PLATE XXI. 



V ERE I A C REN ATA. 



Scolloped- leaf Vereia. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER IV. 

 OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Eight Chives. Four Pointals. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 



lanceolatis, concavis, erectis, acutis, per- 



fiftentibus. 

 Corolla monopetala, ventricofa; limbus pa- 

 tens, revolutus quadripartitus; laciniis 



ovatis, acuminatis. 



Neflararia quatuor; fingulum fquamula 



debilia, minima, fingulo germini ad bafin 



extrorfum inferta. 

 Stamina. Filamenta o£to, brevia, quorum 



quatuor medio, quatuor vero ad bafin 



corollas adnatae. Antherae fubrotundae 



fimplices. 

 Pistillum. Germina quatuor, oblonga, defi- 



nentia in ftylos fubulatos. Stigmata ob- 



tufa. 

 Pericarpium. Capfulae quatuor, ovatae acu- 



minatae, re&ae, trigonae, longitudinaliter 



future introrfum dehifcentes. 

 Semina plurima minima. 



SPECIFIC 

 Vereia, foliis oppofitis, crenatis, patentibus; 

 racemis longiflimis laxis; floribus luteis. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Cup four leaved, which are- 

 lance-fhaped, concave, upright, fharp- 

 pointed, and permanent. 



Blossom of one leaf, big bellied; border 

 fpreading, rolled back, and divided into 

 four egg-fhaped, pointed fegments. 

 Ho?iey-cups four, each confifting of a final] 

 flight fcale, fixed on the outfide the bale of 

 each feed-bud. 



Chives. Eight fhort threads, four of which 

 are fixed to the middle, and four to the 

 bafe of the bloffom. Tips nearly round, 

 and fimple. 



Pointal. Four feed-buds, oblong, ending in 

 awl fhaped (hafts. Summits blunt. 



Seed-vessel. Four capfules, egg-fhaped, ta- 

 pering, upright and three fided, opening 

 inwards along the feam. 



Seeds many, very fm3ll. 



CHARACTER. 



II Vereia, with oppofite,fcolloped, fpreading leaves; 

 II very long loofe fpikes, and yellow flowers. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement, (natural fize.) 



2. A Blolfom cut open to fhew the fituation of the Chives. 



3. The Seed-veflel, Shafts, and Summits, with the fcales of the Honey-cups, as th>-j 



ftand in the bloflbm, (magnified.) 



4. One Capfule of the Seed-veflel detached. 



This genus of Plants muft clafs with Linnaeus' s natural order of Succulents, nearly approaching Craf- 

 fula in habit ; but as the Sexual Syflem is the bafis of our theory, we cannot admit it under that or any 

 other yet defcribed genus; we have therefore named it after James Vere, Efq. long and well known for 

 his extended and liberal patronage to the profeflbrs and cultivators of the fcience; in whole beautiful 

 and felect. colle&ion at Kenfington Gore, the prefent fpecies, has for the firft time, flowered in this 

 kingdom. Mr. Anderfon the gardener informs us, that this plant is a native of Sierra Leone; from 

 whence it was fent to England, by Profeflor Eld. Elfzelius, in the year 1/93 ; that he has treated it as 

 a tender hot-houfe plant, keeping it conftantly in the tan bed, by which means he has made it flower; 

 but from every appearance of the plant, we fhould be led to think the common treatment of hot-houfc 

 Succulents would anfwer for this. It is eafily propagated by cuttings; grows to the height of three 

 or four feet, having when in flower the appearance of a middle fized flirub; blows in the «inter 

 months, and thrives bed in rich mould. 





