PLATE LXXXIX. 



GNIDIA LAEVIGATA. 



*5 hining-leaved GniJia. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx infutidibuliformis, 4 fidus. Petala qua- 

 tuor, calyci inferta. Semen unum, fub- 

 baccatum. 



Cup funnel-fhaped, 4-cleft. Four petals fixed 

 into the cup. One feed, fomething like a 

 berry. 



See Gnidia pinifolia, PI. LII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gnidia foliis oppofitis, glabris, ovatis, quadri- 

 fariam imbricatis; floribus terminalibus, 

 feffilibus, luteis. 



Gnidia with oppofite fmooth egg-fhaped leaves, 

 forming four angles and tiled; flowers ter- 

 minate the branches, fitting clofe to the 

 item, and yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Blofibm complete. 



1. The fame cut open, with the Chives attached; the Pointal taken out. 



3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, (magnified.) 



This Gnidia is from the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was firft fent to England about the year 

 1"83, by Mr. F. MalTon to the Royal gardens Kew. It is a tender, and deiicate greenhoufe plant, 

 very fubjeft to be deftroyed by the autumnal rains, or over watering during the winter. It is with 

 great difficulty railed from cuttings, and its feeds feldom or ever, we believe, are perfected with us; 

 from which circumstance, it is to be found in very few collections. Our drawing was made from a 

 plant, in the poflefiion of G. Hibbert. Efq. Clapham, about the middle of July 1/99. 



