

NAT. ORDER. 



Ensatoi*^ 



WACHENDORFIA PANICULATA. PANICLED WACHENDORFIA. 



Class III. Tkiandkia. Order I. MoiNogynia. 



Gen. Char. Perianth, sub-bilabiately-rotatc, resupinate, with a chan- 

 nelled honey-bearing appendage on both sides at the base. Sta- 

 mens, six-declinate. Stijlc, elongated, oblique, partly persistent. 

 Capsule, membranaceous, three-celled, three-valved, triquetrous, 

 the angles compressed. Cells, one-folded. 



^e. Char. Racemes, corymbosely panicled. Leaves, deciduous, 

 plicate. 



The stem of this plant rises about a foot in height ; tlie root is 

 perennial, a little creeping, and furnished with oblong cylindrical, and 

 nearly perpendicular tubercles ; the leaves are radical, two-ranked 

 sessile, equitant, vertical, spreading, dilated on the inner side at the 

 base, channelled, linear-lanceolate, pointed, entire, nerv-ed, bright 

 green ; they die soon after the plant has done flowering, and do not 

 appear again for some months ; the stalk is erect, cylindrical, bearing 

 one or two small leaves, branched and many-flowered ; general^o/re;- 

 sto/A", alternate, spreading, racemose, bearing from three to five flow- 

 ers, cylindrical and downy ; partial ones sliort, downy, all directed 

 upwards, and single-flowered. 



The name of Wachendorfia was given to this species by Thunberg, 

 in honor of M. Wachendorf, a Dutch botanist, who imported it from 

 the Cape ; but though it appears to have been the first species sent 

 to Europe, it was not introduced into England till the year 1770. 



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