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PLATE 
CCCXLIIL. 
BLANDFORDIA CORDATA., 
Heart- t-fhape-leaved Blandfordia. 
CLASS SV. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five C 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, femiquin- 
quefidum ; laciniis eo ovatis, obtu- 
a quingue, oe alpina 
a patentia, calyci in 
Nectarium urceolatum pai naceum, 
germen cingens; limbo quinque-lobo, laci- 
niis clavatis, capitatis. 
Stamina. Filamenta nulla. Anthere quinque, 
fubrotunde, watt bse 6 Bittg or margini, in- 
ter lacinias lim 
PisTILLUM. ermen fabrotutiduns. Stylus 
breviflimus, erectus, Stigma obfoletum. 
Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga, unilocularis, 
ivalvis. 
Semina plurima, minuta, glabra. 
GR.DEE —I. 
hives. One Pointal. 
EmPaLeMeNT. Cup one leaf, half-five-cleft; 
fegments concave, egg-fhaped, blunt, up- 
ri rht; remainin 
Five petals, oblong-linear, appear- 
ing rather cut off at the ends, fpreading, 
inferted into the cup. 
Honey dae pitcher-fhaped, fkinny, fur- 
rounding the feed-bud; pee five-lobed, 
fegments dub: -fhaped, an , 
Cuives. Threads none. Tips ie. roundifh, 
we 3 fixed, between the fegments of the 
order, upon the mar gin of the honey-cup. 
aa Seed-bud ro a ries ft very fhort, 
upright. Summit obfole 
Szzp-vesseL. Capfule bing one cell, two 
valves. 
Szeps many, fmall, fmooth. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
nage Swe foliis cordatis, bie pat crenato- Blandfordia with leaves heart-fhaped, netted, 
dentatis, floribus fpicatis and between eS and toothed; flowers 
grow in {pikes 
ae 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Cup, natural fize. 
2. The fame, agua es 
3. A Petal, ma 
4. The Honey: a with the Chives, magnified. 
5. The fame, fpread open 
6. The fame, fhewn from the i infide. 
7. The Seed-bud, natural fize. 
8. The fame, magnified. 
n, fhewn from the outfide. 
‘Tae Blandfordia cordata was firft obferved by Mr. J. Frafer, in the year 
-Sayannah river, near its fource, in Georgia, North Ameri 
, when it was brought to England, amongft m 
: : rather too ten eater to refift the i peel of our winters ; and 
or ip the cooleft and fhadieft par of the ho e 
-- year 1800. 
Js, as are moft of the plants of that country, 
 fhould be protected, either in the green-houte, 
where, if it is kept the year through, it will 
jincreafe d by parting the roots about April 
peat foil, with a fmall mixture of fandy lo 
delights in moifture 
m. This plant, from its ves 
be taken fora fpecies of Tiarella, or Veeck ats. to both which it bears great reteablans, 
likewife, natives of the fame clime; but the ftrongly gh characters, in the par 
prevent its being placed to either of thofe genera. 
reason, be confidered as the conneéed threads of ten chives, and what we tak 
its ani fet down as fo many fterile ones to make up this number. Thus, the 
to the XVI clafs; bat, from our beft judgment, we have placed it, 
‘Onr figure is s from a fpecimen communicated by the Right Hon. the as 
his magnificent ¢ gardens at White Knights, near Reading, hi 
priety of our naming a plant from the gota of Blandford; and thus, ‘dedicating t Me 
refent, patronize the {cience, through all its bran 
1786, on the banks of the 
—— but was not introduced to us until the 
y other novelties, by that entleman. It 
being all, 
of fruCtification, 
The honey-cup, it is ss tight perhaps, af 
as above, in 
rquis of Blandford, 
be urged for the 
{mall part of 
ches, Wi with 
Berks. Little need 
< ap 
fo much vigour and liberality, or who shave equal knowledge in its theory and practice. 
