PLATE CCLII. 



HEBENSTREITIA AUREA. 



Golden-flowered Hebenftreitia. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER IL 

 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Tmo Chives lono-er. Seeds covered. 



GENERIC CHARACTEn. 



Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, tubulo- 

 fum, membranaceum, emarginatum, fubtus 

 longitudinaliter dehifcens. 



Corolla monopetala, unilahiata ; tubus cylin- 

 dricus, calyce longior, latere inferiore ad 

 dimidium dehifcens; limbus unilabiatus, 

 adfcendrns.planiLifcuIus, quadrifidus, fubae- 

 qualis. 



Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, horum duo priora 

 fub fauce margini corollse inferia, extan- 

 tia; duo feriora, interiora, inferiora, re- 

 flexa ad latera. Antheraj lunares, coni- 

 preffae, extrorfum truncatse. 



PiSTiLLUM. German minimum. Stylus fili- 



formis, per fiffurara coroUae reflexvts. Stigma 



(implex. 

 Pericakpium. Capfula oblonga, unilocularis, 



bivalvis, 

 Semina duo, oblonga, hinc convexa, trifulca, 



inde plana. 



Empalement. Cup one-leafed, tubular, mem- 

 branaceous, notched at the end, fplitting 

 lengthways from btneath. 



Blossom one-petalled, one-lipped; tube cylin- 

 diic, longer than the cup, fplitting from 

 the lower fide halfway; border one-lipped, 

 afcending, flattilh, four-cleft, the clefts 

 nearly equal. 



Chives. Threads four, of which the upper 

 pair is infcrted into the edge of the bloirom 

 under the throat, ftandiiig out ; the lower 

 anterior pair is bent back to the fides. Tips 

 crefcent-fbaped, flattilh, appearing cut off 

 on the outfide. 



PoiNTAL. Seed-bud very fmall. Shaft thread- 

 (haped, bent back through the fiffure of 

 the bloffom. Summit fimple. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule oblong, one-celled, two- 

 valyed. 



Seeds two, oblong, convex on one fide, three- 

 furrowed and flat on the other. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



Hebenftreitia foliis linearibus, integris, fub-tere- 

 tibus, obtufis, glabris; floribus congeftis, 

 racemofis, aurantiis. 



Hebenftreitia with linear leaves entire, roundilh, 

 blunt, fmooth; flowers grow crowed toge- 

 ther in long bunches, of a gold colour. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A flower. 



2. The Empalement magnified. 



3. A Bloflbm cut open with the chives remaining attached, magnified. 



4. The Pointal natural lize. 



5. The fame, magnified. 



The Hebenftreitias may all be reckoned as rather biennial plants than perennial flirubs; they muft be 

 increaled every year to keep up a fucceflion, which is a matter of no difficulty; as, if cuttings of any 

 of the fpecies are put into lepaiate I'mall pots, and kept from the air by a hand-glafs, for about a month, 

 they will become flowering plants by September, if the cuttings are made in May. Our prefent plant 

 was introduced in 1796 by Melfrs. Lee and Kenned)', Hammerfmith, at whofe nurfery the drawing 

 was made this year in the month of March. They nioftly flower in I'pring, and autumn; the flowers 

 are very fragrant at uight. They are natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 



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