Pee 6D 's 
Pl. ¥; This is a Plant of extreme Prettynefs. The 
Fig. 5. teoular Growth of its Leaves gives it a fingular 
Elegance; and, when the Flowers appear, their 
golden yellow and elegant F orm qed greatly to its 
Beauty. 
_ Itis called in Engl if, the Dwarf Peacorh eer 
but that is an improper . Name. 
Waiters call i it in Latin, Chame Crifta Pavonis ; a. 
Name from, which the Lig iglifp one has been. form’d. 
Linn avs. properly ere it to the Caffia? of and | 
calls it, Caffia foliolis inultijdgatis glandula petioli 
pedicellatg fipalis enfiformibus ; Caffia, with Leaves 
compos’d of. ‘numerous Pairs, S, with. the Glandule : 
of the Foot- ftalk rais’d on. a. little rs al and 
with the Stipule form’d as Swords, 
It is a long Name, . but: fewer Words acu not. 
the other Kinds, 
The Plant is two Foot and a hale high. 
Root is compos’d.o of fimall long Fibre§ : The Stalk 
is round, upright, downy, and full of Pith. It i 1s 
branched ufually from the Bottom, and well c co- 
vered with Leaves. , . 
Thefe are beautifully pinnated : each is com- 
pos’d of about twenty Pairs of. {mall oblong Pin- 
; ne; and their Colour is a frefh and fine green. 
| ‘The F lowers are. large, and of a bright gold 
yellow, and they are very numerous ; they ftand’ 
oppofite to the Leaves, ‘or often in the Intervals 
between them; and they are plac’d on fhort Foot- 
ftalks, on each of which there grows alfo 4 fingle 
fharp- “pointed: Beas pogathes different = the 
Others, > 
The. ‘common | 
| ten Male Parts in every Flower, claims this ; 
The I 
: Seétion, Meee 
| to another Hot-Bed, to bring them forward : 
~ After) the F lowers come Pods, in which ‘there | 
MOC A S ot A. 
are large black fhining Seeds. 
When the Flowers are carefully examined, each” 
is found to be plac’d in a fmall five-leay’d Cup, 
which is of a tender Subftance, and falls with a 
‘the Petals; * 
The Body of i Flower is compos’d of five 
Petals : thefe are large, oval, hollow, and hia 
lar in Size; the two lower being larger, and plac’d 
diftant from the’ reft. In the Centre ftand ten 
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| F ilaments ; which bend, and, tufning upwards, 
have given Oc¢afion’ to fuppofe a Refemblance 
between this and the Crifta pavonis, or Poinciana. 
In. the Centre of the 2. a, a fingle fhort 
Style. eS. 
This Stru@ure of a Flower fhews plainly 
| to what Clafs in the Linn. an Syftem it belongs : 
| fe well have exprefs’d its Diftinction from. fome of | 
The tenth, named Decandria, from there being 
and 
the Style being fingle, fhews it one of the frit 
It isan annual Plant, a Native of fome of the 
warmer. Parts of the We oft- Indies, and naturally 
| grows 1 ina deep tich Soil. 
e : a Godeure of. ie ee. DEN Cassra. 
“Barly i in Spring let én Seeds be fown on.a good 
| Hot Bed, covered deep with rich Garden-Mould. 
' When the Plants come up, let them be allow’d 
Time to get fome Strength, and then be remov’d 
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Pl. V. This 3 is. an. serenely beatin) Plant; a 
Fig. 6, withal a Singularity. that, attracts, every Eye,. and 
never fails to pleafe. 
ts Engle Name is, Ethiopian, Corn- flag, but 
this. is a very, improper, one. CoMMELINE calls it 
Gladial 0, Zthiopico fimilis planta, anguftifolia, caule. 
hirfuto flove rubicundiffime. Its proper Name i 1S. 
Mutholyza franine, unico declinato : Antholyza, with 
one of the F laments. bent. . 
The Root is. Jarge and, ‘flethy. The. Pe. are 
of a: fingular ois and, Struéture : they ; are. Jong, 
narrow, fharp-pointed, rib’d length-wife, and: j in, 
all Refpects of, the Kind we. call Graffy ; but that 
they, haye. short Foot-ftalks : from, thefe they rife 
hollow at theBafe, and- -gtow. broader. as, they.con=. 
‘ tinue their Courfe,. to. a,third:Part of. the Length, 
_ whence. they. grow, natrower-again, mm pos) sad 
. The,Stalkerifes in; “the: midft; of thefe, and.is, | 
il hairy, 12nd,2\Foot:and-half, j in, peice sf 
The Flowers; spain, Chal bers. 
the Stalk: 
f 
| " Bhey-ate'very large, and of extreme Singularity 
and, haye.an. upright, Lip, 
| - before nam 
_ as, well, } as, Beauty. Their Colour. is, on: the Qut- 
fide. a, very elegant: pale: red, and. a deep: Blood: 
_ red. within, They-are very long, large: hollow; 
~The Seed-veffels are Peet ; and the ) | 
- Seeds, are numerous and large. 
‘Ehis-the common: Objferver fees ;, but-to; isthe Boa 
|  tanical Student no Flower demands, more particular 
_ Attention. | 
It has no. Cup. befide the few: itrepular Leaves 
’d; which. ferve to as: the: feveral 
| Flowers: that grow in the fame Clufter. _ 
The: Body. of; each Flower is form’d of a nee 
| Petal: this is fmall-and: tubular at; the Bottom =: 
_ thence; rifes. to a. confiderable Height,. thee 
all the Way. in: Breadth. but-it is not-in.this-PRare 
rounded, in Manner of a Funnel, but. flatted 3 
_ and-at;the:Top it forms akind)of gaping: pra 
| Compos'd of two ver irregular-Lips, - 
“The upper Lip is: long:and narrow; ndulatéeds 
¢ and {trait, and has two {mall Segments at the 
Bafe. The under Lip is fhort, and is divided 
into three Parts. 
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