

PLATE DLXXI 



PATEN 





Spreading Si da. 



CLASS XVI. ORDER VIII. 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx simplex. Stylus multipartitus. Cap- 

 sulae plures, mono- seu tri-spermae. 



Calyx simple. Pointal many-parted. Seed- 

 vessels many, one- or three-seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Sida foliis cordatis, dentatis, longe acuminatis, 

 leviter pubescentibus 5 pedunculis solitariis 



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petiol 



corollis patentibus j 



stylis quinquepartitis ; capsulis quinque, 



birostratis. 



shaped 



and slightly woolly leaves ; solitary flower- 

 stalks longer than the footstalks j spreading 

 corollas, five-parted styles, and five two- 

 beaked capsules. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The empalement. 



2. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal. 



Another African novelty introduced by Viscount Valentia in 1806 from Abyssinia 5 and from speci- 

 mens obligingly communicated by him from his gardens at Arly the drawing is taken. From 

 the seeds already introduced by his Lordship from that yet unexplored, and hitherto almost inaccessible 



Mr 



his Lordship's suite, being now dispatched on an embass) __ „. 



may soon hope to have a few more specimens of its vegetable productions ; at present as imperfectly 



known m the sources of the Nile, which have eluded the researches of philosophers above two thou- 

 sand years. 



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