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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. 
; PLATE Xxxiv. Sige | (is 
CHELONE RUELLIOIDES. ~ 
=”... Searket Chelone. fae ; 
ORDER HU. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- 
i breviffimum, perfiftens; laciniis 
erectis, ovatis. 
Coroxzta monopetala, ringens; tubus cylin- 
draceus, breviflimus; faux inflata, oblonga, 
fupra convexa, infra plana; limbus claufus 
___ parvus; labium fuperius obtufum, emargi- 
natum; limbus inferius cum fuperiori fere 
juale, leviffime trifidum. 
Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, fub dorfo corollz 
recondita, quorum duo lateralia paulo lon- 
giora; antherz incumbentes. 
- Rudimentum quinti filamenti, mucronis 
- inftar, intra fuperius ftaminum par. 
Pistittum. Germen ovatum. Stylus filifor- 
mis, fitu, et longitudine ftaminum. Stigma 
obtufum. 
‘Peritcarpium. Capfula ovata, bilocularis, calyce 
longi 
gior. 
Semrina plurima, fub-rotunda, margine mem- 
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SPECIFIC 
Chelone foliis inferioribus {pathulatis, glabris; 
fuperioribus lanceolatis, oppofitis; corollis 
cernuis; coccineis; labiis inferioribus bar- 
1. A Leaf from the lower part of the Stem. 
2. The Empalement. 
EmpaLeMent. Cup one leaf, five divifions very 
fhort, permanent; fegments upright and 
egg-fhaped. 3 
Brossom. One petal, gaping; tube cylindrical, 
very fhort; mouth fwelled, oblong, round- 
ed on the upper, and flat on the lower part; 
border fhut, and fmall; upper lip blunt, 
bordered; lower lip nearly as long as the 
upper, flightly divided into three at the end. 
Cuives. Threads four, hid under the upper 
part of the bloffom; of which the two fide 
ones are a little longer than the others. Tips 
fixed fideways to the threads. 
The rudiment of a fifth thread, like a tharp 
point is placed equal with, and between the 
upper chives. 
Pornrat. Seed-veflel egg-fhaped. Shaft thread- 
fhaped, of the fame length, and place as the 
chives. Summit blunt. 
Suep-vesset, Capfule egg-fhaped, two cells 
longer than the empalement. 
Sgeps many, nearly round, bound at the edge 
by a thin {kin. 
CHARACTER. 
Chelone with fpathulate, fmooth leaves on the 
lower part of the ftem; and Jance-fhaped, 
oppofite ones on the upper; bloffoms hang- 
Seeds covered. : 
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s REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
3. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the fituation of the Chives, and the imperfeét rudiments of a fifth. . 
4. The Seed-veffel, and Pointal, (natural fize). 
Tae Chelone Ruellicides is a native of Chili, South America, and was introduced to the royal gardens 
at Kew in the year 1793, by Mr. Boutelow, the fon of the gardener to the King of Spa (A 
then in England purfuing his botanical ftudies. It is (apparently) a hardy plant, and fit pene - 
_ the open borders, but, as yet, we have not had a fufficient trial to afcertain it; hitherto pee pe 
treated as a greenhoufe plant. Being herbaceous, it is propagated by parting the roots, ere 
determined, as it has undergone fuch various treatment. The plant from which this figure 
was in full bloom at the gardens of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham, in the month of June 1797; 
was feen to flower, for the firft time in this count 
fition of loam, and rotten dung. 
be done in fpring, about the month ef March. The proper feafon of its flowering a wall 
where it 3 
ry. The foil it feems to thrive in moft, 15 2 CONE 
in, who was 
