PLATE -XXI. 
VERELA 
CRENATA. 
: ~ Scolloped-leaf Vereia. 
CLASS VIII. 
OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Eight Chives. 
ORDER IV. 
Four Pointals. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, _foliolis 
- Janceolatis, concavis, ere€tis, acutis, per- 
fiftentibus. 
‘. CoroxLia monopetala, ventricofa; limbus pa- 
; : tens, revolutus quadripartitus; laciniis 
ovatis, acuminatis. 
e@araria quatuor; fingulum fquamula 
debilia, minima, fingulo germini ad bafin 
extrorfum inferta 
Filamenta oéto, brevia, quorum 
-quatuor medio, quatuor vero ad bafin 
corollz adnate. Anthere fubrotunde 
fimplice: 
: S. 
_° Pistizzum. Germina quatuor, oblonga, defi- 
e nentia in ftylos fubulatos. Stigmata ob- 
‘ tufa. ; 
Pericarrium. Capfule quatuor, ovate acu- 
minate, rette, trigonz, longitudinaliter 
: futura introrfum dehifcentes. 
Sema plurima minima. 
SPECIFIC 
patentibus ; 
Vereia, foliis oppofitis, crenatis, 
1. The Empalement, (natural fize.) 
racemis longiffimis laxis; floribus luteis. _ 
Emparement. Cup four leaved, which are 
lance-fhaped, concave, upright, fharp- 
pointed, and permanent. 
Biossom of one leaf, big bellied; border 
fpreading, rolled back, and divided into 
four egg-fhaped, pointed fegments. 
Honey-cups four, each confifting of a fmall 
flight fcale, fixed on the outfide the bafe of 
each feed-bud. 
Cuives. Eight fhort threads, four of which 
are fixed to the middle, and four to the 
bafe of the bloffom. ‘Tips nearly round, 
and fimple. 
Ponta. Four feed-buds, oblong, ending in 
awl-fhaped fhafts. Summits blunt. 
Sgep-vesseL. Four capfules, egg-fhaped, ta- 
pering, upright and three fided, opening 
inwards along the feam. 
Seeps many, very fmall. : 
CHARACTER, 
| Vereia, with oppofite, fcolloped, fpreading leaves; 
very long loofe fpikes, and yellow flowers. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
2. A Bloffom cut open to fhew the fituation of the Chives. 
3. The Seed-veffel, Shafts, and Summits, with the fcales of the Honey-cups, as they 
fiand in the bloffom, (magnifi 
4. One Capfule of the Seed-veffel detached. 
ed.) 
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_ Tuts genus of Plants muft clafs with Linnzeus’s natural order of Succulents, nearly approaching Craf- 
fala in habit; but as the Sexual Syftem is the bafis of our theory, we cannot admit it under that or any 
other yet defcribed genus; we have therefore named it after James Vere, Efq. long and well known for 
his extended and liberal patronage to the profeffors and cultivators of the fcience; in whofe beautiful 
and feleé colleGtion at Kenfington Gore, the prefent fpecies, has for the firft time, flowered in this 
kingdom. Mr. Anderfon the gardener informs us, that this plant is a native of Sierra Leone; from 
whence it was fent to England, by Profeffor Eld. Elfzelius, in the year 1793; that he has treated it as 
a tender hot-houtfe plant, keeping it conftantly in the tan bed, by which means he has made it flower; 
but from every appearance of the plant, we fhould be led to think the common treatment of hot-houfe 
Succulents would anfwer for this. It is eafily propagated by cuttings; grows to the height of three 
haces or four feet, having when in flower the 
appearance of a middle fized fhrub; blows in the winter 
