PLATE IL. 
SPRINGALIA INCARNATA. 
~ Star-flowered Springalia. 
CLASS XIX. ORDER VI. 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers fimple. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- Empatement. Cup one leaf, cut into five 
um, perfiftens. fegments, and remaining. - 
Cororra. Monopetala, quinquefida, rotata, Brossom. One leaf, cut into five fegments, 
jaciniis acumenatis. wheel-fhaped, the divifions fharp pointed. 
Sramina. Filamenta quinque, lineares, recepta- Cuives. Five threads, linear, fixed into the 
culo inferta. Anthere pilofe, ereéte, co- receptacle. Tips hairy, upright, united 
natz in cylindrum. into a cylinder. 
Pistirtum. Germen fuperum, turbinatum. Pointat. Seed-bud above, turban-fhaped. 
Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtufum. Shaft thread-fhaped. Summit blunt ended. 
Pericarrium. Capfula quadrivalvis, quadri- Srep-vesseL. Capfule four valves, four cells. 
aris. 
Semrna plurima, minima, rotunda. SEEDs many, {mall, and round. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, : 
Springalia, foliis alternis, amplexicaulibus, mu- Springalia, with alternate leaves, embracing the 
cronatis; corollis fub-folitariis, incarnatis, || m, and fharp pointed; bloffoms moftly 
tigidis, micantibus. fingle, fleth-coloured, harfh, and fhining. 
OY AER 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1. The Empalement, (natural fize). 
2. The Bloffom divided from the Empalement. 
3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, (magnified). 
4. The Seed-veffel, and Pointal, (magnified). 
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Tue Springalia, mutt certainly rank among the moft beautiful of the various new genera which 
have been introduced from New Holland 3 the delicacy, brilliancy, and number, of its bloffoms 
: extreme permanency adds tly to i its; 
flower being of fach fingular durability, as to retain tials the fate so ox deca i 
perfeéted, as at their firft opening. The gure before us, was taken from a plant in the nurfery 
garden of Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, who raifed it from feeds about three years fince, 
and where it has flowered thefe two fucceffive years, The Botany-bay plants, (as they are generall ; 
called) are beft preferved in the Agence: but although this is fufficiently hardy for fuch ae: 
: » being very fufceptible of da flourithing beft i 
a oa. SER through the whole fummer; and secnaiiie a in sa see 
— ers, and habit of this genus, like almoft all the plants from New Holland, being perfectly new. 
Te was a neceflity to form a freth generic name for it; which has been done by the def edly 
eminent Dr. J. E. Smith, botanical profeffor, and prefident of the Linnean Society J — 
