PLATE CCLXXX. 



PERSOONIA LATIFOLIA. 



Broad leirccd Pcrjoonia. 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. 



One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx nullus. Petala 4, bafin verfus fiamini- 

 fera. Glandule 4 ad bafin germinis. Stig- 

 ma obtufum. Drupa monofperma. 



Empalement none. Petals four, fuppnrting 



the chives near the bafe. Four glands at 



the bafe of the feed bud. Summit blunt. 



A pulpy berry with one feed. 



See Peksoonia lanceolata, Pl.LXXIV. Vol. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Perfoonia foliis fubovatis, utrlnque glabris, 

 craffiufculis, uninerviis ; petiolis brevibus, 

 tortis. 



Perfoonia with leaves approaching to inverfely- 

 egg-fliaped, fmootb on both fides, thickifh, 

 one-nerved; foot-flalks ihnrt and twilled. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 

 ) . A Flower. 



2. One of the Petals, with its Chive. 



3. The Pointal and Seed-bud. 



4. The fame, magnified. 



5. The receptacle, with the four glands at the bafe of the Seed-bud, magnified. 



The very exaft conformation of the flower in this, when compared with the other two fpecies of the 

 genus, already figured in this work; is a circumftance but feldom to be found, in plants, where the 

 whole habit is fo totally different in each fpecies, as we here find it. This plant, until it flowered, was 

 confidered as a fpecies of Concilium, (one of the Genera made by Dr. Smith from Bankfia,) as nighcft 

 in appearance to fome fpecies of that Genus. It has flowered, for the firli time in P^ngland, in the 

 month ofOAober, 1803. The plant being fet in the conferva tory at the Hammerfmilh-Nurfery, the 

 flowers have continued to fucceed each other, progreflively, upon the young branches, without inler- 

 roiffion, as the flioot grows, from the bafe of each leaf. It is with great difficulty raifed by cuttings; 

 but, from every appearance, feed will be procured in this country; as the feed-buds have already be- 

 come pretty large, and feeds of the other fpecies have matured with us. It was firll raifed from feed, 

 communicated by Colonel Paterson, from Port Jackfon, New South Wales, in the year 1/95. Sandy 

 loam, or a mixture of fandy peat .md loam, is the foil it moft approves. 



