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PLATE CXXX 



R A 



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UNDULATA 



Waved-leaved Cerher 



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CLASS 



V. 



ORDER 



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PENTJNDRIA MONOGYNU. Five Chives 



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One PointaL 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthiujn pentaphyllumj acumina- 

 tum 3 foliolis ovato-lanceolatis. 



Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus 



clavatus; limbus magnus, quinquepartitus; 



laciniis obllquls, obtufis, latere altero magis 



gibbis; os tubi quinquangulare, quinque- 



. dent^tum, ftellato-connivens. 





' Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, in me- 

 dio tubi. Antherae eredtiCj conniventes. 



PiSTiLLUAi. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus fi- 

 - liformis, brevis. Stigma capitatum, bilo- 



bum. 

 Pericakpium. Drupa maxima, fubrotunda, car- 



nofa^ a latere fulco longitudinal! excavata, 



pun£tifque duobus. 

 Semen. Nux bilocularis^ quadrivalvis, retufa. 



Empalement. Cup five leaved, tapering to a 

 point i leaflets between egg and lance- 

 fliaped. 



Blossom one petal, funnel-fhapedj tube club- 



iliaped^ border large, five divifionsj feg- 



-ments oblique, obtufe, thicker edged on 



one fide; mouth of the tube Eve-angled, 



five toothed, approaching together in the 



* form of a ftar. 



Chives. Five threads, awl-flaaped, in the mid- 

 dle of the tube. Tips upright, and ap. 

 proaching. 



PoiNTAL. Seed-bud roundifh. Shaft thread- 



fiiaped, and fliort. Summit headed, two- 

 Jobed. 



Seed-vessel. A large pulpy fruit, nearly round, 

 flefliy, hollowed on the fide by a longitudi- 

 nal furrow, and with two punctures. 



Seed. Nut two cells, four valves, and bluntly 

 dented at the end. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gerbera follls lanceolatis, utrlnque attenuatis, i^n^ 11 Cerbera wi^h lance -fiiaped leaves tapered to botb 



ends, and waved; tufts of flowers branch- 



dulatis; cymis raraofis, divarlcatis^ axilla- 

 libus. 



lUg into various dire6tions, and growing 

 from the foot-ftalks of the leaves clofe ta 

 the ftem. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 



1. The Empalement, magnified. 



2. The Bloflbm cut open, with the Chives as they ftand in the tube, magnified. 



3. The Empalement, with the pointal after the bloflTom has fallen off, magnified, 



4. The Seed-bud, magnified. . 



T 



Mada 



m the Indian Ocean. It grows to a very confiderable height, perfeftly fl:raight, and poliflied in the 

 flem, fomething like the Bamboo Cane, from which appearance, till it flowered, it had gone by the 

 name of the fifliing rod plant. It muft be kept in the bark-bed of the hothoufe in rich mould, and 

 mould be removed from its pot but feldom, the roots being extremely tender and brittle. The pro- 

 pagation is flow and difficult, as well from the great tendency the part has to rot, where cut, as from 

 the unfrequency of its throwing out any fide flioots from the ftem. Our drawing was made in July 

 this year, at the Hammerfmith nurfery; thono-fi wp nnrlprft^iTirl ^t flowered in th^ extenfive colledion 



of the Right linn, th^ F^rl of T*or.v««r;n« «, 



IS, 



Walton-upon-Thames, fome years fince. 



1 Jacquin, in the Generic name of this plant, our reafon 



formation 



makea diftina one; if every generic or even eflential, charader, was to be critically attended to. 

 Ihe fruit forming the principal eflential charafter, a fpecimen of which we have feen, containing two 

 large feeds like C. Manghas, determined us in our adopUon. 



n n A.^ defcriptions and figures of the two plants, given by Profeflbr Jacqum in his Icon. rar. 2, and 

 Coileft. 4, under the genus Ochrofia, are, we conceive, only different fpecimens of our plant j and are 

 botR, as w^U as Dryanders critique on Gmelin (fee Linn. Tranf. Vol. II. p. 227) defeftive^ neither of 

 Uiem having fi:en but dried fpecimens, without the fruity as in this natural order of plants, the £o^v- 

 .^ /ii__ n.r* nrocefs of dmnsr; and 



being moftly flefliy, many of the principal charafterS are defti 

 :ourfe, m fuch cafe, muft lead to error. Jacquin's character of 



as 



a fpccific title, though he has rejeded the Genenc," wrfuppo^^^ muft have been' taken from the fmall 

 Diotches en tlie lower, and which fometimes pervade the upper furface of the leaves, but found only 



when m thp laO a^f/* r.f a^ 1.^ _ .-^^. ..-.., ^^ ^ ., , .t /n,^ «**^<r,r- 



beg 



, .. — . J «.^^ ^iiw&h ^JtfcX^XlllWAW until aL^LUX VA l-UV^ AATJkAAg i^.*. — -, — — 



Forfter beins* the fam^ nc pIi-K^r fhf> nnhrr^(\^ hnrhnnxr^ oT O. maculata 



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itkh n!i'3''*^f "'''^ ^^' ^^^° ^^'^ ^° ^^^^^^^> even as a fynonim, the O 'borbonica of Prof, 

 en pernaps, it it were not for the increafing of Genera, ought to be the name of the plant 



