hairy, the length of the leaves ; foot-ſtalks three times the length of the flower; leaves linearly lance-ſhaped, ob- liquely bent downward, ſmooth ; root fibrous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Petal of the Bloſſoni, with its Chive, as attached to its baſe. 2. The Seed-bud, on its foot-ſtalk, with a part of the tube of the bloffom, to which the Chives are fixed. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified. This fpecies of Hypoxis is from the Cape of Good Hope; and, we believe, ſolely in the poſſeſſion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham; from whoſe collection our drawing was made, in June, this year, 1801. It appears to be a hardy green-houſe plant; but, is certainly more curious than handſome, and, from its general character, we ſhould judge the propagation would be from the root. Profeſſor Jacquin has given the Hypoxis Obliqua in his Icones Plantarum Rariorum, 2. t. 371; and in his Supplement to the Collectanea, 54; but, we muſt ſuppoſe from a more vigorous ſpecimen than ours; as, the appearance of a woolly character, at the margin of the leaves, was not to be traced in our plant, although every other part is exact. Wherefore, we have retained his name, though we have rejected the latter part of his ſpecific character, to introduce one, which we conſider, of more conſequence, as oppoſed to thoſe with bulbous roots, this being fibrous. 7 2 3 trov Saria maculata is Taylor PLATE CXCVI. I XIA MA CU L A T A. Spotted-flowered Ixia. CLASS III. ORD ER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives.One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-petala, patens, æqualis. STAMINA tria, erectiuſculo-patula. BLOSSOM 6 petals, ſpreading, equal. Chives three, upright, ſpreading. See IXIA REFLEXA, Pl. XIV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis enfiformibus, glabris, fcapo du- Ixia with fword-shaped, ſmooth leaves, half the plo brevioribus ; floribus alternis, ſub-fpi- length of the flower-ftem ; flowers alter- catis ; petalis bafi obfcuris, ovatis, con- nate, rather ſpiked; petals dark at the baſe, cavis; ftigmatibus bifidis. egg-ſhaped and concave; ſummits two- cleft. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two valves of the Empalement. 2. A Flower cut and ſpread open, with the Chives in their natural ſtation. 3. The Pointal complete, with one of the Summits detached and magnified. This Ixia has been long cultivated in Britain, fo ſays Millar, &c. but, till within theſe few years, we have not ſeen it in our gardens; perhaps it has been (like many others) loft to us, and recently intro- duced with the multitude of other ſpecies, which now decorate our green-houſes ; either from the Cape of Good Hope or Holland. It is one of the moſt deſirable of the genus, from the length of time it continues in flower; which is, at leaſt a month, from the firſt flowers beginning to expand. It increaſes by the bulb, and is to be cultivated as other common Ixias. Flowers in May or June, ATA feridoneitt 3 bot 2 Nymphea cærulea The Flat Resto de Acelours. N'S PLATE CXCVII. NYMPHÆ A CERULE A. Blue Water-Lily. CLASS XIII. ORDER I. POLY ANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. EMPALEMENT. Cup beneath, four leayed, large, coloured above, permanent. BLOSSOM. Petals numerous (often fifteen,) placed on the ſide of the feed-bud, in more than one row. CHIVES. Threads numerous (often feventy,) flat, curved, blunt, ſhort. Tips oblong, fixed to the margin of the threads. CALYX. Perianthium inferum, tetraphyllum, magnum, ſupra coloratum, perſiſtens. COROLLA. Petalâ numeroſa (quindecem fæpe,) germinis lateri inſidentia, ſerie plus quam fimplici. STAMINA. Filamenta numeroſa (ſeptuaginta ſæpe,) plana, curva, obtuſa, brevia. An- theræ oblongæ, filamentorum margini ad- nata. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, magnum. Stylus nullus. Stigma orbiculatum, planum, pel- tato-ſeſſile, radiis notatum, margine crena- tum, perſiſtens. PERICARPIUM. Bacca dura, ovata, carnoſa, ru- dis, collo anguftata apice coronata, multi- locularis (decem ad quindecem loculis,) pulpa plena. SEMINA plurina, ſubrotunda. none. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-ſhaped, large. Shaft, Summit round, flat, central, fitting, marked in rays, ſcolloped at the edge, re- maining SEED-VESSEL. Berry hard, egg-ſhaped, fleſhy, rough, narrowed at the neck, crowned at the top, many-celled (from ten to fifteen cells,) full of pulp. SEEDs many, roundiſh. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Nymphæa foliis cordato-orbiculatis, ſenioribus crenatis, lobis acutis imbricatis, acuminatis; petalis acutis, lanceolatis, cæruleis. Nymphæa with between heart-ſhaped and round leaves, the old ones ſcolloped, lobes ſharp, tiled, and tapered ; petals ſharp, lance- ſhaped, and blue. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Chive. 2. The Seed-bud and Summit. 3. The Seed-bud, cut tranſverſely, to fhew the number of cells. AMONGST aquatic or water plants, the Nymphæas are undoubtedly the moſt deſirable in cultivation; although, we ſhould agree to the excluſion of N. Nelumbo, &c. now forming a diſtinct genus in the Sp. Plant. of Willdenow; taken from Uſteri's Ed. of Juſſieu's Gen. Plant. claſſed from the natural characters, under the title of Nelumbium's. This plant may be kept in the green-houſe, or hot-houſe, in a large tub filled with water and a ſmall portion of mud at the bottom. It propagates by the root, and the flowers, which are extremely fragrant, are produced in Auguſt, in which month, this year, our drawing was made, from a large plant in the Hibbertian collection; but, from an omiffion in the figure, we were obliged to finiſh the plate from a plant, in the collection of J. Vere, Eſq. Ken- fington Gore, ſtill in flower, the beginning of October. The leaves of this ſpecies are moft beautifully ſcolloped, and near a foot in diameter; but the indentitions are ſcarcely to be perceived in the younger; one of which, as we could not introduce the larger, is fewn on the plate of the natural ſize. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. F. Maffon, about the year 1792. Таро - Мауи PO 1982 23 80 2 2 _Bauera rubroides Poate in the Aut Discotele -H Andaeos ? Sangharid PLATE CXCVIII. BAUERA RUBIOIDES. Three-leaved Bauera. CLASS XIII. ORD ER II. POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA. Many Chives. Two Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium octophyllum, foliolis per- fiftentibus, acuminatis, reflexis, dentatis. COROLLA. Petala octo, ovata, concava, paten- tia, æqualia, calyce majora. STAMINA. Filamenta numeroſa, capillaria, co- rolla breviora, receptaculo inſerta. An- theræ latiuſculæ, obtufæ, erectæ. PISTILLA. Germen ſubovatum, villoſum. Styli duo, filiformes, long, apice curvati. Stig- mata fimplicia. PERICARPIUM. Capſula fubrotunda, piloſa, ápice dehiſcens, bilocularis, bivalvis. SEMINA plurima, ſubrotunda. EMPALEMENT. Cup eight-leaved, remaining, leaflets tapered, reflexed, and toothed. BLOSSOM. Eight petals, egg-ſhaped, concave, ſpreading, equal, larger than the cup. Chives. Threads numerous, hair-like, ſhorter. than the bloffom, fixed into the receptacle. Tips broadiſh, obtuſe and erect. POINTALS. Seed-bud nearly egg-ſhaped, hairy. Shafts two, thread-ſhaped, long, curved at the ends. Summits ſimple. SEED-VESSEL. Capſule roundith, hairy, ſplit- ting at the top, two cells, two valves. Seeds many, roundifh. