PLATE CCLXI. 



CAMERARIA LATIFOLIA. 



Bajiard Mangeneel. 



CLASS V. ORDER L 

 PENTANDRIA MONOGVNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 



Calyx. Perianthium quinquefidum, acutum, 



connivens, minimum. 

 Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus 



cylindricus, longus, bafi apiceque ventri- 



col'us; limbus quinquepartitus, planusj la- 



ciniis lanceolatis, obliquis. 

 Stamina. Filamentaquinque, minima, e medio 



tubi. Antherae conniventes, filo longo ter- 



minatae. 

 PisTiLLUM. Germina duo, cum appendicibus 



ad latera. Stylus cylindricus. Stigma ca- 



pitatum, apice acutum, bitidum. 

 Pericarpium. Folliculiduo, horizontaliter re- 



flexi, oblongi, jiixta latera bafeos utrinque 



lobum emittentes, uniloculares, univalves. 



Semina numerofa, ovata, membranae majori 

 ovatse ad bafin inlertae, irabricata. 



HARACTER. 



Empalement. Cup five-cleft, pointed, con- 

 verging, very Imall. 



Blossom one-petal, funnel-fliaped; tube cylin- 

 drical, long, bellied out at the bale and top, 

 border five-parted, flat; fegments lance- 

 fliaped, oblique. 



Chives. Threads five, very fmall from the middle 

 of the tube. Tips converging, terminated 

 by a long thread. 



Pointal. Seed-buds two, with lateral appen- 

 dages. Shaft cylindrical. Summit headed, 

 pointed at top, and two-cleft. 



Seed-vessel. Seed-pods two, horizontally re- 

 flexed, oblong, lending forth a lobe each 

 way near the fide of the bafe, one-celled, 

 one-valved. 



Seeds numerous, egg-fliaped, inferted on the 

 larger egg-fliaped membrane at the bale, 

 tiled. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Cameraria foliis ovatis, nitidis, acuminatis, paral- 

 lelo -cofliatis ; floribus corymbofis, termina- 

 libus. 



Baftard Mangeneel with egg-fliaped leaves, fliin- 

 ing, tapered, and ribbed tranlVerfely; flowers 

 grow in broad-topped fpikes, terminal. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower cut open, magnified, with the Chives in their place. 



2. The Cup, magnified. 



3. The Pointal and Cup, the fummit magnified. 



4. One of the Seed-pods, natural fize. 



The genus Cameraria, feems to have been rather hafiily taken up by Plumier, as a diliinft genus 

 from Nerium ; for certainly, the fmall ditlerence in the lliape of the feed-pod, in which confitts the 

 whole diflin£live character of this genus, can hardly be thought of fufficient moment to that end. As 

 we have found it, we leave it ; but could not refrain from the foregoing remark, as it appears lb fin- 

 wular, that amongft fo many who have publiflied the plant, not one fliould have difcovered the fur- 

 rounding nedary, or honey-cup, to the mouth of the bloflbm, and the long threads at the end of the 

 tips; two fuch very powerful features, which diflinguifli Neiium, from all the rcli of this natural order. 



It is a native of Jamaica, Cuba, and Domingo; grows to the height of thirty feet, and is confidered 

 as a timber tree in thofe illands. The whole plant is full of a milky juice, fimilar to what is Ibund in 

 moft plants of this natural order. In England, it mufi be treated as a hothoufe plant; maybe in- 

 cveafed by cuttings; flowers in Augult, and fhould be planted in rich earlh. 



Our figure was taken from a plant in tlie Stepney colkaion, belonging to Thos. Evans, Efq, 



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