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CURTIS'S 
BOTANCU 
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Flower-Garden Difplayed: 
IN W'HICH 
The molt Ornamental Fov, v_Gs Psxs, cultivated in the 
Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and the Stove are 
accurately reprefented in their natural Colours. 
O VHICH ARE ADDED 
T .es, Clafs, Order, Generic and Specific CharaOers, according 
 e celebrated Lmus ;. their Places of Growth, 
. ' ' I  and Times of Flowering: 
,1 
 ½4 ,it A V O R K 
' In: the Ufe of fuch Lvxs, Gtrx. tu, and Gazts,,  
wi to become fcientifically acquainted with the Plants. they cultivate. 
CONTINUED BY t  
JOHN' SIMS, M.D. 
FELLOW OF THr. LNNEAN SOCIETY. 
V O L XVII. 
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ß le voir par foi-mme, celui de verifier ce qu'ont vules autres; donner fur le temoignage 
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une veritable jouiffance; au lieu que quarid je ne trouve pasce qu'il dit je fuis toujoura ½n 
inqui&ude fi ce Weft pas moi qui voit real. 
Rousszau parlant de la fynonymie. 
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Ch and Order. 
TR 1 Abl I3 R I.. MObIOGYIq IAo 
Generic Charater..--15t. ]V ,z. 549. 
Specific Charat7er and Synonyms. 
I X IA J?cunda . foliis nudis, fcapo lanugine perminuta den fiffirna 
veffito, rachide perarcuatim flexuofa, floribus 'fecundis 
tubo brevi, antheris ftigmatibus rubjells. G. 
IXIA fecunda. hun3. D/ff n. 7_- (e cujus fynonymis elimi- 
handle IxxA fi?xuofa, L. Ix^fcillaris, L. & 
cunda, De la Roche) prod. 9. Berg. fl. cap. 6. eacq. ic. 
far. 2. t. 277. coll. 4- 8o. ld/illd. $p. P1. . 97' 
(reje&o una cure fupradi&is a T. hunbergio citatis, item 
t?uonymo moutt Linn. 
IXIA pufilla. Bot. Rep. tab. 245. 
Bulb oblong, ovate, pointed, about' the fize of a pea co- 
vered with a fllell-like linooth dark brown tunic, often with 
feveral, according to the age of the plant, the one over the 
other 'imbricated downwards, far and regularly cleft from 
their bales upwards, fegments fubulate. Leaves radical two, 
cauline x2, narrow, linear-enfiform, fti.ffifi], theathing at the 
bale, ftreaked, midrib very prominent. Stem 4--8 inches 
high, finely velvetted with fiort thicklet villi; has generally 
one or two axillary branches. Flowers on the main fpike 
one-ranked, iffuing from the alteruate bends only, upright, 
fcentefo. Rachis reclined with the curvatures deeply bowed, 
alternate ones longeft, a chara&eriftic very confpicuous in in- 
digenous many-flowered lpecimens. Limb rotately-patent, 
feznts oval, acut. e, equal, flat. Filgments orter than the 
anthers, which laft are b_encath the fubrevolute ftlgmas. 
The 
The above-mentioned curvature of the joints of 'the Rachis 
probably fuggefted to Tv,nEc the poflibility of its being 
Ll,vs's IxtAflexuofa, which is however a very dftin6t 
fpecies. Found at the Cape, on' the Groene Kloof, and Roode 
Sand Hills, and'alfo in fome randy fpots in Swartland. Forms 
with IxtA ramofa (fcil.'ari, Thunb.) Ixr. birta, IxtA Ro- 
chen)qs, and.' Ixt.fetabea, a'very diftin feion in this genus, 
agreeing in bulb and general habit of the leaves and flowers. 
' Is as yet a very rare plant am ,,,ft us. Our figure was taken 
at the garden of Mr.'Alderman l-Ii G. 
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IXlA ROCltINSlS (.) 
½laJ  and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MOIqOGYNIAo 
Generic CharalIe.r.--Fid. N '' 549- 
8peritic Charat7er and Synonyms. 
IXIA Rochentis; caule føliifque nudis, fpatha fubventricofo- 
ovali faucem cum tubo a:quante, laciniis lanceolatis 
foveola melliflua bari infculptis, piftillo corollam fete 
equante. G. 
Palmaris, non ramofa, xinu flora, 'foliis fubulatis angufti- 
oribus, limbo radiatim patente. G. 
IXIA azurea. Herb. Bankf. exemplarium capenfe- 
8pithamea, ramofa multiflora, foliis linearibus, floribus 
fpicato-fecundis, rachidis flexubus arcuatis, corolla 
campanulato-patente. E fpecimine ticco. _tin lacini, e 
foveolato-iulpte, necne indeque fpecies diflin7a ? G. 
IXIA violacea. Herb. Bankf. exemplarlure capenfe. 
IXIA J?cunda de la Roche, diff. 7' Houtt. Linn. Pfl. S)fi. t. 
p. 4o. t. 78. fig. x. 
