PLATE LIL. 
GNIDIA PINIFOLIA. 
Pine-leaved Gnidia. 
“dead .* CEASS WHEL ORDER 1. 
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as  OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 
= ' GENERIC CHARACTER. 
-Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, infundi- Emratement. Cup one leaf, funnel-fhaped and 
buliforme, coloratum; tubo filiformi, lon- coloured; tube thread-fhaped, very long; 
giffimo; limbo quadripartito, plano. border of four fegments, which are flat. 
-Coroxta. Petala quatuor, feffilia, plana, calyce Bossom. Petals four, fitting clofe to the cup, 
breviora, eique inferta. _ flat, fhorter than the cup, and fixed within 
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it. 
Stamina. Filamenta oéto, -fetacea, erecta, lon- Cuives. Threads eight, awn-like, upright, 
a gitudine fermé floris. Anthere lc: {carcely the length of the flower. Tips 
a oe _ PisTitium. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis, iene Seed-bud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread- 
Sg ae is lateri infertus, longitudine ftami- fhaped, fixed into the fide of the feed-bud, 
num. oe capitatum, hifpidum. _ and of the length of the chives. Summit 
headed, and hairy. 
s _ PericarPium nullum, ag in fundo ca- Sexp-vessEL none. Fruit in the lower part of 
oe: yeis. : _ the cup. 
Semen unicum, ovatum, : Seep one, egg-fhaped. 
- §PECIFIC CHARACTER. 
» foliis fparfis, lineari-fubulatis ; ramis | Gnidia with fcattered, linearly awl- -fhaped leaves; 
mamnistlinais —_ ageregatis, termina- | brarithes grow in whorls; the flowers termi- 
Tibus. | | 
nating the branches in clutters. 
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= REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
2 aa x Flower with it? feed, (natural fize). 
3 The et cut — to fhew the fituation and infertion of the Chives into the tube of the 
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2. . The Pointa, “ap leae 
Tue effential diftinguithing charaéter, in Pafferina, Gnidia, Struthiola, and Lachnea, muft certainly 
be confidered as amongft the flighteft generic divifions made by Linneus. It is no {mall difficulty to 
_ diftinguith the bloffom in Gnidia, and Lachnea, from the empalement in Pafferina, and Struthiola; 
the fame exact natural ftru€ture being alike in them all; and to us, appeat noticeable in their fmall 
variations, rather as forming fpecific, than generic diftinctions. As our plan is not to alter, upon any 
terms, what has been determinately fettled by that great mafter in the arcana of nature, let our opi- 
nions be what they will; we are determined to prevent confufion (which has been but little attended 
to of late), to give it only as fuch, without prefuming upon alteration. But as in the prefent in- 
fiance, when a plant long named, but otherwife unknown to cultivators, has unfortunately been 
foifted from its rank by another, no ways anfwering to the charatters of the defcriber; we fhall con- 
_ fider it as our particular province to reétify the miftake, however generally-the error may have ob- 
- tained.—The Gnidia pinifolia is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, the feeds having 
_ from thence in 1795, by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, at whofe nurfery it has flowered, 
_ for the firft time in England, in the month of February this year, and where the drawing was ae 
_‘Ttisa hardy greenhoufe plant, but is propagated with difficulty by cuttings 5 growing to the hetg 
of eighteen inches, being moft exquifitely fcented by night, continuing in flower at leaft three mom 
and thriving beft in a light peat foil. : 
= _A figure of the plant generally known by the name of G. pinifolia, will be given with th 
—: - the end our affertions may be properly inveftigated. 
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