PLATE II. 



SPRINGALIA INCARNATA. 



Star-flowered Springalia. 



CLASS XIX. ORDER VI. 



SYNGENESU MONOGAMU. Tips united. Flowers fimple. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- 



fidum, periiftens. 

 Corolla. Monopetala, quinquefida, rotata, 



laciniis acumenatis. 

 Stamina. Filamenta quinque, lineares, recepta- 



culo inferta. Antherae pilofae, erectae, co- 



natoe in cylindrum. 

 Fistillum. Germen fuperum, turbinatum. 



Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtufum. 

 Pekicakpium. Capfula quadrivalvis, quadri- 



locularis. 

 Semina plurima, minima, rotunda. 



HARACTEK. 



Empalement. Cup one leaf, cut into five 



fegments, and remaining. 

 Blossom. One leaf, cut into five fegments, 



wheel-fhaped, the divifions fharp pointed. 

 Chives. Five threads, linear, fixed into the 



receptacle. Tips hairy, upright, united 



into a cylinder. 

 Pointal. Seed-bud above, turban-fhaped. 



Shaft thread-fhaped. Summit blunt ended. 

 Seed-vessel. Capfule four valves, four cells. 



Seeds many, fmall, and round. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Springalia, foliis alternis, amplexicaulibus, mu- 

 cronatis; corollis fub-folitariis, incarnatis, 

 rigidis, micantibus. 



Springalia, with alternate leaves, embracing the 

 ftem, and fharp pointed ; bloffoms moftly 

 fingle, flefh-coloured, harlh, and mining. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement, (natural fize). 



2. The Blollbm divided from the Empalement. 



3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, (magnified). 



4. The Seed-velfel, and Pointal, (magnified). 



The Springalia, muft certainly rank among the mod beautiful of the various new genera which 

 have been introduced from New Holland; the delicacy, brilliancy, and number, of its bloilbms 

 render it particularly attractive, whilft their extreme permanency adds greatly to its merits; the 

 flower being of fuch Angular durability, as to retain nearly the fame appearance when the feeds are 

 perfected, as at their firft opening. The figure before us, was taken from a plant in the nurfery 

 garden of Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, who raifed it from feeds about three years fince, 

 and where it has flowered thefe two fucceffive years. The Botany-bay plants, (as they are generally 

 called) are beft preferved in the greenhoufe; but although this is fufficiently hardy for fuch treat- 

 ment, yet its lituation muft be dry, being very fufceptible of damps, flourifhing bell in fandy peat 

 earth; continues flowering through the whole fummer; and propagates eafily by cuttings. The 

 characters, and habit of this genus, like almoft all the plants from New Holland, being perfectly new, 

 there was a necellity to form a frefti generic name for it; which has been done by the defervedly 

 eminent Dr. J. E. Smith, botanical profeffor, and prefident of the Linnaean Society. 