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Bauera foliis ternatis, apice dentatis, feffilibus, oppofitis. Bauera with leaves compoſed of three leaflets, toothed at the point, growing cloſe to the ſtem, and oppoſite. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, with the Chives and Pointal. 2. The Chives and Pointal magnified. 3. The Empalement, Seed-bud, Shafts, and Summits, magnified. 4. The Seed-bud cut tranſverſely, with the ſeeds in the cells, magnified, of a Rubus. This handſome fhrub, a native of Port Jackſon, New Holland, was firſt raiſed at the ſeat of the Hon, the Marchioneſs of Rockingham, Hillingdon, Middleſex, in the year 1793; and, from a plant, in the conſervatory, ſtill in flower, this preſent month November, our drawing was made, at the Nurſery, Hammerſmith. It is hardy, although delicate in ſtructure, and flouriſhes in the green-houſe. The ſtem of the plant from which our figure was taken, although the oldeſt in the kingdom, and near fix feet high, is ſcarce the thickneſs of a quill at the baſe, therefore muſt be ſupported. The young ſhoots and leaves are covered with a ſlight pile; the ſmaller branches ſtand out at right angles, pro- ceeding from the inſertion of the leaves, and the whole plant has, at firſt ſight, much the appearance It is propagated by cuttings, made in the month of March, and put under a ſmall bell- glaſs on the heat of a hot-bed; the cuttings ſhould be from the extreme ends of the young ſhoots. Sir J. Banks, Bart, P. R. S. &c. from whoſe natural genius and love for the ſcience, and by whoſe foſtering and liberal hand to promote it, the ſtudy of Botany has become ſo general a taſte; has named this genus, in honour of two moſt eminent Botanical painters, of the name of Bauer, natives of Germany, and brothers. The one, now under the immediate patronage of Sir Joſeph, as Botanical Painter to his Majeſty at Kew; well known for his ſuperb and excellent coloured engravings of Heaths, &c. in large folio. The younger confidered no leſs able, engaged under the ſame influence, with the other artiſts, &c. who are now upon the laſt expedition for diſcovery to the South Sea; but not equally known to Botaniſts, as the perſon who accompanied the late Dr. Sibthorpe, on his voyages through Greece; and whoſe pencil has produced all thoſe drawings, deſigned to decorate and illuſtrate the famous Flora Græca, preparing for the public, under the auſpices of the intelligent Dr. Smith, P. L. S. &c. &c. В Р В ТОВЕ 2 Plon How Camellia Japonica Var flere rubro plens. Pue as the Rat Ducots Gaeli HC Android 5 Ingolabile hanya PLATE CXCIX. CAMELLIA JAPONICA. Var. flo, rubro pleno. Double red Camellia. CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. of Schreber's 8th edit. of Gen. Plant. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx imbricatus, polyphyllus; foliolis interi- EMPALEMENT tiled, many-leaved; the inner leaf- oribus majoribus. lets the largeſt SPECIFIC CHARACTER OF VARIETY. Camellia foliis ſenioribus bafi attenuatis, juni- oribus rubentibus; petalis interioribus diva- ricato-erectis; floribus plenis, rubris. Camellia with the older leaves tapered at the baſe, the younger ones reddiſh; the inner petals ſtand upright ſpreading different ways; flowers double and red. AGAiN have we to call upon the indulgence of our Botanical friends for their ſufferance, in a third intruſion on the forms of our own preſcription. But, as we had given the two other varieties of this fine plant; and taking it for granted, by judging from our own feelings, that a figure of this very ſcarce variety would be agreeable to moſt; that they might be (by compariſon) able to decide upon the difference which does exiſt, but has been denied by many, between this, and the Striped Var. ; ſee our figure, Vol. II. Pl. XCI. It has been thought by moſt, who have not ſeen this plant; that it was but the Striped Var, which had loſt its variegation. This is certainly not the caſe; for, it ſtands as diſtinct from the Striped, as from the White variety; which may be readily traced, either from the plants themſelves, or our figures; by comparing the ſpecific, or rather differing character we have affigned to each. The Double red Camellia was introduced about the year 1794 from China, by R. Preſton, Eſq. Woodford, Effex. The largeſt plant now in Europe, of this variety, is in the ſelect and moſt valuable collection of the Hon. T. Greville, Eſq. Paddington, imported, laſt year, from China in the higheſt perfection. It is propagated by cuttings, or layers; and delights in a light, ſandy loam; with about one-third of the pot, from the bottom, filled with peat earth. It flowers from November, till February, in the Hot- houſe; or from January, till April, if kept in the Green-houſe. Our figure was taken, in November, this year, at the Hammerſmith Nurſery. до А. АІІІадо 225) саніталап аладо 200 人 ​Toys 2 Melaleuca hypericefolia Put » the Act Directed by H Animes . Voughlin PLATE CC. MELALEUCA HYPERICIFOLIA. St. John's-wort-leaved Melaleuca. CLASS XVIII. ORDER IV. . POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads in many Sets. Threads in many Sets. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx quinquefidus, ſemiſuperus. Petala quin- Cup five-cleft, half above. Petals five. Threads que. Filamenta multa, longiffima, connata numerous, very long, united into five bodies. in quinque corpora. Piftillum unum. Cap- Pointal one. Capſule three-celled. fula trilocularis. See MELALEUCA ERICÆFOLIA, PL. CLXXV. Vol. III. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Melaleuca foliis oppofitis, eliptico-oblongis, uni- nerviis; floribus confertis; filamentis lon- giſſimis, linearibus, apice radiato-multifidis, Melaleuca with oppoſite leaves, eliptic-oblong, one-nerved; flowers cluſtered; threads very long, linear, rayed and many-cleft at the top. 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 baſe, magnified 3. The cup, ſeed-bud, ſhaft and ſummit, natural fize, the ſummit detached and mag- nified. About the year 1792 this plant was firſt raiſed from feeds, by the late Mr. William Malcolm, Nurſeryman, at Stockwell, Surry; and was, from the very great reſemblance it bears to the St. John's- worts, ſo denominated, until it flowered. It has now become one of the commoneft, of what are generally termed, Botany Bay plants; yet unqueſtionably ranks with the handſomeft whether for its foliage, form of growth, or flowers, which are of a moſt beautiful red-purple, ſcarcely to be imitated in painting. The fingular manner in which the flower-ftem is thrown out, as it were, from the old wood, in a horizontal direction, is common to many other ſpecies of the Genus. It grows to the height of four or five feet; very erect in every part; is eaſily increaſed by cuttings, and thrives beſt in peat earth. Although it is ſaid to grow in ſwampy grounds in New South Wales, ſee Linnæan Tranſactions, Vol. III. p. 279, nevertheleſs, with us, a dry, or damp ſituation in the green-houſe, appears equally congenial to it. In the month of September 1799, our drawing was taken at the Confervatory of R. James, Eſq. Groſvenor Place, LO ก 1 4- e 2 5 5 PLATE CCI. AIZOON CAN ARIENSE. Purſlane-leaved Aizoon. CLASS XII. ORDER IV. ICOS ANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Five Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- partitum ; laciniis lanceolatis, perſiſtentibus. COROLLA nulla. STAMINA. Filamenta plurima, capillaria, finui calycis per phalanges in ſerta. Antheræ fimplices. PISTILLA. Germen pentagonum, fuperum. Stili quinque, ſimplices. Stigmata fimplicia. PERICARPIUM. Capſula ventricoſa, retuſa, pen- tagona, quinquelocularis, quinque valvis. SEMINA plura, ſubrotunda. