PLATE CCXXV. 
OmDIA OPPOSITIFOLIA. 
Oppojite-leaved Gnidia. 
CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 
OCTJNDRU MONOGYN IJ. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Empalement funnel-fhaped, four-cleft. Petals 
four inferted into the empalement. One 
feed, berry-like. 
See Gnidia FiNiFOLiA, PI. LI I. Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Gnidia foliis ovatis, oppofitis, concavis, tomen- j Gnidia with egg-Ihaped, oppofite, concave, 
tofis; floribus terminalibus, tomcntofis. I downyleavesj flowers terminate the branches, 
11 and are downy. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Flower complete. 
2» The Bloflbm fpread open, with the Chives in their place. 
3. The fame, magnified. 
4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit. 
The Oppofite-leaved Gnidia is from the Cape of Good Hope, and muft be treated as a tender green- 
houfe or dry ftove plant; a.s, but a little excefs of wet, in the winter, is fure to deftroy it; even in 
fummer, much rain, if it is expofed to it for a few days, will overwhelm it. The Kew Catalogue 
mentions this fpecies to have been introduced in the year 1788, by Mr. F. Maflbn. The plant grows 
to the height of three feet, with a very flender ftem, and, often, lofes moft of its leaves to a confider- 
ablc height from the earth, which gives it rather a difagreeable appearance towards the lower part. A 
mixture of two-thirds loam, and one of fandy peat, is a foil it moll approves. It is increafed by cut¬ 
tings, made in the month of April, from the tender flioots. Our figure was taken in July, from a 
plant in the Hibbcrtian Collection. 
