PLATE CCCXVIII. 
H EMANTHUS MULTIFLORUS. 
Many-flowered Blood-Flower. 
CLAGS Vi 6(ORDE BR: 4 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | Six Chives. One Pointal. 
a : GENERIC CHARACTER. 
—— oe hexaphyllum, maximum, EmpatemMent. Fence fix-leaved, large, bearin 
mbellulife ; foliolis erettis, oblongis, a {mall umbel ; leaflets upright, oblong, per- 
' soy cera manent. 
CoROLLA Sidiapetita: erecta, fexpartita; laci- Bossom one petal, upright, ret Pri 
il niis ereétis, linearibus; tubo breviflimo, ments upright, linear; tube v thort, 
angulato. angular, 
_Sramina. Filamenta fex, ee tubo co- Cuives. Threads fix, awl-thaped, inferted into 
rollz inferta, corolla longiora. Anthere | the tube of the bloffom, longer than the 
incumbentes, oblongz. bloffom. Tips laying on the threads, ob- 
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on 
Siicreate Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, 
the length of the chives. Summit firpple. 
Seep-vesseL. Berry roundith, three-celled.- 
Szeps folitary, three-fided. 
Pistiztum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex, 
longitudine ftaminum. ‘Stee firnplex. 
#> Pertcarrium. Bacca fubrotunda, triloculari 
vo i re eae, cae 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
a" Hemanthus foliis agen undulatis, erectis, Blood flower with plaited leaves, waved, Up- 
“ lato-lanceolatis; umbella globofa; flori- pent and broad-lance fhaped; umbel glo- 
_ bus confertis ; ; stig patentibus; fcapo ; flowers crowded; — fpreading;_ 
ad bafin maculato, sa ade {potted at the 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summi t. 
_ 4. A Seed-bad, cut tranfverfe ly. 
ro of a Seed. 
aa ceearenecnona 
dens fo long ago as hese poet } 1603: having, at P 
may be propagated. It ihes moft in rich mou 2 
a as the head of flowers js — in this Br? 