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five-parted; ſeg- mnents lance-ſhaped, remaining. BLOSSOM none. CHives. Threads numerous, hair-like, inſerted into the hollow part of the cup in bunches. Tips ſinple. POINTALS. Seed-bud five-fided, above. Shafts five, ſimple. Summits ſimple. SEED-VESSEL. Capſule bellied, dented, five-ſided, five-celled, five-valyed. Seeds many, roundiſh. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Aizoon foliis cuneiformi-ovatis; floribus ſolita- riis, fubfeffilibus, axillaribus. Aizoon with leaves between wedge and egg-ſhaped; flowers folitary, growing almoſt cloſe to the ftem from the inſertion of the leaves. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement ſhewn from the inſide. 2. The ſame ſhewn from the outſide. 3. A Chive magnified. 4. The Pointals natural fize. 5. The ſame, magnified. This plant is herbaceous, and is found near the ſea coaſt, in moſt parts of the world, within the tropics. It has a character common to many Genera of the natural order of ſucculents, ſuch as Me- ſembryanthemum, Craſſula, &c. that of an indeterminate number of pointals; which, in this genus, extend from three, to five, on different plants; this circumſtance not having been fufficiently attended to has unfortunately occaſioned ſome confuſion. Brown in his Natural Hiſtory of Jamaica has deſcribed it as growing on that Illand, and with five pointals, therefore placed it to its right genus. Plumier, Sloane, &c. treated it as Portulaca, to which, as the genus now ſtands, it in no way affines. Læfling in his Iter Hiſpanicum, publiſhed in 1758, having found the plant in Spain with three pointals, immedi- ately placed it to another genus, Halimum; upon whoſe authority, corroborated by Jacquin, (who ac- knowledges a variation in the number of pointals, on different plants, found in the different Caribee Iſands,) Linnæus took up the plant, ſaid to have but three pointals, under the title Seſuvium. As to the plant ſaid to be cultivated by Miller in the Hort. Kew: under the laſt nanied genus, we have no difficulty in referring that, to the Aizoon canarienſe of the ſame work; as the time of flowering not being noticed, the diſtinction of character could not be obſerved, and the genus introduced, taken upon the gratis dictum of Miller. Burmann, in his Ed: of Rumphius's plants of Amboyna, has it as #a- limus; and Plukenet as Portulaca from Eaſt Indian ſpecimens; with numbers of other Botaniſts from different parts; as Ægypt, the Canary Iſlands, &c. &c. under different names. Seeds received from Spain of our plant were fown by Mr. Anderſon in 1793, at the gardens of J.Vere, Efq. Kenſington Gore; ſince which time, it has annually died to the ground, about November, and re-appeared in Spring; from this circumſtance, the great delicacy of the plant, and having been "treated as an annual, it has been repeatedly loſt to this country; though ſo conſtantly introduced, in almoſt every parcel of ſeeds which arrives from either the Eaſt or Weſt Indies. It may be increaſed by cuttings made early in the year, and put in a hot-bed to accelerate their growth, and ſhould be planted in rich loamy earth. It flowers from July till September. To preſerve it more than one year, it muſt be kept in the hot-houſe. 100 behar sana 2 UNA Sici Samyda serrulata Peab ma tha da Diretti PLATE CCII. SAMYDA SERRULATA. Sawed-leaved Samyda. CLASS X. ORDER I. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, interne coloratum; tubus campanulatus, decemſtri- atus; limbus quinquefidus, laciniis ovatis planis, patentiſſimis, obtufis, duabus acu- mine auctis. COROLLA nulla. Nectarium monophyllum, conicum, trun- catum, decemſtriatum, longitudine fere ca- lycis, ejuſque limbo ad bafin inſertum, ore obtuſe 10 ad 18-dentato. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, coloured within; tube bell-ſhaped, ten-ſtriped; border five- cleft, ſegments egg-ſhaped, ſmooth, very much ſpread, obtuſe, two lengthened by a pointed end. BLOSSOM none. Honey-cup, one leaf, conical, appearing cut off, ten-ſtriped, nearly the length of the cup and fixed to it at the baſe of the border, obtuſely from 10 to 18-toothed at the mouth. Chives. Threads none. Tips from 10 to 18, oblong, upright, ſmall, fixed to the teeth of honeycup. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-ſhaped. Shaft awl- fhaped, upright, the length of the honey- cup. Summit headed, blunt. SEED-VESSEL. Capſule roundiſh, four-furrowed, leathery, thick, one-celled, four valves, STAMINA. Filamenta nulla. Filamenta nulla. Antheræ decem ad octo-decem, oblongæ, erectæ, parvæ, dentibus nectarii inſidentes. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum. Stylus fubulatus, erectus, longitudine nectarii. Stigma ca- pitatum, obtuſum. PERICARPIUM. Capſula fubrotunda, quadriſul- cata, coriacea, craffa, unilocularis, quadri- valvis. SeminA plurima, ſubovata, obtuſa, baſi forami- nulo notata, valvulis affixa, obvoluta pelli- cula pulpoſa. Seeds many, nearly egg-ſhaped, blunt, marked with a ſmall hole at the baſe, fixed to the valves, ſurrounded with a ſlight pulpy fkin. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Samyda floribus roſeis, dodecandris; foliis ovato- oblongis, ſerrulatis. Samyda with roſy coloured flowers having twelve chives ; leaves between egg-ſhaped and ob- long, ſlightly fawed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, with its honey-cup, and the tips, cut and ſpread open. 2. The Pointal and feed-bud natural fize, the ſummit detached and magnified. 3. The Seed-bud cut tranſverſely and magnified, to fhew the number of valves and ſituation of the ſeeds. The Sawed-leaved Samyda is an inhabitant of moſt of the Weſt India Iſlands, but was received in England, about the year 1795, from the Iſland of St. Vincent; tranſmitted from thence, by Mr. An- derſon, curator of the Botanic garden, originally eſtabliſhed there, under the ſanction of our govern- ment, by Dr. Young. It is a very tender plant, grows to about three feet in height, making but few ſmall branches, and rather weak in the ſtem. Our drawing was taken in July this year at the gar- den of T. Evans, Eſq. Stepney, who we believe firſt had it to flower in this kingdom. It is propagated by cuttings; muſt be kept in the bark-bed of the hot-houſe, and ſhould be planted in very rich mould. & 2 1 5 3 ch * Iria columnaris Puis , as the fate Director forum hay H Audemers 5 Kenghts bring PLATE CCIII. IXIA COLUMNARIS. Columnar-chived Ixia. CLASS III. ORD ER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-petala, patens, æqualis. STIGMATA tria, erectiuſculo-patula. Blossom 6 petals, ſpreading, equal. SUMMITS three, upright-ſpreading. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia filamentis bafi cohærentibus; foribus capi- tatis; corollis purpureis. Ixia with threads united at the baſe; flowers grow in heads; bloſſoms purple. REFERENCE TO THE 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 ſpread open, with the tube of the bloſſom, magnified. 5. The Pointal and Seed-bud, with one of the Summits detached and magnified. Here we have a plant which preſents one of thoſe obſtacles, conſtantly met, in all attempts to a fyfte- matic arrangement of the productions of nature. Every feature of Ixia we find poſitively expreſſed, but in the unison of the Threads; a circumſtance, which Linnæus in his fyftem, always deemed of ſuch fingular moment, that a number of Genera have been formed, from this natural order of plants, hinging on this only character. But, as this plant has been named, and accurately deſcribed by Mr. Salisbury, in the Prodromus to his garden 36. n. 18; and continued, from him, by Profeſſor Martyn, in his Edit. of Miller's Dict. article Ixia, 50; in the following therefore ſuch ſuperiour judgments to our own, we have thought it proper, not to make any alteration, and in conſequence, have retained his Generic and Specific title. The extreme brilliance of the flowers of Ixia Columnaris, pervading all the varieties, (of which we have drawings of 6,) is not exceeded by any in the whole Genus; they generally, are not longer ex- panded than for about four hours, and that only under a hot fun; from about eight, till twelve o'clock; when they cloſe for the day; but nevertheleſs they have a permanence not uſual in Ixias, as the ſame bloſſoms will open diurnally for above a week. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and came firſt to England, by the way of Holland, about the year 1794. It flowers in June and July, amongſt the lateſt of the tribe, and increaſes by the root in abundance. Our figure was taken at the Hammer- ſmith Nurſery 1 2 SMG 3 low Geranium laciniatum Var flore purpures. Put us the Ad Donne Kraight H Hanrema hy PLATE CCIV. GERANIUM LACINIATUM. Var. ftore purpureo. , Ragged-leaved Geranium. Purple flowered Variety. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fructus roftratus, penta-coccus. One POINTAL. Five ſummits. FRUIT furniſhed with long awns; five dry berries. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. GERANIUM foliis radicalibus, integris laciniatif- que, petiolis filiformibus; calycibus mono- phillis; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus; radice tuberoſa; floribus purpureis. GERANIUM with leaves growing from the root, entire and jagged, footſtalks thread-ſhaped; cups one-leaved; five fertile chives; root tuberous; flowers purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. The Chives ſpread open. 3. The Pointal and feed-bud magnified. THIS very handſome variety, (for we cannot conſider it as a ſpecies,) of the Geranium laciniatum, was imported in 1800, from the Cape of Good Hope, by G. Hibbert Eſq. ; in whoſe collection it flowered, laſt year, in the month of June, when our drawing was taken; and we believe it is in no other at preſent in this kingdom. Mr. Allen, under whoſe care that collection is preſerved in ſuch high order and perfection, and to whoſe kind communications, we are much indebted; informs us, that he has not, as yet, been able to increaſe it; but, from every appearance, the plant, he has no doubt, may, by the root, as are the other ſpecies which have the tuberous character; and that he did not treat it differently from the reſt of the Geraniums which compoſe this branch of that intereſting family. MUTTA poo MUTAJOMULOJYTAN រូវ be GIN 104 6 2 8 Platylobium lanocolatum. Put as the Art Darreld - Andreas Sinaloa PLATE CCV. PLATYLOBIUM LANCEOLATUM. Lance-ſhaped-leaved Flat-pea. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives in two Sets. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX campanulatus, quinquefidus; laciniis Cup bell-ſhaped, five-cleft; the two upper feg- duabus fupremis maximis, obtufis. Stamina ments very large and obtuſe. Chives all omnia coalita. Legumen pedicellatum, com- united. Pod on a footſtalk, compreſſed, preffum, dorſo alatum; polyfpermum. winged along the back; many feeded. See Plate CXCI. Vol. III. PLATYLOBIUM SCOLOPENDRUM. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Platylobium foliis glaberrimis, diſtichis, lineari- Flat-Pea with very ſmooth leaves pointing oppo- lanceolatis; floribus folitariis, axillaribus ; ſite ways, linear-lance ſhaped; flowers grow ramis junioribus fub-compreſſis. ſolitary from the lower part of the leaves cloſe to the branches; the younger branches are rather flatiſh. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement of the flower. 2. The Standard, or upper petal of the bloſſom. 3, One of the Wings, or fide petals of the bloſſom. 4. The two lower Petals, or keel of the bloffom. 5. The Chives, natural fize. 6. The ſame, magnified. 7. The Seed-bud, natural fize. 8. The fame magnified, but rather more mature. No Claſs, amongſt the 24, is more diftin& in its natural character than Diadelphia; yet, fince the dif covery of New South Wales, no one has preſented more difficulty to the botanist. From the great number of plants of that country, appertaining to this Claſs, and the ſtrong differing characters which moſt of them exhibit, ſuch indeed, as might formerly have been thought of fufficient moment to conſti- tute new Genera; many muſt now bend a little for the eaſe of ſcience; or otherwiſe they will in a ſhort time become doubled in number; a matter of no ſmall moment to weak although willing memories. Our having placed the P. ſcolopendrum of this Volume, Pl. CXCI., and our preſent plant to the Genus Platylobium, is the occaſion of the above prelude; as it may be thought by ſome who have not ſeen the feed veſſel and feeds, the principal parts upon which the Genus is founded, that nature is a little out- raged in ſo doing; but, without we had fo joined them, we muſt have given them a new title. This plant was introduced at the ſame time as the P. ſcolopendrum, and the three other ſpecies now in Bri- tain; not one of them, but has baffled all our moſt experienced cultivators to increaſe it, by any other mode than from the feed; ſome of which has been procured from the P. formoſum, only. They all require to be kept in the dryeſt part of the green-houſe, as they are impatient of damp. Our drawing was made in November 1801, at the Nurſery of Meſſrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith, by whom it was firſt raiſed in 1792. The general height of the Platylobiums, is about three feet and a half, at moſt, in this country, and they do not form buſhy ſhrubs. They require a light, ſandy peat foil, with rather. leſs root room, than is in general neceſſary for plants of equal fize. MUTATOIDONTATO 5 1 4 2 UN 3 106 Dracana borealis the Hot lovito teb, 10802 PLATE CCVI. DRACÆNA B O R E A LI S. Oval-leaved Dracena. CLASS VI. ORDER' I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX nullus. COROLLA. Petala ſex, oblonga, erectiuſcula, æqualia, unguibus cohærentia. STAMINA. Filamenta ſex, unguibus inſerta, fubulata, medio craffiora, baſi membra- nacea, longitudine vix corollæ. Antheræ oblongæ, incumbentes. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, ſexſtriatum. Sty- lus filiformis, longitudine ſtaminium. Stig- ma trifidum, obtuſum. PERICARPIUM. Bacca ovata, ſexſulcata, trilocu- laris. SEMINA ſolitaria, ovato-oblonga, apice incurvata. EMPALEMENT none. BLOSSOM. Petals fix, oblong, rather upright, equal, cohering by the claws. Chives. Threads fix, inſerted into the claws, awl-ſhaped, thicker about the middle, ſkinny at the baſe, almoſt the length of the bloſſom. Tips oblong, incumbent. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-ſhaped, fix-ſtreaked. Shaft thread-ſhaped, the length of the chives. Summit three-cleft, obtuſe. Seed-vesSEL. Berry egg-ſhaped, fix-furrowed, three-celled. Seeds folitary, oblong-egg-ſhaped, turned in- ward at the end. Obs. The Character is very near Aſparagus, the habit different. Obs. Character fere Aſparagi, habitus diverſus. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Dracæná, herbacea, ſubcauleſcens, foliis elip- ticis. Dracæna, herbaceous, rather aſpiring to a ſtem, leaves eliptic. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Petal with its chive. 2. A Chive, magnified. 3. The Pointal, magnified. 4. A ripe Berry. 5. The ſame, cut tranſverſely. About the year 1776, this plant was firſt received in England, by Meſſrs Lee and Kennedy from Montreal, Canada, N. America. It is a native of all the northern parts of that country, as far as New England; propagates itſelf by the root, and flowers in July. It will not thrive but on a fhady border, which ſhould be made of light ſandy peat. Much we revere the name of Solander, and highly rate his merit as a Botaniſt; yet we cannot for- bear ſtating our diffent from the arrangement of this plant, as a Dracæna, certainly nothing can be more diffimilar, in every part; this may be eaſily traced by comparing our figure and diffections, as connected with the Generic character. The whole natural habit of the plant, points out Convallaria for its genus, to which it is much nearer allied than Dracæna, even in the ſexual characters. How- ever, we only ſtate our opinions, without even thinking of change, as the plant is known as Dracæna, having been figured and deſcribed in the Firſt Vol. of the Kew Catalogue, page 454, under the pre- fent title. gu - 207 3 2 SHTE 4 5 Mimosa longifolia 13 e Ad Direels, jur. Jo Andreas M PLATE CCVII. MIMOSA LONGIFOLIA. Long-leaved Mimoſa. CLASS XXIII. ORDER I. POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Various diſpoſitions. Upon one Plant. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Hermaphrod. Calyx 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. 5 ſeu plura. Pist. 1. Legumen. Maſcul. CALYX 5 dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. 5, 10, plura. Hermaph. Cup five-toothed. Bloſs. 5-cleft. Chives 5 or more. Pointal one. A pod. Male Cup 5-toothed Bloſs. 5-cleft. Chives 5, 10, or more. See MIMOSA STRICTA. PI. LIII. VOL. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Mimoſa foliis integris longiffimis, utrinque gla- bris, obtufis; capituli geminati, racemofi, longiffimi, oppofiti, lutei, ſubcernui. Mimoſa with entire; very long leaves, ſmooth on both ſides and blunt; flower heads grow by pairs in very long bunches oppoſite to each other, yellow and rather nodding. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower, magnified, ſhewn fideways. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Bloſſom, magnified. 4. A Chive, magnified. 5. The Pointal, magnified. About the year 1792 J. Ord, Eſq. of Purfers Croſs, Fulham, received the ſeeds of this Mimoſa from New South Wales; the plants were raiſed, the enſuing year, by Mr. White, who has managed, much to his credit, the ſelect collection of that Gentleman near 20 years, and who obligingly ſent us a fine fpecimen in March 1801, taken from a plant near 18 feet in height. Of the Mimoſas now in Britain, we think, this ſpecies is likely to exceed them all in height; making a very handſome plant; and moſt beautiful at the ſeaſon when covered with its long pendulous bunches of flowers. It is increaſed by cuttings, but with difficulty; and, as yet, feeds have not been perfected in this country. A light ſandy earth is what it thrives in moſt, but it will grow in almoſt any ſoil. ORAL NA Pl. 208 100 3 2 5 4 Lasiopetalum ferrugineum PLATE CCVIII. LASIOPETALUM FERRUGINEUM. Ruſty Woolly-bloſſom. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX, Perianthium triphyllum, foliolis fubu- latis, tomentofis, perfiftentibus, ferrugino- fis. COROLLA monopetala, rotata, lanuginoſa, quin- quefida; laciniis ovatis, apicibus acutis, in- curvatis. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, brevia, erecta, germinis bafi affixa. Antheræ erectæ, dorſo bilobæ, apice poris duobus. EMPALEMENT. Cup three-leaved, leaflets awl- ſhaped, downy, permanent, and of a ruſty iron colour. BLOSSOM, one petal, wheel-ſhaped, woolly, and five-cleft; ſegments egg-thaped, ſharp pointed and incurved at the point. CHIVES. Threads five, ſhort, upright, fixed to the baſe of the ſeed-bud. Tips upright, two- lobed at the back, and two pores at the point. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, fuperum. Stylus minutus, filiformis, erectus. Stigma ob- foletum. PERICÁRPIUM. Capſula ſubrotunda, ſupera, tri. ſulcata, trilocularis, trivalvis, diffepimen- tis e medio valvularum. SEMINA numeroſa, fubrotunda. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-ſhaped, above. Shaft ſmall, thread-1haped, upright. Summit obſolete, SEED-VESSEL. Capſule roundiſh, above, three- furrowed, three cells, three valves, parti- tions from the middle of the valves. SEEDs numerous, roundith. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Laſiopetalum foliis fublinearibus, obtufis, ine- Woolly bloſſom with nearly linear leaves, blunt, qualiter finuatis, fupra glabris, fubtus lanu- unequally indented, ſmooth above, woolly ginofis; Aloribus racemofis, axillaribus. beneath; flowers grow in long bunches from the inſertion of the leaves into the ftem. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Bloſſom. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. A Chive, magnified. 5. The Pointal. 