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Flower-Garden 
.AGAZINE; 
Difplayed: 
IN WHICH 
The moR Ornamental FOtEIG PLAJTS, cultivated in the 
Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and the Stove, are 
accurately reprefented in their natural Colours. 
 'TO VHICH ARE ADDED 
Th '- 'lXl'vh\Clafs, Order, Generic and Specific Chara&ers accordin 
'ff'" t.l}elebrated L INN_EUS; their Places of Grow'[h, g 
 ] and Tmes of Flowering: 
! TOGETHER WITH 
M' 
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A W 0 R K 
Iaten'it f6the Ufe of fuch LADLES, GElWLIRMEl% and GARDENERS, aS 
wifh to become fcientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. 
CONTINUED BY 
JON sus, m.D. 
FELLOW OV THV. LtNNEAN SOCIETY. 
V 0 L. XIX. 
Multiplicz !cs fleurs, orncment du parterre; 
O ! fi la fable encor renoir charmer la terre 
Ces fleurs reprocuiroient, en s'animant pour nous, 
Et la jenne beaut qui mourut fans poux 
JEt le guerrier qui tombe h la fleur de fon age, 
JEt l'imprudent jeune hornroe, pris de fort image. 
Renais dans l'hyaci.nthe. enfant aim dun Dieu; 
Narciffe; t ta beaut di un dernier adieu. ' 
Penche-toi fur les eaux pour I'admirer encore; 
I)'un clat varig, que l'eeillet fe dcore; 
Ettoi quite cachas, plus humble clue res fmur$ 
Violette h roes pis verfe au tooins res odeurs ! 
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MORJEA IRIDIOI'DES. PERENNIAL-LEAVED 
MoR.z,. 
Clafs and Order. 
Tt^ MONOGYNIAo 
Generic Charat7er.--P7&  ". 593, 6x3, & 695' 
Specific Chara7cr and Synonyms. 
MORALA iridioides (barbara) tadice fibrofa; 'caule com- 
preffo, rigido, v?rgatim et fubcoarEtatim ramo[a 
(nunc etiam paniculato ramojqma) ; foliis peren- 
nantibus, flabellatim diftichis, deor[um rigentibus 
laciniis obovato-ellipticis, extimis duplo latioribus, 
obtufioribus. G. 
MOR]EA iridioides. Mant. o8. S)fl. Feget. 79' Murr. 93- 
'hunb. Diff. n.  8. G.t,ck. ic. fafc. . t. 3. Hort. 
Kew. . 75- Mart. Mill. Di7. Lamarck ncyc. 
4- g74. tab. St. f. . Filld. Sp. PL z. o_,44. 
MOR,EA irioides. Gcertn. fru7. et fem. . p. 40. 
OR]EA vegeta. Mill. Die7. ed. 8. neve Linnaei. 
MOR]EA fpatha unitqora lbliis gladiatis, radice fibrofa. Mill. 
ic. 59' t. o39. f. . 
IRIS compreff. hunb. Diff. n. t. prod. t. Limt. Fil. SuppL 
98. S)fl. Feg. 89. Mart. Mill. Dic. t3'illd. Sp. 
L . g3 o. 
Os. Species ambigua, fubtrirmls, radice Jliifque tenus 
Vuoad capJkl, e faciem IxI>t rerens, dum reliquis quidemJignisocum 
Moa examuflim convenit. Ejus patria certe .,qfrica .,quflralior, nequa- 
guam Oriens et Byzantlum uti voluit LXNNVS gillii IstI) pro i, flius 
SS'nonymo perperam habita feduc,s. G. 
Root fibrous, roodlock in old plants elongated into a fhort 
woody cicatrized caudex, upon which generally itand two or 
three fan-fpread leaf-fafcicles. Stem longer than the leaves, 
compreffed,. 
TfiE LI 
The Ul 
of 
compreffed, dark-green, rigid and romewhat woody down- 
wards, fmooth, firnifhed at the joints with many'alternate, 
r6mote, ftiffifh, aIpreffedly coinvolute, fpathe-like, ftem- 
embracing Bra&es, fome of which are fterile, while from others 
iffue an adpreffed branch, and there are either timpie or pani 7 
culluely fubdivided, lower ones longer and wand-like, all 
fireilar to the item, but lefs flattened. Leaves. many, per- 
ennial, from upright diRishly diverging, linear-enfiform, 
acuminate, ftiffifh, dark-green, very fmooth, nervelefs, equi- 
tantly imbricate, and very rigid flownwards. Involucres her- 
baceous, convolute, {tiff, 2--4-flowered, flowers fupported by 
a flender pedicle equal to the i'nvolucre and each feparated 
from the other by a membranous fpathe or valve. Corolla 
white, regularly patent, ferments equal in liength, conne0ted 
at the bafe, outer ones twine the broadeft, oblong-obovate, 
narrowed downwards into ftraight patent ungues nearly the 
length of their laminas, with a longitudinal tomentofe ridge on 
the infide, ontwards furrowed down the middle, fides infle0ted; 
inner, fegments lanceolate-obovate, rather acute, with thorter, 
more patent, and lefs definite ungues: fdgmas petalold, bila- 
biate, about equal to the outer ungues, e. re0t-patent, oblong 
with a blue longitudinal keeled ridge; tuner lip bipartite, 
fegments acuminate; ftyle triquetral, thort; filaments flat- 
fubulate, ftanding on the bales of the fegments, contiguous, 
but in general not conhate, though they often are fo. Caprule 
largifh, cartilagineo-coriaceous, oblong, obfoletely triquetral, 
corrugately lineate, feeds very many, clofe, compreffedly an- 
gular, their outermoil fide rounded to the valves. It has fruit: 
nearly ripe and blowing flowers at the fame time. 
Found by T[qUNBEP. G in the interior of the Cape country 
in Hottentot's Holland, in a wood not far from Sea-Cow 
River, near a houti alled Kock's-Farm. Cultivated by 
lla in 758, wl:o received the feeds from the Cape, 
under the title of "White Water-Lily ;" it is of the eafieff 
culture, and will grow many years together (without parting or 
removing) in the fame pot; requires plenty of water; blooms 
fewral weeks in fucceltion during the Summer months.; pro- 
duces feed in abundance; owing to which and its long ftanding 
in the country it is now one of the cmnmoneff of its tribe in 
our collegtions; has no froell. 
Our drawing was taken at the Botanic Garden, Brompton. 
We are rather furprili:d .it 'has iGt before been difc0vered to 
be the fame with 'I'tzu,..ac's I}ts rompre. ffa; his defcrip- 
tion is full and co... ' G. 
The 
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M[LANTHIUM SPICATUMo STAR--FLOWERIilI} 
MELANTHIUM. 
ClaJ 'ahd On 
HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Generic Charaer. wY/d. N 
L. c. Amm.A. Q/fibus petalorum ungues liberi, Hfdem corolla 
clto decidua, quibus hi connati hie perRat ufquedum ex ingrandefcente 
getmine difrumpitur tubulus. .Sir :Li6s had. t, nus obfervat fimt, lgi- 
floru (WvRA 1ongora, ,tld. ) . monaalum '( W  R  A 'Catn- 
panulata, lld.); pumilum (WuRBt pumila, lld.); revo- 
lutum (WuRMBEA revolum, Herb. Bank/.); inum (WuRMBEA in- 
a, Herb. Bank/.): remotum (WuRM remota, Herb. BankS) a 
purpurea, Herb. Bankf); trlquetrum (id. cum junceo ?); Jecundum ; 
,;i,t; q (id. cm 3ndo, Herb. Bank/.); phalangoides (id. cure 
lucido, Herb..Bank/.); viride ; unorum ; eucomoides ; his radi 
bulbus, ovatus, acutus, fpe fubcompreffus, nucleus amygdalino- 
camo/us; integumenta cruofa, fubputaminea, fufca. G. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
/EL'fi. NTHIUM fpica?u'm; multiflo-,m, ica obl6nga, fef- 
filiflora; foliis remotiufculis, convoluto- 
caialiculafls, ex l'atis fubulatim attenuatis; 
tubo limbo 3--4 breviore; laciniis fellato- 
patentibus, lineari-fubulatis, tandem invo- 
, luto-marginatis. G. 
MELANTHIUM/picalure. Houtt. Linn. Pfl. $yfl.  t. p. 5(33 . 
t. 8 5. f. . exclulb Burmanni fynonymo, 
MeLXXHXO revoluto potius attributu. 
,VURMBEA urpurea. Herb. Bank/. 
WURMBEA campanulaa. [3. kk?lld. Sp. PL v.' 6 5. 
Oes. Wue campanulata () Willdenovii eadem e ex Het3. 
Bank/. cum MTHxomonopetalo I)eciefque a notra fatis dif[ina. G. 
Bulb as ufual in the genus, about. the fize of a large filbert. 
Leaves generally three, di[fich, rather difant, convolute- 
channelled, 
chanelled, from broadifh, rheathing, fubventricofe bales, 
gradually attenuated upwards, rather longer than the fcape, 
upper ones cauline; fcape fimple, fubcompreffed, from three 
to nine inches high; fpike 'raight, fertile, fparfe, many- 
flowered, clofi; Rachis but llightly flexuofe, interruptedly 
angled, indented where the flowers fit; tube very fhort, hexa- 
gonoufly reamed, $m4 times lhorter than the limb; fegments 
freilate, linear-fubulate, flat when firit expanded, afterwards 
involutely margined, purple with a darker edge; fligmas fimple, 
obfolete; ftyles tender, fubulate-triquetral, becoming beaked 
continuations to the loculaments o['the cap{'ule. Anthers yellow. 
Flowers without fmell. 
Found at the Cape, by M^ssoN, on the hills near Groene- 
Kloo['; and pi'obably introduced by him into Kew-Gardens, 
w. here it may have been deemed a variety of MEL^TXU.M 
nonopetalum. Requires the treatment o[' Ixa. 
Our drawing was taken from a bulb imported from the 
Cape by Meffrs. G.Mwcon and Ws, Kenfington. G. 
C.O R RIGE .ND.,4. 
1o. 581, I. 04, pro "hyalinis .... hyalina." lqo. 685, p. , 1. , for "confidentially .... confiding!y. ' 
Eod. 1. 40, for "but is .... aM is." 
Eod. I. 4, dele "alfo," and for "fonthernmoW' read ' foutheatternmott.' 
and Oder. 
TRI'ANDllIA Mooc l'I 
Generic ChaJ'acYet.-,-Yid. N s. 593 & 6'z 3-' 
 Os. g. c.; mx)D'x). Rad;X m MbA ... li6iffe fie rhizomaI; 
ra; folia plura, ' plana, prennia. Cot" geetim. ]tram  
pe(ugaclor ; ; pcis involutim fi""e fpirali- -nvdute  marchcent, : 
paulo.max dectdua, neutiuam ut t ina fua ro. ;..Aelsa 
ulque cobra adens ; hie qubr  mata in laetnlas lineares, 
as; lell comprbs el radiat{-atentes ad (qe 
tnon anthera, euatm, vagw et mtna  eaturn' la?in.;s intetjea ; 
in virgata et fifyrinchio corolla tubo Ly,,Mtur, guure 'Mo& 'et 
drepantiwjam ne M utriufque mtuam '3cid ha3itv gffparianm' e- 
cantur, ad rummum. ex hh manente illiu coroll ]abiliore 
eel for/an uf?m tuul(arum tubo inanl, qui in' Iexo fareus; negud 
guam eojunt commenda genera, ea enim ad naturm normam 
xtlma amh&}5'mer cohgfura 3?viebus. firi'Oiora frfira 
ed t]Aet u a&a apevte nes in noa' cea' nera, ev mlnut 
em. in un&s vd atteu$ arAitrarle rpti et Vali fgi- 
alils &rlbu$, vel figillatim rte q&lim fimut cevte 
neglei$, in 1on$nquiaca &truderentur ; qomdo e. g. & LL. a Redou 
dGLaXlAS relegalur Ixa monadelpha, tidemaue aud Willd S 
ad Ixas Mo'eax virgata; t ad SxsYnx.cma 'Moaa collna"[ ub 
hn3itis p&ribus, manfliorius, agueflab[litus chara&ri3us, 
ofiUmperamv paudori3m a e perguam inconflantiorwu$ ternere kis.' 
Specific CharaCTer and Syhonym.s. 
MORAAflexuofc (imaerAia, corolla fibeluali , lamini 
cu.n.eat.o-oblongis aequatker exllanat:is , unguibu 
numms ereeqo-co.nniventibus; filamentis horum 
longitudine cormaris dein liberis patentiffimis; 
anth'eris incurvatis; ftigmatum laciniis gracillimis 
radiantibus. G. 
 ? RJEA. fiexuofa Linn. Suppl. xoo. Syfi. Feg. 93- hun& 
Diff. n. t a. prod. x . Mart. Mill. Di7. Ld?ilhl. 
$p. PL . 43- 
IXIA longilia. yacf. Hort. FiJd$. v. 3. P. 47- t. 9 o. 
Root and Herb as ufua[ in the genus, the latt. er quite. 
fmcoth. Stem branched, many-flowered, ftiff, green; invo- 
lucres 
T 
lucres fome herbaceous, .others'becoming fphacelate. Corolla 
fugadous, decaying by rolling partly inwards and partly 
fpirally. together regular, .nearly equal, hypocrateriformly 
patent-; ungue very tinall, feveral times flaorter and narrower 
than the lamine, converging clol round the tubular bale of 
the ftamens, three quite within the others; outer lamina; 
cuneate-oblong, rubacute, inner rather fhorter, obovate-oblong; 
all of a bright yellow colour with a greenith ftripe without. 
Style the length of the ungues, feveral times florter than the 
ftigmas, which are {traight, tadlately patent, vith a fixfold 
appearance fi'om their being parted their whole'.length into 
two narrow, flender, linear, lamellofely compreffed, divaricate 
fegments, flightly hiant at their tips; {tamens cormate imo a 
-ound tube for the length of the flyle and ungues, thence 
parting into three adfcendently patent filaments about equal to 
the ftigmas, furniflaed with largifh, oblong, incurved anthers. 
Germen narrow-oblong, triquetral, above the involucre Cap- 
rule coriaceo-membranous a triquetral-oblong /haft; feeds' 
many, brown, compreffed, angular. 
Found by TtNBSR, at the Cape, near Berg-River the 
Twenty-Four-Rivers, Elephant's-River, and from Roodei 
Sand to Hauteniquas-Land, in the greater abundance; and 
when dreffed is ufed both by the Colonifts and Hottentots for 
food. Mr. B^RROV, in his very intelligent account of this 
colony, mentions a fmall yellow IRIS that furniIhes a root for 
the table, not unlike a chefnut in fize and tafte; the froall 
roots of which are called UYr)s by the Dutch inhabitants; 
and in another place he obferves, that a feafon is computed in ' 
that country from the time that there roots are fit to eat, 
vhich is called Uyntjs tyd, that they are eaten roared, .and 
that they formerly conftituted a princip article of food among 
the Hottentots. But whether he means our plant or the one 
that is fuppofe.d by TIUBERO tO be a yellow variety of. 
Mog^ edulis, f. tpra No. 63, figured by Va H^zs in his 
catalogue, and defcribed by D L^ Rocxz under the name 
of VluSsuxa fug'ax we cannot determine from the above 
defcription. 
Our drawing was taken at Mr. WoonvoRn'S, by whom the 
bulb was imported this Stunmet from the Cape. It continues 
a confiderable time in bloom, owing to its numerous fitccef- 
fion of flowers, feveral of which generally blow at the fame 
time; has no froell whatever, G, 
?[ORYEA 
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TRICUS?IS (o6). TRIDENT-PETALEI 
MOR]EA. 
ClaJ} and Order. 
rRIAN DRIA MON OGYNIA 
Generic Charac7cr.--Yid. N o'. 593, 63, & 695 
Specific Charagler and Synonyms.. 
MOR./EA tricufpis (lSarbata) glabra; caule fubramofa; 
guibus turbinatim convergentibus; laminis extimis 
rotundato-ovatis; intimis perpufilli; tridentatim 
parfids; filamentis unguibus --3plo brevioribus, 
connatis. G. 
IRIS Irict(pis. hunb. Diff. n. 5. prod. x. $_yfl. Fe K. Murr. 
89. Hort. Kew. 3. 482. yacq. Coll. 4. 99. Mart. 
Mill. Die7. H/illd. 3'p. x. 
IRIS tricufpidata. Linn. Fil. $uppL 98. 
[,,) flore rainore; laminis extimis haud ocellatis. G. 
IRIS tricufpis. acq. ic. vat. .. tab. 
VIEUSSEUXIA fpiralis. Decand /Inn. Mt 2. 4o. De la 
Roche D_i. 3 . t. 9' 
VIEUSSEUXIA ari. flata. Houtt. Linn. ]'fl. $yfl. . p. o 5. 
t. 80. 
(IS) laminis extimig ad bafin ocellatim maculatis. G. 
IRIS pavonia. Curt. fipra No. 68. 
IRIS tricufpis. acq. Coll. 4. tab. 9' f' 
VIEUSSEUXIA glaucopis. Decand. /Inn. Mt . x4t. eum 
tab. Redoute Lil. t. 42. 
YIEUSSEUXIA.arifiata. De la Roche Diff. . 2. 34. quo. 
male invicem commutantur nomina trivialia duarum 
ultimatum fpecierum; poftrema: ergo penulfima 
redonetur titulus, et vice verfa, 
Bulb-tuber and'Herb as molt ufual in this genus, the lafl; 
quite fmooth  Item ofteneft timpie, fomctime with one or 
VeFI 
even two branches; corolla la gifh e{'pecially as to its oute 
fegments; ungues firdight, cuneate,' concave, about the lengt 
[ the eerwen tomemofe on the inev..fide, tu.binately 
verging; lamnie much longer than their, ovately rounded 
geniculate-recurved; inner 1' ..ienas about equal to the ungue! 
of the outer, narrow, cuneate; lamina: very diminutive, tn4 
dentately parted. middle tooth line ", ]on::ett,. {traight or in 
curved, and f0metim tw,.,M ltlgmas peta'tioid, divergent, 
reachin- be ond the un ues, --4 times longer than the {[yle i 
e, Y g 3 
fpathulate-obovate or fbc.eate, o0xer lip bipartite, fubre 
curved; filaments conhate their whole length, and about the 
length of the anti, erE wlich are nearly three times florter than 
the {rigrods. Without fcent. 
The rem,rkable fpot at the bafe of the oer lamine of 
xhich Iears ome kind of refemblance to that on 'the tat 
feathers of the peacock, probably led Mr. CtsRxIS into th 
miItake that this xas Txu4sztc's I.s pavonia, a beau 
tiful fpecies that has flowered with Mr. Hitax and 
Kew, but of which we 'have never yet been able to 6b[ain'- 
drawing. 
