PLATE CCCL. 
LACHENALIA PUSTULATA. 
Rough-leaved Lachenalia. 
CLASS VL. ORDER: I. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cororra fexpetala, infera; petalis tribus in- Bxiossom 6-petals, beneath; the three inner 
fera; petalis tribus interioribus longioribus, petals the longeft. Chivesere&t, Capfule 
Stamina erecta. Capfula fub-oyata, trialata. nearly egg-fhaped, three-winged. Seeds 
Semina globofa. globular, 
See LACHENALIA PENDULA, PI, XLI, Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lachenalia foliis geminis, lanceolato-linearibus, Lachenalia with leaves in pairs, linearly-lance- 
denfe facie puftulatis; fcapo reclinato; fhaped, thickly covered with puftules on 
floribus fub-campanulatis, albo-virentibus, the face; ftem bent downwards; flowers 
rather bell-fhaped, of a whitifh green. 
(a 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1. A Flower. 
2, The fame, cut open, with the Chives in their place. 
3. The Pointal. 
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5 made from a plant 
‘Tae drawing, from which our figure of this fpecies of Lachenalia was taken, wa Gs 
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communicated by Ifaac Swainfon, Efq. from his Botanic Gardens, Twickenham, Middl 
‘where it is fill in flower, this prefent month of January, 1804; and where we believe it is only % 
be met with at prefent in this kingdom. It is one of the largeft growing plants of the genus, t 
jeaves when in a foil it approves attaining the length of eighteen inches, or more. It is as hardy : 
any of the tribe, very fragrant, eafily preferved, increafing freely by the root, and flowering wd 
certainty when the bulb has become of a fufficient fize. It grows beft in a mixture of light loam 
and peat, about two-thirds loam, and one of peat. 
