PLATE CXLVIII. 



LACHENALIA QUADRICOLOR. 



Four -coloured hachenalia. 



CLASS VL ORDER L 

 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cor. 6-petala, infera; petalis 3 interioribus 

 longioribus. Stamina erefta. Capfula fub- 

 ovata, trialata. Seraina globofa. 



Bloss, 6-petals, beneath; the three inner pe- 

 tals the longest. Chives erect. Capfule 

 nearly egg.fhaped, three winged. Seeds 

 globular. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Lachenalia foliis geminis, lineari-lanceolatis; 

 fcapo erefto; corollis propendulis, cylin- 

 dricis, quadricoloratis, cum limbo petalo- 

 rum interioruni patulo. 



Lachenalia with leaves in pairs, linearly lance- 

 fhaped; flower-ftem eredl; bloflbms hang- 

 ing down, cylindrical, and four-coloured, 

 with the border of inner petals fpreading 

 out. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining. 



2. An inner Petal, with its Chive, lliewn from the infide. 



3. An onter Petal, fhewn from the outfide. 



4. The Pointal complete. 



About the year l/SQ, this very handfome fpecies of Lachenalia was firft received by Meflrs. Lee and 

 Kennedy, Hammerlmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, fent in bulbs to them by J. Pringle, Elq. 

 It is as hardy as the L tricolor, to which it much inclines, well known to coUeftors, and is equally 

 eafily propagated; an excellent figure of which is to be found, in the 82d Plate of the Botanical Ma- 

 gazine of Mr. Curtis. The L. quadricolor is given as a fynonym by Willdenow to L. pendula, a plant 

 we have already figured, and from which this Hands quite diftinft in the conformation of every part; 

 they are both to be found in the 2d Vol. of Icon, of Jacquin, from whom we copy our fpecific title, 

 the pendula, t. 400, the quadricolor, t. 396. - >-X-, (^'' 



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