PLATE LXXIV. 



PERSOONIA LANCEOLATA. 



hance-Jhaped leaved Perfoonia. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 

 TETRANDRIA MO NO GYM J. Four Chives. 



One Pointal. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx, nullus. 



Corolla. Petala quatuor, bafin verfus ftami- 

 nifera, reflexa, apice incrallata. 



-\.< L ?ari,r. Glandulae quatuor globoke, ad 



balin germinis. 

 Stamina. Filaments quatuor brevia, fingula 



ex linguli petal! medio enata. Antherae 



lineares, conniventes, demum rellex.T. 

 Pistillu.m. Germen fuperum, ovatum. Stylus 



fubulatus, glaber, perliftens. Stigma ob- 



tufum, declinatum. 

 Pericartium. Drupa lubrotunda, monofper- 



ma. 

 Semen. Nux often, lubrotunda, compreffa. 



CHARACTER. 



Ehfalbmekt, none. 



Blossom. Four petals, fupporting the chives 



near the bottom, bent back, and thickened 



at the point. 



Honey-caps. Four round glands at the bafe 



of the feed-bud. 

 Chives. Four fhort threads, one growing out 



of each petal about the middle. Tips linear, 



and approaching each oilier, then reflexed. 

 Tointal. Seed-bud egg-fhaped, and above. 



Shaft awl-iliaped, fmootli, and remaining. 



Summit blunt, and bent downward. 

 Seed-vessel. A pulpy berry, roundifh, with 



one feed. 

 Si.i.n. A hard, roundifh nut, flattened. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Perfoonia foliis lanceolatis, acutis, enerviis, 

 utrinque glabris ; petiolis tortis ; tloribus 

 axillaribus, flavis. 



Perfoonia with lanco-fhaped leaves, fliarp pointed, 

 without nerves, and fmootli on both fides; 

 foot-ftalks twilled; the flowers grow at the 

 lower part of the leaves, dole to the ftem, 

 and yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 

 J . A Bloflbra. 



2. One divifion of the Bloflbm with its Chive. 



3. The Pointal (natural fize). 



4. The fame (magnified). 



5. The Receptacle, with the Honev-cups (magnified). 



6. A Berry cut in two, the Seed taken out. 

 7 '. A ripe Seed. 



Every ftep we make in the examen of plants, from that endlefs fource for botanical refearch, New 

 Holland; nature almoft as conftantly, prefents us with a perfectly new face; fuch is the object of 

 our prefent confuleration. Dr. Smith, P. L. S. in the Linnsean Tranfaftions, Vol. 1 1 II. p. 215, con- 

 fidering a new Genus as neceffary for this tribe of plants, has named it in honour of C. H. Perfoon, 

 much noted for his works on the fungi. This is a handfome, fpreading greenhoufe plant, growing about 

 five feet high, and covering itfelf with deep yellow bloffoms. It is propagated by cuttings, or feeds, 

 which come to maturity with us. and are produced in great numbers. J. Willfon, Efq. of Islington, 

 raifed this fpecies from feeds about the year 1/91; from a fpecimen in whole collection our figure was 

 taken, this year in July, and where it flowered for the firft time laft year, in the month of Auguft, 

 and is ftill in bloonj, although many feeds are already perfected, from the flowers of laft year. 



