SCHELHAMME'RA MULTIFLO'RA. 
MANY-FLOWERED SCHELHAMMERA. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
MELANTHACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
J\. Holland. 
18 inches 
September. 
Perennial, 
in 1824. 
No. 1190. 
The name, Schelhammera, was adopted by Robert 
Brown, to distinguish this species of New Holland 
plant, after Schelhammer, professor of medicine suc- 
cessively at Helmstadt, Jena, and Kiel. He was 
the first to explain some peculiarities in the germin- 
ation of Palm seeds. 
We are not enabled to point out the medicinal quali 
ties of the plant now figured, it is, however, associated 
with very dangerous company; for the natural order 
Melanthaceae contains, besides Schelhammera, such 
plants as Meadow Saffron, White Hellebore, and 
others of similar poisonous properties ; and it is held 
by some botanists, that all plants belonging to the 
same natural order, possess similar qualities. With- 
out admitting this theory to its full extent, it may 
reasonably be admitted, that the greater portion of 
those combined in one order, do possess some pro- 
perties in common. 
In the warmest parts of England this plant would, 
probably, bear full exposure ; but in the midland 
and northern counties it requires frame protection. 
It may be flowered in the borders, in summer, and 
be taken up and potted at Michaelmas. 
