| PLATE CCCI. 
LACHENALIA FRAGRANS. 
Sweet-[cented Lachenalia. 
CLASS = Vi. O8 DER: £ 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | Six Chives One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corot ta 6-petala, infera; petalis tribus interi- Biossom fix petals, beneath; the three inner 
oribus longioribus. flivatios ereéta. Cap- petals the longeft. Chives ere&. Capfule 
fula fubovata trialata. Semina globofa. nearly egg-fhaped, three-winged. Seeds 
globular 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lachenalia foliis geminis, ovato-oblongis, humi 
Lachenalia with one pair of leaves, oblong-egg- 
adpreffis; corollis campanulatis peduncula- 
fhaped, laying on the ground; bloffoms 
tis horizontalibus; petalis fub-equalibus ; bell-fhaped with foot-ftalks, growing ho- 
feapo eretto. io rizontally ; petals ine equal; flower-ftem 
| upright. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
i. A Bloffom with the Chives in their place, one of the tips detached and magnified. 
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit. 
3. The fame, magnified. 
4. The Seed-bud, cut tranfverfely, magnified. 
Tue extreme fragrance of this _ amply compenfates for its want of beauty; it retains its fweet- 
nefs through the whole period of sebeaesase which i is of near a ‘month's continuance. - There is a 
the name of L. ~— ond has been “frequently fo fold for ehis; but its leas is adit ‘different, and it 
in the month of March, but the L. fragrans does not produce 
ius ‘bloffoms til ont It isa vey, hardy greenhoufe bulb, and req'ires no particular management to 
make it flower ; this, however, it does not do, but once in two years; not even appearing in foliage, 
bat in the fecond year from its flowering. Qur figure was made at the Hammerfmith. spans og 
which it was introduced, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1798. 
