PLATE CLXVII. 



BRUNSFELSIA UNDULATA 



Waved 'flowered Brunsfehia . 



C L A S S XIV. 

 DID\ WAMIJ J NG lOSPERMLl. 



ORDER II. 



Two Chives longer. 



Seed-s covered. 



GEXERIC CHAKACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, campanu- 

 latum, qiiliui'jfdt-iu.itum, obtuluai, mini- 

 mum, perfilien-. 



Corolla monoprtala, infundibuliformis; tubus 

 lougillunus, Uibiiicurvus; limbus planus, 

 fjuinqueficlus, oblulus. 



Stamina. Filamenia quatuor, bievilTima. An- 

 ther» oblongK, ereitne, lilainentis dorlo 

 affixaf. 



PiSTiLLUM. Germen I'ubrotundimi, pannmi. 

 Stylus fillfbrmis, longitudine tubi. Stigma 

 crall'.ufculum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula extus baccata, globola, 

 unilocularis, bivalvis. 



Semina plurima, comprelfa, liinc convexa, inde 

 angulata, punciato-fcabra. 



Receptaculum t'un.lo capl'ulae adnatum, pale- 

 aceuro; palei^ coadunatis, apice labalatLs, 

 femina diltinguentibus. 



Empalement. Cup one leaf, bell-fliaped, five- 

 toothtd, blunt, very fmall, iemainii)g. 



Blossom. One petal, fimnel-fliaped; tube very 

 long, Mther curved ; border tlat, five-cleft, 

 obtLile. 



CnivES. Four threads, very fliort. Tips ob- 

 long, upriglit, fixed by the back to th? 

 threads. 



PoiNTAL. Seed-bud roundifli, I'malj. Shaft 

 thread-lliapcd, the leugtb of the tube. Sum- 

 mit rather flelliy. 



Seeo-vesskl. Capiule on the outfide a berry, 

 globular, one cell, two valves. 



Seeds many, flat, convex on one fide, angular 

 on the other, roughly punctured. 



KtCEPTACLE fixed to the b.)ttom of tlic capfule, 

 chatfv ; chatfs joining at the bafe, awl iliaped 

 at the point, feparatmg the feeds. 



SPECIFIC CHAKACTER. 

 Brunsfelfia foliis lanceolato-obovatis, utrinque n Brunsfelfia with leaves between lance and in- 



acuminatis, petiolis brevilfimis; tubus pa- 

 nim incurvatus, laciniis linibi undulatis. 



verfely egg-fliaped, tapered to both ends, 

 footllalks very Ihort; tube a little incurved, 

 the fesments of the border waved. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



•1. The tube of the blolibm cut oi>en, to fliew the inl'i-rtion and charader 



of the Chives. 

 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud. 



The Genus Brunsfelfia (by Plumier fo named, in honour of Otho Brunsfels a monk, the firft who 

 edited in 1.530 a Botanical work with good figures, it contained 238 plates) has undergone a very 

 necelVary revilion fince the days of Linnasus; indeed, it appears fingtilar that Father Plumier, from 

 whom Linn.ifus quotes his Generic character, iliould have committed fo great an overfight, as to 

 defcribe it with live chives, a feature fcarcely to be expe6ted, from a fport of nature, in plants of this 

 Clafs. So however it is on record, and the fifth Clafs of the Gen. and Spre. Plant, and of the Syft. 

 Nat. torn. ii. each includes this Genus; from whicii, we (liould be induced to think he had defigned 

 fome other plant: if the figure, and the reft ot the dcfcriptiun, did not confirm it. Sclireber, in 

 his Gen. Plant, has likewife an oblervation, that the fruit Ihould be named a capfule, rather than a 

 berry; as given by Linnaeus, Miller, and SwartZj his rcafon, tiiat it Iplits determinately, by a future, 

 from the top to the bafe. 



Our fpecies, is the third now in Britain ; they are all natives of the \\'eft India Iflands. The 

 !ft B. americana has been long an inhabitant of our holhoufes; the 2d B. maculata is but little known 

 to moft, though long cultivated here-, as it has been treated as a variety of the firft fjjrcies, notwith- 

 ftanding the ftrong fpecific ditlere.-ice, in the iliape of the leaves and blollbms; which in the B. 

 maculata, are beautifully marked at the bafe, and as large as tl)e undulata; the leaves inverfely cgg- 

 fliaped and more do\my. The prefent plant feldom grows move than four feet high, flowers freely 

 about March, is ver}' fweet fccnted, and is eafily propagated by cuttings. It was firil fent to Enuland 

 in the year I'S-l, by Mr. Elcock from the Ifland of Barbadocs, to Mftfrs. l.ee and Kennedy, Ham- 

 nierfniith. Our drawing was made from a plant in the Clapham Colledtion, in March laOO. Ix 

 fhould be planted in rich earth. 