Fou. nfi at the .Cape, by THU.4ZEt% growihg abundantl 
on the hills Below Duyvetlberg, in 'Swartland, and nea,, 
Berg-River: /3 xvas introduced into Kew-Gardens in 77 
By M.sso, and is now-very common: a was ?raporiel 
tl? year '.?citl many oth'er blbs fro.m  ihe Crpe, by Mr. Col 
VILLE of the King's-R.oa& -Both bl'ow freely'when the bulbs; 
are of proper age and 'propagate very abun&ant!f. 
Borne tddidons to the _drtide Mov..e, viaria 
fupr.a No. 587' 
ORALA vifcaria (im$erMs) caule fiffce vifcofo, brachlath 
polyltachio i laciniis ovato-oblongis fubconforn4.i? 
bus; 'extimis iii imo ungue fcrobicula mellifen 
tranverfa infculptis; filamentis connatis; fdg 
matthus acuminatis, fubferratis. G. 
 Bnlb and- leaves as ufaal in the genus, the latter rathe- 
ghu:ous; corolla fmallifh; fegments nearly of one thape an 
degree of expandon, omer broader and denticulately widene 
at the bend; ungues turbjnate!7 connivent, nearly twice {horte 
thorn die laminze; outer ones with a froall tranverfe melliferou 
excavation within their bafe: ,filaments I .cuniculatel:.conna',- 
'.al ') the unL"s; outer lip denrarely biff. d, teeth.- 
fe.g-ne. nis 6f the inner lip acuminat% divaricate.,. {kr/'u!ate, 
II ,[ 
t)ROTEA 
ANEMONIFOLIA. 
PROTEA. 
FORKrLEAvg. D 
Clafs and Order. 
TETRANDBIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charal$r. 
Cor. 4-petala (petalis fubinde vario modo coherentibus). 
Anthere inferte petalis infra apicem. $em. . thperum nudum. 
Specific Charalcr and Synods'ms. 
PROTEA anemonifolia; foliis linearibus elongatis fuperne fur- 
cato-pinnatifidis: pinnls imis 1ongioribus furcatis 
capitulo globofo terminali. 
Dzsc. Stem rubby, three feet high, villous. Zeave 
fcattered, rigid, nerved, fmooth, erec'-t, lengthened downwards 
fo as to refemble a long foot[talk, branched at the upper part 
into about three pair of pinnag the 1owermoff of which are 
longeft and varioufly forked at the end: points all armed with 
a callous reddifh mucro or gland. Common Flower tblitary, 
globofe, feffile. Calycine Scales ovate-acuminate, very woolly 
except the margin, compaSly imbricate, forming a globoIb 
cone ftuffed with a fine white cottony {hbftance. Corolla one- 
petaled, tubed: tube longer than limb, which is four-cleft, 
hairy, tortuofe. Anthers linear, e-lobed feffile. Style ex- 
ferted, club-ihaped. Stigma conical, acute; the ffyle and ftigma 
have a fingular appearance in this fpecies fomething like two 
cones with their baits applied together, but when the flower firff 
opens, the.fe parts are fo entirely covered with the pollen as to 
appear four-tided. 
Correfponds 
Correfponds very nearly with L N N.e u s's original defcrip- 
tion of ProxE^ fpb,ero?ephala, and is not unlike HovxxvYx's 
fi. gure of that plant; it does not however agree with the defcrip~ 
ton .of THvxBrc, and being a native of New-Holland, 
differing from moil of the Cape fpecies in having a long tube 
to the corolla, and limb divided into four equal fegments, is 
undoubtedly diilinEt. We have adopted the name of anemoni- 
folia, though certainly not very appropriate, as it. has been fome 
time known by that name in feveral of our nurferies. 
We were favoured with the fpecimen from which our draw- 
ing was made, by Mr. N^xxwR, Nurferyman, near Vauxha!l, 
a very fuccefsfiil cultivator of many rare articles, who raifed 
it from feeds received from Port-Jackfon. 
Is a greenhoufe plant, and requires the fame treatment as 
the reft of the genus. 
RARE 
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PROTEA 
Sco.us. SM^rL SMoor- 
LEAVED PROTEAo 
Claj3 and Order. 
TETRAIq DRIA MOqOCYNIA. 
Generic CharaaVer. 
Cor. 4-petala (petalis fubinde vario modo cohzerentibus). 
.4ntberca infertae petalis infra apicem. Sero. x, fuperum, nudum. 
Specific Charailer and Synonyms. 
PROTEA olymus  oliis lanceolatis acutis capituloque ter- 
minali rotundo glabris. 14qlld. Sp. PL 5.v_. 5ahunb. 
Prod. e6.. Diff. n. 86. Hort. Kew. . se 7. Mart. 
Miller Dit7. n. 88. Scrad. Serl. Hannov. p. 4. t. v_o. 
PROTEA Jolymocephala. Reithard. t. 7 . 
LEUCADENDRON d%lymocephalum; oliis lanceolatis flo- 
ribus fubrotundis; caule fruticofo 'ramofo. Sp. P1. 
85- 
LEPIDOCARPODENDRON acaulon, ramis' humetoils e 
terra excrefcens; calyce floris immaturo extus ex 
rubro et flavo variegato, intus flavo. Boer& Lnd. 
o.. p. 9v_. cure icone. 
There is probably more than one variety of this fpecies 
ol  PROx.^, for it is defcribed by TnvuErta as having 
purpliih corollas; in our plant the ftyle only is purple. The 
corolla, which conrifts of-two unequal petals connefted toge- 
ther at the bale, but eafily feparated, is a greeniih yellow: 
one of the petals bears three anthers a little below the tip; 
the other, which is filiform, only one. There is, however, 
rome little variety in this, fome of the flowers feparating fpom 
taneoufly 
taneoufiy into three and even four petals. The germen is 
enveloped in a brown pappus arifing from the bafe of the 
feed, the ftyle is declined; ftigma acute, though, when'it firt 
efcapes from the corolla, it appears club-thaped, from the 
quantity of pollen that adheres to it. The receptacle is hairy'.. 
The reit of the plant will be eafily underflood from the 
figure. As Scxu^nze.'s figure is not quoted as a fynonym of 
puoa.Afcolymus by WxxlnE,ow or M^u'r, it is probable 
that thefe authors had fome doubts about it. 
Our plant is undoubtedly the fame as his, and whoever 
xvill compare Bosax^^vE's figure with both will, we appre- 
hend, be convinced that they muit all belong to the fame 
fpecies. 
Our drawing Was taken at Mr. Woonvouns in July fart.. 
Introduced according to Hortus Kewefis in 78o, by the 
Countefs of Srv.^a'HMoa- Requires the thelter of a good 
_ greenhoufe to prote it from froft. May be propagated by 
eeds or cuttings. Requires a light randy loam and a f'ee 
circulation of air. 
Generic Charaller. 
Cor. campanulata, plicata. 8ligmata 2. Capf. -1ocularis: 
loculis difpermis. 
Specific Charaller and $ynoyms. 
CONVOLVULUS 
CONVOLVULUS 
CONVOLVULUS 
CONVOLVULUS 
CONVOLVULUS 
CONVOLVULUS 
CONVOLVULUS 
IPOMAhA palmata 
cairicus; caule fruticofo volubili, oliis 
palm. at.o~partitis mucronatis glabris inte- 
gernmos: foliolis poRicis bilobatis, Ri'- 
pulis palmatis, calycibus levibus, corolli 
fubtus coRatis: laciniis acutis. 
cairicus; foliis palmato-pinnatifidis intc- 
gerrimis, pedunculis paniculatis. $p. PL 
..2. $)fl. Nat. Ed. Mi. p. 56. '  
foliis palmato-pinnatis ferratis, pedunculis 
filiformibus paniculatis, calycibus laevi-' 
bus. $yfi. Feg. Ed. xiii. p.  69. Ed. xiv. 
p. .o2. ubi fynoffmon Boerhaavii male ex 
cluditur. Reich. $p. PL . p. 44t- 
foliis palmatis glabris ferrulatis, ftipulis 
foliiformibus palmatis axillis' tomentofis, 
calycibus pedunculatislaevibus. zhl $ymb. 
. p. x 5. I4illd. Sp. PL x. p. 863. 
quinquefoliis feu foliis laciniatis, flore 
purpureo ceruleo. Bauh. Prod. 34- 
foliis lanceolatis vel quinquefoliis. Bauh. 
Pin. '95' BarrtL Icon. 39 et 320. Raii 
Hifl. 729 . Morif. Hifl. f. . t. 4. f. 5' 
egyptius. ?efling Egypt. 73' t. 74- 
; foliis palmatis, lobis 54anceolatis, ex., 
timis biffdis, pedunculis dichotoms. ForJk. 
Defer. 43- 
Dr.: Stalk /hrubby with many fiender twining branches. 
etiole very' flender, the length of the leaves, Ytipules'two 
t 
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at each footRalk, palmated, ileaf-like. Leaves alternate, pal- 
mate, fmooth, divided nearly to the bale into five ovate- 
lanceolate leailets, the two 1owermoR of which are two-lobed: 
the'y'ire terminated with a minute fo'ft mucro, edges quite 
entire, but frequently minutely undulated, fo as to give the 
appearance of their being ferrulate. Peduncles the length of' 
the petiole, axiilary, x--3 flowered (accordin, g to FORSKALL, 
 vhen very vigorous, dichotomous, thrice divided). ]edic!cs 
braCqeatec with two fma'll ovate acute fcales about the middle. 
Cal)x five-leaved: leaflels fhort, ovate, acute, concave, fmooth, 
very fhining withinfide. 63roila large, violet purple, tube 
nearly cylindrical, contra&ed as far as the calyx: limb 
fpreading, faucer-flaped, cut at the margin into five acuminate 
points, 'ftrengthened by five pair of ribs piominent Underneath, 
each pair feparate at the bottom, but converging..till they meet 
at the point of the fegment of the corolla ;. the part between 
there ribs is whitilh and-fomewhat channelled. There ribs, or 
rader the ftripes ocafioned by them, are rudely reprefented 
in r.s to's figur% and accurately defcribed by Fosc^. 
Filamentg uncqual, fubfagittate .longer than Ryle, within the 
tube. Stigma divided into furrowed lobes. 
This is molt probably the plant originally meant by Lx s s u s, 
.though perhaps afterwards confounded by M uhA, in the 
$yfl. Feget,b. We'have little doubt of its being the fame as 
&'fcribed b, V[srNc and Foass.arr, and laid by thein to 
be a very common ornamental plant in the gardens of Egypt, 
bui.perhaps not indigenous there. 
The Botanic Garden at Brompton, where our drawing was 
iaken, is indebted for this beautifill plant to Mils Ga:rs:, 
b'f Lancafifire, a lady eminently'tkilled in delineating botanical 
fubj e6-:ts. 
It is eafily increared by cuttings. Seems to lve a light 
loamy foil. In the trove it flowered through the greater part 
0f the Summer, but Mr. Srs,a thinks it will do ltill 
better'in the greenhoufe. Native country uncertain. 
A fpecimen of a timilar plant, apparently differing in nothing 
but the greate length of the peduncle, is preferred 'in the 
Banlfffian tierbarium, brought by the late Sir Goggz 
SuNro from one of the Cape Verd Iflands. 
The tomentofe axils, mentioned by V^, who defcribed 
from 'Fogs[^'s dried fpccimens, do not appear in our.p!ant. 
lVe have often occafion to regret the alterations made in 
'the fpecific charaer on the authority of dried fpecimens only. 
It is not impoffible, but fome tnouldinefs about the infertion 
of the peduncles, frequently occur_ring 'in fpecimens gathered 
in warm climates, may n this inltance have been miRaken 
for a natural woolliners. 
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ETONICA GRANDIYLORAo 
FLOWERED BETONY. 
GREAT- 
C/aft and Order. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Generic Charac7er. 
Cal. ariltatus. Coroll, e lab. fitper adfcendens, planiuculum: 
tubus cylindricus. 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
BETONICA grandiflora; floribus verticillatis: verticillis 
a:qualibus diftantibus. 
BETONICA grand. iflora; fpica foliofa interrupta, calycibus 
margxne villoffs: dendbus ihbulatis, corollis 
galea obcordata. l. PTlld. Sp. I'l. t. 3' f' 9 6. 
3ephan. in lift. ad ld/illd. 
DEsc. Stalk timpie, eret't, four-fquare, hairy efpecially 
upwards. Radical Leaves heart-fhaped, obtufe, bluntly cre- 
hate, pubefcent on both fides but much more tb underneath. 
Cauline fhorter, egg-heart-fhaped, lower ones with thort foot- 
ftalks, upper ones feflile. Flowers in two or three equal whorls 
with 8mxo flowers in each with a pair of round feflile leaves 
longer than the flower-cups under each whorl, and within there 
about eight lanceolate, entire, ciliated braCtes. Calyx teeth 
equal, awl-fhaped, rigid, ciliated. Corolla fbur times longer 
than calyx: robe incurred: upper I!p entire, middle Iobe'ot' 
lower lip entire, romewhat undulate; ffde lobes refle:]ed. 
Stamens exferted. Style hairy, tbmewhat fhorter than flamens. 
Stigma. biff& 
It is at once diftinguifhed from every othdr known fpecies 
by the large fize of the flowers, and by the whorls being diltin 
and not forming a fpike. Is a native of Siberia, and confe- 
quently perfelly hardy. Flowers in June and July. Eafily 
propagated by parting its roots, and requires no particular 
treatment. Introduced by Mr. Lonxt;:s, Nurfcryman, at 
.Hackney, within there few years, Far exceeds in. beauty all 
Its COngeners. 
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MARlCA STRIATA. STREAKED-FLowER,I). 
Mia:cA. 
C/aft and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIAo 
Os. ttaud plur;s in ENSATIS faclenda MONADELPHIA quam 
unguium petakrum vel llmi lacinlarum 3revior longioe co, nut illorum 
h3lu/a dinio ; in manflin ad idem genus pertinent;$us fpeck3us nun 
e nune-re etur $cce .tel . nee a#erum rellquis aud  ue smmunb 
.. ,. .... 
prafirtZd fignum; india certa porro afir, lege .artat ,n divers, modo fila 
mtom tanturn 3 max media tus vel ultra, quan&que per totam eokum 
kngitdinem prodleto : hinc nos a fik antherarum humera dgnamus Claf 
fire. O. 
Generic Charat7er.--Fid. 29,. 654. 
OBS. L. e. ADDEIslD'o Hiefpeciesplanillo-fibrofe et plicata-13ulbofq 
ace alia, his vel illis proprio atqu Jafum comnmni, dotantur pr,'terea ha.- 
ae7$e ; contra adea ceteraquin inter a$ invicem implicantur et permifcentu, 
ut nihil ddnde ultra pro gertere dividendo lucraretur ; ira videmus palndofam', 
plicato.$ul$ofam, ad planilio-fibrofas martinicenfem et northlantirn prbplux 
aecedere quam ad plicatam, etiam. fi plicato-bulbofam; quln et ijqam rfus 
fruaificationis organis tenus proximiorem e. ffb firlathe, planiblia-fi3rofw, a 
paludofa; et hujunodi quoque plura. G. 
Specific C. harat7er and Synonyms. 
IiARICA firiata tadice, fibrofa; foliis enfiformilus ;. invo- 
lucris feffilibus, fpicatim digeftis; filamentis ultra 
medium connatis, inde divergenfibus; corolla 
ceolato-rotata, laciniis obovato-cuneatis, mucronatis 
ftigma. tibus filiformibus. G. 
SISYRINCHIUM firiatum. Smith lc. PigL . 9' t. 9' II/illd. 
8p. PL 8- /5 8o- Mart. Mill. Dic. n. 8. 
$YSYRINCHIUM fpicatum. Cavan. Ic. Plant. . v.. t. o. 
MORJEA J?rtata. tacq. Hort. $choenb. x. p. 6. t. 
Root fibrous, perennial, fibres thickifil, romewhat fiefly, 
tufted. Stem from one to two feet high, compreffed-ancipital, 
leafy; 
1, 
leafY; leaves many, enfifor, .glaucous, radical ones equi- 
tatly imbricate towards their bale, ftem .ones remote, ptem~ 
eabracing, craduallv becoming/hotter. Flower"falicles many, 
feffile, lax, lternatly and rather clolly difpofed on a fome- 
what flexuofe rachis in a 1ongifla fpikc; involucres many- 
flowered; outer valve or fpathe broad-ovate, largeR, green, 
becoming membranous towards the edge, and generally purpliih; 
inner ones membranous. Pedicles about equal to the outer 
fpathe; corolla fubcampanulately patent; fegments unifom, 
cuneate-ligu!ate, obtufe,. mucronate, outer o:es twice the 
broadept; ungues urceolately convergent; lamina: rotately 
patent; filaments fcarcely equal to the un_oues. cormate for- 
nearly three parts of their length into a '{btriquetral tube, 
beyond which they are diPtin& and diverge; antlers thort, 
incumbent, round-oblong; Ptvle the length of tle monadelph- 
ous part of the filaments, ftigmas equal to about half the length 
0f the flyle, very fiender, flraigtt, turbinately patent; germen 
.fiort, obovate-triquetral, with a broad naked rummir; caprule 
ovate. oblong, as are the valves; feeds from about {ix to eight 
in each cell, round and romewhat uneven. 
Thrives in the open ground, but is u{;aally treated as a 
hardy greenhoufe plant, as which it flowers and feeds in 
abundance; through Dr. Sx we learn, that it was lent 
to this country from Italy by Mr. P. Sa'i,n4s, and that its ' 
habitat was then unknown; but from Cava4xx. IS we find 
that it is a native of Mexic% whence it was brought to the 
I3otanic Garden, in Valencia, where it grows in the open 
gr)und with many other plants from the fame part s. It has 
no fcent. G. 
CORRIGENDUM. 
1'4o. 65t, I. 3, pro "ceteri?' le. ge 
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iORA TRI?ETALA. TEIRE.-PETAL-LIKE 
_. m. _,._ _,,,... ,.,. m _,.,_ ,,.. ,,- _,',... -f.e -*-*-*- ,-*-,'- " 
Clafs and 01;der. 
TRIANDRIA MoNOG1qih. 
Generic Charafler.--l/id. IV " 593, 63, & 695. 
Specific Chara7e'r and Synonyms. 
MORJEA tripetala (barbara) pauciflora; caule fubfimplice; 
extimis unguibus turbinatim divergentibus, foveola 
ima mellifiua infculptis; laciniis intimis perexiguis, 
linearibus; filam.entis Iongitudine breviffimi ftyli 
connatis. G. 
IRIS tripetala. 5hunb. Diff. n. x 4. Prod.  . Linn. 8uppl. 
97- ]acq. Ic. rar. v.. t. ,zo 4. Coil. 8' v'Tx' Mart. 
Mill. Dil. I45'lld. Sp. PL x. v. 3 t. 
