PLATE 
-CLXXXVII. 
| ee ECHITES oe ors & 
Aan ~~ Qval-leaved Echites. 
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: CLASS V. 
Catyx. Perianthium quinquepartitum, acu- 
tum, parvum. 
Coroita monopetala, infundibuliformis; Jim- 
bus quinquefidus, planus, patentiffimus. 
Nectarium glandulis quinque, germen cir- 
. tibus. 
Sramina. Filamenta quinque, tenuia, ereta. 
<% Anthere rigid, oblonge, acuminate, apice 
_ convergentes. ; 
— Germina duo., Stylus filiformis, 
___ Iongitudine ftaminum. Stigma oblongo- 
capitatum, bilobum, glutine antheris ad- 
nexum, 
PeRicanrium. Folliculi duo, longiffimi, uni- 
uence, univalves, 
mbri icata, 
3 * £& 
longo. 
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SPECIFIC 
Echites ‘ditacalis racemofis; foliis ovalibus, 
- PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. 
ORDER I. 
One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
EmpALemenT. ’ Cup five-parted, pointed, and 
fmall. 
Buossom one-petal, funnel-fhaped ; border five- 
cleft, flat and fpreading very much 
Honey-cup five glands, ftanding round the 
ud. 
Cuives. Five threads, flender, ere&t. Tips ftiff, 
oblong, tapered, and clofing together at 
the top. 
Porntat. Seed-buds two. Shaft thread-fhaped, 
the length of the chives. Summit oblong- 
headed, two-lobed, attached to the tips by 
a glutinous fubftance. 
SEED-vEssEL. Two > very long, one 
led, one valved. 
Seeps many tiled, crowned with a long feather. 
CHARACTER. 
Echites with bunched foot-ftalks; leaves ol 
obtufis, mucronatis; 3 floribus luteis, am- blunt and pointed at the ends; flowers yel- 
pliffimis ; corollz tubus hirfutus, low and very large; the tube of the bloffom 
> hairy. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
‘1. The Cup. 
2. A Flower cut open, with the chives remaining, but detached from each other. 
3, The Chives and Pointal as they are in the flower, the lower part of the bloffom remaining, 
; the upper cut away, magnified. 
eee 4. One of the Chives a little magnified. 
a 5. The Pointal and Seed-buds, magnified. 
nee ere eR RRC Stents 
Pur Lady Dowager De Clifford received this plant from the ifland of St. Vincent's, in the year 1704; 
Kew Catalogue, p. 289, Vol. I. 
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‘the month of of May. 
and we much queftion, whether it was ever feen in Britain prior to that period; although faid to be 
cultivated in 1759, by Millar, in the 7th Edit. of his Dictionary, and from thence, collated into the 
It is a climbing plant, if fupported; but does not grow to any con- 
fiderable height, if kept in a pot. The beft method of i this plant, is the fame as that propofed 
for the. Crateva capparoides, Pl. 176. Vol. III. 
re ~Browne, tuft undoubtedly have been taken from the plants which grow in the Savannas; where, 
they” feldom | acquire above the height of two feet. 
or broken, there iffues a milky fubftance, is confidered by Dr. Browne as poifonous. Our figure was 
oe taken at Meffrs, Lee and Kennedy’s, this ie in Augutt. It is propagated by cuttings, put in about 
The fpecific name Suberecta, of Jacquin and 
The whole plant, from which, if any part is cut 
