PLATE CCCCLI. 
DIOSMA ERICAFOLIA. 
Heath-leaved Diosma. 
CLASS V. ORDER I. 
-PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
af ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Conorta 5-petala. Nectaria 5 supra ger- Biossom. Five petals. Five nectaries above the 
- men. Caps. 3.s. 5, coalite. Semina tecta, seed-bud. Seed-vessels 3 or 5, joined to- 
: gether. Seeds covered. 
ee SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Drosma foliis alternis, linearibus, acutis, no- Diosma with alternate leaves, linear, sharp- 
tatis: floribus in umbellis paniculatis, par- pointed, and marked. Flowers grow in 
vis, albis, paniculated umbels, small, and white. 
Ie 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A leaf magnified. 
2. The empalement magnified. 
8. Seed-buds, honey-cups, chives, and pointal. 
4. A chive magnified, 
5. The honey-cups magnified. - 
6. Seed-buds and pointal, magnified. 
saan Sets ir a 
that, regarding it as an 
eS The only place in which we have as yet 
seen it was at the Cape nursery last Decembe 
een t, where we observed several plants in fine bloom; and 
although not showy, ‘they are certainly estimable from their neat and delicate a 
induces us to regard our plant as only a variation of 
still d < ~ > 35 in the magnifier slight vestiges of the hairs on the edges of the leaves are 
s = <a ale. But no fear need be entertained of any mode of culture rendering our present specific 
98 — ae the naked eye. There is a dotted or punctured character which pervades the under 
= a foliage of most : » Many of which, when rubbed, emit a powerful odour. The 
pr esent eee, although deficient in both those respects, still possesses a peculiarity that we have 
~ non z sieag. Bon ified place in the dissections, It is a hardy green-house plant, and native of 