VIEUSSEUXIA tripetaloides. Decand. ,,Inn. Muf. v.. 138. 
Root and Herb as in Mo, tricufpis, No. 696, but we 
have never feen the ftem branched. Outer fegments of the 
corolla fubfpathulate, divaricately patent, their ungues tomen- 
tofe inwards, channelled-concave, linear, turbinately diver- 
gent, having a tinall honey-bearing excavation at their bale; 
!amina oval-lanceolate, recurved and about the length of the 
ungues; inner fegments exceedingly fmall, linear, fiender, 
lhorter than the u. ngues of the outer one, paLent; ftyle 
lhorter than the ungues; ftigmas bilabiate, ligulate, inner lip 
bifid, fegments approximating, linear-oblong; filaments connate 
for the length of the ftyle into a very thort tube. 
As the flower was decayed before we obtained it for defcrlp- 
tion, we have trufted in feveral parts of the above to TIu- 
zao and J^cqux; in the defcription of the former of whom 
there muff be a miftake in the words "filamenta Iongitudine 
"dimidia tubi, bari connata ;" there being no other tube than 
that formed by the conhate filaments. 
}ound 
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Found at the Cape not fa, r f_rom Picketberg and in rome 
other places, though not frequently: it feems indeed to be 
one of the rarer fpecies, nor have we .e.ver feen it in any other 
colle6'tion than in that of Mr. WOODFORD, where our drawing 
as taken. J.cQuxN has figured two plants which he takes 
for varieties of this, in 'on the-inner fegments feem to be 
entirely oblit.erat.ed; thf, as alfo many others of this tribe 
contained in his fplendid Works, we have never feen in any 
of our colle6'tions. 
In No. 593, .we have laid th.a:t Mo/sA unguiculata differed 
from tricufpis, m not having bearded ungues; but upon lately 
re-examining a fpecimen that fell in our way, we did perceive 
a flight pubefcence on the infide of the outer ungues, and 
,hich became very evident by the help.of a glafs; fo that for 
 ' imber13is,;' in/. 7, read ,,rubbarbara, and in the sth linq 
for" in not being bearded and," read "in having the tube of 
"the .Ramens equal to tle ungues." G. 
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'RIs vIGINIAo VIRGINIAiXl FLAG, 
Claj5 and Order. 
'TRI_,N D RIA 
'eneric 'CDar..er..?idJ N '' 53 ' 
,ule [ubclSite involhcrls 2-2- 8 
li iac!mas iqt, ma 
Rootfrock flefhy, horizontal, covered with a dark brown tkin, 
putting out many capillaceous tufted fibres. Stem about two feet 
or more high, downwards ancipital with one fide fharper than 
the other,' upwards roundlib, leafy, branched. Leaves fh0rter 
than the ftem, enfiform, fmooth (as is the whole plant) the 
bundles growing cetaitofely. Involucres green, generally 
more or lefs fphacelate, --8 flowered; peduncles often longer 
ban there. Germen an obtufely-trigonal, flender fhaft, fhorter 
ban peduncle; tube trigonal-cyathiform, hollow, fhorter than 
he germen and many times flmrter than the fegments, the 
'uter ones of which are fpathulate-obovate, twice the largeft 
md more than twice the broadeR, with revolutely dellexed 
-tmina:; inner ones fpathulatly or oblanceolately oblong, 
! .raight and flightly diverging; outer ungues divaricately tur- 
'--te, equal to the lamina:, their fides towards the bale revo- 
ly t..:preffed with a fhort longitudinal carinarely prominent 
land; inner ones far the narroweR, conduplicate-convolu. te, 
tlce 
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twice fhorter than their laminas: f[igmas recurvecl patel 
about equal to the inner fegments, oblong-litear, outer 1 
obtufe, entire, inner one bifid, obtufe, tgments crenatel 
ferrate', revolutely ere, upwards divaricate, lapping flightl 
over towards the bafe only. Anthers blue-violet with yello 
pollen. Flowers tightly fragrant. Comes very near to 
color, but differs in colour and in haying larger flowers, 
particularly in the legments of the inner lip of the ftigrn- 
being di.varicate upwards and not lapping all the way over 
in that; betides in feveral tlighter diftinions and gener 
appearance. 
Was cultivated by Mr. PxLzvMiLz.x in 2758, accor 
ing to the Hortus Kewenfis. A hardy plant. The leaves'die i 
 Vinter. Mzcixvx found it in the mar/hes of Virginia an 
Carolina, where it flowers in May and .June. CLxcxo 
fpecimen, from which Gxoxowvs defcribed this fpecies' 
the Flora.?irginica, is now, with the reft of the latter's Herb  
rium, in the ineftimable colleftion of Sir Joszvi 
Our drawing was made at the Nurfery of Meffrs. WI:rL 
and Bxxv, at Old-Brompton, who inform us, that it fee 
abundantly with them is eafily propagated by dividing th 
rootfrock, and will grow any where i but that it fucceeds b 
in a moiR fituation. G. 
TRITONA FENESTRATA. OPEN--FLoW.RED 
TRITONIA. 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNZAo 
Generic CharaEer.--Fid. ]vm. 609. 
Specific Charafter and Synonyms, 
TRITONIA fenefirata /'patha tuburn a:quante; fauce turb|,. 
nata; laciniis regulari-patentibus, fpatio inf[er. 
f[in/is, bafin ufque mutuo difcedentibus; un- 
guium latefibus fubdimidiatim pellucentibus  
laminis rotundatis, his brevioribus; fiaminibus 
reclinato-affurgentibus.. G. 
IXIA neJtrata. acq. Ic. rar. . t. 89.' Coll. 3' '69. GmeI. 
$yfi. ]Vat. x x o. 
This fpecies differs fromfqualida, its nearer relative, betides 
in being of a different colour and without fcent, in having a 
turbinate and not fuburceolately campanulate faux; in having 
its fegments more remotely feparated and diverging with a 
onfiderable fpace between each nearly to their bafe; it ha 
alfo longer ungues, narrower in proportion to their !amina 
the vhole plant is larger and itronger, with flowers more 
difiantlv arranged on the rachis. The ftem is thicker and 
generally branched; nor are the outer root leaves quite fo 
much blunted as in that. 
Leaves about three times fhorter than the fem, which i 
generally refra&edly reclined and from a foot to a foot and 
half high. Corolla broad-funnelform, fegments feveral times 
Iongeg. than the tube, which is about equal to the fpathe; 
ungues longer than the lamine with about one half of each 
fide hyaline; lamine rounded, entire, not notched as the fame 
generally are in fqualida. Organs of fruification declined 
afturgent; itigmas overtopping the anthers, but fixo'ter than 
the 
the fegments. Corolla' bright vermilion, varying to a deep 
fiery qra.n. ge colour.., - , - 
 A nauve' bf :t Cffpe, from wence (h' llant' -froh hich 
our drawing was taken !}ad been imported, by Mr. S.xtsB 
Nurferyman, at the Both'{C'-ar-/lefi, Brompton. 
Flowers abundantly .about June .and, is. very. ornamental, but 
not quite fo Lombnon in '_our collei')n' as 'do?ata. We have 
feen feveral hundred fpecimens at different times, both cul- 
tivated and indigenous, nor have we. ever found it vary from 
the above character; hence we have no difficulty of diftinguilh- 
ing it with j.cu/q from crocata; nor of"differing from him 
in diltinguilhin it from fqualida, which, in his Fragmenta, he 
has made a variety Of ii.- G. 
B. 0 r C2r 
..? 
;5 
[ 705 ] 
GESTIANA Amscr.s (var. 
PORCE- 
,figitudinalibus. 
Cl_:afi and Order. 
Generic Charac?er. 
Capf. -valvis, x-locularis. 
Rec, eptac#lis g 
..8.peqi.fic Chara,17er and Synon. yms,- 
GENTIANA adfcendens; corollis campanulatis quinquefidis 
inter lacinias dentaris, calycibus latere dehilen~ 
tibus fubtridentatis, foliis lanceolatis; radicali- 
bus elongatis. 
. Caule ramofo ere&iufculo. 
18. Caule fimplici decumbente. 
GENTIANA adfcendens; corollis quinquifidis campanulati, 
fubfeffilibus axillaribus, foliis acutis: radicali- 
bus lanceolatis elongatis. Froelich. Gent. p. 43 
n. x4. I4/illd. Sp. P1. v. 
GENTIANA decumbens; corollis S-fidis campanulatis, oliis 
radicalibus lanceolatis 1ongiffimis, caule decum. 
bente. Linn. $uppl. 74- 
GENTIANA adfcendens; corollis quinquifidis campanulads 
oppofite feflilibus foliis radicalibus fafciculatis. 
Pal/as Roff. 
t. St. falfo pro _Pneumonanthe. 
We have been favoured with tao varieties of this plant 
from Mr. Louezs, wbofe Nurfery at Hackney abounds 
with 
xith rare articles: in both'tbel calyx burfts on one fide, an 
has three or four very froall teeth at the end. In the $uppl 
- nentum Plantatum this form of the calyx is particularly m 
tioned, and it appears, though rather obfcurely, in 
figtare, but not in that of P^xL^s, although v.ery evident 
his fpecimen preferveal in the Bankfian Herbarium. Ratlli 
leaves are for the molt part longer and flenderer than in 0 
figure a/aft only three-nerved: Cauline ones grow by pairs b 
frequently face one way. The Italks, at firIt decumbent, ri 
up, though flender and weak; branches oppofite, lower 0 
long. -Flowers both axillary and terminal on peduncles 
ing in length. 'Segments of corolla more obtufe than 
GT. ]netnonanthe, and the whole plant much rnt 
lax. 
Native of Siberia where it is ufed in medicine as a 
aromatic hitter. 
Introduced into this country by Mr. Loxnxcs, tovh 
fkill'ad indefatigable zeal our gardeni are indebted f0 
greater number of their prefent ornamental inhabitants"i 
is generally known. Is perleSly hardy. Flowers in 
and continues in bloffom a confidetable time. Can fcarc 
be propagatdd but by feeds, having a tap-root, vhich feld 
-produees any offsets. 
ERCA LONGFOLA, vat" CARNEA. FLESH-, 
Co.our.i) Lo-L.Av.n 
Cla and Drder. 
OCTANDRIA l1c, N 6 c., 
Generic Charac7er. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cot. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo ini'erta. 
.finthere bifida. Capf. 4-1ocularis. 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
ERICA longilia; antheris muticis inclugs, [ftylo inclufo] 
corollis pubefcentibus tubulofo-clavatis, floribus axil- 
!aribus verticillatis, foliis rubdenis linearibus margine 
cartilaginii fcabris. tPYlld. Sp. PL 9.. p. 399- 
ERICA longifolia; petiolis anguftiffimis; corolla 9--  lineari, 
pubefcente; tubo plus minus clavato: filamentis 
fapius muticis: pericarpio fuperne fericeo. $ali3. 
in Linn. ra v. 6. p. 36.. 
Although we are inclined with the accurate Mr. SALISBUR 
tO COnrider the lonfifolia and vefita as varieties of the amc 
fpccics, and have given already, in No. 402, one of thcc va- 
Xctics under the latter name; yet, as the former is the one 
originally given at the Royal Garden at Kcw, and adopted 
by Mr. SALXssUR, we rather give it nndcr the precnt ap- 
pellation; and. this the more willingly, as, fhould it be 
%und bcPt to dittinguifh the everal varieties into two-pe- 
':.ics, after Profcffor WLUDOW, this having nine leaves 
n each whorl will range with longifolia, though his charaMcr 
of 
of the included ftyle will not hold, for if within the flower when 
this firIt opens, it is f0on fomewhat protruded. The leaves 
re very {leander and tremulou.s [om .b ight ,f.obtRalks, are 
fcabrous at the margin tnd harp pointed. Peduncles not half 
the length of-Calyx with three 71'inar bra&es dbfe' beneath 
and nearly the length of calyx. Calycine leaflets ovate 
far acuminate and very minutely ferrated at the bafe. The 
germen-;turbJnate, fides fulcate, top very' W:0olly. Corolla 
lefs curved than in the drawing, and when clofely examined, 
efpecially when dried, is evidently ribbed. Bloflbms in May. 
Raifed from Cape feeds _by Mr. RoL.Xssos, Nurferyman, 
Upper Tooting. 
Grows freely, ...flowering .fometim'e,s .W,h..en only two years 
old.. Requires the fame treatment as the reR of the Cape 
fpecies. 
[ 707 ] 
CHIRONIA DECUSS^T^. CROSS-LEAVED 
CHIRONIA. 
Claj2 and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAo 
Generic Charagler. 
Cot. rotata. Pifiillum declinatum. Sram. tubo corolla 
iidentia. .4nther demum fpirales. _Per. z-loculare, 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
CHIRONIA dect.ffata; fruticofa fubtomentofa; foliis con 
fenis decuflhtis oblongis obmfis, calycibus gio- 
-boris quinquepartitis. l/entenat Horn Cell. 3t. 
Monf. VETE^r, in his accurate work, diftinguites this 
Chironia from the frutefcens, No. 87 of the Botanical Mga- 
zine, by the {talk being more fimple, the branches very finoft, 
the flovers larger, the calyx more globofe and deeply divided 
into five fegments, the leaves wider, more obmfe, growing in 
two ranks, and covered with a clofe finort pubefcence. There 
are however fo many intermediate varieties as to leave room 
for doubt whether it be a genuine fpecies or not. 
It has been long known in our nurferies by the name of 
latifolia. Is a very ornamental greenhout fin rub, occupying 
but little fpace and continuing long in b. loflbm. 
[' 708 ] 
t-IEDYCHIUM CORONARIUM*. SWEET- 
SCENTED GARLAND-FLOWER. 
Clafi and Order. 
Generic Charaer. 
Cal. t-phyllus rumpens. Cor. tubus longiffimus limbus -plex 
8-partitus..Ne. g-phyllum. 
-Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
HEDYCHIUM coronarium. 1435'lld. $p. PL x. xo. Kenig apud 
Retz fafc. 5' P' 73- n. o. 
GANDSULIUM. Rumph. tmb. 5' P. '75' t. 69. f. 3. Lamarck 
ncyc. . p. 60 3. 
this very rare plant of the natural order of ScxT-o,uNEZ 
or CaNNz of JusEu is not met with in MARTYN'S MIL- 
.-R'S Di&ionary, though fully defcribed feveral years ago by 
csNxc. What this author calls calyx we ould conrider as 
a fpathe involving the feparate flowers. Tube of corolla ver 
long and loon becoming flaccid, which occafions the flowYr 
to droop. Limb divided into fix fegments, the three outer 
s linear-lanceolate, keeled, regular, one or two of them 
e&ed: the three inner fegments are irregular and fubje& 
to confidetable variation in their form, the upper one is much 
lardeft and obcordate. The whole flower is fnow-white, ex~ 
,t fometimes a greenifh fpot in the centre of the larger 
fegment.. 
' - rd conounded of  fweet and X fnow, from t,o of the fztalilie 
t Our Englifl name is adopted from the German. 
fkgment. The filament, inferred' in the faux of the tube,' 
linear and very deeply grooved, enclofing the Ryle, of whici 
the anther eai-iYely fi-rrounds the upper pat. The' igrn 
projells a little beyond. The Rein is about three feet high 
leaves alter vae' ahd; dAlai'oh. 
Tiffs plant, probably of Chinefe origin, is. very much cuhi 
rated in the Malaccas for its fragrant flowers, and is fr 
quently worn in-fie hir by the Ind'ian belleg;. and, in the 
fymbolical language to mucli ufed by the Malays, when fetJ 
as a prefent to a young man, is meant to reproach him :it 
inconftancy in love. 
Flowers in September, requires the heat of a ftove, and i 
eafily propagated by cuttings of its roots, in which way onl, 
it can be increafed, een' iri' the EaR-Indies, as it never pro 
duces feed there. 
Our drawing was taken-at Mr. Woovvoan's, Vauxhall, i 
September x8o.. It flowered alfo at the fame time at th 
Right Hon. Mr. Gw.v.'s, at Paddington. 
ClaJ} and Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaer.--Vid. N"'"' 66. 
OBS. . - ADDND-m. Amerlcanls bu]bus lunlcalu, llnualm 
,ams, cutffulis membranaceis vitus, fibris de margbte bs rbiculathn 
,rupentibus ut in Hyacintho. Capenfibus rhizoma in fpeciebus varium, 
a'io gemrow aul larvati bulbilli magnum, undlque ratum. 8capi fuc- 
el/iv? plures, ia quibufdam pedunculi fiflul-cavi, hinc facili gradu apug 
ximam Gethyllidm lranfeuntes in lubos corollaceos, cure gennen 
fimm.o et pedunculato gradatim per fpecies medias in imum rad/cale ditaaitur. 
olia communRer. canaliculata vel excqtione rata cavo-teretia,'fubambientia 
%um complicato ve convoluta. Corolla coriaceo-tenax, p 
flter connivens. Capfula in ferrata verticali-obknga, trlgona, cujus diffu 
niofuperna iar qerculi c3cumcb dffupta, alum fcinditur 
':nlatim et rffexo-rolvens feff, n mmittitmina 
tabrata, nlgricanta, libera, ?eceptacuk uoque l;bero, cent'3all, ?rlquetb 
.ir4ndumur. In fruu nonum plene maturato'adfunt diventa tria 
'muiOma, et mlna a funkuk mnbicali cqillaceo detineri videntur. 
8pecffc Cbavaer and 
]tYPOXtS rrata ' rhizomate fubglobofo, annue renovain 
fcapis articulatim unipedunculatis; braeieis ge- 
minis, fubulmis; foliis glabris, aculeolis remoti* 
etrorfis denticulmo-ferrulatis vittaque argenteo- 
pfllefcente undata percurtis; igmatibus turbi- 
natira fecedent}bus. G. 
YPOXIS ferrata. Linn. SuppL x9y. Syfl. 396. Hor& Kew 
- 439- 4arI. Mill. DA. ghunb. Prod 6o 
]acq. Ic. rar. g. t. 369. ColL 
FABRICIA . .. a unb. in Fabr. 
Rootflock annually reproduced, dark-brown, fubphseroid, 
Iolloecl out on the upper part fbr the bulb, throwi.g out 
fibres. 
fibres from all parts of its firface. Leaves radical, from half 
to near a foot long, iong-{hbulate, fnooth, channelled, carinate, 
traveffed at the 'bottom of the channel by.a filvery waved or 
rugofe ftripe refembling that in the leaves of Crocus, edged 
ferrulately by minute dirtant cartilaginous prickleAike teeth 
which point downwards. Scapes feveral in fucceflion, flat, in 
general thorter .thal- their peduncte, which is folitary, one- 
flowered roundlib, fiPtular, fupported by two finalIllth fub- 
ulate oppofite braEres fpringing from the joint that unites it to 
its fcape, and after frut?fification has ta'ken place are refraEtedly 
recumbent. Flowers gellate, yellow within, green outwards, 
fcentlefs. Petals linear-oblong, acute, flat, twice longer than 
the getmen, three outer ones broader, longer, fubmucronate, 
and more dell-e-tied. Parts of fru&ificatio far fiaorter than 
the corolla, deep yellow, nearly equal; anthers three times 
longer than the filaments; {ty4e round, thi, ctdfl, three times 
/horter than the ftigmas, a, hich are cufpidate or fubfagittae, 
pubefcent, and obconicatly divergent. Varies with tawny- 
colo0red corollas. 
