PLATE XCIV. 



GALAXIA 



V ATA 



r_l 



Oval-leaved Galaxia. 



CLASS 



XVL 



ORDER 



I. 



MONJDELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Threads imited. Three Chives 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Spatha unlvalvis, meaibranacea, con- 



nivens* 



ConoLLA monopetala^ fupraj tubus filiformis, 

 loiigus, ere<5tus, apice paullulum nmplia- 

 tus; limbus fexpartitnsj laciniis obovatis, 

 patcutibus. 



Stamina, Filamenta tria, in cylindrum co- 

 nata. Anthcrse ovatae. 



PisTiLLUM. Germen inferum, obtufe triangu- 

 lare, glabruni. Stylus filiformis, ftamini- 

 bus panllo longior. Stigmata tria, filifor- 

 mi-niultipartita, patentia. 



Empalement, Sheath of one va've, Ikinny, and 





Pericaepium. Capfula oblongo-fubcylhidrica, 

 trifulca, trilocularis, trivalvis. 



Semina plurima, globofa^ minima. 



cloiing. 



Blossom, one leaf> above; tube thread-fhaped, 

 long, upright, the upper part a little widen- 

 ed; border divided into fix parts; feg- 

 ments inverfely egg fhaped and fpreading. 



Chives. Three threads forming a cylinder* 

 Tips egg--(liaped. 



PoiNTAL. Seed bud beneath, obtufely trian- 

 gular and fmooth. Shaft thread-lhaped, a 



little longer than the cTiives. Three fum- 



mits, each divided into a number of (mall 



threads, and fpreading. 

 Seed-vessel. Capfule of an oblong, and almoll 



cyhndrical fliape, with three furrows, three 



cells, and three valves. 

 Seeds numerous, globular, and fmalh 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Galaxa foliis ovatis margine ciliatis; corollis 

 longiflimls, arcuatis, flavis. 



Galaxia with egg-iliaped leaves, fringed at the 

 edge; bloflbms very long, bowed, and yel- 

 low. 



K The Sheath. 



2. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



A Flower cut open, to flicw where the threads are fixed to the tube of the bloflbm 



3. The Chives -^vith the Pohital incloled, the BIolTom cut away. 



4. The Fohital and Seed-bud, 



Ajjy fpccics of this Genus, niuft be intereftliig to the Englifli botanlft; as, till lad year, not one was 

 to be found, in any coUeaion of this country. The G. ovata is figured in Cavanilles, DifT. Q. P- 310. 

 t. lS()j and defcr.bcd by Thunbcrg, in his Nova Genera PJantarum, p. 50. It is a moft fingular 

 httle plant, but %ve much fear will prove a fugitive to us; like the Ferraria, (to which in many par- 

 ticidars It very nearly affines,) its beauty is but of a i^vf hours duration: indeed, fo ihort is the 

 period, that had not Mr. Hibbert taken a fketch of it, whilft in perfeaion; and from which our 

 dra- mg was completed, we could not have accomphflied a figure of it As yet, the true feafun of 

 .ts flowering cannot be afcertained; but, it was iu U)e month of Oaober, that the plant flowered laft 

 year i;;p; the bulbs having been received, from the colleaor for the Clapham colleaion, iHll at the 

 Capr m the fpruig of the fame year. The treatment for this, appears to be the fome as that necef- 

 iary for molt Cape bulbs; light (lindy peat, a little warmth when approaching to flower; and to be 

 removed from the pot afterwards. 



