﻿PLATE DXXL 



ERIOSPERMUM FOLIOLIFERUM, 



Leaflet -bearing Eriospermum. 



CLASS VI. ORDER I. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One PointaL 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Gerraen superum, subrotundum, 

 trisulcatum. Stylus filiformis, erectus. 

 Stigma obtusum. 



[icarpium. Capsula triloba, trilocularis, 

 tnvalvis. 



una pauca, lanceolata, acuta, pilis tomen- 



j base, beneath 1 



petals approaching together at 

 eneath lance-shaped and pointed, 

 the three outer ones spreading : the three 

 inner on XBted wide ap- 



proaching border. All after un 

 stand upright, like a cone. 



Chives. Six threads broadly lance-shaped, 

 pointed, and flat, with the 

 inward. Tips oblong, and lying on them. 



Pointal. Seed-bud above, nearly round, three- 

 furrowed. Shaft thread -shaped, upright. 

 Summit blunt. 



Seed-vessel. Capsule 3-lobed, 3-locular, 3- 



Seeds few^ lance-shaped, pointed, and covered 

 with downy hairs. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 >-cordatis, superne folia 11 Ekiospekmum with nearly heart-shaped 1 



Corolla lutea, viride s 

 Caput Bona Spei. 



white threads. Flowers grow I 

 spike. Blossom yellow, striped \ 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



Chives and pointal. 



A chive magnified. 



Seed- bud and pointal. 



Seed-bud cut transversely, magnified. 



Tins curious Cape plant is not at pi 

 that of 6. Hibbert, esq. where we 

 but flowered the following summer 

 the Mivuil.nty of ils foliage, whose 

 seen. Mr. Knight, the botanic gai 



l in any other collection in this kingdom n» 

 the autumn of 1806. It was not then in bloon 

 It is by so iru.: 



nnmmmnn •»« 



lener, informs me that ii 



may have produced. It delights to grow 

 part of the green-house, to enjoy a full ci 



during the latter part of *0O 

 r impatient of having its roots often d«turbed- 

 f the earth, but to take off any small bulb 't 

 light loamy or peaty soil, and should stand in an elevate 