Brought into Kew-Gai'dens from the Cape, by Mr. M^ssor, 
 in 788; but we have never yet met ,aith it in any other 
. eolle&ion than that at the Nurfery of' Meffrs. G=woon 
nd Vs, who imported it this Summer from the Cape. 
Blooms about July. 
Of eafy culture, requiring protection from frofi, but no 
trtificial heat, a froall pot of light randy peat earth: and to be 
.kept dry vhile in a quicfcent itate: G. 
 
HYroxls F. RECTA. 
7 ] 
UPRIGHT HYroxIs. 
Clafi and Order. 
I-IExAN DRI A MONOCYNIA. 
Generic Chara1er.--Fid. Nos. 66*. & 709 . 
Specific Chara1er and Synonyms. 
'IYPOXIS ere1a; bulbo tunicato, elongato, membranaceo. 
larvato; foliis canaliculato-linearibus ere&is fchpis 
Ionge fuperantibus, pills rarioribus utrinque a& 
fperfis; racemo 2--6 floro, terminali, bra&eato, 
fubfafligiante; Rigmate fubtrilobo-capitato, hir- 
tulo. G. 
ttYPOXIS ere7a. Sp. IPL 439- $yfl. 326. Hort. Kew. 
488, Mart. Mill. Di1. (exclufo Smith fpicil. ?) 
lilld. Sp. IvL . o6. 
tYPOXIS caroliniefis. Michaux Flor. Bo; .4ruer. x. x88. 
0RNITHOGALUM hiutum. Zinn. Sp. PL ed. . p. 808. 
0RNITHOGALUM fcapo bifloro. Roy. Lugd& 
0RNITHOGALUM vernum luteurn foliivanguis hitfurls. 
Gmn. ?g. . 37. et . 5x. Raft H. x9 7. 
ORITHM virginianurn luteurn. Pet. Gaz. 
ORNITHOGALUM herbaceum luteurn parvum virginianurn, 
foliis gramineis hirfutis. Pluk. lm. 
85o.  8. bona. 
.Trulting to the accuracy of the defcription and figure of 
"Voxisjuncea in.th.e Spicilegium by Dr. SMI:ru, there ap- 
ear to us to be dfhn&ions fufficient to require its fpecific 
paration from eretIa  the plant is altogether fienderer; the 
tpes are one-flowered, ebra&eate, longer in proportion to 
e leaves and reddifh upwards; leaves not hairy on their inner 
de, petals of the corolla having a reddifh ftreak on the out- 
"COncar% and not flatly expanded  t!igma feathery and 
1onger 
l,-,er than the ftyle; all marks in which it differs from 0 
v..  ,' , :. ; [aid t be a'bog plant, while this, 
lent 1HO C[; t so . . 
We  : - inhabnant-of dry culu,. 
 ' 0 MICHAUX 1 a, . - 
cording t . -, .t ;o -ces may arffe from there 
patthes; poreroy m=  ..... e., 
ent places of growth only; if this proves to be the 
 juntea ith the fynonym of CIgs ould be added 
erea. 
Root an elongated, tunicated bulb, covered with dark br0. 
membranous inteouments or fidns, throwing out fibres f 
' ' ' 'n of that 
the edge of its b. ale crcularly,  the manner 
yacinth; leaves dark-green, upright, channelled, carin 
linear, acute, with thinly fcattered hairs on each fir.' 
complicate at thkir bales, twice longer than the [capes, . 
are feveral in ft. cceon, Rria, roundlY, .hairy, terminatin_ 
a u6-flowered, br'aaeate, fubfafligiate raceme; braaes fi 
fubulate, convolute; corolla rotate, hirfute outwards; anm 
agittate,' cloven from the bale; Rigma fubcapitately t 
lobed and pube [cent- Flowers of a bright, flfining yellot. 
ards, rubherbaceous outwards, and owing to a [uccel0 
[capes produced for feveral mouths together. Afp 
A nfive of Virginia, Carolina, and Pennfylvania. 
meh that appears to us a mere' variety of this, with fl0 
leaves, the corolla fr more hirfute and eyen woolly with 
is added to the Bankfian Herbarium By Mr. Mgzxts, an 
there [aid to be called by the Cherokee Indians Chera  
(i.c. fiery plant). The fpecies was introduced into .. 
Gardens, by Mr, W* yous, in 78- Begin.. 
bioom about June. ' 
Our drawing xs taken at Mr. Locg's Nurry, Ha- 
uncea as 'imported by Mr. Faas[a, Nurteryman, 
hey.    go 1o be rare ulants, at lea '.' 
1oane-Souare. ut,, ........  , em.. ha 
U,, '-- -..:-t *tem They aunear to De perxcc-I 
and kept in the pit with alpine plants. Bog-earth 
all quantity Of undungea loam fuits tem be, G. 
C 7  
HY?oxIs 'OBOLIFERA. 
] 
CRE E i3I'N'o HYPOXI8o 
Cl, and Onier. 
Hz x,.N Pit ! A ONOGYN IAo 
Generic Chrab7er.--Fid. 2V o,. 66 & 709' 
$2dfic Charac7er and Synodfires. 
POXIS J3olira rliiz'omatibus fupi'a c0,n,xis, infra 
placentam folidam, craftam iffkguiarem et to'r'ofoz 
multicipitem c adunato-prorepentibus, cffuM 
compreffb; foliis perennantibus hirto-i,i!lofi; c/t- 
nefcentibus; racere'0 4--6-floro d:i'vfiric/ttim l'fib- 
brachiatimque ubFaftigiato. G. 
PDXIS Jbolira. );acq. lc. rar. . t; 37 . Coil. Suppl. 
53-' ld4'lld. Sp. PL . xo6. 
HYPOXIS viliofa. Hoi'l. Kew. . 439- ut in ejufdem 
torum exemplario in Herb. Bmkf ';'idere eli. 
HYPOXIS Fa3ricfa. Gmrtn. frub7. etJFm. 
'ABRICIA villofa. Vat. 3  fcapis 1ongiffimis biffdis pedun* 
culis iterum divifis foliis albido-hirfutis. 
in Fair. It. Norv. 8 t. 
Og. Tres fpecles, a Jacquino poftquam apte difcriminatas et 
exhibitas, rub fua' villofa pro mutuis inter fe varietatibus com- 
---ndel at Thunbergius- eas, notis propriis adje&is, adponimus. : 
2rcH[xls.villof& acf. rhizomatis fobolibus haud placehtifor- 
c nnuentibus; tblils fericeo-villofis G. auw var. l'Srhunb. cui 
um frvatus nonten. ' 
HS.v.9x? L/&a..7cg. a Bot. Rep. t. , , foliis fecundurn 
t vmons, wllofo-ciliatis, fubobliquis i fca;s 5 fubtripetiunculatis 
ttribm&eatls. G. ,ue ejufd. vat. 
HYvoxzs Jtolira. .7acq. fupra. qua' fua vat. 
eh, hhough this is' certainly the villofa of the Hortus Kew- 
r , yet, as three diRin& fpecies were comprehended by 
auaa tt in his FARlCiA villofa (adopted by the authors 
fithat Xvork as the fynonym of their plant) all which have 
{ince 
fince been feparately defcribed and figured under fieir prope, 
names by JAcques in tYant. far. Icon. we adopt his titles fo 
TnuBgto's fecond and third varieties, refirving the origina 
bile' of villoz for the firPt, as j^cv has alfo done, bu 
xvithout having been aware that his obliqua and fobolifera had 
been included- by Txut4Bsto in it; this we do both with a 
view to prevent any confufion from not conforming to names 
made more generally known by fuch plates as J.cu's, as 
alfo to avoid introducing a new {ecific appellation unne- 
cefihrily. 
Root confiPting of !veral bulb-bearing fleshy root[ock 
not annually reproduced, about the bighers of walnuts, convex 
abov% grooving together below, as they are produced, into 
a thick, fiattih, folid, knobbed, irregular mars; from which 
the herb fprings tuftwife. Leaves radical from fix to eight 
inches long, half an inch broad at the bale, broad-lhbulate, 
channelled, carinate, thaggily vi!lous,. receiving a greyilh 
pearance from the villi, which are thick, longlib, and fort; 
i:apes !veral in !hcceffion, tric, fiat, hirfute, about the 
length of the leaves, terminated by a 4--6 or more flowered 
brakteate, di[ich, fubfaPtigiate raceme of one-flowered p 
dundes. Flower bright-yellow, tentlefs, upright. Petalsla. 
ceolate, hairy outwards, and rubherbaceous, inner ones rathe 
xmrrower and les pubefcent. Filaments fubulate, concrete a 
their bales with the glandular tumid bale of the [yle tha 
covers the germen; anthers ovate-fagittate, upright, not 1 
long in proportion as inferrata andflellata, but coming neare 
to ihofe of erec7a. Stigma ovate-oblong, three-lobedly-trigonal 
lobes decurrent, flightly prominent, channelled, with pubefce 
edges,.-about the length of the [tyle, which is round an 
thickifla. 
Flowers during 
as J?rrata, which 
with a knife, and 
indeed till it has 
uncommon; we 
Gardens, by Mr. 
Our drawing 
Was's Nurfery at Kcnfington. 
mopt .part of the Summer, of as eafy cultur 
fee; propagated by dividing its rootptoc. 
need not be fhified for lveral years, n 
filled the vefihl in which it may be; n 
never law it led; introduced into K 
Mt, ssot4, in 774, fi'om the Cape. 
was taken at Meffrs. Gxwoo)s a 
G. 
Claj5 and Order. 
TRIAN DRIA MONOGYNIAo 
Generic haraer.--?id. N o'. .593, 6x8, & {;95' 
Specific Chara7er and Synoms. 
MORiEA longiflora; caule fimpliciffimo, enodi; fafclculls 
-geminis 'a bracCteis confimilibus 1ongioribus ob- 
vallatis capitatim terminato; tubo filiformi, longo, 
etninente; unguibus fubcyathiformi-conniventibuso 
lamin. is inequalibus, obovato-oblongis, recurvatis; 
germane inclufo. G. 
Bulb-tuber as moR ufual in the genus, as are the leaves; 
Item Ihor b filiform, fimpl% not jointed, naked, terminated 
by a fafcicle of feveral convolute, acuminate leaves, enclofing 
two feflile capitately terminal many-flowered involucres, the 
hraes or valves of which are fhorter than the outer leaves 
f the furrounding fafcicle. Corolla yellow; tube long, fili- 
arm, flender, projeing confiderably beyond the involucres; 
'gments unequal, recurred, outer ones nearly three times 
arer, obovate, blunt, inner ones of the fame form; ungues 
!pr. ight, cyathiformly converging; .ftigmas petaloid, bifid, 
_?r fegments linear-oblong, blunt, refleedly connivent_. 
t'he limb of the corolla decays bu nartlu rollig inwards and 
artl b  . . ,  r  o . . 
Y y twlfang fprally. Germen concealed wnhm the 
'olucres. As the flower was decayed before we could fee it 
' defcription, we cannot fay whether it is bearded, its illa- 
nents monadelphous, or what fcent it may have; but the ex- 
aence of the draughtfman has left us only there three cir- 
ltances to regret. 
We 
We find no traces of this ve.r.y rare plant in any book 0 
herbarium within our reach, but have no doubt that it flower 
laff'Summer at Mr. HiRx:'s for the firff tithe in Europ 
it had been fent him from the Cape two years before bj 
colle&or that he employed there, along with the largeft  
le&ion of this natural tribe, except perhaps that which , 
procured for the imperial garden at Schcenbrunn fome yea. 
ago, of which fo many have been recorded in the coftly work 
of Jtct2uxN; and of which unfortunately fo many are ft' 
Rrangers to our garden. s. 
Mr. H.T has lately dete&ed one of the fpecies 
rxTstqxt in his garden, r/tifed from fee'ds, and molt pr 
bably the only one that ever vegetated this fide the Cape 
Till it flowers, which precife fpecies it may be, we cannot f j 
ve know of but-'four. Ik is an intereftifig genus, and feel 
to us to bear the fame relation to the Enfatw with regard to i 
fhrubby or arborefcent charaer, that rome of the Palms 
to the Liliacew or Hexandrous portion Of the vegetable kin 
dom. G. 
CO R R I,G E .N Dd. 
lqo. 56, 1. o pro "Ikia?' t? "Ixia." 
lqo. 600, 1. aS, pro "que" lege "que." 
xNo. 7o, 1. a9, pro "llicato bulhofam" lege "plicato-bulbofam." 
-- 1. . pofl "radice" dele comma.. 
and Order. 
TRADYNAMIA SILIClJ LOSA 
Gene.ric baratero 
8i.lieula integra ovali-oblonga: v. alis pla. ni.tffcu!is diffe?i, 
nento par. a,11lis. Stylus nu!los. 
Spedfie Charatler and $ynonym 
D.RABA p. yrenaica.; fcapo nudo, foliis unciformibus palm. aria 
trilobis, Leofi It. 6x. Spec. PI.. 896. l/P'illd. 
v. a' 421  Crantz. .ufi. faJ?. l.. p. 3' t. 
y,a?q. )lufir. t. .8. Allion. Pedem, t. 13. f. . Mart, 
Mill, Di.. a. S' 
ALYSSON pyrcnMcum ' perenne minimum, foliis trifidis,. 
fTournef. Intl. gt 7. 11lion. Rar. t. x..f. 
IRABA yrenaica. 2l. Dnica t, X4- npn a.d. hanc per. tinetd 
3/'e rec. eived this litfie alpine:plantfrom My. OD-.CgS, 
I3azkney.. It poffeffes no great beauty, but being hardy and 
:afii  p0pagated by cuttings, may ferve'to 'or. nanent, rock-' 
wrk "'The ' ftalks' are 'uf!ly pe'ennial, bec'omi-n woodY" 
'aked o coee-d  with the decayed ifiaves, anti hears'nodules 
ff leave' at he'extremities of te branches, from. the centre 
0f which the pdhces grow, bearing ufually to Or three antl; 
rmet-ifies more fl0..rs, hiqh are at firft '.hite, but alier, 
";arcIs cha.nge to purple,' 
A native of the. moultains of the South of Europe. As 
yet rare in thh countr'ot '"found in the atalo ue 
lplats. - ' ' , .... -"' ....... g , - 
Flowers. in Ma,. 
[' -] 
SImct 
V'ALERIAN, 
SIBERIAN 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIAo 
Generic Clsarailer. 
7al. o. Cor. i-petala, bari hinc gibba, fupera. Sero. l. 
Specific Charagler and Synonyms. 
rALERIANA fibirica; floribus tetrandris equalibus, foliis 
pinnatifidis, feminibus paleae ovali adnatis. 
Sp. Pl. 48. Hort. Upf. :8' 14/illd. Sp. PL lo 
1 St. I(niph. Orig'. cent. 5' 
VALERIANA rupeflris; floribus pentapetalis fepius pent- 
andris, foliis crebris pinnatifidis, feminibus 
folliculo paleaceo innatis, Pall. ltin. 8' P. 
FEDIA fiMrica. Gmrtn. deft, etJ?m. a. p, 87. t. 86. 
Dzsc. Root perennial. Radical leaves numerous, elongate- 
lau,ceolate, dentate-pinnatifid, glaucous and veined on the 
-:r fide, with keeled footl'talks, all timilar: Cauline ones 
[eflile, more rigid, horizontal, folded, the Upper pair nearly' 
mire, the lower dentate. $lalk ere&, a little flattened, branches 
o , ';,, horizontal. Braes three, unequal, fubulate, imme- 
lia ely below the germen. Flozvers panicled. Corolla yellow, 
one-petaled, faucer-fhaped: tube rugofe: limb five-cleft, 
f Oments rounded, quite entire, Filaments hairy, the length 
,,,11a, invariably four, Inthers round, yellow. Germen 
 or. Style timpie, length of filaments. Stigma globofe. 
-'d oval, attached to a chaffy' !eatlet which appears to us to 
 one of the bra&es enlarged, ' 
Seems 
Seems to va.ry egtreely in fize tnd in the form 
radical leaves, as we judge from various dried fpecimens fr0 
different parts: ,as well as from tle figures. aod._ de_fcriptions 0 
authors, .hough pgrh.ap there are fevera! permanent varietie 
for at H.ackn,ey, ..where ve 'have  fe.,  il rome years, it fee. 
to retain its_ ofiginat habit in every. Lefpe-, 
iq,;wer in June/.and continues a month in bloffom: 
flowers hav a flight iTc.eat of t)fficin.af Valeria'n i the evenin 
bu none of th jarmine odour' oferv..ed in V..xxt^ 
thenlea, with which xve were likewife favoured by Mr. L 
,oes. Is ,propagated by feccls vhich. it produces ith 
Hardy 
[ ] 
BAUERA RUBIOIDES. MADDER-LEAvED 
BAUERA. 
Claj5 and Or 
ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Generic Charmer. 
CaL inferus 8-fidus. Cor. 8-petala. Capri 2-1ocularis. 
flurimg. 
Specific CharalTer and Synonyms. 
BAUERA rubioides. tnd. Bot. ReDo f. t. a98. 
$em, 
DEsc. Stalk fhrubby, 3--6 feet high, branched. Branches 
oppofite, patent, rigid. Leaves ternate, oppofite; giving the 
tppearance at firPt fight of fix leaves growing in a whorl: 
Leaflets lanceolate, ferrate, rugore-veined, naked. eduncles 
axillaw, longer than the leaves, at firPt ere&, afterwards fre- 
quently drooping. Calyx inferior, one-leafed and growing to 
the germen , deeply divided into eight flightly toothed, lanceo- 
ate fegments, reflexed, perilRent. Corolla rofe-coloured, 
fight-petaled, but one is frequently deficient: Petals lanceolate, 
concave, patent, quite entire. Filaments many, thorter than 
petals, attached to the infide of the calyx, not to the receptacle, 
wherefore this plant belongs to the clafs Icos^ou^, not to 
Poxytsouxa, where it is referred in the Botanift's Repofitory. 
.4nthers yellow, roundith. Germen roundlib, romewhat flat- 
tened, emarginate. Styles two, filiform, divergent. Stigmas 
acute.  
A handrome flowering fhrub, without fcent. Taf[e of the 
eaves bitterlib, fubaf[ringent, not unlike Chinere Tea. 
