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PLATE DLXVIII. 



X 



IA 



HiERI 



Round-headed Liparia. 



A. 



CLASS XVII. 



ORDER IV. 



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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx quinquefidus, lacinia infima elongata. 

 Corollas alae inferius bilobae. Filamenta al- 

 ternatim breviora. Legumen polysper- 



mum. 



Calyx 5-cleft, the lower segment very long. 



Wins; 



lower side. Chives alternately shorter. Pod 

 many-seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



JLiparia floribus capitatis; foliis lanceolatis, 

 nervosis,. glabris* JVilld. Sp. PL vol. iii. 



Liparia with flowers in heads; the leaves lance- 

 shaped, nerved, and smooth. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A bract. 



2. The empalement. 



3. A flower spread open. 



4. The chives. 



5. The same spread open. 



6. Seed-bud and pointal. 



7. A back view- of the head of flowers. 



Africa has long been celebrated as the land of wonders and novelties, and its vegetable as well as ani- 



The beauty and astonishing variety of ever- varying 



well 



Geraniums, delicate Ixias, elegant Ericas, superb Amaryllises, and magnificent Proteas, received from 

 the Cape of Good Hope alone within- these few years, and many of them totally unknown before, have 



the world. 



What still more enhances the pleasure is, that the mine is yet unexhausted, as our present 

 charming subject, not before enumerated in any of our catalogues of cultivated plants, will testify. 



Mr. Milne. £rardener at FnnthiU. wpII l-nr,™-™ &» u:„ „»„i ...j i -n • .• ... ~ , . 



forwarded 



obligingly communicated the specimens. Having _ __ 



the singular beauty, and not knowing the habits of the plant, a fortnight after - £*finvwded * $&* 

 specimen fully expanded, from which the figure is taken. 



informs 



Cape 



som. The plant is branchy, and between four and five feet in height. He thinks he possess two 



same 



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