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PLATE LXXIII. 



PHNE 



ONTICA 



Pontic Spurge- LmireL 



CLASS YIII. ORDER I. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. 



Eisht Chives. One Pointal 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



CaltXj nulKis. 



Corolla tnonopctala, infundibulifornais. Tu- 

 bus cyllndraceus, imperforatus, limbo Ion- 

 gior- Limbus quadrifidus; lacinils ovatisj 

 acutis, planis^ patentibus. 



Stamixa. Filamenta o£lo, brevia, tubo infertai 



alterna inferlora. Antherse fubi'otundas, 



ereSoe^ blloculares. 

 PisTiLLUM. Germea ovatum. Stylus breviffi- 



m\is. Stigma capltatum, depreffo-planum. 

 rERiCARPiuM. Bacca fubrotunda, unilocularis. 

 Semen unicum, fubrotundum, carnofum. 



Emfalemext, none. 



Blossom one petal, funnel- fhaped. Tube cy- 

 lindrical, clofed at the bafe, longer than the 

 border. Border four-cleft; fegments egg- 

 fliaped, fliarp, flat, and fpreading. 



Chives. Eight fliort threads, fixed to the tube j 

 four alternately lower than the others. Tips 

 roundifli, upright, with two cells. 



Pointal. Seed-bud egg-fliaped. Shaft very 

 Ihort. Summit a low, fmooth knob- 



Seed-vessel. A roundifh berry, of one cell. 



Seed, fingle, roundifh, and fiefhy. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Daphne, pedunculus axillaribus, bifloris} foliis 

 obovatis, nitidis. 



Spurge-laurel, the fruit ftalks growing from the 

 bafe of the leaves, with two flowers each} 

 leaves inverfely egg-fliaped, and fhining. 



REPEREKCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower cut open, to fliew the fituation of the Chives. 



2. The Pointal, (natural fize). 



3. A ripe Seed. 



TouRNEFOfix in his Voyage to the Levant, Vol. IIL has defcribed this plant under the name of, 

 Thymelsea Pontica Citrei foliis; Dr. P, Pallas in his Flora RofTica, has Hkewife figured and defcribed 

 it, under the title it bears in the Sp. Plan. p. SIlj from both of whom we learn, that it is a native 

 of the coafl of the Black Sea, and therefore perfedly hardy, at leaft fufflciently fo to endure our cli- 

 mate. It is the handfomefl in foliage of any fpecies of the genus, having, like moil of them, fra- 

 grant flowers^ which begin to fhew themfelves with the flril budding of the plant in fpring, about 

 the firfl week in March. Like our common Spurge-laurel it delights in Ihade, making a pretty ever- 

 green flirub, about two feet in height; and grows befl in a light'loamy foil. Although this plant 

 has been long known by name, it had not been feen in England till 1795, a year fubfequent to its 

 being fcnt in feeds to MefTrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. It flowered for the firft time here, 

 in 1798; but our drawing was not made till this year, about die middle of April. It is propagated 

 by the feed, or cuttings. 



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