6. The ſame magnified. The ſingularity of this plant recommends it to our notice, rather than its beauty. It is a native of New South Wales, near Port Jackſon, and is found in marſhy grounds; where its branches are ſeen to extend many yards, embracing all the under ſhrubs they meet; they ſeldom exceed the fize of ſmall twine, but are exceeding tough. The whole plant, when old, has a dirty or ruſty brown ap- pearance, the leaves becoming very ſmall and narrow; although from culture in this country, we have ſeen the leaves, on ſome plants, near an inch in breadth, and three in length. For the Generic and Specific titles of this plant we are indebted to Dr. Smith, P. L. S. &c. and we do not think more appro- priate ones could have been invented. The giving ſpecific names and characters to plants, where only one has been diſcovered of the Genus, although a little from Linnæan principles, we muſt confeſs accords with our ideas; for, although, to compare is neceſſary to diſtinctive difference; yet, if the moſt oftenſible, and novel appearance of the parts, are taken from the firſt diſcovered plant, for the ſpecific character; there is no more danger of confuſion, from any addition to the Genus, than if no ſuch obſervations had been made; for, what muſt in future be taken as fpecific diftinction muſt ariſe from an oppoſition to the firſt plant on which the Genus was founded: wherefore we have adopted this manner, from the commencement of the work. This plant was firſt raiſed at the Ham- merſmith Nurſery, from ſeeds received from New South Wales in 1791. It is propagated by cuttings taken from the young ſhoots, in April; ſhould be planted in very ſandy peat earth, and kept very dry in winter. It is in flower nearly the whole year. 1 2 6 Balog 7. TORS 8 Geranium melananthum. Pod, as the Set Directa K finderseri 5 Kematian try PLATE CCIX. GERANIUM MELANANTHUM. Black-flowered Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. . MONADELPHIA DE CANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives, ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Frudus rof- tratus, penta-coccus. ONE POINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furniſhed with long awns, five dry berries. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis lobatis integriſque, hiſpidis, ob- tuſis; calycibus monophyllis, laciniis line- aribus; floribus nigricantibus, dioicis; ra- dice tuberoſa. Geranium with lobed, and entire leaves, hairy and obtuſe; cups one leaved, ſegments li- near; flowers blackiſh, with the chives and pointals diſtinct; root tuberous, REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, natural fize, the tube cut open. 2. The Chives of a male bloſſom, natural fize. 3. The ſame, cut open and magnified. 4. The abortive Pointal of a male bloſſom, natural fize. 5. The fame, magnified. 6. The abortive Chives of a female bloſſom, natural fiže. 7. The ſame, magnified. 8. The Pointal of a female bloſſom, magnified. . This ſpecies of Geranium has been given by Profeſſor Jacquin in his Icon: rar. 514, and his Collec- tanea 4. 188; from him, we find it collated by Profeſſor Martyn into his Edit. of Miller's Dict. under the article Pelargonium, 59. But, as no notice has been taken by Jacquin of ſo remarkable a circum- ſtance as this ſpecies being Dioecious, or with male and female flowers on different plants; we may be led to ſuppoſe, that it has not flowered in Germany; or that the ſpecimens he had ſeen, were from male plants, as he numbers the fertile chives as five, which could not have been diſcovered from a female ſpecimen. Of five plants we had the good fortune to examine, which were all in flower at the fame time, the roots of which had been imported from the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1793; three were male, with five fertile tips, the pointals obſolete; and two female, without the leaſt trace of a tip, in either bloſſom, or bud. As the tips frequently fall upon the expanſion of the flower, in many ſpe- cies, the bud is the only ſure fitus whence to determine this character. It is increaſed from ſeed, pro- cured from female plants only, which are much more unfrequent than the male; likewiſe from the roots, which, (like to thoſe of moſt of the ſpecies forming this link of the Genus,) are tuberous; form- ing ſmall bulbs of unequal fizes, connected to the main root by flight radicles, and at a little diſtance from it: which, indeed, is the reaſon we have not adopted the term rapaceous, or turnip rooted, although it is a character which has been applied to them by very able Botaniſts, yet we think unad- viſedly, or from their not having had the opportunity of examining them cloſely; as, we preſume, this term cannot with propriety be given to any root which is compoſed of more than one body, as are the Turnip, Carrot, Parſnip, Radith, &c. where it applies. It muſt be planted in light peat earth, and kept in the dryeft part of the green-houſe, 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 Collection, MORTEM MUITATS TVZ a MARGRYONE P1,2 2 UNIG 3 4 I Anthelyza Olthopica by Helmisetas e Biaspbell PLATE CCX. ANTHOLYZA ÆTHIOPICA. Broad-leaved Antholyza. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA tubuloſa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- fula infera. Blossom tubular, irregular, and bent backward. Capſule beneath. See ANTHOLYZA RINGENS, Pl. XXXII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antholyza foliis foribuſque diſtichis; lacinia ſumma corolla recta, ſpathulata, baſi fer- rata; fpathis rigidis, adpreſlis. Antholyza with the leaves as well as the flowers pointing oppoſite ways; the upper ſegment of the bloſſom ſtraight, ſpathula-thaped, and ſawed at the baſe; fheaths harſh and preſſed to the blofſoms. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The whole plant, upon a diminiſhed ſcale. 2. The Einpalement. 3. A Bloffom cut open, with the chives remaining. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits. This very handſome Antholyza, which is ſeen ſo ſeldom to flower, in this kingdom, has been long an inhabitant of our gardens. So long ago as 1759, it is ſaid to have been cultivated by Miller; and from the firm and hardy character of the root, we ſhould queſtion its having been ſince that period, ever, like many others of this natural order, loft to us. The unfrequency of its flowering has, per- haps, occaſioned the inattention, which is in general ſhewn to its cultivation; though moſt collectors poſſeſs the bulbs, few have ſeen their flowers. Our figure was taken in the month of July, this year, from a plant in the collection of T. Evans, Eſq. Stepney. It is increaſed from the roots, which ſhould be removed from the pots in July, and replanted the end of October. We have not been able to procure any certain data on which to give directions to inſure its flowering; but the plant in queſtion, was planted in a very large pot, the earth was a compound of light 'peat one part, ftiff loam one part, and old rotten dung one part. It has been thought by ſome, that the Antholyza we have figured in the Botaniſt's Repoſitory, Plate XXXI. was the A. Æthiopica of Linnæus, &c; but, we have given it as a broad-leaved variety of the A ringens of that author, as we have a drawing of the Narrow leaved Var: taken from a living plant, to which, as well as to our preſent figure, it much affines; and, we are led to think, natural order would not be much violated, if we had treated them all as varieties of one fpecies. ALOITTA LOGIN AM care કે, Oh AM betaald 2 1 5 SHTE TOH Ixcia columnaris Var. verselor Pile an die Al Detedailart!) lory PLATE CCXI. IXIA COLUMNARIS. Var. versicolor. Columnar-leaved Ixia. Changeable-coloured var. