PLATE 
HYACINTHUS 
CCCXLYV. 
CORY MBOSUS. 
Linear-leaved Cape Hyacinth. 
CLASS VI. 
ORDER I. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caxyx nullus. 
CoroLta monopetala, campanulata; 
fexfidus, reflexus. 
Nectarium; pori tres melliferi ad apicem 
germinis. ; 
Sramina. Filamenta fex, fubulata, breviora. 
Antherz conniventes, 
Pistittum. Germen fuperum, rotundo-trigo- 
num, trifulcum. Stylus fimplex, corolla 
brevior. Stigma obtufum. 
Perrcarrium. Capfula fubrotunda, triquetra, 
trilocularis, trivalvis. 
Semina bina (feepius,) fubrotunda. 
limbus 
SPECIFIC 
Hyacinthus corollis infundibuliformibus, corym- 
bofis, ereétis; fcapo foliis linearibus bre- 
viore, 
EMPALEMENT none. 
Biossom one petal, bell-fhaped; border fix- 
cleft, reflexed. 
Honey-cup, three honied pores at the tip 
of the feed-bud. 
Cuives. Six threads awl-fhaped, thorter. Tips 
converging. 
Pornrat. Seed-bud above, round-three-cor- 
nered, three-furrowed, Shaft fimple, fhorter 
than the blofflom. Summit blunt. 
Srep-vesset. Capfula roundith, three-fided, 
three-celled, three-valved. 
Szeps in pairs (often,) roundith. 
CHARACTER. 
Hyacinth with funnel -fhaped bloffoms, growing 
in a broad topped fpike, upright; flower- 
ftem ihorter than the leaves, which are 
linear. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, A Bloffom, with the Chives in their place, one Chive detached, magnified. 
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, the Summit detached, magnified. 
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Amonest the plants, of this natural order, from the Cape of Good Hope, 
ture of character, in the different parts of fructification ; 
them to fome of the old genera, almoft every frefh fubjeé&, we difcover, would re 
This plant, although we have placed it to Hyacinthus, with thofe that ha 
claims to Drimia, Polyanthes or Scilla; for it is wanting in the effenti 
and having the chives inferted into the tu 
Profeffor Jacquin, and a mutilation of Hyacinthus, 
to alter its known ftation, as, without doubt, the multiplication of genera, 
known plants, adds but to the difficulties of a moft intricate, though pleafing ftudy. 
green-honfe bulb; delights in a mixture of peat earth and fandy loa 
flowers in O@ober or November. Our figure was made from a plant in 
of Turnham Green, who firft imported it in 1800. 
we find fuch an intermix- 
that, if fome latitude is not taken in referring 
quire a new one. 
ve gone before us, has jufter 
al characters of Hyacinthus, 
be of the blof- 
To Drimia, 
m; increafes 
the Nurfery of Mr. 
It is faid, by Koenig, to grow > 
near the Cape town, and was firft noticed there by him. 
