PLATE LXXIV 



PERSOONIA LANCEOLATA 



Lance-Jhaped leaved Perfo 



CLASS 



IV. 



ORDER 



I, 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNU. Four Chives. One Pointal 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



&. 



Calyx, nullus. 



Corolla. Petala quatuor, bafin verfus ftami- 

 nifera, reflexa^ apice incralTata. 



^edari^, Glandulae quatuor globofae^ ad 



baiin germinis. 

 Stamina, Filamenta quatuor brevia^ fingula 



ex finguli petall medio enata. Antherae 



lincares, conniventes, demum reflexae. 

 PiSTiLLUM. Germen fuperum, ovatum. Stylus 



fubulatus, glaber, perfiftens. Stigma ob* 



tufum, declinatum. 



Pekicarpium. Drupa fubrotunda, monofper- 

 ma. 



Semek. Nux offea, fubrotunda, compreiTa. 



I EmpalemenTj none. 



Blossom. Four petals, fuppdrting the chives 

 near the bottom, bent back, and thickened 

 at the point. 

 Homy-cup, Four round glands at the bafe 



of the feed-bud, 

 Chxves. Four fhort threads, one growing out 



of each petal about the middle. Tips linear, 



and approaching each other, then reflexed* 

 Pointal* Seed-bud egg-lhaped, and above. 



Shaft awl-iliaped, fmooth^ and remaining. 



Summit blunt, and bent downward. 

 Seed-vessel. A pulpy berry, roundifli, with 



one feed. 

 Seed. A hard, roundifli nut, flattened. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Perfoonia foliis lanceolatis, acutis, enerviis, 

 titrinc[ue glabris; petiolis tortls j floribus 

 axillaribus, flavis. 



Perfoonia with lance-fliaped leaves, fliarp pointed, 



without nerves, and fmooth on both fides; 

 foot-ftalks twilled 5 the flowers grow at the 

 lower part of the leaves, clofe to the ftem,. 

 and yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE* 



J . A Bloffom. 



2. One divifion of the Bloffom with its Chive. 



3. The Pointal (natural fize). 



4. The fame (magnified). 



5. The Receptacle, with the Honey-cups (magnified), 



6. A Berry cut in two, the Seed taken out. 



7. A ripe Seed- 



Every ftep we make in the examen of plants, Trom that endlefs fource for botanical refearcb, New 

 Holland; nature almoft as conftantly, prefents us with a perfeftly new face; fuch is the objeft oi 

 our prefent confideration. Dn Smith, P. L. S. in the Linnaean Tranfa(5lions, Vol, IIU p. 215, con- 

 fidering a new Genus as neceifary for this tribe of plants, has named it in honour of C. H. Perfoon, 

 mvich noted for his w^orks on the fungi. This is a handfome, fpreading greenhoufe plant, growing about 

 five feet high, and covering itfelf with deep yellow bloffoms. It is propagated by cuttings, or feeds,- 

 whlch come to maturity with us, and are produced in great numbers, J. Willfon, Efq. of Iflington, 

 raifed this fpecies from feeds about the year l/Qlj from a fpecimen in whofe colle<ftion our figure was 

 taken, this year in July, and where It flowered for the firfl: time laft year, in the month of Auguft^ 

 and is ftill in bloono, although many feeds are already perfected, from the flowers of lafl: year* 



