PLATE XCIV. 



GALAXIA OVATA. 



Oval-leaved Galaxia. 



CLASS XVI. ORDER I. 

 MONJDELPHIA TRIJNDR1J. Threads united. Three Chives. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Spatha univalvis, membranacea, con- 



nivens. 

 Corolla monopetala, fupra; tubus filiformis, 



longus, ercetus, apice paullulum amplia- 



tus; linibus fexpartitus; laciniis obovatis, 



paten tibns. 

 Stamina. Filamenta tria, in cylindrum co- 



nata. Antherae ovatae. 

 Pistillum. Germen inferum, obtufe triangu- 



lare, glabrum. Stylus filiformis, ltamini- 



bus paullo longior. Stigmata tria, filifor- 



mi-multipartita, patentia. 



Pericarpium. Capfula oblongo-fubcylindrica, 

 trifulca, trilocularis, trivalvis. 



Se.mina plurima, globofa, minima. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Sheath of one valve, ikinny, and 

 doling. 



Blossom, one leaf, above; tube thread-fliaped, 

 long, upright, the upper part a little widen- 

 ed; border divided into fix parts; feg- 

 ments inverfely egg fhaped and fpreading. 



Chives. Three threads forming a cylinder. 

 Tips egg-ihaped. 



Fointal. Seed bud beneath, obtulely trian- 

 gular and fmooth. Shaft thread-fliaped, a 

 little longer than the chives. Three fum- 

 mits, each divided into a number of (mall 

 threads, and fpreading. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule of an oblong, anil almoft 

 cylindrical fliape, with three furrows, three 

 cells, and three valves. 



Seeds numerous, globular, and fmall. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Galaxa folds ovatis margine ciliatis ; corollis 

 longifiimis, arcuatis, flavis. 



Galaxia with egg-fliaped leaves, fringed at the 

 edge; bloffoms very long, bowed, and yel- 

 low. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Sheath. 



2. A Flower cut open, to fliew where the threads are fixed to the tube of the bloffom. 



3. The Chives with the Fointal inclofed, the Bloflbm cut away. 



4. The Fointal and Seed-bud. 



Any fpecies of this Genus, mult be interefting to the Englilh botanilt; as, till hill year, not one was 

 to be found, in any colle&ion of this country. The G. ovata is figured in Cavanilles, Did', fi. p. 3-10. 

 t. 18C); and defcribed by Thunberg, in his Nova Genera Plantarum, p. SO. It is a moft fmgular 

 little plant, but we much fear will prove a fugitive to us; like the Ferraria, (to which in many par- 

 ticulars it very nearly affines,) its beauty is but of a few hours duration : indeed, lb fhort is the 

 period, that had not Mr. Hibbert taken a lketch of it, whilft in perfection; and from which our 

 drawing was completed, we could not have accomplifhed a figure of it. As yet, the true feafon of 

 its flowering cannot be ascertained; but, it was in the month of October, that the plant flowered laft 

 year 1/79; tne bulbs having been received, from the collector for the Clapham collection, (till at the 

 Cape, in the fpring of the fame year. The treatment for this, appears to be the fiune as that necef- 

 fary for moft Cape bulbs; light fandy peat, a little warmth when approaching to flower; and to be 

 removed from the pot afterwards. 



