PLATE CLXXVt. 



CRAT/EVA CAPPAROIDES. 



Caper-like Cratceva. 



CLASS XL ORDER L 

 DODECANBRIA MONOGYNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. Sckrcl-. Gen. Plant. Vnl. I. p. 320. 



Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifi- 

 dum, deciduum, bafi planum; laciniis pa- 

 tcntibus, ovatis, inrequalibus. 



Corolla. Petala quatuor, oblonga, unguibus 

 tenuibuSj longitudine calycis, divifuris in- 

 ferta. 



Stamina. Filamenta fedecim vel plura, fetaceaj 

 corolla breviora. Antherse ereftae, oblonga. 



PiSTiLLUM. Germen, pedicello liliformi, lon- 

 giflimo, ovatum. Stylus nullus. Stigma 

 fellile, capitatum. 



Pericarpjum. Bacca? carnofa, globofa, maxi- 

 ma, pedicellata, unilocularis, bivalvis. 



Semina plura, fubrotunda, emarginata, nidu- 

 lantia. 



SPECIFIC 

 Crataeva foliolis elipticis, glabris; floribus urn- 

 bellatis, terminalibus, kiteo-viridibu5, petalis 

 longiflimis, apicibus crilpis. 



EMPALr.MKN'T. Cup One leaf, four-cleft, filling 



off, llat at the bafe; fegments fpreading, 



egg-fhaped, unequal. 

 Blossom. Four petals, oblong, claws flender, 



the length of the cup and infertcd into the 



divificns. 

 Chives. Threads fixteen or more, like briftles, 



lliorter than the bloffom. Tips ereft, oblong. 

 Pointal. Seed-bud on a thrtadihaped and 



very long foot-lialk,egg-fliaped. Shaft none. 



Summit fitting on the leed-bud, beaded. 

 Seed-vessel. A Berry? fletliy, globular, large, 



with a foot-ftalk, one-celled, two-valved. 

 SiiEDS many, roundilli, notched at the end, dif- 



perfed in pulp. 



AEACTER. 



Crataeva with eliptical, fmooth leaflets; flowers 

 grow in unibeL-., terminal and yellow green; 

 petals very long, crifped at the ends. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. Shews the Pointal, part of the Chives, and three Petals of the bloffom; a ftw of the Chives, one of 



the Petals, and the leaves of the Empalement, being removed, the better to exhibit the ftrufture 

 of the blollom. 



2. The Pointal, complete. 



To Mr. Eldred Elfzelius, a native of Sweden, we are indebted for this fpecies of Cratoeva; by whom 

 it was brought to Great Britain, on his return from Sierra Leone, in the year 1/95. As a native of that 

 burning clime, it will not endure our winters, without the protedion of the hothoufe; to which, as a 

 climber, it is a confiderable ornament, both in foliage, and flower; the flowers coming, in fncceffion, 

 from June, till Augurt; perhaps, much later, as we believe, this is the firll time its bloffoms have 

 been produced in England. The propagition is extremely eafy, by cuttings ; but, to give the plant 

 fufticient vigour for flowering, it mult be planted in a border, prepared of old rotten dung, fandy 

 peat, and loam, of each, equal parts; feparatcd from the tan-bed by a partition of boards, futficiently 

 ftrong to fu])port the earth, upon the removal of the tan. This method of treating many of the tropi- 

 cal climbers, and even the common Caper, though a native of ih.e I'outh of Europe, has been found 

 neceffary to their production of flowers in this country. Our figure was taken from a plant, treated in 

 the above manner, in the Stepney colledion ; from whence, through the kind indulgence of the truly 

 urbanic, and indefatigable proprietor, T. Evans, Efq. we are in hopes of gratifying our botanical 

 friends, with the figures of a number of plants, new to this country; and of which he is, at prefent, 

 the fole polfeflbr. 



