PLATE CXCII. 



ANTHOLYZA FULGENS. 



Refill gcnt-Jio'-d)ered Antholyzu. 



CLASS JIL ORDER L 

 TRIJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- 

 fula infera. 



Blossom tubular, irregular and bent backward. 

 Caplule beneath. 

 See Antholyza kingens, PI. XXXII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antholyza floribus tubiforinibus, curvatis, cocci- \i Antholyza with trumpet-lliaped flowers, curs'ed, 



neis, fulgentibus; laciniis corolla; maximis, ! fcarlet, and refulgent : the fegments of the 



patentibus; foliis longiflimis, glabris, bafi :i bloirom very large, Ipreading ; leaves very 



attenuatis. ) lo"g. fmooth, and tapered at the bafe. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. Part of a Leaf, cut from the upper part. 



2. The two iheaths of the Empaleinent. 



3. The Flower cut open, with the chives attached. 



4. The Pointal and Seed-bud; one of the fummits detached and magnified. 



This moft beautiful genus does not poflefs amongft its numerous fpecies, (drawings of twenty-two of 

 ■which we have) a rival to A, fulgens ; whether, for the fize of the plant, which grows to the licight 

 of three feet, or the e-ttreme brilliancy of its blolVoras, which frequently mal<e a fpike near a foot in 

 length. The roots fhould not be taken from the pots, but fhifled intofrefh earth annually, which may 

 be a compofition of half fandy peat, and half loam, as the leaves do not decay, until frefli ones arc 

 produced. Our figure was taken at the Hammerfmith Nurfery, in May 1800, to which it was firft 

 brought, from the Cape of Good Hope, in 1/92. It increafes by the root. 



In a cotemporary, and fomething fimilar publication to our own, we were forry to obferve, a rifing 

 itch to do away, what, under the conduft of its original fcientific proprietor, was allowed by all, to 

 conftitute its chief merit and utility; efpecially to thole, " irhn u-'ijh to become fcientificalhi acrjuainled 

 with the plants they cultivate." The late IVIr. Curtis, purluing the path he planned, with rigour, to 

 prevent conftifion, and avoid as much as polTible the greatell ditHculty of the fcience ; feldora altered a 

 commonly known, or eftablillied name; unlefs abfolutely neceffary to fyttematic arrangement. We 

 were naturally led to thefe obvious obfervations, from the hints thrown out in the laft Number of the 

 Bot. Mag. in which, the A. tubulofa of all the colleftions, which polTefs the plant, and lb named and 

 figured by us, in the preceding Number of the Botanifts Repofitory, has a new generic and fpccific title; 

 and in which a gentleman "with INFINITE Jkill" of the name of Gawler, the acknowledged father of 

 the innovation, isfpoken of a s qualified to fcrutinizeand reflify the "errors, falfe fynonims, and blunders 

 upon blunders, ivhich have from carelessness, &c.'' crept into the, of courle, infignificant labours of a 

 Linnaeus, a Jacquin, a Thunberg, a Willdenow, or a Curtis. It may perhaps be an acquifition to the 

 fcience,. that, fince fuch confulJon prevails amongll " the mnji learned Botani/rs," from their '■ acknow- 

 ledged inability to determine ihofe plants;" which, nevertheless, they have all foolilhly attempted to 

 do, we have one at laft, whole "/crutinizing" eye " has been able to make out all Linnceus's and even 

 Thunberg s fpecies." This elucidation, of fo intricate a fubjeft, by a perfoa whofe knowledge of 

 living plants, we fear, does n.it lead him, fcarcely, to an acqnaintancefliip with the difference efface in 

 a Plane from a Poplar, mult be matter of infiiii'e moment, to thofe, " who icijh to become acf/uainted 

 iriih the plants they cultivate;" and the Imjll trouble, to mnll perfons, of learning nev^-, and oufting 

 the old namrs for plmts, which have been I'nig rivttted to the memory by h,d)itual ule, will be amply 

 compenf.ited, by the pl^afure of novelty, which muft neceffirily refult, from the certain alteration in 

 fome part of the title, of every plant which has hitherto, or is to come under, this learned judge's 

 diftatorial fiat. Our opitiions, as do our labours, run counter to thefe new f^ilhions, of rendering a 

 difficult fcience eufy; and our road muft ftill be in the old track of the trifler Linnwus. 



