PLATE CCLXXII. 
EMBOTHRIUM LINEARE. 
Narrow-leaved Embothrium. 
CLASS IV. ORDER L 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx nullus. Corolla tetrapetala. Stamina 
limbo petalorum inferta. FoUiculus poly- 
fpermus. Semina alata. 
Empalement none. Bloflbm four-petalled. 
Chives inferted into the limb of the petals. 
A onc-celled pod many feeded. Seed* 
winged. 
See Embothkium seeiceum, PI. C. Vol. II. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Embothrium foliis linearibus, fubtomentofi.s, 11 Embothrium with linear leaves rather downy, 
uninerviis} florum racemis axillaribus; co- one-nerved j the fmall heads of flowers 
roUis albis. Semina nuda. grow from the infertion of the leaves; the 
jj bloflbms white. Seeds naked. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Flower, complete. 
2. One of the petals, with the chive at the end. 
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. 
4. A ripe Seed-pod burft and empty. 
5. A ripe Seed. 
This fpccies of Embothrium was introduced to Britain at the fame time as the Silky Embothrium, 
of our fecond volume, plate 100; and has been confidered but as a third variety of it, by Dr. Smith, 
in his Firft Number of New Holland Botany, page 23. But the total difference in the habit of the 
plant, except in the fhape of the flowers, has induced us to give it a fpecific title. It grows to the 
height of five or fix feet, not very bushy; abounding through the whole year in a fucceffion of flowers, 
which proceed from the young branches; ripe feed being produced upon the plant at the fame time. 
It fhould be planted in light fandy peat, and kept in a dry part of the green-houfe, as the younger 
branches arc apt to fuffcr from damps in the months of December and January. Our drawing was 
made at the Hammcrfinith nurfury, in the year ISOO, about the month of July. 
