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GmtipivA SIM PEE xX. 
Heath-leaved Gnidia. 
CLASS Vill... ORDER I. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx infundibuliformis, quadrifidus. Petala Empatement funnel-fhaped, and’ four-cleft. 
-quatuor, calyci inferta, Semen unicum, Petals four, inferted into the empalement. 
fubbaccatum, One feed, fomething like a berry. 
See Gnipia ptniroLia, Plate LII. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Gnidia, foliis linearibus, acutis, levibus; flori- 
Gnidia, with linear, pointed, fmooth leaves; 
bus, feffilibus, luteis. 
owers terminating the branches, fitting 
 clofe upon them, and yellow. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
A Flower, (natural fize). 
The fame cut open, and magnified. 
. The Pointal, (natural fize). 
. The fame magnified. 
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Tue flowers of this fpecies of Gnidia, like moft plants of this natural order, are fragrant, which in- 
creafes much towards night. It is one of thofe delicate Cape plants requiring a dry ftove, or an airy 
warm fituation in the greenhoufe; where it continues to flower through the months of April and 
May, and frequently will bloffom a fecond time in September and O&tober. It is eafily propagated by 
cuttings; delighting moft in peat earth, and feldom grows more than a foot high. Our drawing was 
made, (by his kind permiffion) at the beautiful and unique confervatory of R. James, Efq. Grofvenor- 
place, from a plant in his valuable and {ele& colleGion, in May this year. 
= Unfortunately the G, Simplex having been introduced to our gardens before the G. Pinifolia, (fee 
Pee our figure, PI. LII.) it was found in moft colleG@tions under that title; but we have no hefitation in 
__ placing this plant under the {pecific name given it by Linnzeus, in his Mantiffa Plantarum of 1767, 
page 67 3 where, to the ufual fpecific character, he has fuperadded an accurate defcription of it. 
