PLATE CXIX. 



STRUTHIOLA OVATA. 



Oval-leaved Struthiola. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



See Struthiola imlricala, 

 Pl.CXUI. Vol.11. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Pf.rianthium diphyllum. Corolla tubulofa 

 4-fida; ne&arium, glandulre o£lo fauci 

 circumpofitae. Sem. 1. fubbaccatum. 



Cup two-leaved. Bloflbm tubular, 4-cleft; ho- 

 ney- cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth 

 of the bloflbm. One feed like a berry. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Itruthiola foliis ovatis, glabris; ramis glabris, 

 rugofis. 



Struthiola with egg-fhaped, fmooth leaves; 

 branches fmooth and wrinkled. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Bloflbm, complete. 



2. The Empalement, magnified. 



3. The Bloflbm cut open, with the Chives attached, magnified. 



4. The Pointal and feed-bud, magnified. 



This fpecies of Struthiola is defcribed by Thunberg, in his Prodromus, under the fpecific title it here 

 bears, and was first introduced to us in the year 1/94, in feeds received from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. It is a very tender greenhoufe plant, and very 

 fubjett to be deftroyed by damps, or too much moifture, even in fummer; the flowers, (as are moft of 

 this natural order,) are extremely fragrant and continue in full perfection from March till June. The 

 mode of propagation is by cuttings, made in May, which fhould be placed under a hand-glafs in a 

 pot of light loam, and fhaded from the mid-day fun. It thrives beft in a mixture of half peat and 

 half loam. The drawing was made in the fpring of 1/98, from a plant in the Hibbertian Coileftion, 

 Clapham; then in flower, for the firft time in England. 



