PLATE CXLI. 



Y A NE L L A 



C APEN 



Cape Cyanella, 



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CLASS 



VI 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



ORDER 



Six Chive< 



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One Pointal 



GEJfERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx nullus. 



CoKOLLA. Petala fejr, unguibus coh.xrentia, 



oblonga, concava, patulaj tribus interiori- 



bus propendetitibus. 

 Stamina. Fikmenfa fex, bafi contlgua, bre- 



viffima, patentiufcula ; Infimo declinato. 



Antherarum quinque oblongae, curvatae, 



ereaaej apice dehifcentes, dentibus quatuor 



altera vero declinata, maxima. 



obtufis : 



apice bilida, 

 PiSTiLLUM. Germcn trigonum^ obtufum. Sty- 

 lus filiforrais, declinatus, longitudine infimi 

 Harainis. Stigma acutiufculum. 



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Pekicarpium. Capfula fubrotunda trifnlcata, 

 trilocularis, trivalvis. 



Semina plura^ oblonga. 



Empalement, none. _ 



Blossom. Six petals, adhering by the claws, 

 oblong, concave, spreading^ the three in- 

 terior ones hanging forwards. 



Chives. Threads fix, contiguous at the bafe, 

 - very fliort, fpreading a little 3 the lower one 

 bent dov/n. Five of the tips are oblont', 

 curved, upright, fplitting at the end, wifh 

 tour obtule teeth; but the other is bent 

 down, very large, and two-deft at the end. 



Pointal. Seed-bud three-fided, obtufe. Shaft 

 thread-fhaped, bent downward, and the 

 length of the lower chive. Summit rather 

 Iharp-pointed. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule roundiih, three-furrowed, 



three cells, three valves. 

 Seeds many, oblong. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Cyanella caule foliofo, panlculato: racemis di- 

 va ricatis ; foliis lanceolatis, undulatisj flo- 

 ribus caeruleis. 



Cyanella with a leafy ftem growing into a pani- 

 cle; branches ftraddhng; leaves lance- 

 fliaped, and waved; flowers blue. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



\ T^ Su-''^' ^"^ ^°i"^^^' "^^"'■^^ ^^^' tJ^^ petals of the bloflbm cut 

 1. Ihe Chives and Pomtal, magnified. 



The fame thrown open, to fliew their connedion at the bafe. 



a way 



4. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified. 



The Cape Cyanella has be^n long known in many herbariums, and to mofi botanifts by name but we 

 much queftion whether a Imng plant has, till now, been feen in our gardens The dSntion Tn 

 h.s diaionary, of a plant cultivated by Miller in 1768, where he fays, "the leaves are bnT^narrow 



-7^.:.ZTC'^i:^Z^^^^^ "''"^ immediateV from the root fupptting"- 



nower, ot a tme blue colour; furely can have no conneaion with our plant, but in the colour of 

 Its blollom. From every appearance of the plant, even in an abortive fpecimen mo"e han one flower 

 muft be produced, it any. It is enumerated, in the Kew Catalogue, as^one o? .^^0^0 es rCyaneUa 

 but, we fuppofe, only from an accepted idea, that the plant described by Miller was the C capenfis- 

 th ' 'k T^'l ^''" ^^^\^^^J^A in Britain, might be therefore introduced with propriety into the book 

 though It had never graced the garden; otherwife, if this plant, which is incon XwyVhelrue C S 



Sat of Mmer.""' "" '"" '"" " ^'^ "'^^"^ ^^^^^"^' "° ^^^^'y ^-^^ ^^a- leen traced ?o 



A few fmall inaccuracies occur in 'the generic charader of this Genus, which we have redified- 

 one IS. that the inner, and not the outer petals, are thofe which hang forward; the orherfnJy ^ob 



£h.t f?e'elv i^tWr3"f '"^^ "°^\'^" '^^'^ ^i^^'' ^ ^ bulboLs rooSpTant, low- 



Slea^foVtL HiEh n r I'l A """^^ the roots had been received, late in the feafon, from the 

 Droduced ^t this^me nf ih ^°"^'^;?" "«^ ^^ the Cape; which, perhaps, is the reafon the flowers are 

 ment tLn wh f ll^ V K'"?'^^' ^'^ ^^^*"" ^"^^^"^'^ "«' ^hat. it has had no other treat- 

 TL^^^^ll:iF:tl^^^^^ ^-- ^^^ ^-"^^ ^PP— of the feed-vefl-els 



