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PLATE LXXXIX. 



GNIDIA L^VIGATA. 



Shining-leaved Gnidia 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 



OCTANDRU MONOGYNU, Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx Infundibuliformis, 4-fidus. Pelala qua- 

 tuor, calyci inferta. Semen unum, fub- 

 baccatum. 



Cup funnel-ihaped, 4-cleft. Four petals fixed 



into the cup. One feed, fomething like a 

 berry. 



See Gnidia pinifolia, PI, LII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



^°'lLff '-I^^^^-' ^i'^?' °'''^'' ^^''^"- II G"^^^^ ^'^'^ -PPofite fmooth egg-fhaped leaves, 

 fSuriuteis '' tenninalibus, forming four angles and tfkd, flowers ter- 



minate the branches, fitting clofe to the 

 ftem, and yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



I. 



A Bloflbm complete. 



3' ^ie ^^lr\ ''^X"}'\'^^ Chives attached, the Pointal taken out. 

 3. Ihe Seed-bud and Pointal, (magnified.) 



Maflbn 



Cape of Good 



fubjea to be deftroyed by 



great difficulty raifcd from cutu-n« and its f^iMA ^ """"^ """^ '*'°'''- '' 



from which circumstance, it htnS' f ^ J ^'^ °' ^'^'' ^^ ^^^'^' ^'^ perfefted v 



Dlaot. in th. ZT^^"!-. '' V^^ .^'^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ coUeaions. Our drawing was made 



It is with 



bbert, Efq. Clapham, about the middle of July 1799 



