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PLATE CCXXV. 



GNIDIA OPPOSITIFOLIA. 



Oppojite-lea'ccd Gnidia. 



CLASS VIIL ORDER L 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx infandibuliformis, quadrifidus. Petala 

 quatuor, calyci inferta. Semen unicum, 

 fubbaccatum. 



Empalement funnel-ftiaped, four-cleft. Petals 

 four inferted into the empalement. One 

 leed berry-like. 

 See Gnidia piNiFOLiA, PI. Lll. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gnidia foliis ovatis, oppofitis, concavis, tomen- 

 tofis J floribus terminalibus, tomentofis. 



Gnidia with egg fliaped, oppofite, concave, 

 downy leaves; flowers terminate the branches, 

 and are downy. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A Flower complete. 



2. The Bloirom fpread open, with the Chives in their place. 



3. The fame, magnified. 



4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit. 



The Oppofite-leaved Gnidia 

 houfe or dry ftove plant; as 

 fummer, much rain, if it is 

 mentions this fjiecies to have 

 to the height of three feet, w 

 able height from the earth, w 

 mixture of two-thirds loam, 

 tings, made in the month of 

 plant in the Hibbertian Colic 



s from the Cape of Good Hope, and muft be treated as a tender green- 

 but a little excefs of wet, in the winter, is furc to del^roy it: even in 

 expofcd to it for a few days, will overwhelm it. The Kew Catalogue 

 been introduced in the year 1788, by Mr. F. Mallbn. The plant grows 

 ith a very flender ftem, and, often, loles moft of its leaves to a confider- 

 hich gives it rather a difagreeable appearance towards the lower part. A 

 and one of fandy peat, is a foil it molt approves. It is increafed by cut- 

 April, from the tender flioots. Our figure was taken in July, from a 

 ction. 