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata tria, erectiuſculo-patula. Blossom 6-petals, ſpreading, equal. Summits three, upright-ſpreading. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia filamentis bafi cohærentibus; floribus ſub- capitatis; corollis verſicoloribus. Ixia with threads united at the baſe; flowers grow nearly in heads; bloſſoms change- able-coloured. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Bloſſom ſpread open. 3. The Seed bud, with the Chives, as they ſtand upon the mouth of the bloſſom; the petals being cut off, and the ſummits as they appear through the tips, the whole magnified. 4. The Threads cut open, magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, magnified. This moſt 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 bloſſom 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 ſkill; the beſt that can be done is but a faint imitation. The roots of this plant are rather more delicate than the other varieties of this ſpecies. BAUJO be boots A west 32 2 2. 6 3 Towe Pogonia debilis by H Audenį PLATE CCXII. POGONIA DEBILI S. Slender-ſtemed Pogonia. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium pentaphyllum perfiftens ; foliolis lanceolatis, erectis, acutis, apicibus reflexis. COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis, tubus cylindricus, longitudine calycis, ore villis clauſo; limbus ſemiquinquefidus, laciniis concavis, acutis. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, tubo fupra me- dium inferta. Antheræ erectæ, fagittatæ, intra faucem. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum. Stylus filifor- mis, apice parum curvatus, longitudine tubi, perſiſtens. Stigma concavum, PERICARPIUM. Bacca ovata, compreſſa, calyci EMPALEMENT. Cup five - leaved, permanent; leaflets lance-ſhaped, upright, pointed, and reflexed at the ends. Blossom one petal, funnel-ſhaped, tube cylin- drical, the length of the cup, the mouth cloſed with ſoft hairs; border half five- cleft; ſegments concave and pointed. CHives. Threads five, inſerted into the tube above the middle. Tips upright, arrow- ſhaped, within the mouth. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-ſhaped. Shaft thread- ſhaped, a little curved at the end, the length of the tube, remaining. Summit concave. SEED-VESSEL. An egg-ſhaped, flattened berry, growing to the cup. Seed. A four-celled nut, thell very hard; ker- nels oblong. accreta. Semen. Nux quadrilocularis, putamine duriſli- mo; nuclei oblongi. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pogonia foliis lanceolatis, apicibus fæpe ſerrula- Pogonia with lance-thaped leaves, often flightly tis, diſtichis; floribus folitariis, axillaribus, ſawed at the ends, and pointing oppoſite cæruleis; cortice ſcabroſa. ways; flowers folitary, growing from the inſertion of the leaves into the ftem, and blue; bark rough. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives as they ſtand in the bloſſom. 3. A Chive, magnified. 4. The Pointal. 5. Summit, with part of the Shaft, magnified. 6. The Cup, with the ripe Berry, the ſhaft remaining, and the cup a little enlarged. 7. A Berry cut tranſverfly, to fhew the ſituation of the kernels in the cells. The Pogonia here figured, is the only one of the genus we at preſent poffefs; it is a native of Port Jackſon, New South Wales, and was firſt tranſmitted to England, by Col. Paterſon, in the year 1793. It is a climbing plant, the branches acquiring a conſiderable length, the bark being covered with fmall tubercles, like glands, and the younger branches covered, their whole length, with bloſſoms. Although this is not to be reckoned amongſt the handſomeſt of the productions of that country, yet, from the lively colour of the flowers, the profuſion of them which the plant produces, and their con- tinued ſucceſſion, from April, till September, it muſt be conſidered as a valuable addition to the ſmall number of fcandent plants, as yet in our green-houſes; more particularly at the preſent.juncture, when, from faſhion, a trellis has become a neceiſary appendage to them. It is propagated from the ſeeds, which ripen in this country; as well as from cuttings, which ſhould be made in May, and kept in the heat of a cucumber-frame, or hot-houſe, till they are rooted. It is grown beſt in ſandy peat. Our figure was taken at the Hammerſmith Nurſery, where it was firſt raiſed in this kingdom. The name, Pogonia, is derived from the appearance of the mouth of the flower which is bearded ; Ilwywvlov, Pogonion, fignifying a little beard. 2TIAM *** n 3 G 5 2 1 4 JAI love Icias columnaris benighet Kti PLATE CCXIII. IXIA COLUMNARIS. Var. latifolia. Columnar-chived Ixia. Broad-leaved var. CLASS III. ORD ER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata tria, erectiuſculo-patula. BLOSSOM 6-petals, ſpreading, equal. Summits three, upright-ſpreading. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Ixia filamentis bafi cohærentibus; floribus ſub- capitatis; corollis pallide cæruleis; foliis la- tioribus, falcatis. Ixia with threads cohering at the baſe; flowers grow nearly in heads; bloſſoms pale-blue; leaves broader, fcymitar ſhaped. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Einpalement. 2. A Bloſſom cut open, with the chives remaining attached. 3. The Tube of a bloſſom, with the chives, the petals cut off. 4. The ſame, cut open and magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; the ſummits detached and magnified. The variety here given, was introduced to England, with the changeable-flowered variety, in 1799, from Holland. It is the ſtrongeſt marked variety of the fix we poffeſs; it flowers in May. The petals of this variety are remarkably thick at the inſertion into the tube, and have a ſoft, beautiful brown on the outſide, when the flower is cloſed, which ſtill is never ſo fully ſo, but a ſmall margin of the blue appears; which gives them a moſt beautiful appearance in that ſtate. No particular regime is neceſſary to this plant, more than what is neceſſary to all the common ſpecies. AVA ELEME WA W VA ( 2014 4 Westerngia rosmarinacea Code as flor del Drive Mardi 13 by A Autocunt Maugh PLATE CCXIV. WESTERINGIA ROSMARINACEA. Roſemary-like Weſteringia. CLASS IT. ORD ER I. DI ANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, fub-cy- lindricum, erectum, perſiſtens, quinqueden- tatum, æquale; bracteis binis ſuffultum. COROLLA monopetala; petalum tubulatum ca- lyce paulo longius; limbus patens, quinque- partitus, ſub-æqualis; laciniis duabus ſupe- rioribus emarginatis. STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, filiformia, fauci tubi inſerta, quorum duo fuperiora lon- giora, fertilia; duo breviora ſterilia. An- theræ loculis oblongis, duæ fuperiores de- pendentes; duæ inferiores erectæ, ſagittatæ, ſquamiformes. EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leaf, nearly cylindrical, upright, remaining, five - toothed, equal; ſupported by two leaflets, BLOSSOM one petal; petal tubular, rather longer than the cup; border fpreading, five-di- vided, nearly equal; the two upper ſeg- ments notched at the end. Chives. Four threads, thread-fhaped, inſerted into the mouth of the tube, of which the two upper ones are longer, and fertile; two forter, and ſterile. Tips with oblong cells, the two upper ones hang down; the two lower are upright, arrow-ſhaped, and like thin feales. POINTAL. Seed-bud four-ſided Shaft thread- ſhaped, a little curved, the length of the tube. Summit two-cleft, reflexed. SEED-Vessel none. Cup containing the ſeeds at the bottom SEEDS four, oval. PISTILLUM Germen tetragonum. Stylus fili- formis, parum curvatus, longitudine tubi. Stigma bifidum, reflexum. PERICARPIUM nullum. Calyx in fundo ſemina continens, SEMINA quatuor, ovalia. