PLATE LXX. 



GNIDIA SIMPLEX. 



Heath - leaved G nidi a. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 



OCT AN DR. I A MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx infundibuliformis, quadrifidus. Petala 

 quatuor, calyci inferta. Semen unicum, 

 fubbaccatum. 



Empalemext funnel- fhnped, and four-cleft. 

 Petals four, inferted into the cmpalemeut. 

 One feed, fomething like a berry. 



See Gnidia pikifolia, Plate LII. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gnidia, foliis linearibus, acutis, laevibus; flori- 

 bus terminahbus, feflilibus, luteis. 



Gnidia, with linear, pointed, fmooth leaves; 

 flowers terminating the branches, fitting 

 clofe upon them, and yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower, (natural fize). 



2. The fame cut open, and magnified. 



3. The Pointal, (natural fize). 



4. The fame magnified. 



The flowers of this fpecies of Gnidia, like moft plants of this natural order, are fragrant, which in. 

 creates much towards night. It is one of thofe delicate Cape plants requiring a dry ftove, or an airy 

 warm fituation in the greenhoufe; where it continues to flower through the months of April and 

 May, and frequently will bloffom a fecond time in September and October. It is eafily propagated by 

 cuttings; delighting moft in peat earth, and feldom grows more than a foot high. Our drawing was 

 made, (by his kind permiffion) at the beautiful and unique confervatory of R. James, Efq. Grofvenor- 

 place, from a plant in his valuable and leleft collection, in May this year. 



Unfortunately the G. Simplex having been introduced to our gardens before the G. Pinifolia, (fee 

 our figure, PI. LII.) it was found in moft collections under that title; but we have no hefitation in 

 placing this plant under the fpecific name given it by Linnaeus, in his Mantiffa Plantarum of l^6~, 

 page 6/ ; where, to the ttfual fpecific character, he has fuperadded an accurate defcription of it. 



