PLATE CXLIX. 



STRUTHIOLA CILIATA 



Fringed-leaved Strnthiola. 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 

 TETRANDRIjI MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal, 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Perianthium diphyllum. Corolla tubulofa, 

 4-fida; Nedtarium, glandulse o£to fauci cir- 

 cumpofitae. Semen unum, lubbaccatum. 



Cup two-leaved. Bloilbra tubular, 4-cleft; Ho- 

 ney-cup, 8 glands placed round the moutli 

 of the bloffom. One feed like a berry. 



See Steuthiol.\ imbricata, PI. CXIII. Vol. 11. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Struthiola foliis ovato-lanceolaiis, mucronatis, 

 ciliatis, concavis, quadrifariam imbricatis, 

 apice incurvis; corolla fubalbida. 



Struthiola with leaves between egg and lance, 

 fhaped, pointed, fringed, concave, tiled in 

 four rows, turned inwards at the point; 

 bloirom whitifli. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A leaf fliewn fide-ways that the incunature of the upper part may be feen. 



2. A flower complete. 



3. The two leaves of the Empalement, magnified. 



4. A bloffom- cut open, to expofe the fituation of tlie chives, at the mouth of the tube, 



magnified. 



5. The Pointal, a little magnified. 



This is the variety of Struthiola ciliata promifed in the laft number. It varies from the other in the 

 largenefs and incurv'ation of the leaves, and colour of the flower, as well as, in the growth of the 

 plant; in this, the ftem rifes to three feet; in that, it feldom exceeds one. With rather lefs difficulty 

 it is increafed and preferved than the red variety, and makes a very handfbme figured plant, 

 flowering in the month of Auguft, at which feafon, laft year, our drawing was taken from a plant in 

 the Hibbertian CoUeftion. This Var. has the advantage of the other, in having the blofforas 

 extremely fragrant, in the evening. 