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Wetteringia foliis verticillatis, ſub-linearibus, acutis, ſubtus ſericeis; floribus axillaribus, fpicatis. Weſteringia with leaves growing in whoris, nearly linear, pointed and filky underneath; flowers grow from the baſe of the leaves cloſe to the ſtem, in ſpikes. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, with the two props attached to the baſe. 2. A Flower ſpread open, with the chives in their place, magnified. 3. The Pointal, natural fize. 4. The fame magnified. The preſent plant was introduced to our gardens, in the year 1791, from New South Wales, by Mefl. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerſmith. It was firſt named Cunila verticillata, and, from what we can judge, it might, without much forcing of the characters of the genus, have been ſo continued; but our opinions ſhall always give way, when the deciſion is paft from ſuch ſuperior talents as thoſe of Dr. Smith; by whom it has been thought to poiſeſs a ſufficiency of diſtinctive character, on which to form a new genus, under the title it here bears. It is a bufhy ſhrub, grows to the height of three feet, the branches ftanding out almoſt horizontally, in whorls, and the whole plant bearing a great reſemblance to the Roſemary. ſemary. It is propagated by cuttings made in March from the end of the ſmall branches; approves moft of light ſandy peat, and is in flower from March till November. The whole plant is fcentleſs. MEGLETACEONE YEY Plans MUHOI MULINS HO SHIMSB siniscatorias TXA 9 dog estiloolata NIE aupaitis civision is one congo Sigbawah bladwerp van - الان 10 2 1 Sabothrium valignum PLATE CCXV. EMBOTHRIUM SALIGNUM. Willow-like Embothrium. CLASS IV. ORDER I. TETRANDRIA MONOG YNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx nullus. Cor. tetrapetala. Stamina limbo Empalement none. Blofl. four-petalled. Chives petalorum inferta. Folliculus polyſpermus. inſerted into the limb of the petals. One- Sem. alata. celled-pod, many feeded. Seeds winged. See EMBOTHRIUM SERICEUM, Pl. C. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Embothrium foliis lanceolatis, uninervis, utrinque glaberrimis ; umbellulis axillaribus ; corollis fubalbidis. Embothrium with lance-ſhaped leaves, one nerved, very ſmooth on both ſides ; the ſmall umbels of flowers grow from the inſertion of the leaves into the ſtem ; bloſſoms whitiſh. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower complete, with the ſummit relieved from the petals, magnified. 2. The ſame with the ſummit yet reſtrained by the petals. 3. One petal with the tip, magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. This Genus, if we may judge from what we already poſſeſs, amounting to 6 ſpecies, promiſes to furniſh an ample feaſt for Botaniſts; for we have no doubt, but the ſpecies are as numerous as of any one from New Holland. The Willow-like Embothrium makes a very handſome buſhy green-houſe plant ; the leaves are not ſubject to damp, and the ſtem acquires the height of 5 or 6 feet. It flowers about May, and from the manner in which the leaves rather fall downwards, from their inſertion, leaving the bunches of flowers fully expoſed, at their baſe, it has a very pictureſque appearance, as the whole plant is ſometimes covered with blofſoms. It thrives beſt in ſandy peat earth, and is increaſed by cut- tings, made about March, or April, and placed in the heat of the Hot-houſe, or a cucumber frame, Our figure was taken at the Hammerſmith Nurſery ; where, it was firſt raiſed from ſeeds, in the year 1791. МНИОТНе утоа SOLVE painonpudo ligt at han fasad toibeondra orgiba TEL 76/hto hoje esa di yo land free del balle que 2 1 tion Duh in the Art Directs Epidendrum senses PLATE CCXVI. EPIDENDRUM SI ENSE. Chineſe Epidendrur. CLASS XX. ORD ER I. GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. NECTARIUM turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. IL Honey-cup top-ſhaped, oblique and reflexec See Plate XIII. Vol. I. EPIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Epidendrum foliis enfiformibus, nervofis, radica- Epidendrum with ſword-ſhaped leaves, nerved, libus; nectario revoluto, punctato; petalis and growing from the root; honey-cup rolled ftriatis. back, and dotted; petals ſtriped. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower, one of the petals and the honey-cup cut off'; to fhew the ſituation, and place of the parts of fructification. 2. The Honey-cup. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, Summit, and Chives; the ſmall hood which covers the Chives, lifted up. . This long genus of plants, ſo little known hitherto, but in our books, bids fair to become one of the greateſt ornaments of our hot-houſes; 20 ſpecies we already enumerate, in the different collections in the vicinity of London; one of which, the preſent plant, has not flowered in this kingdom, till this year, although introduced, ſo long ago as 1793, by the late J. Slater, Eſq. of Layton-ſtone; at the ſame 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 ſpring of the ſame year, in the Conſervatory built on pur- poſe for the protection of Chineſe plants, and where they flouriſh to a degree, not ſeen before in this country, in the garden of G. Hibbert Eſq. Clapham common. It is propagated by offsets, from the root; is rather a hardy hot-houſe plant; and thrives moſt in a mixture of ſandy loam, and peat; about one fourth of the loam, and three fourths peat, or leaf-mould. Upon the firſt obſervation of this plant, we were inclined to think it the ſpecies deſigned by Thun. berg in his Icon. Plant. Japon. 28, under the Genus Limodorum ; and afterwards, altered by him, in the Linnæan Tranf. Vol. ii. p. 327, to Epidendrum ftriatum. But upon cloſe examination of it, as ana fwering his deſcriptions, &c. we cannot but think it, if not a different ſpecies, at leaſt a very ſtrong 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 ſeen it. If we were to decide on the ſubject, it ſhould be to place both that and this plant again to Limodorum; to which, they hold greater affinity than to Epidendrum; bat indeed, we have an opinion, that one title might readily ſerve for the plants conſtituting both genera. PROPERTY OF PARKE, DAVIS & CO. n DATE DUE PROPERTY OF PARKE, DAVIS & CO. HERBARIUM