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PLATE CCXC. 
APONOGETON DISTACHYON., 
Broad-leaved Aponogeton. 
CLASS Al. = ORDER iV. 
DODECANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Twelve Chives. Four Pointals. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx nollus, nifi fquama fpathacea exter- ‘“EMPALEMENT none, except a oe ses 
atus floris cingens, fimplex lis, furrounding the outer fide of the flow 
ovata, obtufa, integra, erecta, glabra, co- fimple, fitting clofe, egg. Ades tia. 
lorata. intire, a fmooth, coloured. 
Corotta nulla. ‘| Briossom non 
Stamina. Filamenta undecim ad novemdecim, CuHIVvEs. Threads eleven _to nineteen, in the 
fuperioribus floribus pauciora, intra fpa- 
tham et capfulas inferta, fubulata, pie 
alba, fpatha multoties breviora. Anther 
ereGte, bifidze. fpathe. Tips upright, tw 
Pistirza. Germina plerumque quatuor, raro || Pornrats. Seed-buds often ‘War. feldom three 
tria feu quinque. Styli nulli. Stigmata or five. Shafts none. Summits awl-fhaped, 
fubulata, incurvata. turned in 
—. — ulze quatuor, rarius tres SEED-VESSEL. Capfules four, feldom three or 
uinque, ovate, fubulato-acute, exte- ve, egg-fhaped, pointed, awl-fhaped, un- 
riore latere gibbz, interiore plane, glabre, 
unilocularis. 
Semina, in quacumque capfula tria, bafi cap- 
ula affixa, feffilia, obovata, obtufiffima, 
fab-compreffa, glabra 
equally {welled on the outfide, flat on the 
inner, fmoothed, one-celled. 
SreeDs in each capfule three, fixed to the bafe of 
it, fitting clofe, inverfely egg-fhaped, very 
blunt, rather flattith, {mooth, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Aponogeton fpica bifida; foliis eliptico-lanceo- 
natantibus; braéteis integris ; 
bus sabeuniite 
Aponogeton with a two-branched {pike; leaves 
eliptically lance-fhaped, floating; floral 
leaves entire; flowers with many chives. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1. A Floret, with its floral leaf, magnified. 
2. The Seed-buds and Summits, magnified. 
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Tuts Genus of Plants in the Catalogue of the Kew Garden, is be sg to the. — Heptandria, and 
with as much propriety as where it now ftands in berg, Schreber, &c. for the numbe 
re! chives in in almoft every floret differs in this, and all the other pans from on to twenty. It is there 
e been introduced to us in 1788 from the Cape of G 2 by Mr. F. Maffon. It is 
roth oat Cape Town in moft of the stk} is very {weet fcented, an  tawers from April till No- 
vember. As an aquatic it is very defirable for thofe who cultivate thofe _— the fragrance of the 
flowers being nearly equal to our Nympheza alba, or White Water Lily; and this, added to the con- » 
trafted effeét of the deep brown anthere upon the pure white floral leaves, which indeed have the ~ 
ts aN of bloffoms, give the whole an indefcribable trait of beauty, peculiar to to itfelf. Our figure 
as taken from a plant in the Hibbertian collection. 
