Jan 
— Plate 
XIX, 
Pig, 2. 
~~ fer it, Frutex Zthiopicus foliis Rufcti —Linnavs, 
CompLeat Bony of GaRDENING. 
Sime panpeanaee asso ernmyaeareerneeenewijennse nen nas 
joi nia os 3d ale AEM B ER. XIX. 
4 “For othe fecond Week in. FANU ART 
‘Jour, bent; 
snautnatuonenantsnnanananantencetasantanteanntnnanensantnannnnsn 
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SECTION I. 
FLORA ~ the 
PLeasure- GARDEN. 
CHA P. 
\HIS is one of the numerous Vegetable 
Tribe that’owe fome Part of their Beau- 
None will difpute its Claim :to Attention, for the 
hearted Leaves, its tufted ‘Tops, and not incon- 
f{picuous. Flowers :. but the. Eye’ of Tafte. regard- } 
ing with thefe its general Face and Manner of 
Growth, declares it wortlt all Care in “Management 
and Preferyation. — &e | 
The earlier Writers were not acquainted with 
this Plant; but-of late ‘Time many have’ feen, and 
all of them honour’d it with a particular Attention. 
Sepa has nam’d it Genifia Africana frutefcens — 
CoMMELINE, Spartum Africanum — and Pruxe- 
NET, acknowledging he knew not whither to re- 
feparating it from the Genera before-mention’d, 
names it Borbonia ; ; and adds, as the Diftinétion of 
this Species, foliis cordatis multinerviis integerrimis. 
Borbonia, with heart-fhap’d undivided Leaves, 
mark’d with numerous Ribs. gt | 
_ The Shrub fpreads into many Branches; and is 
naturally but a Foot and half high. 
' The Root is fibrous and whitith. 
i The Stem is round, tough, of a greyith Co- 
irregularly upright, and full of 
Leaves. 
Numb. XIX. ~ 
“Curious: Plants and. Fewer’ now in ‘their Perfettion. ' 
Plant. 
of GA wm 
4 BEART: LEAV’D BORBONIA, Se 
- T ty to the wild Manner of ‘their Growth. 
a hel, without F ootftalks, SfoW fo it'insa sca 
| gular Manner-: their Bafe’ is’ the broadeft Pare’: 
and in the Midft of that there is\a Hollow for 
the Infertion at the Stem. From this Part they: 
 eeeeally grow fmallef to a Point. ie 
Their Colour is a beautiful teen, with a Tinge: 
Y of blueifh; the Nerves run = at thet, and 
| their Point is pritkly. 
From this main Stem run many BHlctthés in 
: sbeiliot Irregularity. Thefe are greyith near the 
| Stem, and for the reft ‘ofa pale’ Crimfon, which. 
~ becomes grey as they grow older. 
‘On thefe ftand numerous Leaves ;' and on their 
Tops thick — of rn big F oliage and 
Flowers. 
{ 
The Leaves in  thete Tufts are paler, and Jefs ~ 
regularly fhap’d than ‘on the lower Parts of the 
The Flowers which take their Rife‘ among them,’ 
exceed them in Length, and are in Colour of a 
| very bright and ftrong gold yellow. 
Thefe are follow’d each by a Pod, which is ter- 
| minated with a very fharp Spine, and contains a 
fingle Kidney-fhap’d Seed. 
: ae thing about the Flower demands and de- 
ferves the Attention of the Curious. 
Its Cup is form’d of a fingle Leaf, and divided 
Kkk- 
into 
Jeg 