Bulbs precifely as in Ixx,Jkcunda. Leaves firm, Rreaked, 
rheathing at the bafe. Flowers upright. ' Spathe large, ftriated, 
conv61ute-oval. Anthers froall, ltgittate-ovate: filaments 
ere&, upwards {lightly patent. Piftil nearly equal to the limb: 
fiigmas recurved over the anthers. Variety (13) we have only 
ten in a dried Rate, by which we could not alkertain whether 
it poffeffed the froall he&are,ms excavation ' the bafe of each 
fegment fo remarkable in (=), and conikq ntly ar.e uncertain 
' 'her it ought to be conf_2ered as a mere variety or a 
iftin& fpecies Flowers in 1',' 
Our 
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Our drawing of this very rare and. beautiful little plant was 
taken from a fpecimen kindly communicated by R. SaLxsatsa¾, 
Efq. by whomthe bulb were received from the Cape. 
We have given a trivial name in remembrance of Dr. 
DANIEL DE La Rocx, author of a fmall tra6't, entitled, 
"Specimen ina,,rale fifi,"s dff'riptiones plantatum aliquot 
' ovarum, Lug' Bat. x766," confined to this natural order, 
of which he has defcribed many Cape fpecies with great 
nutenefs, chiefly from the herbariums of the Dutch, and has 
added five good platesof fuch as he faw flower in the gardens 
of Holland. G. 
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IxA CRISPA. CUr.D-LEAvFD IXXA. 
Cla and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Chara%r.--Fid. A. 549- 
Specific CharafTer and Synonyms. 
IXIA crifpat foliis undulato-cri/'pis, floribus reinoffs, an- 
thetis breviliimis tibdidymis extrorfum &fie¬is, flig- 
marlbus tuburn ufque dili:retis reflexo-patentibus an- 
thetis fubjec'-tis. G. 
IXIA cr,iœpa. 2;hun& Diff. n. 8. t. e. f. 8. prod. 9' Linn. 
$uppl. 9. Hort. Kew. dd. klS'lld. Sp. PL . 99' 
IXIA undulata. œurm. prod. cap. . $alifb. prod, ttvrt. 37' 
. 20. 
Bulb romewhat oblong, attenuated upwards, covered with a 
foft reticulated fibrous tunic. Leaves fix, linear, elegantly 
waved, twice fhorter than the fiere. Spathe membranous, 
fubpe!!ucid, about the length of the tube, which is very flender 
and feveral 'times Ihorter than the lhgments of the corolla, 
outer valve three-toothed, inner two-toothed. Flowers 34- 
fegments obovate, blunt, patent. Said by THUNSœaO to 
vary' with white and blue flowers. The anthers are .very 
/lightly attached to the apex of the filaments by their bales. 
Found by Tu,a at the Cape, on the Roode Sand Hills, 
and near Picketberg ' 
Introduced into Kew Gardens, 787, b 7 Mr. 
Flowers in June. Scentlefs. 
This rare and beautiful lxia, fo remarkable 'for its foliage, 
was obligingly communicated to us by R. Sa,xssu¾, Efq. G. 
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WAT$ONiAjiIIDiFOLIA, var.-13. FULGENSo 
SCARLET FL AG'LEAVED WATSONIA. 
Cla and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA; 
Generic Charater.--?id. fO:. 537 & 553- 
8pec}fic CharaCter and Synonyms. 
VqATSONIA iridifolia; corolla refrafia .'. tubo erefro fpatham 
fuperante laciniis zequali: laciniis obliquatim 
pate,tiffimis obfolete bilabiatis ovali-oblongi 
fubacutis fauci zequalibus. G. 
() cinema / foliis cinereovirentibus; corolla obfolete & tritte 
incarnata. .G. 
GLADIOLUS iridifolius. )tacq. ic. rar. w. t. .o34. ' (exclufa 
VAawAwE fpeciofa floribus rois tabulze w35 , 
clue fpecies certe difpar, nempe WAwsoNa. 
roa, Herb. Bankf.) coil. 4.  5x' tt4'lld. 8p'. 
P1, . o-x 5. depulfo GtADxotx cardinalis 
nonymo. ß 
[) fulgens foliis faturato-virentibus lucidulis, corolla fulgenter 
coccinea. G. 
ANTHOLYZA fulgens. Bot. Rep. tab. 9 . 
GLADIOLUS marginatus (,) floribus fanguineis. h'un& Diff. 
 20ø 
Bulb compreffed, generally reniform. Radical leaves 4--7, 
cnfiform, attenuated at each end, fmooth, flining, flightly 
edged, cquitant at the bale, midrib prominent, eaulinc ones 
conduplicate, gradually fhortcr. Stem 2 3 times longer than 
the leaves, fuNigneous, RriCt, round, from 3 to (5 fleet high, 
with fevcral upright branches all fpike-bcaring. Spikes 16ore, 
primary one o2o flowered, flowers fpringing firore oppofite 
fides, when fully expanded iclining tO-the fame front; colour 
bright 
bright fcarlet; fcent none. S:i3atis green below, fphacelate 
and red upwards, lhorter than the tube, which is about the 
fengit/6f the. fauc and that again of the lira.t3; fegments.ob- 
liquel,y patent or fubb'ilabiate (upIger t'gme0 .not ftretched 
horior{t'lly 'fo'ward a inr"W.-TSOX." meriana,'No: 48) 
nearly equal, oval-oblong, narrowed at their bates, fiibacute, 
alternate one. rather more to' Parts of' fruification pro- 
minent, nearly/ec/ual to the coolla, equal among themfelves. 
