PLATE CCXVIIl. 
EMBOTHRIUM BUXIFOLIUM. 
Box-leaved EmbotJmum. 
CLASS IV. ORDER 1. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIj4. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corolla tetrapetala. Stamina limbo inferta. || Blossom four-petals. Chives inferted into the 
Folliculns polyfpermus. Semina alata. limbs. One-celled pod, many feeded. Seeds 
|| winged. 
See Embothrtum sericeum, PI. C. Vbl. IJ. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Embothrium foliis ellipticis, integerrimis, mar- 
gine revolutis, pubefeentibus; umbellis 
terminalibus; folliculo villofo. 
Embothrium with elliptical, entire leaves, rolled 
back at the edge, and downy j umbels ter¬ 
minal ; feed-pod hairy. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Flower, magnified, the petals yet attached to each other. 
2. The fame, the petals difengaged. 
3. The Pointal, magnified. 
5. A ripe Seed, natural fize. 
This we believe is amongfi; the moft rare of the plants, hitherto introduced, from New Holland. It 
has been figured in the third Number of New Holland Botany, publilhed by Dr. Smith in 1793: it is 
there faid not to have been, at that time, in England; but, as it had not then flowered, the plant was 
not known, although in the colle6tion of Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, three years precedent to that pub¬ 
lication; and where, it firft flowered in. 1795. Our figure was taken in September 1789 from a plant 
(we fear the only one at prefent in this kingdom) in the Hibbertian colle^ion. It has not yet been 
propagated with us, and the feeds do not mature. The plant is nearly four feet high, and forms a hand- 
fome, buftiy flirub, continuing in flower nearly the whole fummer. Over the whole plant there is a 
brown, or rufty-like appearance, which takes much from its beauty. It flourilhes in peat earth. 
