PLATE 
SAGITTARIA 
CCCXXXIII. 
LANCIFOLTA, 
Lance-leaved Arrowhead. 
CLASS XxXI. 
MONGCIA POLYANDRL4. 
ORDER VIL. 
Chives and Pointals feparate. Many Chives, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
* Masculi flores plures. 
Caryx. Perianthium tiphyllam foliolis ova- 
tis, concavis, perfiften 
Coxotza. Petala tria, fabeaneds, age $ pla- 
na, eee pra be iplo major 
STAMIN ta plarimsa (rgint Nagin 
i), fabulata, in capitulo efta, 
Anthere ereétz, longitudine calves 
* Feminei flores pauciores, infra_mafeulos. 
CaLyx. 
CoROLLa. 
Perianthium ut in mare. 
Petala tria, ut in mare 
Pistirta, Germina numerofa, comprefia, in 
apitulum congefta, extrorfum gibba, defi- 
— in ftylos sete rh Stigmata acu- 
a, perfiftentia. 
Pabiviarien nullum. Receptaculum globo- 
Ni 
fu 
SEMINA numerofa, 
* Male flowers many. 
Emraremenr. Cup three leaves; leaflets egg. 
fhaped, concave, remainin 
Brossom. Three petals, ro undith, blunt, flat, 
awl-fhaped, colleéted into a little 
upright, the length of the cu 
* Female flowers fyi beneath the males. 
EmpaLement. Cup as in the male. 
Biossom. Three petals; as in the male, 
PornTAxs. Seed-buds numerous, flattened, form- 
ing a little head, hunched on the outerfide, 
ending in very fhort fhafts, Summits poiat- 
. Receptacle globular, fup- 
porting the feeds in the form of a globe. 
atene, furround- 
pa ss “re a margine membranaceo, ed lengthways by a broad fkinny bo border, 
lato, hine gibbo, utrinque aa. hunched on one fide, ett to each end, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Sagittaria foliis lanceolato-ovatis. | Arrowhead with leaves between lance and eg8- 
thaped. 
on = ema arpa — 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The whole plant in miniature. 
° 2. 
male flower divefted of the petals. 
3. One of the Chives, ee 
4. A female flower without its 
5. The receptacle with its ae ae perpendicular ly, 
magnified. 
Aut the fpecies of this Genus of plants are aquatic, or water plants, 
Our prefent fubje& is a native of 
other, i in their fpecific charatters. 
quires the atmofphere of a hot-houfe to induce it to flower. 
flower-ftem, are all females; and thofe on the upper part, males; they are f do not 
as either wind, or wet, deftroys them. It increafes by offsets from the root; but 
mutt be kept in a pan or tub half filled with earth, and the o 
in this country. It 
but does not require to be plunged in the tan-be 
each 
Weft India Iflands, and re- 
The poo on the lower 
and differ but little from 
the 
firft iin 
Our figure was taken from a plant which flowered this year 1803 Reger me of J. Vere 
tain, as we are ae by Mr. Anderfon), in the month of July, in 
_ Kenfington G 
in the 
