Corotta tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- 
fula infera. 
PLATE CXCIl. 
ANTHOLYZA FULGENS. 
et gt anti 
Refulgent-flowered Antholyza, 
ren eee 
CRASS HI. ORDER. Fs. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bossom tubular, irregular and bent backward. 
Capfule beneat 
See ANTHOLYZA RINGENS, Pl. XXXII. Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Antholyza floribus tubiformibus, curvatis, cocci- Antholyza with trumpet-fhaped flowers, curved, 
is, fulgenti i 
ne ntibus; laciniis corolle maximis, {carlet, and refulgent; the fegments of the 
patentibus; foliis longiffimis, glabris, bafi bloffom very large, {preading ; leaves vety 
attennatis. Jong, fmooth, and tapered at the bate. 
EE 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. Part of a Leaf, cut from the upper part. 
2. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 
- the Flower cut open, with the chives attached. 
4, The Pointal and Seed-bud; one of the fummits detached and magnified. 
s moft beautiful genus does not poffefs amongft its numerous fpecies, (drawings of twenty-two of 
_ which we have) a rival to A. fulgens; whether, for the fize of the plant, which grows to the height 
of three feet, or the extreme brilliancy of its bloffoms, which frequently make a {pike near a foot in 
length. The roots fhould not be taken from the pots, but fhifted into frefh earth annually, which may 
bea compofition of half fandy peat, and half loam, as the leaves do not decay, until frefh ones are 
pr ed. Onur figure was taken at the Hammerfmith Nurfery, in May 1800, to which it was firft 
te its chief merit and utility; efpecially to thofe, “ who wifh to become Seientifically acquainted 
he ] 
‘with the plants they cultivate.” The late Mr. Curtis, purfuing the path he planned, with rigour, to 
en 
ledged inability to determine thofe plants ;” which, nevertheless, they have all foolithly attempted to 
do, we have one at laft, whofe “‘ /crutinizing” eye has been able to make out all Linneus's and even 
(pe This elucidation, of fo intricate a fubje&, by a perfon whofe knowledge of 
‘fome part of the title, of every plant which has hitherto, or is to come un er, this learned judge's 
. run counter to thefe new fafhions, of rendering a 
cult fcience eafy; and our road mutt fiill be in the old track of ‘the trifler Linnzeus. 