This plant, a native of New-Holland, received the above 
mine in honour of the two B^u:us, natives of Germany, 
both very eminent botanical draughtfmen in the employ of this 
:ountry; the elder brother at the Royal Garden at Kew, the 
lounger now on a voyage ofdifcovery in the South-Sea. The 
:rivial name is derived fi'om the refemblance which it bears, 
ffpecially in its young ftate, to a Runx., not a Ruuvs, as 
Mr. Atq nv.,ws, with his ufual accuracy, would have it. Flowers 
through the greateft part of the Summer. 
Our drawing was taken at Meffrs. Gv. Iawoon and Wvxss's, 
Kenfington, where, we are informed, it was firft raifed in this 
COuntry. May be increared by cuttings. 
 '1 
.Generic Cha,rat7?r 
CaL 4-1hyllus: Petala 'm S-em; caudattr., 
specific Chakac7e' a#d Synonym_, , 
ATRAGENE capentis  foliis ternatis; foliolis, incifls dentatls 
petalis exterioribus quinis [retius fenis]. 
PL 764. Reich. . 640. Berg. Cap. x48. Vlart, 
Mill. Dit7. a. 8. 
/kTRAGENE capentis; erea, foliis biternat/s, foliolis incifo- 
dentatis, petalis exterioribus numerofis. kP71ld, 
$p. P1. . p. 186. Bot, Rep. t. 9' 
IULSATILLA foliis trifidis dentaris, flore incarnato pleno, 
Burro. Zfr. z48. t. 5. 
IULSATiLLA apiifolio rigido, flore magno. He'm, 
Dzse. $cape rigid, hifpid branched; each branch bearhag 
ne terminal flower. Involucre an ovate leafy ftipule; ge- 
nerally more leafy than in the fpecimen figured; of there 
hre is frequently one to every branch an inch or two below 
he flOWer, Calyx or external feries of petals  conftantly fix 
}roader than the internal, hairy underneath, flefi-coionred. 
%tals or internal feries about fourteen, white or flightiy tinged 
,h fielh colour, Leaves twice ternate: leaflets wedge-flaped 
 middle'one elongated: Segments generally three-toothed. 
nt a  zu s probably firft formed his fpecifit charaeqer partly 
am Buta's figure, in which the external petals are only' 
ve but in his accurate defcription, afterwards added, lie fays 
' are fix. The internal petals feem to be very fubjek-t to 
multiplication  
rauttiplication; our fpecimen fortunately bore tingle riot 
correfponding exa&ly with the native ones that we have f 
Prof. WiLLnow, who, as appears from the want 
arks by xhich he denotes there circumfiances, 
neither a living nor dried fpecimen of this plant, has yet, 
unwarrantably altered the fpecific chara&er, probably fr 
mere infpe&ion of the figure in the Botanift's Repofitory, 
from a ver imperfect abortive fpecimen. 
The older BotaniRs confidefed this plant as a Pulfati 
fpecies of Anemone, to which it appears to us to be 
more nearly allied than to ATR^GENE alpina, No. 5806 
 ,york. But, as we have there ftated, the latter plant 
neceffarily feparated from Clematis, the name of Air 
may therefore very well remain to the Cape fpecies, ofw 
there appears to be more than one. 
Our drawing was taken at Mr. Wnr's, Old-Brom, 
Flowers in March. Is propagated by feeds only. Req 
the proregion of a greenhoufe. 
[ 7'7 .J 
TULIPA BREYNIANA. CAPE TULIP. 
-$- --: .-$ -: -- '* - -. -$ - O- -'3-0 -'4- 
Claj5 and 'Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charalter. 
.... hexapetala, campanulata. H/. ad commiffuram germinis 
orolla inferta. 8tigmata ovario prifmatico fubcriftato-adnata. 
fula fupera. Bernina plana, biferialia. 
OBs. Genus MELANTHIO tam ha}itu quam charaere confine; 
radleatlo in utroqu omnino fimilis, ]51iatlo itidem. In Tulipa vero mina 
lana, in to rotunda; hie germen acute prifmatlcum, illic obtuj trigqnum, 
L;t Itigmata adnato-fflia, curtara, fubcartilaginea, #lie canallculato-lratim 
# tbere tdutla; h;c denuo filamenta ad bafin germinis injrta, illic petalis 
flus minus acereta G. 
Specific Charalter and' Synonyms. 
TULIPA $reyniana foliis lineari-lanceolatis, convolutls; fcapo 
polyphyllo, -6 floro; petalis lanceolatis, extimis 
duplo anguftioribus; filamentis bari pubefcentibus, 
alternis brevioribus, gracilioribus; Rigmatibus pa- 
rurn confpicuis. G. 
7UI..IPA reyniana. $p. PI. 438. 'Thunb. Prod. 65. Hort. 
Kew. t. 485- l/illd. 8p. PL . 98. 
'ISYRINCHUM ex phceniceo fuaverubente riore aethiopi- 
cure. Breyn. Cent. t. 36. 
Bulb exa813; as in MELANTHIUM. Leaves feveral, cond,- 
]kate, and theathing at their baes, eauline ones thorter, all 
?lute-channelled, quite fmooth and edged with a narrow 
nmfon border. Stem -6-fiowered, upper ones  or 3 and 
]eti .roes feflile, when the plant can fcarcei be diRinguifled at 
 ht - ' 
g from Mt^'rlIXUM uni. florum. Corolla fubcampanu.. 
,te, outer petals nearly twice the narroweR, linear-lanceolate, 
' ' inner 
 ncr empucauy lanueolate. btamens the length of the pif'l 
filaments pubefcent at their bale, alteenate ones lhorter and 
derer. ,Gerraea an acute pr!fm, fomewhat attenuated upwa, 
ttigma's three adnate fertile, forming an {nconfpicuous recurv, 
fubtrilobate termination to the germen; which becomes ave 
cofely oval, acutely triangulm' capfnle, with flat feeds. 
prefent fpecies and M.^4THua unifiorum appear to con 
there two clofely allied fe&ions.--Our drawing was made at 
Botanic Garden, Brompton, where the plant flowers i't 
greenhoufe about May; the bloom is very fweet and like 
of other tulips. Introduced from the Cape into Kew-Gard 
by Massre4, in x787. It feeds freely and produces offs 
but is itill a rare pla.t with us, though it does not app 
to be fo in Holland, from whence it is rometimes received 
our Nurferymen under the name of Tu .t,a perfica 
cannot be known from thofe of a Melanthium, .except by t 
being larger; that of the finalleft M.i,,TH,uia referal 
that of the larger Tuxxv in every thing but fize. 
:P/sc.P,.ATiIVi ILLYRICM: iLLYRi,N 
PACRATiUM. 
Cla and Order. 
EXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Generic Charaer. 
. infndibuliformis limbo patentimo, corona ad fuc.em 
.dg cujus latinira 6 fubula-t antheeim.. 8tig 
 ba. -plt, ltere dehffcens, x. aut ultiflra. Jo 
 8Wtific Charaee and 
P. CRATIU illyricum muttiflorum  fcapo- varicofe'. net* 
vofo; foliis lineari-oblongis, obtufiffimis 
laciniis. convexlY, Rellatig'.tubo 10ngiori, 
bus; corona aminilega his.gpto b.re, 
viore, tmbinatim patente, 'laciniis &, bi- 
ffdig  flaminias lirnbum fubmquantibus.-- 
. 4x8. eclufo Trew. Ehret. e. 7-) Murr, 
LILIONARGISSUS lbu 'mritimus .mox.: -Mr . 
LIIONARCIS8,$ ;hemroeallidis ficie. Ctuf H, tap. 
t6 7, x6g. rum to. Hort. E;fl. Fern. c' t. 
qARcISSUS illyricus liliaceus. Bauh. Pin. 55. 3b.Wh 
t. 8.  . Rail H. x 4o. Boer& Lugdb, 
?ANCRATII monfpeliaci hemerocallidis valentinm facie Li, 
lionarciffus, vel narciffus tertius Mathloll. 
qARCISSUS ]. Bauh. e. 6 3. 
marinus feu 3 Matth. Park. Parad. 95' Ger, 
emac,  73- 
Root a large tunicated ,roundifh bulb, elongated upwards, 
 Vered with feveral blaekLpurple membranous i.nteguments. 
Lcavc 
Leaves hilarious, linear-oblong, ve obtu['e, romewhat than 
nelled, rather fie[by. Scape upright, ancipital, varicofely 
nerved. Spathe bivalved, membranous, encoreparting a many. 
flowered umbel, pedicles [horter than the germens, feparated 
by linear braaes, the innermo ones of which become nearly 
obfolete.- Flowers dull white, exceeding fragrant; tube filifonn.- 
trigonal, twice longer than the germen, but [hotter than t,' 
limb, which is fexpartite, ftellate; {gments divergent, linear. 
oblong, rather acute, unguiculately narrowed downwards, 
longitudinally emboffed, fides depreffed. Stamens campan. 
lately arranged, from triquetral elongately fubulate, converging 
at their bales and filling the orifice of the tube, conne&d 
together downwards by a whiti[h turbinate web or pellicle, 
 which is fix-laciniate, fegments alternating with the ftamens 
and bifid: anthers linear-fagittate: yle filiform, romewhat 
attenuate upwards, flightly curved, far flenderer than the 
famens: ftigma obfoletely depreffed-trigonal, equal to the 
limb. The fcent of the flowers, which expand in May, is not 
unlike that of the Muflc Hyacinth. The leaves die doff 
before Winter. It often ripens its feeds, which are black, 
roundlib, angularly preffed from juxtapofition, contained in 4 
trigonal caprule. 
A native of Sicily, Cordca, Spain, and Sardinia; MoRxs0N 
fays he found it near Rochelle, buried very deep in the. fnd 
of the lea.[bore. Thrives in the open ground when placed 
clofe to the foot of a wall in a dry fouthern border; fo do 
Asvx.s vittala, belladonna and formofima, as we have 
feen at the Nurfery of' Meffrs. Gawoon and Wvg.s 
Kenfington, where our drawing was taken. 
 In Hort. Kew. it is mentioned as a greenhogfe plant, bgt 
we never found it fucceed with that treatmen_t. Is gene'ally 
mirtaken among the Nurferymen for P  c a,xx x v  maritimum 
a plant we have not yet found in bloom in our gardens. 
The bulbs of our fpecies are often imported from Holland 
with thole of the Hyacinth. Cultivated by pagv, x4s0 i. 
6s5- G. 
l 
[ 719 ] 
Gt.Dm'LUS S.av. tv. Rourn-SEEn.n 
Ctaj3 and Order. 
Tt.I AN DRIA no lqo GY.N I .. 
Geerle haraler.--Fid. 1 ,. 638 & 
Specific Charaler and Synonyms. 
C, LADI-OLUS _getum. Spica fecunda, remotiufcula; limbo 
campanulato-ringente; lacinia lhperna majore 
lateralibus amore et incumbenter imminente; 
jrliquis inter fe ubzequa-libus; antheris fi!a- 
menta fuperantibus; eminibus fubbaccatis, 
globofis, deorum produe"tis. G. 
ADIOLUS fpicalus. Ita fignatur fpecimen e Delphinatu 
tterb. Jankf. cure fpecimine Herb, Linn. collatum 
cui idem datur titulus. 
 LAI)IOLU$ .communis. u]liard Herb. de la France. Fillars 
,Dauph. 2, .23. tllioni Flor. ed. 85. 
Lamarck Encyc. 723- 'abL Encyc. et Method. 
Xx6. 5c5. 't. 32, Desnt. Fl./Itl. x. 35- 
cluo ,e -y.n_onymis G.,xDxo.o romraunL Curt. 
Pot. Ma Z. 860 
.LADIOLUS vulgo GHIAGGIULO. Zannichelli IJt. delle 
1)iante dei lidi Penefi 1). x 3. tab. 5' 
.LADtOLUS. ourn. Intl. p. 5' t. 9 . Mor. Hifi. JbL 
t. 4- f- ,t- tantummodo vero quoad figuram; 
lefcriptio enim fimili notata numero alio fpec- 
tat. Hall. Helv. 
rICTORIALIS rotunda. Hort. Efl. . Ord. Eftiv. 
1D. f. 2. 
LADIOLUS five XIPIIION..e. a,b. Hifl. ,2. 7o. Ga- 
ridelle Hifi. 
3s. lq'ulla fpondemus fynonyma in auaoribus fupra cltafis ab 
ls allduO, a, que fapiuserronea vel ambigua. G. 
The prefent fpecies and GxDotJs_communis (No. 86'of 
his work) have been ufually reckoned varietie of each other, 
at 
at lealt by the more modern Botanifts; but, as we think, with. 
out reafon; for the differences are {veral and material, the 
proofs of the'one having contributed in any way t6 the pr 
duOion of the other, none. 
Our plant has a fmaller bulb-tuber, flenderer leaves; th. 
larger or upper fegment of its corolla removed from between 
and fufpended over its lateral ones, not enclofed by them as 
in commahis; the upper lateral fegments are about equal to r 
even narrower than the three lower ones, while in that they 
are far broader; the three lower ones are equal among them. 
felves, or the middle may be a little narrower, but in coat. 
nunis this is twice the broadeft; the anthers are alfo longer 
than their filaments in this, which is not the calE there; and 
above all our fpecies may be diftinguifhed from the other by 
its round, folid, fubbaccate feeds, having a thin lamina o 
reddilh pulp between their coats, but xvhich is not quite 
thick as in B.aa.aN^, while in that they are dry, chaffy 
flat, edged with a broad membranous wing or border, formed 
of the tunic, which is much larger than its froall cartilaginous 
nucleus, round which its vacant portion is preffed quite flat, 
nearly as in the Cape fpecies. 
Whenever we have fpoken of Gtnovs communis, this 
xvas the plant we had in view; but as the other has been already 
publilhed, under that name, by Mr. CuRxxs, in this work, and 
fince 'it is often impoflible to determine which is meant by 
many Botanifts, we.have thought fit to let the original name 
 :emain with that, though our plant is doubtlefsly included by 
LxN.us in his books as a variety; or indeed may be the 
6he he intends in his defcription. 
A native of Dauphiny and molt probably of other parts 0 
South Europe. DesvoqrtxNv. s found it in Algiers. It gro. 
among corn and in dry funny expofures on low hills. In our 
colle:tions it is not now nearly fo common as the commt4nis, 
xve found it in the Botanic Garden of Mr. S^xsna, Bromp. 
ton, where the drawing was taken  quite hardy, flowering about 
May or June, and propagates abundantly both by feed and offsets, 
We have no doubt but that there are other Eurovean fpeci 
that have merged as varieties of each other under one title, bit 
xvhich we fhall endeavour to dete& and diffinguifh n o 
fiumber. The Bankdan Herbarium contains a feeded fpe 
men, which feems to be our plant, brought from Madeira, b 
Mr. MassoN. According to Z.NNICHELLI (who giv.eq - 
accurate defcription of the plant) our fpecies grows in the 
netJan territory, and varies much in the number of flower.': 
i Called Gnx.gaXULO by the inhabitants, G. 
Av/t MNo. Lsss. Ar.vc/t. 
Cla and Order. 
I --X AN I)R I A 1V[ o N O C,y N' I ,A. 
r. dte lacinia. $.inte:iores conniventes' ipice craffiufcu161 
uma patentes. 'Stamina 13 his oppofita tierilia, cantera 3" 
% ? $tflus pyramidato-inverfus. Stigma acutum, triplici' 
 . crone'-cin&um. $emina ptana. Jvss.' 
Specific Charat7er.- aud Synonyms. 
kLBUCA ninor bulbo compreffo-rotundo, fubrapoide; folii 
fubulato-linearibus, canaliculatis, glabris,. obtufe. 
carinaus ;. floribus nutantibus, pedunculis eree2iulL 
culls, recurvatis, fubadfcendentibus; braeteis acu- 
rainaris, cito fphacelatis; Rigmatibus trigono- 
obconicis, acfitis, papillofo-hirtis G.  
' '  . .  . ca. .. 488. $yfi. Peg. Murr.: 
82. Dryand tll' Holm. t784. p. v.94 ' Thuab. 
e_od. 786. 58. Prodl 6- 5. 'Hort. Kew. t. 486. Mart.. 
t.Ml: Dill. PP71ld. 8p. P1. v..' oo. Lil. a Redoute' 
kLBUCA lutea. g. gEamarck Etcyc. 76. 
;IRNITHOGALUM canaden,. . Linn. $p:-Pl.ed, ..z 
'NITtiOGALUM africanurn flore ;ifid[-ait:-0 aheri in- 
nato. Herin..parad. go9. t. .o 9. 
'? round, compreffed, in fle/h and form 
"' tUrnep-radi Leaves 3, about e una(] t unlike that of' 
y line -' ' to the fiere, 
. !ler/..u_p_nght.., fmooth, channelqled. femicylindric, 
; -- ,,,-,m a oot to. a: ,foot and.hal. high, round,. 
rachis fle-uofe; flowers green-yellow, 'fceritlefs,' 
"' an inch and half in diameter, arranged in an 'upright 
, Pealuncles long, ahnoR upright, recurred upwards, 
"t. Upper ones gradually florter; braes ovate. 
acuminate, 
.acumlnate, convolute, feverat times {horter than the pedund' 
q, ickiv withering- The three outer petals of the coro 
- tel linear oblong, fiattifh, incuxvedly. ho.!:lowed at th 
rota .... ' _  --: .... their bafes beneath the inn. 
s fi cup ' ' ower the 
affording the appearance of a {lower within a ; 
petals are broader than xhe outer onest oval-oblong, concave, 
. minated by an infieaed, fubreniform, thickly glandular a 
ter ' . o .a. ,.a ,ander ,vliich the alternate 
da e ubetcen. t,ou. tw,'  .... -    
pen. g ,  ....... ealed  filaments Uat, mong-mapea 
fertile anmers a 0,, - 
about equal to the inner petals the t.ee that Rand upon tl 
outer ones of which are Rerile and ticker; fertile ones dilate8 
at the bale gn8 convolute; anthers many .times orter 
thefe, froall, yellow; piRil about equal to the corolla, formg 
a prifmatic column fomewhat obconic or vertical; Ryles r 
ort, making with the three hirfute concrete Rigmas a n. 
all clubbed acute a about the length of the germcu. 
gon y e Ca e rowing in com 
und b THUNBRO at th_ p  ......... 
o. Y - - ; nd,, wattes ar amana ay, 
it uMMly attains the height oi a toot. . 
'. e'dai staken  the Nurfery of 
W K$ efffinon; it oulfi be kept iih the bar 
randy peat-rth and the root prote&ed from too much 
i%at'r. According 'the Hortus Keenfis, it as 
tivated by. 'Mx in x768. Dr. DRyADER'S fpe(. 
had 'all te &laments et, n urs nly the alternate 
e 0. It roaches wery near to A.nvcafragrans; 
h qui Teenfiefs. G. 
