PLATE CCCRLVIiiL 
SCHOTIA SPECIOSA. 
Lentifcus-leaved Schotia. 
CLASS°X.:. ORDER‘. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. : 
Catyx. Perianthi phyllum, coloratum; EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, coloured; tube 
tubus turbinatus, fubcompreffus, carnofus ; top-fhaped, rather flattened, flethy ; perma- 
perfiftens; limbus femiquinquefidus; laci- nent; border half five-cleft; fegments egg- 
niis ovatis, concavis, obtufis, eredtis, zequali- fhaped, concave, blunt, upright, equal. 
 e. 
Corotra. Petala quinque, tubo calycis impo- Biossom. Five petals, placed on the tube of 
fita, oblonga, concava, obtufa, erecta, zequa- the cup, oblong, concaye, blunt, upright, 
ia, lateribus mutud incumbentia, feflilia, equal, lying over each other at the fides, 
laciniis calycinis duplo longiora. fitting, twice as long as the fegments of the 
up. 
Stamina. Filamenta decem, fubulata, ereéta, Cuives. Ten Cereals, Ee re a 
petalis paulo longiora, tubo calycis in orbem little longer than t Rc Ss, we erte i Se a 
inferta. Antherz oblonge, incumbentes. ated into es pede’ € cup. ips oblong, 
Pistittum. Germen oblongum, compreiium, oer on a .. 
pedicellatum. Stylus fuiformis, Noa: eee age wine, Fs oon ae bi - 
i i i oot-ftalk. Sha - . 
ee ee ee sete of the chives. Summi a Pay 
Pericarrium, Lesumen edicellatum. SEED-vEssEL. A pod with a foot-ftalk. 
Semina bina, offea, fiesta, magna. | SEEDs two, bony, a little egg-fhaped, large. 
a SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
_ Schotia foliis pinnatis; foliolis ovatis, mucrona- Schotia with winged leaves ; leaflets cae Shape, 
tis; floribus.cymofis, profundé carneis. terminating in a aot ; flowers in tufts an 
; a dee 
of colous. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Flower cut and fpread open, fhewn from the outfide. 
2. The fame, fhewn from the infide. ; 
3. A Flower, with the petals, and border of the Cup removed, to fhew the infer- 
tion of the Chives into the tube of the Cup. 
4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, with the tube of the Cup cut in halves. 
his Collectanea ad Bot. &c. Vol. I. p. 93, . 
his companion R. van der Schot. About the fame time, the year 1786, a monograph on this plant 
was publifhed at Manheim, by Fred. Cafim. Medikus, under the name of Theodora Speciofa; but 
Jacquin’s title has univerfally obtained. To preferve this plant in good health, it fhould be kept io 
the cooleit part of 
ficient to preferve its foliage through the winter months. It is a native of all that extent of the African 
layers, or cuttings. It flowers from Otober till December, delighting ina light fandy loam. Per- 
haps, no plant which has been as long in cultivation with us, fe nm been feen to ear" i me 
a the plants in the Kew gardens and elfewhere, are of a confiderable fize, yet have we fe 
ances 
Hecti of its Howering, no mention being made of its time of inflorefcence in the catalogue of that 
collection. 
From a plant, ftill in flower, this prefent December 1803, which was literally covered eb 
foms above two feet from its top, our drawing was taken; it is in the valuable and extenfive CO perth 
of Ifaac Swainfon, Efq. Twickenham; which for fcientific arrangement and sichnefs in bere oath 
and herbaceous plants, in particular, yields to no private or public colleétion we know of; an olleGtor. 
from the extreme urbanity of the liberal proprietor, is at all times open, to every botanift or ¢ 
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