PLATE €XLVIII. 
LACHENALIA QUADRICOLOR. 
Four-coloured Lachenalia. 
CLASS VI ORDER IL 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Cor. 6-petala, infera; petalis 3 interioribus Bross, 6-petals, beneath; the three inner pe- 
‘longioribus. Stamina ere@a, Capfula fub- tals the longest. Chives erect. Capfule 
ovata, trialata. Semina globofa. nearly egg-fhaped, three winged. Seeds 
<a globular, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lachenalia foliis geminis, lineari-lanceolatis; Lachenalia with leaves in pairs, linearly lance- 
capo erecto; corollis ‘propendulis, cylin- fhaped; flower-ftem ere@t 3 bloffoms hang- 
dricis, quadricoloratis, cum limbo petalo- ing down, cylindrical, and four-coloured, 
rum interiorum patulo, with the border of inner petals {preading 
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eager : .. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining. 
2. An inner Petal, with its Chive, fhewn from the infide. 
3. An outer Petal, thewn from the outfide. 
4, The Pointal complete. Z 
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_Axovr the year 1789, this very handfome fpecies of Lachenalia was firft received by Mefits. Lee and 
Kennedy, Hammer{mith, from the Cape of Good Hope, fent in bulbs to them by J. Pringle, E{q. 
Tt is as hardy as the L. tricolor, to which it much inclines, well known to colletors, and is equally 
cafily propagated; an excellent figure of which is to be found, in the 82d Plate of the 
. they are both to be found in the 2d Vol, of Icon. of Jacquin, 
ae the pendula, t. 400, the quadricolor, t, 396. ; 
