PLATE XVIII. 



CORREA ALBA. 



White Correct. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 

 OCTANDR1A MONOGYNU. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadridcn- 



tatum, campanulatum, erectum, perliflens. 

 Corolla. Petala quatuor, oblonga, concava, 



apice reflexa, marginibus craflis. 

 Stamina. Filamenta o£to, ere&a, filiformia, 



receptaculo inferta. 

 Pistillum. Germen turbinatum, fuperum. 



Stylus filiformis, longitudine ftaminium. 



Stigma obtufum. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula coriacea, lanata, qua- 



drilocularis, quadrivalvis. 

 Semina quatuor, folitaria, fubrotunda. 



Emfalement. Cup of one leaf, five-toothed, 



bell-fhaped, upright, and permanent. 

 Blossom. Four petals, oblong, concave, reflexed 



at the end, and thick at the edges. 

 Chives. Eight threads, upright, thread fhaped, 



• and fixed into the receptacle. 

 Pointal. Seed-bud turban-lhaped, and above. 



Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the 



chives. Summit blunt. 

 Seed-vessel. Capfule leathery, and woolly, 



four cells, four valves. 

 Seeds four, folitary, and nearly round. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Correa, foliis fubrotundis, fupra tomentofis, fub- 

 tus lanigeris; floribus terminalibus, qua- 

 ternis, albidis. 



Correa, with leaves nearly round, downy on the 

 upper furface, woolly on the under furface; 

 flowers terminate the branches by fours, 

 and are white. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The Empalement. 



2. The Chives, and Pointal. 



3. A Thread, and Tip, (magnified.) 



4. The Shaft and Summit, (magnified.) 



The Correa is a native of Port Jackfon, in New Holland, and commonly termed a Botany-bay plant : 

 it was firft raifed in the year 1 ~g3, from feeds which were given by Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart, to J. Vere, 

 Efq. of Kenfington-gore, and from a plant in whofe collection our figure was taken. It receives its 

 generic title from Mr. Jofeph Correa de Serra, a native of Portugal ; a gentleman of very diftinguillied 

 talents as a man of fcience in general, and botany in particular. Of this genus there are as yet but 

 few fpecies difcovered; the Alba grows to a fhrub of the height of four or five feet, woody and tough; 

 both ftem and leaves are covered with a thick flannelly fubftance, particularly the under fide of the 

 leaves, which gives the whole plant a whitifh appearance. It continues to flower through the months 

 of April, May, and June; may be propagated eafily by cuttings, fhould be kept as a hardy greenhoufe 

 plant, and thrives beft in peat earth. 



