Nov. | 
will be raifed, like Cuttings of other Plants, to 
meee their Perfection, 
The Care arid Mangement of them after this, 
muft be exactly the fame as that of the other 
African Aloe already directed, only that they 
muft have oftener Water; and that the Garde- 
ner muft caréfully watch the Time of their firtt 
Shoot for flowering. 
When this appears, they muft be-water’d twice 
a Day, avery little at a Time; and have more 
| Warrnth than before, 
White, or flightly {triped wit 
be very beautiful. 
It will flower annually thus, et there will 
never be more Greennefs j in the Flower, than one; 
or at the moft two delicate Streaks of it on: 
éach Divifion; 
2. LONG FRUITED TRICHOSANTHES, 
This is a Plant which Singularity and Bedtty 
equally recommend to the Attention of the’ 
curious; which is eafily raifed; and which is yet 
We hope to ren- 
uncommon in our Collettions. 
der it 4A ‘Ornament to them all. 
It has beén referred by fome to the Clafs of 
Gourds; and others have sah dua it by the. 
Name Anguina. 
LINN 2ZuUS places it under. a feparate Head. 
From the hairy Filaments, which fringe the 
Edges of the Flower, he calls it Trichofanthes ; 
and | for the Diftintion of the Species adds, pomis |: 
teretibus oblongis incurvis. 
long, rounded and crooked Fruit... - 
The firft Knowledge Europe had of hig Plant, 
fhé owed to Michael Angelo Tilli,; that experien- } 
ced Cultivater of Exotics; received the Seeds 
from the celebrated Bowaroti; into whofe Hands 
they came fromm China. 
Tilli committed them to a rich ey under fuch 
Advantages of Watmth; as-he had found raife 
others from that Climate; and-he was furprized to 
fee a Plant fpring from them; not only unknown | 
ain te ‘but unlike all that had ever been feen 
there: : tH he et NG : 
Various Stalks fpread every where upon the 
Ground from a fibrous Root. | 
On thefe appeared Leaves of. an elegant 
Form, “not unlike thofe’ of the Vine, broad and 
divided deeply; and rudely indented on the 
Edges of thofe larger Segments; ‘fixed on long — 
foot Stalks; and of a fhining Green. 
The Flowers rofe° from the fame Joints with 
the Leaves, fupported on extremely long and 
flender Pedicles, ‘ore Flower on each: 
Thisin the Bad feemed clofed’ inexplicably, 
by ifntrherable’branched Hairs; but the Noon — 
‘Sun of a favourable Day opening it, it fpread 
to the full Extent; large, white as Snow, and 
fringed with thefe' fine Fibres. . 
‘The Fruit fucceeded extremely longs’ flender, 
and‘ often, but not always crooked. In Colour, 
‘at firft Green variegated with White, and fpot- 
ted witha dufky Purple; but afterwards, Pur- | 
plith, and then Yellowith entirely 1 
Thus it has gradually difplayed its. fests 
“Beauties. alfo under an Englifh Culture, and) |: 
when overfpread with Flowers,: and loaded: with | 
young Fruit, it makes an Appearance elegant J 
in the higheft Degree; and fingular. | 
The Flower fubmitted to the-Eye of Sciences. 
is found to be placed in a long atid flender Cup, 
tubular from the Stalk, and opéning at the Rim‘ 
into five Seoments. One Petal forms the Body 
of the Flower; and this is divided alfo deeply” 
into five oval pointed Segments, edged with in- 
_numerable long and branched Hairs. Thus fat’ 
all the F tes upon the Plant are alike: but it 
may chance that in this firft picked for Ob- 
fervation, the Student may perceive three Fila- 
‘ments thoft fingulatly covered with a creeping 
‘Trichofanthes. with | Liné of the Farina or impregnating Duft; and ~ 
three ufelefs little Styles rifing from the tubular 
Part of the Cup. 
This may be what he finds, fot it may be a 
» Male-Flower he had opened: But if it be a Fe- 
male; he will. perceive nothing more than the 
» Rudiment of the fucceeding Fruit with its pro- 
per Appéndages for receiving and conveying - 
| dowii the Duft.. He will find ler. the Recep- 
tacle, a long and flender Rudiment of the Fruit; ; 
and from chs a fingle Style rifing, terminated by 
three gaping oblong Stigmata. | | 
If it fhould happen that he opened one of 
thefe Flowers, he would fee at once the Defi- 
cience of the Male Parts. Thefe he would there- 
foré feek in foime other: 
This Search would fooii difcover to him, that 
the Trichofanthes was one of thofe Plants’ which 
have feperate Malé and Female Flowers upon the . 
fame Plant. Thefe conftitute a Clafs, the twenty- 
firft in the Linw an Syftem, its Name Moneecia, 
and to this therefore the Plaiit belongs. There 
} are of this Clafs, fome whofe Male Parts grow- 
ing together; .as in the. Syngenefia; form a fepa- 
"rate Section under that general Head: In this he. 
will obferve that the thrée Filaments which are very 
fhort; aré placed at the Summit of the Cup; and 
| he will find the Anthera, a Cylindric Body covers 
| ed. with the farinaceous Line. This fhews the Tri- 
chofanthes.one of the Seétion juft named, and he 
‘will declare it one of the Moncecia Syngenefia of 
Lines, No Seeds follow the Male Flowers, 
but afterthe Female there comes the Fruit defcrib- 
ed before; which. lowly advances to its Matu- 
rity sand as it ripens changes from Day to Day 
its Colour: but it is. handfomet while young . 
Culture 
