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PLATE CCLXXII. 



EMBOTHRIUM LINEARE. 



Narrow-leaved Embothriuf?i. 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGVNIA. Four Chives. One Poiutal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx nullus. Corolla tetrapetala. Stamina r Empalement none. Bloflom fourpelalled. 



limbo petaloium inferta. Folliculus poly- 

 fpermus. Semina alata. 



Chives inferted into the limb of the petals. 

 A one-celled pod many feeded. Seeds 

 winged. 

 See Embothrium sericeum, F1. C. Vol. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Embothrium foliis linearibus, fubtomentofis, 

 uninerviis; florum racemis axillaribus; co- 

 rollls albis. Semina nuda. 



Embothrium with linear leaves rather downy, 

 one-nerved; the fmall heads of flowers 

 grow from the infertion of the leavesj the 

 bloflbms white. Seeds naked. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower, complete. 



2. One of tlie petals, with the chive at the end. 



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



4. A ripe Seed-pod burft and empty. 



5. A ripe Seed. 



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This fpecies of Embothrium was introduced to Britain at the fame time as the Silky Embothrium, 

 of our fecond volume, plate 100; and has been confidered but as a third variety of it, by Dr. Smith, 

 in his Firfl; Number of New Holland Botany, page 23. But the total difference in the habit of the 

 plant, except in the fliape of the flowers, has induced us to give it a fpccific title. It grows to the 

 height of five or fix feet, not very bushy; abounding through the whole year in a fucceflion of flowers, 

 which proceed from the young branches; ripe feed being produced upon the plant at the fame time. 

 It fliould be planted in light Tandy peat, and kept in a dry part of the green-houfe, as the younger 

 branches are apt to fufter from damps in the months of December and January. Our drawing was 

 made at the Hammerfmith nurfury, in the year 1900, about the month of July. 



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