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STRUTHIOLA TOMENTOSA. 
Downy-leaved Struthiola. 
CLASS IV.. ORDER I. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
PerianTuium diphyllum. Corolla tubulofa, Cur two-leaved. Bloffom tubular, 4-cleft, Ho- 
4-fida. Ne&arium glandule oéto fauci cir- ney-cup 8 glands, placed round the mouth 
cumpofite. Semen unum fubbaccatum. of the bloffom. One feed like a berry. 
See SrRUTHIOLA IMBRICATA, Pl, CXIII. Vol. IL 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
‘mentofis, imbricatis; neCtario duodecim lous, downy and tiled; honey-cup with 
i twelve divifions. 
Struthiola foliis ovatis, concavis, callofis, to- Struthiola with egg-fhaped leaves, concave, cal- 
partito. 
_ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two leaves of the Empalement, magnified. 
2. A Flower complete, magnified. 
3. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the fituation of the chives, magnified. 
4. A Seed-bud, with the Shaft and Summit, a little magnified. 
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Tar Clapham Colleton is the only one in which this curious. fpecies of Struthiola is, at prefent, te 
be feen. It was fent by Mr. Niven, from the Cape, in 1799, and flowered, for the firft time, laft year 
1802, in the month of Auguft, when our drawing was made. It is a tender Green-houfe plant, as 
are moft of this natural order, from that country; being fufceptible of too great moiftare, either 
when expofed to the open air during heavy rains in fummer, or from over watering 1D winter. 
Wherefore they are beft preferved by fheltering them in an airy fituation during fummer, and ee 
them but little water in winter. It is encreafed by cuttings, taken off in the month of May, = 
in a pot, filled to the margin with fandy loam, and plunged under a hand-glafs, in @ thady eset 
without watering the loam, It grows moft flourifhing in a mixture of fandy peat and loam; the peat 
about one third part. . 