RIG E ?iDA. 
o. 7xa. L a-S, 4 zo "' in" lee ,'-e" 
No. 7tg, p- g, 1.6, after "[ribe" add, "ever imported into Earl 
"o t- 1 , .fr "nodules" read ' .rofule." ,--- been ace - 
," th late of Hxroxls en'a, . 7.' 
i:t2 s five on a-there n ineaa t ux ;--an ' 
c, No. :x6, ,Zfirs n xwo  the eterml pals 
t eravor. 
i I 
I-iILLIAo 
Cla and Order. 
LoNg-TuBn 
Generic Chara7er. 
al. v.-p]eX: inFerus 6-phyllus. Cor. longiffima Contort 
Capf. .-locularis, z-valvis, coronata; &mina pappoa. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
HILLIA longiflora  corollis rexfidis: laciniis lanceolatis t 
volutis, foliis ovatis aeutis. Swartz Prod. 58. 0 
$5' t' 5' f' x' l/l,q!ld. $p. PL v. '.P-39' 
Mill. Di61. n. 1. Bot. Repof. 45- 
HILLIA arafitica. 8p. PL 66v.. ]acq. filmer. 9 6. t. 66. 
FEREIRA. l/andelli in Roemet 1. Hifp. x. p. 9 8. t. 6. f.  
This very rare plant flowered in Mr. WOODrORD'S ftove' 
Vauxhall, in November laft, filling the whole houfe in the eye[ 
ing with its fragrance. It was imported from the Weft-Indi 
avhere it is indigenous in feveral of the iflands, growing on t, 
mountains among the roots of trees, but not parafitical according 
to Sw.aTz. J^cg/uu fays that it occurs likewife on 01 
valls. Sw..Tz places this genus in the natural order 
CONTOOTlE between Gardenia and Cerbera, but Jussx[t 
parates there two, placing the former in the order of Rubia 
vith which he joins this, the latter in that of _/tpocinee, 
Contort,e of Lteevs. It may be confidered perhap 
a connet-ting link between the two orders, approac 
aearer to Contoffee in the twiffed fegments of the cot 
and the pappous feeds, and to Rubiace,e in habit. 
The name was given by J^cg/uIN in honour of Sir 
HILL, author of feveral voluminous but ufelefs Bot'ini 
,aorks. 
TRICHOSANTHES ANGUINA, 
SNAKE-GouRD 
Cla and Order. 
MON(ECIA SYNGENESIA, 
Generic Charat7er. 
l^sc, Cat. 5-dentatus. Cot. 5-partita, cillata. Filam. 
F,M. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-partita0 ciliata. Stylus 3-fidus. 
Pmum oblongurn. 
Specific CharacVer and Synonyms. 
FRICHOSANTHES anguina; pomis teretibus oblongis in- 
curvis. Hort. Cliff 45 o. Sp. P1. 482. 
Hort. Kew. 3' P. 379- Reich. 4. P. 99' 
ANGUINA finentis, flore albo elegantittimo, frucCtu oblongo 
intorto. Mich. Gen. x 2. t. 9' Mill. Ic. 
l. t. 32. 
CUCURBITA finentis, fru&u Iongo anguino vario florc can- 
dido capillamcntis tcnuiffimis ornato, 
Till. D 49- t. 22. $abat. Hort. Rom. 
1. t. 71. 
The Snake-Gourd is a native of China, where its fruit is 
eaten. Was introduced into Europe about the year 7o, and 
feems at firft to have attractted confidetable attention from the 
ingularity of its fringed flowers and fnake-fhaped fruit, which 
 is alfo curious from the rapidity of its growth. Was culti- 
i:ed. by MILLER in Chelfea Garden, in the year 177;g, whopub- 
,.n, ed a figure of it, but not to be compared with that'ttVM 
aee many other annuals which excite but a fhort lived cu- 
iofity, this plant foon difappeared, and perhaps there are few 
'erfons now that have ever feen it in this country, though it 
411 produce ripe feeds with us if fown on a hotbed early in 
 e Spring and treated in the fame manner as cucumbers and 
elons. ' 
Our drawin - 
Old Bro- g was taken at Meffrs. W,xrz and 
e ami',.n, pt- n' where it was railed from feeds fent over by' 
,me Lad- of Sir Hz Gwizz, one of the Judg(s 
..the Supreme'Court of Judicature at Madras, whole 
e"neates fubjes of Natural Hiltor pencil 
d aCCuracy. y with unufual elegance 
[ 7-.3 ] 
GENTIANA ADSCENDENS (var.3.) 
PORCEnAIN-FnowRED GENTIAN, 
Cla./ and Order, 
I)ENTAN DRI A ]IGYN IA, 
Cor. a-petala, 
1ongitudinalibus, 
Generic Charalter, 
Capri u-valvis, x4ocularis. 
Receptactdis ' 
Specific harac7er and Synonyms. 
C-ENTIANA adj?endens; corollis campanulatis quinquefidi- 
inter lacinias dentatis, calycibus latere dehif- 
centibm fubtridentatis, foliis lanceolatis: radi- 
callbus elongatis. 
[3. Caule fimplici dcumbente. 
The foliage, the form of the corolla, and above all the fin- 
gular calyx, leave no room to doubt that this is a variety 
the one figured No. 705, to which we refer for a more part 
cular account of the t)ecies. 
The defcription in the Supplementurn Plantatum appear 
to be from this, and the figures of PA.r. As and of GaL 
from an intermediate variety. 
Introduced by Mr. LoxcEs from Siberia, by whom . 
 ,vere favoured with. the plant from which our draxving ,a 
made. 
1 I 
2 
[ 7e4 ] 
TAPELIA REVOLUTA. REVOLUTE- 
FLOWERED STAPELIA, 
Cla and Order. 
PENTAN)RIA DIGYNIAo 
Generic Charalter. 
30ntorta. Nec7arium duplici ft. ellula tegente genitaliao 
'Specific Charagler and Synonyms. 
'TAPELIA revoluta; ramis tetragonis ere&is denticulatis  
demibus patentibus, corolla glabra, laciniis ci- 
liatis acutis revolutis. Maff. Stap.  . t.  o. 
,TAPELIA revoluta corollis quinquefidis glabris, laciniis 
ovatis margine pilofis revolutis, pedunculis co- 
rolla brevioribus, caule tetragono bari ramofo 
credo fuperne flori fero, I4/illd, Sp. PLv. x. t. x  7 7, 
['he STA?ELIA revoluta is very little branched; branches 
, ate ere&, long, quadrangular, with the fides hollowed out 
:th obtufe, patent. Flowers fubfolitary on very fimrt pe- 
.uncles. Segments of the calyx acute. Corolla fmooth, very 
.dhy: fegrncnts revolute, margin fringed with club-lhaped 
bratory glands, quivering with the leaPt iSreath of air. lge[lary 
.aell, funk in a hollow with a coitraed opening: fegments 
radiate, oval, ferrate at the tip; between each fegment is a 
,rn.like bipartite procefs, the internal blanch of-which is 
0n_g.er, erec'-t, and .dilated at the point; the external one is 
rte.r: .patent, and acute. Between each of there horns is 
,_cea a,blac!z/hining gland to which the lobes of the anther 
r, a.s caned by rome, pollen maffes, in ever fi ecies of Sta li 
.e _ave e_xarnined, are attached. There loYbePs in ,,e, 
',. concealed under the horn lik 
 ' ' " ttU[-ll[55, Oil[ 1[1 Jills they 
era expoled to the air, only covered with a thicker coat than 
al of a dull purple colour. In rome fpecimens the minute 
egatio below the fegments Of the corolla is not feen, but 
e hole of this part is of an uniform colour. A native of the 
pe of Good-Hope, troin under 
rro ! ......   g /hrubs i dry fields in 
'/uct Noord Olifant's Piver, flowe!ing n Septem- 
"and OOober. 
3ur drawing was taken 
dv o_ ' at Mr. Woo)orn's, Vauxhal], in 
- ore. We have likewife b. drawing of thb fame fpecies, 
en at Meffrs. Grwoo n and W'xs's. Cultivation the. 
as for the other fp-ef, ies,  . 
/ / 
[ ] 
kMARYI, LIS CURVIFOLIA. GLAUCOUS- 
LEAVED AMARYLLIS. 
Cla md Order. 
IExAN DRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaer.-44'd. N. 65t. 
AMARYLLIS 
Specific Charagler and S. ynonymi 
MARYLLIS 
AMARYLLIS 
omen ix retlnendun utl paru ,* conhans, 
maria fuppedi'tafl t glauca j$1iorum facies.  G. 
turvilia (urnbella multiflora)-eonvexa ; lols 
glaucinis, lineari-loratis, parurn attenuatis, 
cbtufatis, enerviis, fubfalcatis una hinc cefim 
deflexulis, concaviufculis, extus convexulis; 
laciniis regularibus obiter connexis, Rellato- 
revolutis, lineari-oblongis, ubundulatis; 
nitalibus faciculatim ereioribus, !onioribus; 
fiigmafibus ob&urius trinis. G. 
curvi!ia. acq. Hort. Schoenb. 2. p. 33- t. 
64. l7iltd. Sp. PL . $9' 
Fothergillia. Bot. Rep. t. 268. 
manij?um, aut privum p 
8uib tunicated, ovate, covered .by integuments the textile 
Dart of vhich is finer than in thofe of humills and 
,4..g nearly as fine as cobweb, but their coating thicker ancl 
aore cruftaceous. Scape round, longer than the leaves, which 
e glaucous, oblong-linear or thong-fhaped, flighdy attenuated, 
unt, depreffed along the middle, tbmev/hat convex under- 
eath and paler, nervelefs, falcate edgeways and gently de- 
I'"aed in the fame dire&ion. Spathe as ufual in the getpus, 
aining a many-flowered convex umbel of bright glittering 
ltlet flOWers, without {kent,. Corolla regular, revolute!y 
freilate 
- - :-htl -i coberin,* 'for a very fnort diftance 
freilate; tegments mg y " ' te fubun' 
at their bafe, linear-oblong, fubunguculate, acu , tmate. 
Par-t' of frufftifictibn fafcided, firaightifh, rather' 1onger:than 
the corolla. Stigma obfolete. ly trifid. Getmen bright green, 
turbinate-fpharoid. Blooms at various fearohS; is generally 
treated as a fiove plant; though we [hould think it would 
do better at tlae foot of a loutbern wall wth..belladonna, bu 
not planted tOO hallow.' 
According to the Bankfian Herbarium, our plant was brought 
into the Kew Gardens about'-x788, from the Cape; 
received it from the fame place. There is a gardening tra- 
dition that it was likewife received from Japan by the late 
Dr. Foxxzggxx. x.; if fo, this, with belladonna and farnien./is, 
vould make the third fpecies of th.e genus that is common to 
the Cape as x1i as to couniries immenfely dirtant from it; but 
ve confers that we place no reliance whatever on the ftory 
beyond its bare poffibility. . 
Our drawing Xvas taken at Mffrs. Gitwoo and W.z' 
Kenting.ton. G. 
AMARYLLI S HUMIrIS. DIVARICATE" 
PETALED AMARYLLIS. 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
I-IE,xANDR.I  MONOCYNIA 
' Geen>"Charagler.?id. N u. 66f. 
Specific Charaey. er. and $ynonYm_s. 
AMARYLLIS humills (urnbella multiflora) foliis linearibus 
fubcanaliculatis, obtufatis; corolla recurvato- 
patentiffima, fubirregulari; laciniis ligulatis, 
unguiculatis, cefim affurgentibus, furrum un- 
dulatim crifpantibus, infimis binis divaricatis-; 
genitalibus.,affurgentibus 3. Rigmatibus trinis, 
patentibus.: G. 
AMARYLLIS humills. acq. Hort. $choen& x. p 36. t. 69' 
tl/illd; 8p. PL . 60. " 
": i .t. itulus inj}lldor ol3 japum non raro ipedalem. G. 
This differs. from' undulata' (No. 369) in 'having' it leaves 
more bluntly pointed, the. corolla more irregular, outer feg- 
ment8 without the corniform mucro that exifts in the other, 
the two lwer of there divaricating -edgeways; and further in 
having three very dillin& filiform patent ftigmas. 
3ulb tunicate, ovate-oblong, enveloped by numbedefs very 
tn integuments, formed by an intermediate du&ile web, of 
cry 11ender filky tough fibres, coated with a gloffy fmooth 
'icle or membrane. Leaves oblong-linear, romewhat chan- 
ed, rounded at their points. Stem round, longer than the 
es, terminated by a bivalved fpathe, which furrounds an 
Ubel with from fix to twenty flowers, without fcent, of a 
..rplilh role colour variegated with paler tints; pedicles fili- 
"' a. ncl !o..nger than. the fpath.e., Corolla fo deeply fix-parted 
hat 
that the fegments can fcarcely. be laid to cohere; there 
iteliately recurved, romewhat Irregular, linear-oblong, un 
culate, fubligulate,-afturgent, converging by their edges, t. 
lower ones at length divaricately remote; lamina: undulatl 
curled, acute; .fides fiighfiy reflexed. Gerinen green, 
preffed-fpha:roid,-tritorol, trifulcate; parts of fruEtificati 
declined-affurgent, fhorter than the corolla; {tigmas thr 
patent, recurired. J.cQux4 has figured two varieties, the 
finallet one of which approaches nearer to undulata in {ize 
than the other does; but is as diftin& from it in every o,her 
part as this is. 
Our drawing was made at Meffrs. CoLvx.tz's Nurfer 
the King's-Road, where it {lowers freely every year wards 
the latter-end of the Summer, is often taken for undulat4 
in fome garde'ns is called cr.ifpa, the name of a very dirt{hi 
fpecies. We know nothing of the time when nor by 
it was imported. JtcquxN received his bulbs from 
Cap. G. 
C O R R'I G'E N D.4. 
No. 569, 1. a6, pro "lateribus," lege "aciebus." 
$7, 1. aot pot "coaliris," infere "gaudent." 
574, 1. uirna  pro ' WAT$OIA aletroidet," tege '* WAT$ONIA 
aletroidera." 
97,' 1. 8, for ' charaeteriftic," read "charac2er." 
aS, pro "dilatatis," lege "latefcentibus." 
No. 64a, 1. a, pro "tunicarm," lege "we, flitus." 
14o. 65=, p- , t. ult. for" the valve;" read "a valve." 
lqo. 709, 1. 7, pro '* circttrnci" lege" 
1%. 7 7 P. % 1. u.7 after "may add "iMividuat plants." 
GL,mOLVS HrSUTUS (3). 
SHAGGY CORNFLAG. 
C/aft and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charac?er.--Fid. 1,. 5,38 8c 562. 
dfic haraler.--lqd. fiperius N urn. 574, pro reliquis $.yno. 
nymis. Infra de novo ordinantur varietates. 
() aphyllus; florfer, foliis totis vaginofis, reinotis, cauli arSe 
ldaptatis; fierills, folio unico, acuminato-lineari, ftricCto, vil- 
ofo, trinervio; fpatharum valvuli- integerrimis utrifque. 
Inodorus. Pr, ecox. G. 
GLADIOLUS brevifolius. )eacq. ic. rar. o.. 49. Coll. 4. 56. 
IFilld. Sp. P1. 1.  3. 
GLADIOLUS triflis. (i)apt:yllus: corollis albido-incarnatis, 
quaternis, fecundis, fcapo pedali. Fhun& 
D/ff 8. 
,.) brevilius; caulinorum foliorum altero-fere fernper nonnihil 
in laminam pubefcentem produflo; floribus aliquantum ma- 
joribus; utrilue valvulis integerrimis. Inodorus. ]recox. G. 
GLADIOLUS brevifolius. )eacq. Fragm. 3' t . t.' . f. 3. quem 
tamen figiebal folii pubefcentia. 
GLADIOLUS earneus. Bot. Rep. tab. 4o. 
GLADIOLUS triflis. (k) ruber. corollis albido-incarnatis, 
fubfecundis, immaculatis; fcapo fubaphyllo, 
fubpedali. hunb. loc. cit. 
.7lofiuulus; foliis caulinis linearibus, confpicuius rillotis, 
,tr.a vaginofam pattern longe producis; in univerfim major. 
,error. G. 
C'LADIO LUS villofiufculus. Herb. Bankf. 
'LADIOLUS triflis. (1) purpureus, corollis albido-purpureis  
fubternis, immaculatis, fcapo foliofo pedali'- 
7'bunb. loc. cit. 
'gLADIOLus flore firme regulari minlato anguftifolius/ 
-. Breyn. cent. a. tab. xii. . 
a)b'rf?.t, Iota planta praegradio, firnir, foliis enfiformL 
,, u.s, hmutis; corollaneniculato-recurva OdorIts erio o 
"AD .... G 
IOLus hirfi, tu$ () rojFus, nobis/uperius in No. 574, 
quo petenda alia fuajj, nonyma. 
(0 merianellus ; 
merane!lus; corolla ea precedentis gracillore; ungulbus 
i)in faucem cylindrico-produ&am conferventibus; inde laminis' 
curtaris. G. 
GLADIOLUS hirfutus. (/) tcnui. florus, nobis loc. cit. ut3i pri. 
viora i. flius fynonyma querenda. G. 
ORs. yam. tandem osirisus plures sinus semora$iles varletates, ut et 
 .  a ..... lolubnus cure e/acauino, in tanto Iotius adeo 
dalas, pJas quoque lltaeme. , j' . .  
peculiaris habltus conjbfu, earurn quaspiam de allis jungere m fpecitmt 
parvi /bcientes (falva partlure proportione) solls odoris vel precocitatis dif. 
drentias, nii. flas aliqua fpecialior cositaretur ratio aiiter jubens. G. 
This froall flowered variety bloffoms as early as Januar 3, 
.].,c2ux makes it a dillin& fpecies from the hirfitus of our 
lgo. 574; he had overlooked its pubefcence, which when 
not fearched for, by holding the plant againPt tile light, is 
eafily perceived; but is fo far material as it ferves to confirm 
that-clofe relation to the other varieties fo ftrongly markt,t 
in all its other parts. 
Bulb-tuber round, compreffed, covered with fmooth fibr- 
i:oriaceous, rind-like, brown integuments. Stem  fe 
high, round, jointed, upright, apparently nakedi but clofel 
enve!9ped , tbr more than half its height, by fmooth, clof 
fitting, fieath-like leaves, ending in remote, hort, acute points. 
the upper one being often extended for a hort diPtance bey(M 
the heath; Pterile bulbs produce from out a 1ongifl, corv- 
preffed, coloured root-fieath a tingle, narrow, linear, acu 
rninate, upright, ftiflifi, pubefcent leaf, generally lbmewhat 
twirled and three-nerved. Both valves of the fpathes quit 
entire, about equal with the faux. Limb of the corolla C' 
lindro-campanulate, fubringent, nodding; fegments twia 
longer than the tubular part; upper one broadell, ohorate 
lanceolat% concave, enclofed between its lateral ones; thef 
narroxver and more acute; lower ones narrowefl, connivi.n 
into a propendent nether lip; the middle fegment is ovt, 
tread by the tides of the other two, than which it is rathe 
wider, and from which it is not fo deeply divided as there fro 
the reft; the under tide of the faux is trijugofe or ftreal'ctl 
with three prominent ridges formed of the rachides of th 
lower concrete portion of the fegments. Organs of fru if' 
cation florter titan corolla. Anthers dark-coloured, 3-'{' 
times longer than the filaments. 
