PLATE LXIX. 



LAMBERTIA FORMOSA. Far. longifolia. 



Red-flowered Lambertia. hong-leaved variety. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. 



One Pointal. 



GENERIC CH 

 Calyx. Perianthium commune, imbricatum, 



fquamis interioribus, longioribus. 

 Corolla. Urmierfalls uniformis, leptem-florus. 



Propria monopetala, tubulofa, limbus qua- 

 drifidus, laciniis revolutis, ftameniferis. 



Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, fubulata, bre- 

 vilTima, inferta limbo corolloe, intra fingu- 

 lani laciniam fingula. Antherae lineares, 

 erectae. 



I'istillum. Germen fubrotundum, apice pilo- 

 fum. Stylus fetaceus, ere&us. Stigma 

 fubulatum, fulcatum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula tricornuta, unilocularis, 

 difperma. 



Semina bina, alata, fcabra, nigra. 



SPECIFIC CH 



Lambertia foliis ternis, apice mucronato-pun- 

 gentibus; corollis ltriatis, extus luave ru- 

 bentibus; anfheris caeruleis. 



AEACTER. 



Empalkment. Common cup tiled, the inner 

 fcales the longeft. 



Blossom. General regular compofed of feven 

 flowers. 



Individuals of one petal, tubular, border 

 four-cleft, the fegments rolled back, and 

 fupporting the chives. 



Chives. Threads four awl-fhaped, very fhort, 

 fixed into the border of the blollbm, one 

 within each fegment. Tips linear, and up- 

 right. 



Pointal. Seed-bud nearly round, the upper 

 part hairy. Shaft awn-like, upright. Sum- 

 mit awl-fhaped, and furrowed. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule three-horned, of one cell, 

 and two feeds. 



Seeds two, winged, rough, and black. 



ARACTEE. 



Lambertia with leaves growing by threes, the 

 ends terminating in lliarp points; blof- 

 foms ftriped, of a light red without; tips 

 blue. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Blollbm cut open, with the Pointal as it (lands in the blollbm. 



3. One fegment of a Flower, with the Chive attached. 



4. The Pointal (magnified). 

 .5. A Capfule. 



6. A Seed. 



Of all the plants yet introduced from New Holland, that have hitherto flowered with us, this un- 

 quetlionably takes the lead for beauty, considering the plant altogether. It is a hardy greenhoufe 

 plant, growing to the height of fix or eight feet before it flowers; when the blollbms break from the 

 ends of almofl ever} - branch. The feeds of this plant were among the firft which arrived from Botany 

 Bay, in the year 1/88; when two varieties of it were raifed by MelTrs. Lee and Kennedy, at their 

 nurfery, who were fortunate enough to procure all the feeds which came home that lealbn. This 

 fine genus has received its title, (under the fanftion of Dr. Smith, fee the Linn. Tranf. page 214, 

 ■vol. 3.) from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Efq. fellow of the Royal and Linnaean Societies; a gentleman 

 ■whole zeal for the advancement of the fcience is unbounded, and whofe labours to that end, as well 

 as his endeavours to render botany of univerfal benefit, by combining the ufeful with the pleafing; 

 (witnefs his work on the Cinchonas, or Jefuits' Barks) do him the greateft credit. Our drawing was 

 made from a plant which flowered for the firft time in this kingdom, in the collection of J. Robertfon, 

 Efq. of Stockwell, Surry, in July 1798. It is without difficulty raifed by cuttings, and thrives in 

 peat earth. 



