PLATE CLXXVIIL a 
FERRARIA PAVONIA. | 
Mexican Ferraria. 
CLAS@ &Vi ORDER 1.” 
MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Threads united, Three Chives, 
GENERIE€ C ZARACTER. Schrel. Gen. Plant. V.1L. p.451, 
Caryx. Spathe bine, alterne,carinate, invo- || Empatement. Sheaths two, alternate, keeled, 
lute, uniflore. if involute, one-flowered. 
Coro.xa monopetala, fupera, fexpartita; laci- — 3 Brossom one petal, above, fix divided; feg- 
niis oblongis, erecto-patentibus, undulato- |} ments oblong, upright-fpreading, crifp- 
crifpatis, maculatis; tribus alternis exteri- __ waved and {potted ; the three alternate outer 
oribus latioribus. ones the broadeft. 
Stamina. Filamenta tria, in tubum cylindra- Cuives. Threads three, in a cylindrical tube 
ceum, corolla breviorem, connata, fuperne _ fhorter than the bloffom, joined together, 
diflin&a. Antherz fubovate, didyme.  feparate at the top, Tips nearly egg-fhaped, 
euples “. %,. 
Pistittum. Germen oblongum, triquetrum, Pointat. Seed-bud oblong, three-fided, blunt, 
obtufum, inferam, Stylus filiformis, lon- beneath. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length 
gitudine tubi. of the tube. 
Sricmara tria, profundeé bifida. Summits three, deeply two cleft. 
Pericarrium. Capfula oblonga, triquetra, tri- || Srep-vessex. Capfule oblong, three-fided, three- 
ocularis, trivalvis ; diflepimentis contrariis. celled, three-valved ; partitions contrary. 
Semina numerofa, fubrotunda, pulpa involuta. SEEDs many, roundifh, covered with a pulp. 
ECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ferraria corollis fub campanulatis, fpeciofiffimis; Ferraria with bloffoms nearly bell-fhaped and 
aciniis planis, tribus interioribus haftatis, very thewy; fegments plain, the three inner 
nettariferis; foliis plicatis, bafi {pathaceis. ones ‘are halbert-{haped, and have honey- 
cups, leaves plaitéd, fheathing at the bafe. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 
2. An outer Petal of the Flower. 
5. The Chives fpread open. 
6. The Pointal complete, one of the fummits magnified: 
Turs is, without doubt, the Mexican plant given in the 2nd. Vol. t. 31. f. 2; of Swertius’s Florilegium, 
publifhed in 1012; by F. Hernandez, in his Nov. Plant. &c. Mex. Hift. p- 276, in 1648; and of Mutis, 
under the title it here bears, in his Flo. Amer. 1. t. 15; from whomit has been copied into the Suppl. 
Plant. of the younger Linnzus, p. 407. and continued by Profeffor Martyn in his Mill. Dic, Art. Fer- 
to the clafs Gynandria by Linnzeus, has been fo continued by Martyn, &c. but upon what grounds, we 
are unable to determine; unlefs the miftake arofe from the impraéticability of dividing the tube of the 
chives, from the thaft, in a dried fpecimen; which, in fuch tranfitory flowers as thofe of. Ferraria, 
be: 
te we confider its generical reference to have been as ill taken up, as the Genus had been ill clafli- 
. This plant, as may be feen from our diffeétions, is much nigher affined to Sifyrinehium, as it 
wants every effential charaéter of Ferraria, fuch asa fheath of one leaf, undulated crifped petals, 
hooded and fringed fammits, &c. for we do not confider the length of the tube of the bloffom of any 
_ fery in July; and ftill there were a number o 
f flowering. It is beft grown in peat earth 
