PLATE CCXV. 



EMBOTHRIUM SALIGNUM. 



JVillow-like Emhotlirium. 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx nuUus. Cor. tetrapetala. Stamina limbo 

 petalorum inferta. Folliculus polyfpermus. 

 Sem. alata. 



Empalement none. Blofl. four-petalied. Chives 

 inferted into the limb of the petals. One- 

 celled-pod, many feeded. Seedswinged. 



See Embothrium sericeum, PI. C. Vol. 11. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Embothrium foliislanceolatis.uninervis, utrinqiie ,, Embothrium with lance-fliaped leaves, one nerved, 

 glaberrimis ; umbellulis axillaribus ; corollis very fmooth on both fides ; the fmall umbels 



fubalbidis. of flowers grow from the infertion of the 



ll leaves into tlie ftem ; bloflbms whitifh. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower complete, with the fummit relieved from the petals, magnified. 



2. The fame with the fummit yet reftraitied by the petals. 



3. One petal with the tip, magnified. 



4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. 



This Genus, if we may judge from what we alrfady potfefs, amounting to 6 fpecies, promifes to furnifli 

 an ample feafl for Botanifis; for we have no doubt, but the fpecies are as numerous as of any one from 

 New Holland. The Willow-like Embothrium makes a very handfome bufhy green-houfc plant ; 

 the leaves are not fubjeft to damp, and the item acquires the height of 5 or 6 feet. It flowers about 

 May, and from the manner in which the leaves rather fall downwards, from their infertion, leaving the 

 bunches of flowers fully expofed, at their bafe, it has a very pifturefque appearance, as the whole 

 plant is fometiraes covered with blolToms. It thrives beft in fandy peat earth, and is increafed by cut- 

 tings, made about March, or April, and placed in the heat of the Hot-houfe, or a cucumber frame. 

 Our figure was taken at the Hammerfmith Nurfery ; where, it was firft raifed from feeds, in the year 

 1/91 ■ 



