a PLATE CCCXXXV 
“ANCHUSA ee eee 
Cape Alkanet. 
<i CLASS V. ORDER 1. | 
©? “PBNTANDRIA.MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx. Perianthium quinquepartitum oblon- EMPALEMENT. Cup five- pares oblong, cylin- 
gum, teres, acutum, perfiftens. drical, pointed, remain 
Cororta monopetala, infundibuliformis: tubtls Bossom one petal, fine): -thape; tube <i) 
cylindricus, longitudine calycis; limbus dric, the length of the cup; border half- 
femiquinquefidus, obtufus, ereéto-patens ; five-cleft, obtufe, from ere@& {prea ing ; 
faux claufa {quamulis quinque, convexis, throat clofed with five fmall tcales, convex, 
f prominentibus, spate: conniventibus. prominent, oblong, convergin ng. 
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, bre reviflima, in Cuives. Five very thort threads in the throat 
ee : Mr ves Anthere oblong, incum- of the bloffom, Tips cblong, incumbent, 
: covered. 
: Previn, ascii gears — filifor- Potnrars. Seed - buds four. Shaft thread- 
oe mis, longitudine ftam Stigma ob- fhaped, the length of 0 chives. Summit 
>. “i tufum, emarginatum blunt, notched at the 
. Siar vag-chite nullum ; Calyx major, erectus, SEED-VEssEL none; the Cup iareet and erect, 
ees in continens femi containing the feeds in its bo 7 
Beieiiia iiatiee, oblongiufcula, obtufa, gibba. Sgeps four, fomewhat oblong, bi bunched. 
. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
— — ba me villofis, callofis; flo- 
Alkanet with lance- fhaped leaves, hairy, and 
mofo-paniculatis, coeruleis, 
callous; flowers grow in bunches nearly 
panicled, blue. 
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‘REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
F ; E The Empalement, natural fize. 
- The fame, magnified. 
=: The Seed-buds and ei natural fize. 
4. The fame magnified 
5. A Bloffom cut open, magnified, to fhew os fcales upon the 
a mouth, with the fituation of the chiv 
tare is the only fpecies of the Genus we have yet feen from the Cape of Good Hope; and, as it appears 
that Thunberg difcoveréd but this folitary inftance, which he has given in his Prodromus oe 
i _ Capenfium, under the fpecific title we have here og a from him; he, perhaps, thought —_ 
__, The plant, before flowery, does not grow awe fix inches high; but the flower-ftem rifes near 
en froma plant in the ibbertisn Colle&tion ; where it flowered 
r the firft time in England in the month of July 1803; having been fent home, by Mr. Niven, from 
“the — in 1800. 
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