PLATE CCXII. 
Uwe nln PEP FLSsS, 
Slender-flemed Pogonia. 
CLASS VY... ORDER: £L 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Car Lyx.  Perianthium pentaphyllum perfiftens ; EMPALEMENT. Cup five-leaved, permanent; 
he —a erectis, acutis, apicibus leaflets lance-fhaped, upright, pointed, and 
reflexed at the ends. 
CoroLia showagae infundibuliformis, tubus Brossom one petal, funnel- fhaped, tube cylin- 
lindricus, longitudine calycis, ore villis drical, the length of the cup, the mouth 
auto; imbus f femiquinquefidus, laciniis clofed with foft hairs; border half five- 
concavis, acutis. cleft; fegments concave and pointed. 
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, tubo fupra me- Cuives. Threads five, inferted into the tube 
dium inferta. Anthere ere@e, fogittater, above the middle. Tips upright, arrow-. 
intra faucem, — fhaped, within the mouth. 
PistiLLuM. Germen ovatum. Stylus filifor- Ponta. Seed-bud egg-fhaped. Shaft thread- 
mis, apice param curvatus, longitudine aped, a little curved at —— the length 
a table Sahay = Stigma concavum of the tube, remaining. Sum 
Baeca ovata, compreffa, calyci SeED-vesseL. An egg-fhaped, Gaiteoed berry, 
rowing to the cup, 
x qu Geaueilgaalaris, 5 eae durifli- “Seep. A four-celled nut, thell very hard; ker- 
clei oblongi._ els oblong. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pogonia foliis Vaceolait apis feepe ferrula- -Pogonia with lance-fhaped leaves, often flightly 
tis, diftich is; floribus a, axillaribus, fawed at the ends, and pointing oppofite 
enten age cortice feabr ofa. 
w 
_infertion of the leaves into the ftem, and 
== bark rough. 
ner Bibs cz TO THE PLATE. 
‘The Empalement. a 
A Flower cut open, with vod Chives as pees sort in the bloffom. 
A Chive, magni mined. s; 
The Pointal. “Dh 
Summit, with part of the Shaft, Sraghticd 
e Cup, with the ripe Berry, the fhaft remainin , and the cup a little ous 
A Berry. t tr. raniverily, 1 to thew the fituation of t he mares i in the cells 
ees ees 
Tue regent figured, is the 
Jackfon, New Sou 1 Wales, an 
It is a climbing - ant, 
{mall tu me 
facce 
‘iatiber of feandean 
_ from fathion, a trellis ie as ‘become a 
= the leat of a cucumber-frame, or hot-houfe, till they. re rooted. ~ t is grown bedt je n (silly peat. 
= See was taken at the Hammerfmith Nur urfery, where was firft raifed in this agg oe The 
» Pogonia, is derived from the appearance of the soul of the flower which is 
Desens, Pogonion, fignifying a little beard. 
