PLATE CCXVIII. 



EMBOTHRIUM BUXIFOLIUM. 



Box-leaved Knihofhrium . 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYN lA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla tetrapetala. Stamina limbo inft-rta. 

 Folliculns polyfpermus. Semina alata. 



Blossom four-petals. Chives inlertecl into tb.°. 

 limbs. One-celled pod, many feeded. Seeds 

 winged. 

 See Embotiirium sericeum, PI, C. Vol. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Embothrium foliis ellipticis, integerrirais, mar- 

 gine revolutis, pubefcentibu.s ; unabellis 

 teiminalibus; foUiculo villofo. 



Embothrium with elliptical, entire leaves, rolled 

 back at the edge, and downy ; umbels ter- 

 minal ; feed-pod hairv. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A Flower, magnified, the petals yet attached to each other. 



2. The fame, the petals difengaged. 



3. The Pointal, magnified. 



4. A Seed-veflel, natural fize. 



5. A ripe Seed, natural fize. 



This we believe is araongft the moft rare of the plants, hitherto introduced, from New Holland. It 

 has been figured in the third Number of New Holland Botany, publilhed by Dr. Smith in 1"93: it is 

 there faid not to have been, at that time, in England; but, as it had not then flowered, the plant was 

 not known, although in the colledlion of MellVs. Lee and Kennedy, three years precedent to that pub- 

 lication; and where, it firft flowered in 1/95. Our figure was taken in September 1/89 f"""'" a plant 

 (we fear the only one at prefent in this kingdom) in the Hibbertian colleiSlion. It has not yet been 

 propagated with us, and the feeds do not mature. The plant is nearly four feet high, and forms a hand. 

 fome, bufliy Ihrub, continuing in flower nearly the whole fummer. Over the whole plant there is a 

 brown, or rufty-like appearance, which takes much from its beauty. It flouriflies in peat earth. 