The drawing was made. froni a plant received from the Ca 
by Melt?s. Gxt,uwoo and W:zs of Kenfington. 
o 
l 
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ORNITHOGALUM ARABICUM; LARGE- 
FLOWERED STAR .OF BETHLEHEM. 
Claj and Order. 
Generic Charat7er. mFid. N u' 653. 
Specific 
FHOGALUM 
ORNITHOGALUM 
DRNITHOGALUM 
CharacTer and Synonyms. 
arabicurn corymbo fimplici, muhifioro; 
braaeis membranaceis, cordato-convo- 
luffs, roRrato-attenuatis, lente inflec- 
tendbus; laciniis de campanula'ds ro- 
faceo-patentifiimis, ovato-oblongis, ex- 
timis indentato-obtuatis; filamentis 
plano-fubulatis; germine turbinato- 
ti)herico, obiter fexfulcato, tofi-es toru- 
lofo; trigmate trilobo-capitellato. G. 
arabicurn. Linn. Sp. PI. 44x. ? (Vix; 
fed fynonyma runt plante noRrm. Sol. 
MSS.) Mart. Mill. DieT. ld4'lld. Sp. 
PL . 3' Hort. Kew. . 4t. La- 
marck . 6  . n.  . De. Fl, Atl. , 
9 6. 
umbetlatum maximum. Bauh. Pin. 69. 
Rudb. 1yf. . '3o- f. . 
LILIUM alexandrinum, five O. magnum. auh. Hifl. . p. 
6v. 9. 
ORNITHOGALUM arabicum multifiorum album umbilico 
interiore nigro. Swert. Fl. t. 57- ' 
ORNITHOGALUM arabicurn. Cluff. Hifl. x. p. 86. Jacin- 
tho del Paternofter. id. app. alt. Park. 
Parad. 34. t. 37- f- - Hort. 
l/ern.-Ord. 5' tab. antepenult. optima. 
'IELANOMPHALE. Renealme h. Hi. fl. Pl. 89. t. 9 . 
Linnaeus ori ine ' 
  m fu,e fllrpl tribuerlt capentre, qufque filamena 
'ta et connata vocaverit, a'liam eum defcr,fib fpciem, thyrfoidem 
--.'a dubitandum ; ul male nojqre planta adpofuit fynonyma. G. 
rqe prefent our readers with a fpecies of this genus that 
been remarked, from the days-of Ct.sxts and Pattiext,- 
1 
a0t to our own, for an unufual relucqance to enliven 
gardens, on this fide the Alps and Pyrenees, with its,y 
fragrant bloffoms: or if by Chance a tingle root has. been 
found to reward fo far the affiduity of a cultivator, :t ha: 
been but for once, and then frefidy imported; when, m01t 
probably, the flower-bnd had been formed in the country from 
 ahich it was brought; this either rots immediately after 
effort, or waltes itfelf in the producing an offspring .... 
here continues lierile. Thus rnuch is afcertained as to 
Levant plant, and we fear, the fame will be found to be t 
in regard to that from Madeira, whence our .fpecimen 
brought by Captain GEc of the Navy. As yet no differera 
has been dete&ed between the individuals of this fpecies from 
there mutually remote regions; though the whole habit is f0 v 
peculiar, that, did any really exill, it would not be diffic 
to be difcovered. But we are the more inclined to beli 
them perfe&!y timilar, fince we know, beyond a doubt, 
there countries do poffefs feveral other fpecies of vegetabl 
in common. 
Bulb tunicate white, about the tize of a walnut. Le 
attenuately thong-lhaped, lax, convex outwards, about an i 
or more broad, thining, minutely ciliate, more or lefs cau , 
in native fpecimens t feet in length. The beauty o 
flowers is fingularly increared by the contral of fiaeir la 
umbonate, black-green gerrnen; whence Rt 
found it growing fpontaneoufly in Egypt, near the tow 
Alexandria, narned the plant Mr^o,vaI. Outer 
ments generally bearing a corniform mucro that iffues f 
beneath the teeth. Filaments upright, {lightly patent, t 
fiiorter than the corolla. Getmen turbinate-ipharoid, fii.. 
fixfulcate; llyle llraight, filiform-trigonal. Stigma cap 
trilobate, fubpubefcent. 
CLUSIUS tells us that the bulbs were ufed to be brou 
from Conllantinople to Vienna, and called by the Turks ,  d 
.tlrai or Arabian bulbs. In Italy it was named the .A!. 
drian Lily or eacintho del Paternofl.er. 
Lt,^tcx met with the plant n great abundance o.. 
fandy plains of Barbary efpecially in the country 
Zulmis, where it blooms in April. Dsvotx^'ess fay 
grows in the fields round Algiers. The Levant plant 
rivated in this country by old Pt,tso, who feemS to 
rade it {lower, at !ear once, though Mxcxsv never  
The Madeira plant was firft introduced into Kew Garden 
Mr, M,sso. - 's Nur. 
Our draing ,'as taken at Mr. COLVILL 
Chelfea. G.. 
i, 
,,, 
[ 7e9 
CHEIRANTHUS TV.STS. DAv. K-F,oWV. 
STOCK. 
ClaJ3 and Order, 
TETRADYN AMIA SILIOUOSA. 
Generic Chara7er. 
Germen utrinque denticulo glandulato. Cal. claufus: foliolis 
bari gibbis. 
Specific Charagter and Synonyms. 
CHEIRANTHUS trifiis; foliis linear;bus fubfinuatis, flor;.. 
bus refill;bus: petalis undatis, caule fif.. 
fruticofo. Sp. P1. 925 . l/Fill& 8. 5 22. 
Reich. 3. p. 266. Mart; Mill. Digt. a.  5' 
lllion. Ped. 8- 99 t. Hort. Kew. 2. 897- 
CHEIRANTHUS foliis lanceolato linear;bus acutis glabris, 
filiqu!s teretibus, HorI. Cliff. 33 . Hort. 
Upf.  88. 
LEUCOIUM minus. arr. ic. 999- n. 
occ. Muf. 48. t. 
 A native of the South of Europe, and though marked in 
e Kew catalogue as hardy, is not fufficiently fo to rand the 
fc '-ity of our Winters recurely. It is better to conrider it 
 grcenhoufe plantl and fo treated it has a {hrubby flalk,. 
,wets early in the Summer The whole plant is downy 
- flowers have much the fame fombre hue as HESVES. 
 and when more nearly examined have the like beauti 
-ming; are fcentlefs in the day time, but when the even- 
L-"-arrives exhale an odour to us very erateful; thou Ix 
-' ts fays,,, Flores trifles colore et odre?' It is a curi;a 
 ! o,,,t tnott tlowers havine this t)eculiar melanchol aft 
"._[.a firmlar night-fmeltin (]uali'tv . . y 
g'ted -  . Y LIP MILLER, xn a768. May' b propa, 
uy leets or cuttings. 
Our drawing was taken at the Botanic Garden, Brompton, 
ISrERIS TRISTIS. NOI-IT-SMELLNO 
ROCKET. 
Cla and Order. 
TETRADYN AIIIA SILIUOSAi 
Generic Charac7er. 
Petala oblique flexa. Glandula intr-a ftamina breviorao 8ili. 
ftriEta. Stigma bari bifurca apice conniverite. Cal. claufus. 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
lIESPERIS triflis; caule hifpido ramofo paXnte. $p. PI. 
927. Reich. 3. P. 269. 14/illd' 3' 53 . acq. 
Fl. 4ufl. u. p. . t. xo2. Hort. Uf, x87. aracq. 
Find. x  8. Crantz. ,duff. p. 8 x. 
HESPERIS caule hifpido procumbente. Hort. Cliff. 885- 
lIESPERIS montana pallida odoratiffima. auh. Pin. 
Morif. Hifl. 2. 252. f. 3. t. ,o. f 3' Cluf. Pan. 
83-3- montana et prima, Cluff Hifl. 
lIESPERIS pannonica. Cam. Hort. t.  8. Park. Parad. 262. 
VIOLA matronalis flore obfoleto. Get. emac. 460.. f. 3. 
LEUCOIUM melancholicurn. Hort. Eyfl. Get. emac. 463. 
A hardy biennial plant of no fhew, but worthy of cultira., 
tion for the fake of its agreeable fcent, which however it does 
not give out in the day time. 
Mtu fays, that the ladies in Germany have pots of it 
placed in their apartments, from whence it Obtained the ap- 
!)ellation of DxMr.'s VXOLr. T; but this name feems not to 
have been exclufively applied to this fpecies, perhaps more 
ufua!!y to the Hr.s?lRS matronalis 
Is ro ' 
. P papated bv feeds of which it t)roduces abundance in 
yet I  .  s . 
Y ong ftraght pods flightly twifted. Thefe growing at 
right 
right angles with the fiem, give the;plant when in fruk'tiflea, 
tion a very fcrambling appearance. Requires a dry foil and 
a wa-m. fituatiog'; beifg }efs hardy ..than the .Garden Rocket, 
andi6o'r fubj'klz"t to rot in the Winter, on Which accoknt 
MILLEa recommends that fme plants thould be kept under 
a frame during this feafon, as the lure way to preferve them. 
Flowers in May and June. 
Cultivated b"M-nrz in a739, and perhaps more than a 
century before, by Jo,NsoN the editor of GsR^.D's Herb. I, 
though the leaves of his figure of-Leucoium melancholicurn 
being jagged makes this doubtful. 
Our drawing was taken at MoOrs, Gg_.aoo.. and. Wr - h 
Kenfington, 
/ 
oANA PROSTRATA. R.A.IIT6 NOAT.A., 
Clad5 and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONO,OYN Ao 
Generic Charalter. 
Cot. campanulata. Stylus inter germina. Sero. 5'btxccata, 
.1oelaria. 
Specific Charafter and Synonyms. 
NOLANA proflrata. 8p. PL 202. Linn. Dec. x. t. . Mant. 
884- Syfl. Feg. 9 t. Reich. 407. ll/illd. 8p. Pl. . 
794- $abbat. Hort. Rom. v. x. t. 4. Mart. Mill. 
;Di. G,ert. Fru/l. 2, 242. t. 82. ttort. Kew, 
v. . p. x9o. 
ATROPA foliis geminatis, calycibus polycarpis, eau c humi- 
fufo. Gouan. Hort. 82. c. tab. Kniph. Ori . x. n. 8' 
WALKERIA. Ehret. 4..4ng. 763. v. 53-P- x3o' t. o. 
WINGERA. /c'/. Helv. 5' P' 26I' t. x. 
NEUDORFFIA peruviana repens, flore cmruleo. tdanf. 
PL Faro. 2 9' 
TEGANIUM procumbens. $chmidcl. Ic. 67. t. 
The NOLANA proJtrata is a native of Peru, a country to 
which a large proportion of the tender annuals that ornament 
our [lower gardens at the clofe of Summer owe their origin; 
[he flowers are of a pale blue colour beautifully ftreaked 
,ror the centre with veins of dark purple, and when ex4 
-.nded are very pleating to the eye; but unfortunately this 
s only while the fun thines. 
There appears to have been rome difficulty in determining 
he natural order to which this plant belongs; jussxwu con- 
iders it as neareft related to his Borragine,e (afperifolie of 
Ltus) to which order it is alfo added in the pofthumous 
le&ures 
leaures oF Lzus, publifhed by Gs.K., but CRTN.. 
feems to have fatisfaFtorily decided it to belong more properly 
to .tbejblane,e or luride of Lus. In habit it approache 
46 Convolvulus, and particularly to Convolvulus tricolor. 
To have it flower early enough to ripen its feeds, it fhould 
be fown i March or April on a gentle hot-bed with other 
tender anhuals, and may be planted in the open border by the 
latter end of May, or if intended to be kept in a pot, MXLLP. 
direFts that they fhould be planted fingly, when of a proper 
fize, in a fmall pot filled with light earth and plunged into a 
frefh hot-bed to bring them forward. Cultivated by MILLIR 
in the year 76x. 
Has received a vaiety of names from different Botanift 
but that given by Lxsus, from Nola a litde bell, now 
aniverfally prevails. ' 
Our drawing was taken at the Botanic Garden, Brompt0n.: 
C01 TOLVULUS SEPIUM (/3) AMERICANUS. 
AMF. RICAN GtEAr BXDWFED. 
Cla and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAo 
Generic Chara7er. 
fir, campanuhta plicata. Stigm. 2. Capri 2-1ocularis: lo- 
s diq :rmis. 
Specific baraJ7er and Synonyms. 
"*IOLVULUS jpium; foliis fagittatis pollice truncatis, 
pedunculis tetragonis unifloris, braEteis 
cordads calyci approximatis. Smith Fl. 
Br. 2. 233. 
LVULUS jpium. 3}O. Pl. *.15. Curt. Lond. 
s corollis albis. 
s; coro!lis incarnatis. 
m authorurn, utpote ad varietatem europeam pertinentia, 
 J 'rod videntur. 
ant has been cultivated feveral years at the Botanic 
rompton, and appears to differ very little, cxccp 
ur of its flowers, from the comfnon great Bindweed, 
rs in aimoft every hedge in the vicinity of London. 
er lobes of the leaves are not indeed fo decidedly 
bar this circumllance being evidently' fomcwhat 
 by culture in the common variety alfo, we dare not 
ce form a fpecific difference. 
's all the elegance'of the common fort, which 
,, beautiful in its wild ftatc, is equally hardy; and 
different colour of its bloffoms, if mixed with that, 
of having an exceeding good effect, where fuch 
 Wanted to cover a dead hedge or decorate a living 
hropean Convolvulus j9pium rometimes bears 
tly tinged with red, but we never raw them ap- 
1our of the American variety. 
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AqARYLLIS BELLADONNA (). ELLADONNA 
LILY. 
, 
CYa' and Order. 
Generic Charaer.--Fid. N '. 66t. 
Specific Carai7er and Synonyms. 
IMARYLLIS belladonna (fauce nuda, urnbella 
'fcpo folido, compreffo, foliis pracociore; iis 
lorato-linearibus, acuto-canaliculatis,' obtufo- 
carinatis; corolla infundibuliformi, fubregu- 
lari, reEta, fubnutante, furfum recurvato- 
patente, deorfum breviter concreta, laminis 
lanceolatis; ftigmatibus obii:urius trinis; fe- 
minibus fubglobofis. G. 
AMARYLLIS belladonna. l.inn. Sp. PL 4 t. Sfl. Feg. Murr. 
8o. ]. Mill. illuflr. ic. L' Herit. SerI. ngl. 
 . Hort. Kew. . 4 t 7- Mart. Mill. Di. 
l'lld. Sp. PA , 54. exclufis palm Sloane, 
Herman, Seba, Merian et Swartz An_yn- 
     equeflrem volentibus. 
AMARYLLIS fpatha multiflora corollis campanulatis mquali- 
bus genitalibus declinatis. Mill. Die7. 5' ic. 
xxiv. (ermreulptoris, reius xxiii.)  5' 
LILIONARCISSUS indicus flore elegantime purpuralkente. 
einm. Phyt. 8. P. 76. t. 653. fi M. 
NARCISSUS polyantbos liliacino flore,. Rudb.  . p. 48. 
f 7- (fig' Ferrarii). 
LILIONARCISSUS rubeus indicus. ld. Hort. farnes. 83. 
t. 8. 
qARCISSUS indicus liliaceus diluto colore purpurafcens. 
Fcrrar. Flor.   7' t.   . 
ee Day-Lily With the blu flower. Pet.. Gaz. t. 8. 5' 
utumnalis; corolla magis colorata. 
'rnalis; corolla pallidiore. 
I, :linen fntaneum capenfe varietatis . ipfo R. S. Prfid& 
n in fuo herbario reponitur. G. 
)r the above complete fynonymy we have' to thank Dri 
"" 
t lb about the fizq of a fwan's egg, covered with numberlefs 
integuments 
integuments of file fame natm'e as thole we defctibed in t. 
articleAa-gvLLs bumiis. Scape folid, ancipital-compreffel, 
01 a cinrian-ion colour fleeply tinged With carmine, precel 
the leaves. Involucre bivalved, oblong, rather blunt,'t.i 
longer than the pedicles and nearly of the fame colour, 
doting an 8--o flo,ered umbel of large fragrant flowe 
hofe lower' part is grdenifh white, upper fuffufed with 
colour or pale carmine and veined. Pedicles 9.,--3 time 
longer than the germen, with which they are' fo infenfibl 
conne&ed that the joint is. fcarcely to be difcerned; Cor. 
rubregular, funnelform, rather ftraights nodding; fegrn,,ts 
thortly cormate, unguiculately attenuate, lamina: lance0 tte, 
{lightly concave, recurred-patent, inner broadeR, outer 
iinated by a membranoufly hooked cufpis. Organs declined. 
affufgeht ;' filaments adhering to the lower part of the coroll. 
alternately fhorter; anthers incnmbent. Getmen bluntly 
gonal, fibturbinate, agreeing .with pedicles and {k:ape in cdo , 
St*,le 1onoer than the {lamens, triquetr:il, gracilefcent. _ti . 
ocurelOlobed tnfid, deep carmine. Some flowers are qu 
regular, while others not unfrequntly have the upper 
ments more conflex than the lower. According to 
fplendid plate in j, MtLLEe-'S i!lultration, the feeds re 
and fubglobofe, not flat, membranoully winged and cha,. 
as in ?ittata and longifiorao May.not }3 (the Cape plant) diff 
in this refpegt and have flat winged feed; if fo, can it 
deemed a variety ? We fufpegt in fagt it is a diftin& fpeies 
() Was introduced into this country from Portugal in 
bnt where native is yet doubttiff; thi Charmel through wh 
the plant has been received makes it more- than probable ,. 
it is a Brazil vegetable'. The older BotaniPts call its i:om 
India, whichwith them may mean the EaR-Indies, Sou' 
America, Or even fofie parts of AfriCa: 3, which Mxt' 
tells us only differs in having paler flowers and blooming .. 
the Spring inftead of the Antumn, comes from the ape 
Good Hope, where it was found by Sir Josm, i BasKs. T 
was alfofent by V^s RoY,s from Holland to MliZ-. 
