PLATE, CCCLX: 
RENEALMIA NUTANS. 
_- Drooping-flowered Renealmia. 
CLASS I. 
MONA r LT RIA MONOGYNIA. One Chive. 
_ GENERIC) CHARACTE 
Perianthium fuperum, mon 
rumpens in duo feu ies dees irre- 
ulares. 
: Conor monopetala, Tule seGas, cylindri- 
; limbus trifidus; laciniis duabus fu 
sina us oblongis, rotundatis, zequalibus 
inferiore fapetoreee vix longi es ree 
culata, oblo 
Jectarium tubo correla adnatum, fab laciniis 
fuperioribus ad{fcendens, rectum, longitu- 
dine pprollna coblngant> bafi utrinque uni- 
dentatum 
tatum et btufe trilobatum 
_ Caryx. 
apice 
a 
SraMEN. Filamentum nullum. Anthera u unica, Bt 
ci tubi inferta, in finu laciniz inferioris 
corel aes oppofita, libera, reéta, li- 
inata, interius fulco exarata, 
iadeitaes et letittadine laciniz corollze. 
Pistizntum. Germen tetas, cbloristh, ob- 
folete triquetrum, glabrum. Stylus fili- 
formis, glaberrimus, ereétus, longitudine 
corolla, Stigma a capitulo plano; 
latere ad neétarium vergente eee per- 
forato, foramine in ftylum decurrent 
PeritcARPium. Bacca oblonga, trifulca, teres, 
glabra, umbilico terminata; carnofa, in 
medio trilocularis. Loculamenta mollia, 
membranacea. 
Semina plurima, oblonga, truncata, tetragona, 
glaberrima. 
m finu — sapice dila- 
iB « 
O R DER I. 
One Pointal. 
Enracasa. Cup above, one-leafed, breaking 
on Ine” two or three irregular teeth. 
— on petal. Tube ftraight, cylindrical ; 
er three-cleft ; the two upper fegments 
peo rounded, equal; the lower one, 
fearcely longer than the upper ones, chan- 
~ nelled, oblon 
Honey cup fixed to = tube of the bloffom, 
| afcending beneath the upper fegment 
ftraight the aie of the bloffom, oblong 
one-toothed on each fide of the bafe, then 
with a hollow bofom widening at the end 
and obtufely poe. 
Thread, none. Tip one inferted into 
se throat oF the tube, in the bofom of the 
lower fegment of the bloffom, oppofite to 
the honey-cup, free, ftraight, linear, notch- 
ed at the end, grooved on the infide, of the 
fame eg and breadth as the fegment of 
the 
PornTAL. “seed-bud beneath, oblong, obfcurely 
three fided, fmooth. Shaft thread-fhaped, 
CuHive 
fom 
head, the fide loca the -cup a 
pearing cut off, perforated by a hole run- 
. Berry oblong, five farrowed, 
cylindrical, {mooth, terminated by a navel, 
flethy in the middle, ee Cells 
foft, fkinn 
SEEDs numerous oblong appearing cut off, four- 
cornered, very {mooth, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTE 
Renealmia foliis vaginantibus ; floribus race- 
mofis terminalibus pendulis ; fruétu pilofo. 
Seicliiie with fheathing leaves ; flowers in 
bunches terminating the branches, hang- 
ing down, fruit hairy. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLAT 
w A ~— repratecitatical of the plant. 
3. A flow lete. e Honey- 
Wigs ie 
2. The outer tee of the bloffom 
ntal, ind 
pi comple 5. The Chive, Poin bed bud. 
6. The Point and Seed-bud dihned of mee fmal]l inner fheath which furrounds “the bafe gg the chive 
fhaft; v 
with the fummit detached and magnified. 
7. One of | ca {mall coaspaSoilie which embrace the bate of the fhaft, magnified. 
» Magnife ified. 
8. The fmall fheath which crowns the feed-bud, 
Q. The Seed-bud, cut tranfverfely, magnified. 
RE BR 
AMONGST tie numerous new — — a China = oe late Mr. Slater, of Laytonfone in 
‘confi ; bie 3 but rather herbace 
whether this hs ‘thould - Saath to the prefent Genus; which was formed, by the younger 
ng, 
moft ae Poles? back 
Linneus, from a plant a native of Surinam, S. America, fome of the parts not exactly c 
elpecially the fruit ; oe 4 have neverthelefs made no fcruple in placing it to that 
nfpeétion of the diffeGtions, it will be found very well to Our 
a ag which h flowers, soanaly, in the month of July, in the Colleétion of J. Vere, Efq. Ke nfington 
upon an 
Genus, with which, 
accord. figure was taken from 
