PLATE CLXXXVII. 



ECHITES SUBERECTA 



Oval-leaved Echites. 



CLASS V. ORDER L 



J'ENTu^NDRJ^ MONOGVNI^. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Perianthium quinquepartitum, acu- 



tum, parvum. 

 Corolla monopetala, infundibuliforniis ; lini- 



bus quinquefidus, planus, patentiflimus. 



Kcctarium glandulis quinque, germen cir- 



cumliantibus. 

 Stamina. Filamenta quinque, tenuia, erefta. 



Antherae rigidac, oblonga;, acuminata?, apice 



convergentes. 

 PisTiLLL'M. Germina duo. Stylus filiformis, 



longitudine ItanJinum. Stigma oblongo- 



capitatum, bilobum, glutine antheris ad- 



nexuni. 

 Pehicarpium. FoUiculi duo, longiHimi, uni- 



loculares, univalves. 

 Semi N A plurima,lmbricata, corona tapappo longo. 



SPECIFIC 

 Echites pedunculls racemofis ; foliis ovalibus, 

 obtulis, mucronatis; floribus luteis, am- 

 pliflimis ; corollae tubus hirfutus. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Cup five-parted, pointed, and 



fmall. 

 Blossom one-petal, funnel-fliaped ; border five- 



clett, flat and fpreading very much. 



Honey-cup five glands, llanding round the 



bud. 

 Chives. Five threads, flender, ered. Tips ftiff, 



oblong, tapered, and doling together at 



the top. 

 Pointal. Seed-buds two. Shaft tliread-ftiaped, 



the length of the chives. Summit oblong- 

 headed, two-lobed, attached to the tips by 



a glutinous fubllance. 

 Seed-vessel. Two follicles, very long, one 



celled, one valvcd. 

 Seeds many tiled, crowned with a long feather. 



CHARACTER. 



Echites with bunched foot-flalks ; leaves oval, 

 blunt and pointed at the ends ; flowers yel- 

 low and very large j the tube of the bloflom 

 hairy. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Cnp. 



2. A Flower cut open, with the chives remaining, but detached from each other. 



3. The Chives and Pointal as they are in the flower, the lower part of the blolfom remaining, 



the upper cut away, magnified. 



4. One of the Chives a little magnified. 



5. The Pointal and Seed-buds, magnified. 



The Lady Dowager De Cliftbrd received this plant from the illand of St. Vincent's, in the year 179-1; 

 and we much queftion, whether it was ever feen in Britain prior to that period ; although faid to be 

 cultivated in XJiQ. by Millar, in the 7th Edit, of his DiAionary, and from thence, collated into the 

 Kfw Catalogue, p. 289, Vol. I. It is a climbing plant, if fupported; but does not grow to any con- 

 fKUrable height, if kept in a pot. Ihe beft method of treating this plant, is the fame as that i)ropofed 

 for the Cratava capparoides, PI. 176. Vol. III. The fpecific name Subereifta, of Jacquin and 

 Brovvne, muft undoubttdly have been taken from the plants which grow in the Savannas; where, 

 thry feldom Acquire above the height of two feet. The whole plant, from which, if any part is cut 

 or broken, tliere ilfues a milky fiibflance, is conlidered by Dr. Browne as poifonous. Our figure was 

 taken at Mrfl':<. Lee and Kennedy's, this year, in Auguft. It is propagated by cuttings, put in about 

 the month of Alay. 



