PLATE LXIX. 
LAMBE RTIA FORMOSA. Jar. longifolia. 
Red-flowered Lambertia, Long-leaved variety, : 
CHASS. iV. GRADER I. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIZA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx. Perianthium commune, imbricatum, 
quamis interioribus, longioribus. 
Corotra. Univerfalis uniformis, feptem-florus. 
Propria monopetala, tubulofa, limbus qua- - 
drifidus, lacifiiis revolutis, ftameniferis. 
Sramina. Filamenta quatuor, fubulata, bre- 
viffima, inferta limbo corollz, intra fingu- 
lam laciniam fingula. Antherz lineares, 
Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum, apice pilo- 
fum. Stylus fetaceus, erectus, Stigma 
fubulatum, fulcatum. 
PericarPium. Capfula tricornuta, unilocularis, 
difj 
perma. 
Semina bina, alata, feabra, nigra. 
SPECIFIC 
Lambertia foliis ternis, apice mucronato-pun- 
gentibus; corollis ftriatis, extus fuave ru- 
bentibus; antheris czruleis. 
EmpaLement, Common cup tiled, the inner 
feales the longest. 
Biossom. General regular compofed of feven 
flowers. 
Individuals of one petal, tubular, border 
four-cleft, the fegments rolled back, and 
fupporting the chives. 
Cuives. Threads four awl-fhaped, very fhort, 
fixed into the border of the bloffom, one 
within each fegment. Tips linear, and up- 
right. 
Pointat. Seed-bud nearly round, the upper 
part hairy. Shaft awn-like, upright. Sum- 
mit awl-fhaped, and furrowed. 
Srep-vesseL. Capfule three-horned, of one cell, 
and two feeds. 
SEEDs two, winged, rough, and black. 
CHARACTER. 
Lambertia with leaves growing by threes, the 
ends terminating in fharp points: blof- 
foms ftriped, of a light red without ; tips 
blue. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Empalement. 
2. A Bloffom cut open, with the Pointal as it ftands in the Bloflom. 
3. One fegment of a Flower, with the Chive attached. 
4. The Pointal (magnified). 
5. A Capfule. 
6. A Seed. 
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Or all the Plants yet introduced from New Holland, that have hitherto flowered with us, this un- 
queftionably takes the lead for beauty, confidering the plant altogether. It is a hardy greenhoufe 
Plant, growing to the height of fix or eight feet before it flowers ; when the bloffoms break from the 
ends of almoft every branch. The feeds of this plant were among the firft which arrived from Botany 
Bay, in the year 1788; when two varieties of it were raifed by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, at their 
nurfery, who were fortunate enough to procure all the feeds which came home that feafon. This 
fine genus has received its title, (under the fan@ion of Dr. Smith, /ee the Linn. Tranf. page 214, 
vol, 3.) from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Efq. fellow of the Royal and Linnzan Societies; a gentleman 
whofe zeal for the advancement of the fcience is unbounded, and whofe labours to that end, as well 
as his endeavours to render botany of univerfal benefit, by combining the ufeful with the pleafing ; 
(witnefs his work on the Cinchonas, or Jefuits Barks) do him the greateft credit. Our drawing was 
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: . om a plant which flowered for the firft time in this kingdom, in the colleétion of J. Robertfon, 
, son on Surry, in July 1798. It is without difficulty raifed by cuttings, and thrives 10 