754, and flowered in the Chelfea Garden: (c 0 is very co. 
in the gardens near Lifbon and Florence, at the !aft o' 
places it is Ibld in the markets under the name of the 
donna ]Varciffus. Our feedlinen receive the bulbs yea[I 
bundance from Portugal, and there xYhen plantei:l 
the foot of a fonthem wall will blow annually, after th'., 
once lettied, which they are not in tefs than two or 
years.; they then produce offsets in plenty: their time of 
fion is O&ober. This fpecies is by no means fo cornraoul 
rivated as we thould have imagined, from its beauty, fi'ag[ " 
and eafy culture, it' would have been befo.re this time, 
3 
MuSCARI MOSCHATUM. MUSK 
I-IYACINTH. 
RAPE* 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
HEXAN-DRI A MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charatler. 
Cot. monopetala, varie campaniformis, fexdentata. $tigm. . 
C- . t"ilobo-trigona (angulis alato-extenuatis ?) Sero. plura, 
[hu Iobofa (columellm affixa ?) ffournef. Linn. fi/. (ex M5 ' ad 
 d#las Bankfianas tranfcripto) et Desfonto 
0$. Hat HYAcN'rus montrofus, comofus (No. 238. ) botry- 
oitL= (No. 157. ) racemofus (No. leZ.) una cure MUSCARI maritimo et 
pltfloro. Desf. Fl. Atl. . o8, 9. &io peommoda et cilis ant;. 
Or:rut iigitata t plurimis hodiernis Botanlcis equldem neglea, ournrtlo 
ecelius junlore Linno, nuperr;me Uflero ale Debtalnes in gen 
I a ea HYACINTHORUM tnenda corolla baud fixpartlta d 
,.at f ; po,'ro (ex Linn. ill.) capfula alatim Irigona, minlbus ,o 
aneo-plais, atfue columellm, nee utrinque interloft marglni dpi- 
=t. anmxis. G. 
Specific Chara[ler and Synonyms. 
MUSCARI mofchatum; racemo muhifloro, oblongo-ovato; 
corolla horizontali, urceo. lato-cylindrica, collo 
ar&ato breviffimo fiffili in coronulam mem; 
branaceam laceram et limburn minutum fex- 
fidurn rotatum et cito fphacelatum foluto. G. 
ACINTHUS Mufcari. Sp. P/-454- Hort. Cliff. 26. Upf. 
85. Hort. Kew. . 458. Mart. Mill. Die7. Rul 
It. llepp. . u5 o. ld/illd. Sp. P1. . x69. 
ARI mufcarim Ufi. zlnn. St. . p. 5' 
ARI i'acemots. Mill. Di. a. racemoro a 1/l/illd. in 
8ynonymo male adpofitus. 
gCARI mofchatum grifeo obFoleto flore. ffournef. 848. 
ACINTHUS mofchatus odoratiffimus. ldinm.'Phyt. 58. 
'CINTHUS racemofu$ nofchatus. Bauh. Pin. 48- Rail 
H. ,,6. 
CARI obfoletiore riore. Ch Hg. 7 8. Mor. . . 4. 
 6. 7. Hort. Eyfl. Ord. lierot. . t. t 3.  t. 
HYACINTHUS 
HYACINTttUS botryoides major mofch. f. Mufcafi fl0r, 
flavo et cineritio, Park. Par. ix2. n. 
-f. 8, 4- 
MUSCARI flayurn ct Clufii. Get. emac. xvo. f. 
NARCISSUS. 5' Camerat. 44 . C. 
BOLBO vomitorio. Carl. Durant. 
Bulb tunicate, ovate, white. Leaves four or thereabouts, 
1orate-linear, fomewhat convolutely concave, 7--o inch 
long and about half a one broad, bluntilh, thickifh, 
furrounding the fcape, which is weak, thorter, fmooth, y. 
lindrical; raceme clofifh, oblong-ovate; flowers fparfe h0. 
rizontal; pedicles very. thort, iffuing from hollows funk in 
the'rachis; braGes mnute, Rill thorter, lacerate. Corolla 
narrow, ovate-urceolate, obfcurely three-cornered, fplitting 
the-neck into a minute, rotate, fexp.artit? li.mb, and a, 
fmaller prominent torn coronet terminating ts very hart0. 
orifice, the 'firPt the continuation of the outer cuticle, th 
fecond of the inner, both quickly fading, while the more ft_ 
Rantial part of the flower remains for rome time unchanged. 
Stamens twice thorter than the corolla, altooff entirely adnate 
alternate ones longer, anthers froall, dark-coloured with yellow 
pollen Germen ovate, acutely trigonal; Pt)de flmrt; ftigma 
obfcurely trifid, capitate-trigonal. The flowers are largertt ta 
thole of the other fpecies, of little beauty, but amply 
compenfing the want of it by their extreme fragrance; fr m 
which circumPtance the Turks have given it the appellat, 
of Musc^uh the fcent refembling that of certain pallill 
they ufe to perfume their chambers, which are known but 
fame name: it was brought from the gardens in the vicini 
of Conltantinople, according to CLUSIUS, about t554' 
pATRICK RUSSELL found it growing wild near Alepp0, 
when its precife habitat was not fatisfattorily afcertained. T 
Italians call it Mufchio greco. There is a yellow fort, all 
ibcadi Mufcari by the Dutch Florills, fuppofed to be   
variety, the fragrance of which is Rill more exquifite,.and' 
are told that fine roots of it fell for a guinea a piece !n 
},d We never law it Our variety was cultivated by 
.,us in 597' It is a hardy plant, thrives in a 
arpel, propagating abundantly both by feed and offsets. G. 
LACHENALIA ANGUSTiFOLIA. TA R R OW- 
LEAVED LACHENALIA, 
h amt Order. 
Generic Chara7cr.--Vid, /'V " 688, 
Corolla nunquam hexapetaL. G, 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
LACHENALIA 
LACHENALIA 
angufiilia_; foliis numerofis, cral!is, cana,- 
liculato-femiteretibus, fubulatim attenuatis, 
extimis circa lapum breviorem proje6tis; 
racetoo conferto, cylindraceo, pedicellis 
capillaribus corolla crateroideo-campanulata 
duplo brevioribus. G. 
anufiifolia. ]acq. ic. far. 0.. t. $8t, Collo 
$uppL 7' IgZilld' $P' PL g. x73. 
Root a froall tunicated bulb. Leaves numerous, thick, 
tlelhy, femicylindric, linear-fubulate, depreffed or flightly 
channelled, longer than the fcape, round which the outer ones 
are laxly recumbent; fcape comprefld-round, 46 inches 
igh, fpotted; raceme cylinder-lhaped, cl)fely  ggo-flowered; 
ra0tes membranous, ovate, concave, acute, alecurrent, twice 
Ihorter than the capillary pedicles, thefe again twice thortee 
hah the corolla, which is fix-parted, bowl-thaped or campa- 
ulate with an ample rounded bafe, outer fegments ovat 
rather acute, broader, but at the fame time thorter, marked 
?pwards on each furface with a longitudinal brownifl fiain; 
nner Obovate-oblong; ftamens even with thefe, gently incurved 
conflex; anthers ereO, hung inwards from their backs of a 
Colour between vermilion and brown; ttyle equal to the 
Itens rather curved, Stigma obfolete; getmen green, 
trigonal- 
trigonal-ovate, marked with three yellowifh furrows. Flowe 
fragrant; expand about April; but are not produced 
y,ear with us ;. increafes eafi,ly by offsets; thould be keut .' 
other Cape bulbs. 
Our drawing. was taken from a plant imported from 
Cape by Meffrs. GRIxVOOD and VrYCEs. It comes fo n 
to L^CHE4^LA hya(inlboides, that from the drawing 
dcfcript!on %f j^c'Quxe, we cannot make'6ut a fpecif 
dillinl3tion; however, upon comparing living fpecimens 
both plants, fuch may be found. G. 
./1D DENDUM. 
No. ?8, p. , 1. o.. fter ' lhinlng, ' infct ' on tlaei fift cmerfi0a frm 
the ground, but 1ofi. ng gradually all g_!oft,"  ' 
A 
MASSONIA ANGUSTroLIA. SWEET-ScENTgi 
MASSONIA. 
ClaJ3 and Order, 
}tEXANDRZA 
Generic Charaer.Fid. N=. 559 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. 
MASSONIA anguflilia (acaulis) foliis lanceolato-oblongis 
nudis; thyrfo congeflo;-tubo pedicellis duplo 
breviore, laciniis oblongo-ovatis 'reflexis 1on- 
giore, filamentis zequali; ore ferme claufo. G. 
MASSONIA angufltfolia. Linn. $uppL 293. Hort. K ew. 2. 
405. t. 4- ld/illd. Sp. PLv.. 9.8. 
MASSONIA. lancedata. hunb. Diff. Nov. Gert. Plant. .. 40. 
Prod. 60. 
Root a tunicated bulb. Leaves two, fmooth, oppofite or 
lateral and contiguous with their inner edges parallel, generally 
upright and about three times higher than the f.ub-glomerated 
thyffe, thebafeofwhich is even with the round Bra6tes [hor 
than e' v  , ter 
 P &cles and nearly of the fame [ha e with the 
tmaller C .... " ...... P leaves, but 
r ' ,,t,.a tnonlar, twice thorter than pedicles narrow 
'.ndrical, with its orifice nearly clofed iy the /tyle and 
,mt_d bales of the filaments; fe ments oblon -ov 
' eneaO- -,- .... g ' g. ate, reflexed 
[}. - me maments, with a tranfverfe pitot at their bale: 
. .,n..ents as long as the tube, camnanulateldconflex ruble 
 Cflefcent; _.ff.._ ,- ,, . r , :_ , . ffile, 
r  antnc18 lmall s Incumbent. Germen trlfulcate, 
,;udre,r-fha. ped; flyle equal to the filaments attenuated, 
ely three-channelled, angular; fligma obfolete, red. 
ws n ,exceeding fweet, fmellina romething like the corn- 
mt oriental Hyacinth; (7)f a watery-white colour, 
greeni 
greenlib at the ends of the fegr0ems; the honey-like liquid 
that it fecretes does not as in many fpecies rit even , 
the brim of the !.ube, but is.to be found only towards its botturn. 
Found by THuNu-P, at the Cape of Good Hope on the 
rummir of the Onderfte Roggeveldt mountain, where it flowers 
in Auguft; with us in January. Brought over by Msso, 
in x??5- _To be kept in peat earth on a front their in the 
green-houle. 
Our drawing was taken at Meffrs. GrtMxvoon and Wc . 
Kenfington. It propagates by offsets and feeds xithout mucl 
difficulty. G. 
nmUl 
C! 
737 ] 
Anoua. OVAL-LEAVED 
'CE-RBERAo 
Cla and O dcr. 
Gezieric Chara27er. 
_ 5-partitus patens. Cor. 5-partitus patens. Cor. infundi'-' 
buliformir. tube davato, fauce 5-angulari 5_de,itata: lin)bd 
magno 5-partire obl'iquo. Anthere conniventes. $tylu? , 
"*igma 2 l'obum. Drupa magna latere fulcata ac -pu,'Satai 
fceta nucc ofiba 4-valvi 2-1oculari 2-therma. jvsstu. 
Specific Charaller and Synonyms. 
CERBERA Ahoui ; oliis ovatis. Linn'. Sp. PL 8o 3. Reich . 
. 59 . 
CERBERA thovai. P'illd. . 22. 'Herr. Kew. x. 93' 
Mart. ill. 'Dill. BoA Repel. t. -o, 3x. 
THEVETIA: Hort.-C/t. 75. 
AHOUAI. hev. Antar. 66. 'ournef. Intl. 658. Raii 
676. 
AHOAI major. Piti raf. 308 ? 
Arbor americana, foliis pomi, fru&u triangulo. Bauh. Pin. 434- 
A native of Brazil and of rome of the Weft-Indian iflands, 
here it grows to a tree ten IEet high, having a crooked ftem, 
and bearing, as is laid, rome refembl'ance to our apple-tree. 
In the ft0ve it forms a handle.me ever-green illrub and pro, 
duces its flower in clufters at or near the extremities of the 
branches, and not,o as repreented in the miferable figure of 
?so, in the alze ot the leaves. This figure is however ruer 
oP,.bably.entirely imaginary aod made from the defcription 
.. - She wood when cut is faid to have ave off nfiv 
,mell, a - , . ry e e 
fu .... ?d ev.ery part of the tree bo-unds with a milky juice 
-vFuecl to be highly deleterious. 'The hard flells.[ the 
nuts 
nuts are ufed by the Indians for the fame putpole as morris. 
bells were formerly, and in rome few places ll[ill are, applied 
in this country; -a number of them, being llrung together and 
faRened on a kind of bracelet, are thus tied round their arms 
and legs, both for the fake of ornament and of found in dancing. 
Calyx divided half-way in five fegments acute and reflexed. 
Tube of corolla nearly ftraight, dilated at the upper part but 
clofed at the mouth, where it is marked with five deep fur. 
rows: Limb divided into five oval fegments, oblique or tsvilted, 
xvith undulated margins. Anthers five, on very thort filaments, 
enclofed in the upper inflated part of the tube. Style the 
length of the tube: Stigma bifid, top-fl.aped, furrounded at 
the bafe by a circle of greenifh glands, whence apparently 
dillils a honey, with. which, in the fpecimen we examined, the 
xvhole tube .was filled; it was coiourlefs, very fweet and per. 
felly. free from any naufeous or acrid talte, notwithllanding 
the poifonous quality of the.other juices of the plant. 
CzREa. ffhevetia and our tree appear to be congeners 
but GxR obferves that CEa, 34anghas ill by 
fieans unite in the fame genus. 
In natural odei-, Jussxt agrees with Lx t4mvs in aflign- 
ing it a fiation with the apocine,e (con, tort,v, Lin.) but thus fe- 
parares it in his fy'fiem lom G^ and Hl^; ith 
hich, particularly the latter, it feems to' us to have 
tlderable attqnity'in the flower and habit, though not in 
fruit. Propagated by cuttings or from imported feeds. 
"/'t fiever produces any with us. Cultivated by 'MtL/ in 
739- Ou dtawiig ,as taken at Mr, Woooa's in It 
:111 
-y 
BANKSIA ERC.FOLA. HEATH-LEAVED 
BANKSIA. 
Clafi and Order. 
TETRANDRIA VIoNoGYINX A. 
Generic Charagler. 
Jnentura fquamatum. Cot. 4-petala. Anthere in cavitate 
hmivarum feffiles. Capri bivalvis. Sero. bipartibile. L fu. 
SPecific CharaCter and Synonyms. 
BANKSIA ericaJblia  foliis approximatis aceroffs truncato- 
emarginatis glabris. Linn.. $uppl. p. iv. 7. IVilld. 
$p. Pl. I. 536. Bot. Repo. fi 156. Carart. Icon, 
vol. 6. t. 538. 
The Bankffa, a genus fo named in honour of its firft dif- 
t0verer, the Prefident of the Royal Society, in a voyage 
round the world with Captain Cooke, is very nearly allied to 
Pr0tea, and like that appears to contain a great number of 
fpecies of very various forms and fize. Our prefent plant 
forms a hand0me fnrub, thrives freely, and has flowered in 
feveral colle&ions; our drawing was taken from that of 
E. J. 3,. Woox)voRx), Efq. at Vauxhall, in April 18o2. 
The beauty of the flower conrifts very much in the length 
of the fiyle; which, from the ttigma being long retained 
ithin the anthers, is fancififily bent into a loop: when the 
e0refcence is complete, the petals expand and tkt the ftigma 
tulib. erty. The [lower is confidered by rome as monot)etalous, 
t the '  -  '  
 petals, in BANKSIA erlca,jWia at !ea{, adhere to fllghtly 
.a.!me bale only, that they can hardly be kept from feparating 
,men removed from the receptacle The germen in this te- 
 es is firrounded with brown hairs very like that of many of 
e Protege. We could not difcover any other. calyx than 
e fquama of the Amentum, in no refpeq like that defcribed 
'e Gxt. A native of New-Holland. By no means 
nder,..and may be kept in a greenhoufe with 'roteas and 
' Cape lhrubs. Propagated by feeds and by cuttings, 
SANSEVIERA SESSILIFLORAo 
SANSEVIERAo 
CHINESg 
Claf. s and Order. 
H,XAN)RA MONOOYN,o 
Generic Charatler, 
Cal. lnfera, monopetala, tubulofa, limbo fexpartito, revo2 
h'" Stare. a laciniarum bari libera. acca trilocularis; 1o- 
ct monofpermis. hunb. Nov. Gert. LIRxovg. oureir. 
$:',ux. Carart. ALgTRXS. G,ertn. 
0 Is. Plant,e.heracee, perenne$, bolijr,e. Radix cra, earnof a, 
r ,.p)erm prorepens. 8capusfimplex, medius, modo extrad51laceus. Flores 
r raovel fimpliciffme fplcatl. Folia omnla radioalia, tifaria, canal;culata, 
grMatb. amora, extima vaglna;rmla. Caifuke 1oculamenta unum aut duo 
feplusfapprimuntur. G. 
Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 
8&NSEVIERA feffliflora t foliis fubgramineis, e canaliculato- 
convolutis et. rigidis lanceolato-explicatis et 
lentefcentibus, ereCqo-refleentibus, gtabris 
nervofis; fcapo nudo, extrafoliaceo  floribus 
feffilibus, fubere6'tis, fubappreffis, in fpica 
folitariis; limbo tuburn fere fuperante, G. 
 Os, 8plea in no. flrofpedmlne olygama; fuerius malutina, atorlantitus 
liflls. tn charatIer perpetuus ? IGx. 
ovu fpicata Lour coch o, etfia$ alils Saszwz.m zey 
I 'a: in n ' ' ' ' 
 fy onymo adpofita nolIre lantee, euius itldem tonalrib anior 
turt altamen utriffue didqintla fatis quantum liteat de adea rli 
m3_'_ratlone judieare. a- 
giftbur in Ieone d51lorum alieulus iunlor tenerior  idem adultus lriplo 
sadlt procerlor.' G. -- a - 
I-Ierb foboliferous, growing in fparfe, diftant, fafcicles. 
Root thick, fiery, horizontal, creeping, Leaves about eig.ht 
Illtq IIIl[ 
in each fafcicle, bifarious, convolute, Rerile, outermoRgra. 
dually [honer; tom an upright, rigid, channelled romewhat 
petiol-like balE, they gradually flatten into a lanceolate la. 
mina, flightly channelled and keeled, with the fides more or 
lefs defle&ed; lucid, quite fmooth, nerved, inner furface 
darker coloured; the thll grown ones are nearly three times 
higher than the fcape; thofe figured in the plate had fcarcely 
attained one-third of their height; in this {tate are not 
unlike thole of the Lily of. the Valley. Scape extrafo. 
[iaceous, tiring from its peculiar bud in the runner of the root, 
together with the rachis not more than 5--6 inches high, to 
the rach