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STRELITZIA Recina. CannasLEaveD 
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Clafs and Order. 
Penranpria Monocynias 
Generic Charafer. 
Spathe. Cal. 0. Cor. 3. petala. Ne&arium triphyllum, ‘genitalia 
Involvens. Peric. g-loculare, polyfpermum. 
STRELITZIA Regine Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 1. p. 285. Tab. 2. 
HELICONIA Bibai ¥. Mill, ic. tab. 5, 6s 
‘ 2 , a 2 « eee: 
In order that we may give our readers an opportunity of 
feeing a coloured reprefentation of one of the moft fcarce and 
magnificent plants introduced into this country, we have in 
this number deviated from our ufual plan, with refpeét to the 
plates, and though in fo doing we fhall have the pleafure of 
gratifying the warm wifhes of many of our readers, we are 
hot without our apprehenfions leaft others may not feel perfeétly 
Well fatisfied; fhould it prove fo, we with fuch to reft affured 
that this isa deviation in which we {hall very rarely indulge, 
and never but when fomething uncommonly beautiful or 
interefting prefents itfelf; to avoid the imputation of interefted 
Motives, we wifh our readers to be apprized that the expences” 
attendant on the prefent number, in confequence of fuch de- 
Viation, have been confiderably augmentcd, not lowered. 
It is well known to many Botanifts, and others, who have: 
experienced Sir Joserx Banxs’s well known liberality, that 
_ Previous to the publication of the Hortus Kewenfis he made a 
Rew genus of this plant, which had before been confidered as 
a fpecies of Heliconia, and named it Stre/itzia in honour of ar 
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