Plants. CXIIL Vol. VI. No. 70. 



SCAR G E : E I O T I C R I PLANT S. 



; The gigantick Fonrcroya. 



(Foùrcroya gigantea.) 

 This plant remarkable on account of its 

 stately stalk of blossoms is properly native in 

 the Islands of Curassao and St. Domingo, but 

 from thence almost hundred years ago trans- 

 planted in the European hot- houses, where 

 it has but twice flourish'd , once at Schoen- 

 brun near Vienna, the second time 1793 at 

 Paris. Since in modern times in France it 

 has been found to form a peculiar species of 

 plants, the name of the illustrious Chymist, 

 the counsellor of state, FourcrOy has been 

 bestow'd upon it. 



This plant here appears cut of below the 

 crown of leaves. The stock attains to the 

 height of 2 feet, and has the bignefs of 2 

 feet, the thick stiff leaves are 5 feet long. 

 From the midst of the stock shoots the pom- 

 pous stalk of flowers 20 till 30 feet high, 

 being smooth and lightgreen. On it are fixed 

 the blossoms formed like a bell and down- 

 wards hanging, as we see some of them at 

 (A.) represented in their natural greatnefs. 

 How splendid soever this gigantick stalk of 

 blossoms is to the eye, yet the smell is no- 

 thing lefs than pleasant. 



