Banera wierd oe apice dentatis, feffilibus, 
' oppofit 
PLA TE CXCVIIL 
“BAUERA RUBIOIDES. 
Three-leaved Bauera. 
-CLASS XII. ORDER II. 
POLYANDRIA DIGY NIA. Many Chives. Two Pointals. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx, Perianthium oétophyllum, foliolis Poe EmpaLeMENT. Cup eight-leaved, retaining, 
fiftentibus, acuminatis, reflexis, dentat leaflets tapered, reflexed, and toothed. 
Corotza. Petala oéto, ovata gence aie: Brossom. Eight petals, egg-fhaped, concave, 
tia, equalia, calyce majora. fpreading, equal, larger than the cu 
Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, nang co- Cuives. Threads numerous, hair-like, — er 
rolla breviora, rec — mig An- than the bloffom, fixed into es receptacle. 
there latiufcule, obtatie, Tips bron, es and e 
Pistrtra. Germen fu btn, csiledam Styli PoinTats. See nearly foi = the aped, hairy. 
duo, filiformes, longr, apice curvati. Stig- Shafts two, stead fhaped, long, curved at 
mata fimplicia. ; the ends. Summits fimple 
Pericarpium. Capfula fabrotunda, pilofa, SEED-VESSEL. apfale roundith, oat {plit- 
. apice dehifcens, bilocularis, bivalvis. ting at the top, two cells, two valves 
SaMiya Saker fubrotunda. ciel many, roundi 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
t the point, growing clofe to the 
ftem, and oppofite. 
‘REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The e Empalement, with the Chives and Pointal. 
3. The Empalement, Seed-bud, Shafts, and Summits, magnified 
4. The Seed-bud cut tranfverfely, with the feeds in the cells, magnified. 
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Tuts handfome fhrub, a native of Port Jackfon, New Holland, was firft raifed at the feat of the 
Hon. the Maichionels of Rockingham, Hillingdon, Middlefex, in the year 1793; and, from a plant, in 
the confervatory, ftill in flower, this prefent month November, our drawing was made, at the Narfery, 
-cnegargtie nith. It is hardy, although delicate in ftruéture, and flourithes in the green-houfe. The 
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ftem of the plant from which our figure was taken, datenah the oldeft in the kingdom, and near : 1X 
eet high, is fearce the thicknefs of a quill at the bafe, therefore mutt be fupported. The you 
hoots and leaves are covered with a flight pile; the fmaller branches ftand out at right angles, Poe 
ceeding from the infertion of the leaves, and the whole _— = at firft fight, much the appearance 
€ pencil a produced all thofe drawings, defigned to decorate and illuftrate 
under the aufpices “of the intelligent Dr. Smith, 
Bauera with leaves compofed of three leaflets, 
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