Anthers dark violet. The taller of the genus yet known to 
us. Blows freely toward the end of Summer, with a ficceffion 
of bloom for a month or longer. Seeds and produces .offsets 
in abundance. Requites a largit'h and very deep pot, light 
earth, and plenty of water after it has flewn the flowering 
fiere. 
A native of th Cape, and now common in molt of the 
xqurferies about town; as well as the variety (=) which, how- 
ever, is a much leg defttable plant, on account of the dullnefs 
of its colour. Var. () is known an!ong the nurferymen 
the name of As-rlO¾Z, civerea, as (/) is by that of As- 
uo'¾z.dgens} they agree with each other in every thing 
10ut in the colours of corolla and leaf. J.cout, in his 
Icones plant, ra; has nited as varietie two very diitina fpe~ 
½ies, viz. the var. (=) of the prefent l)ecies, figtired in his 
34th plate, and the WATSONIA roa, Herb. Bankf, 
zv.o's var. (0 of G^l)ous marginatus) .in his g35th plat& 
Of the lait we have never been able to procure a living fpe- 
cimen, nor have we 'traced it to any Engli colle0tion as 
.yet. Out' drawing was taken at the Ntirfery of Meffrs. 
voo) and WYxs, Kenfington. G 
VA, TSO  I A PoREVIFOLIAo 
SHORT-LEAVED 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Generic Charac7cr.--l/id. IV ø" 537 & 553' 
Specific Chara7er ant Synonyms. 
'WATSONIA revifolia; foliis humilioribus oblongiu[culis lu- 
cidis, mbo fauce limboque 1ongitudine paribus, 
latinils regulari-patentibus: intimis ladoribus, 
flaminibus refupinato-decl.inatis. G. 
GLADIOLUS caryophylleus. Houtt. Lin. Pfl. S)fl. xx. 77- 
t. 79. f3. 
GLADIOLUS marginatus, vat. . 'hunb. Diff. n. 2o ? 
.ANTHOLYZA fpicata. Bot. Rq. tab. 56. ejus Recenf. 24. 
app. 4 t. 
Bulb as ufual in the genus. Leaves A, oblong, enfiform, 
diP&h, very fhort, fmooth and fhining, mucronate, with afili- - 
form ,cartilaginous edging. Stem Rraight, blanched, from 
6 inches to a foot high. Spathe green, broad, upright, con-' 
duplicate, fiere-embracing, at the end truncately fi.tbacute, 
fphacelate, and coloured. Corolla recurved, regular, patent: 
faux narrow-turbinate. Segme.nts nearly obovate, fhortly 
pointed, inner ones almot twice the broadeR, flat, outer la- 
terally fubrevolute. Parts of fruification declined, aftur- 
gent. Segments of the 1[igmas fhort revolute, extending 
rather beyond the anthers. Corolla micaceous, glittering 
very much in the fun, its colour not to bereprefented by art. 
Flowers about May. Scentlefs. 
Imported from the Cape of Good Hope by Meffrs. L 
and Ke.xxex¾, Nurferymen, at Hammerfmith. Is Rill a rm'e 
plant, but propagates with the ufual facility of the genus. 
We have never yet feen an indigenous fpecimen .in any 
Herbarium. G. 
I-' 
GLADIOLUS ANOUSTUS. NARROW-LEAVED 
CORNFLAG. 
Claj3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charagler. mVid. A '. 538 8c 56. 
Specific Charafler and Synonyms. 
GLADIOLUS 
GLADIOLUS 
GLADIOLUS 
GLADIOLUS 
anguflus; foliis gramineis angu{tis linearibus 
unico{tatis, floribus fecundis ere&is: tubo fpa- 
tha limbo 1ongiore: laciniis fupremis latioribus 
lanceolato-ovalibus. G. 
anguflus. 8p. P1. 53- Mill. ic. 
Roy. lugb..  9' Hort. Cliff. o. tab. 6. Burro. 
prod. . Herb. Gronov. Syfl. Fe g. Murr. 86. 
Hort. Kew. x. 65. peacq. coll. 4. '54. ic. rar. 
. Gruel $yJt. Nat. 
 t 8. exclufo Thunbergii fynonymo. 
triflis, vat. p. cordatus. Corollis albo-incarnatis 
macula cordata foliis planioribus. ghunb. 
Diff. 
africanus,' folio gramineo, floribus carneis 
maculam rhomboideam purpuream infcriptis 
uno verfu pofitis. Boerh. Ind. alt. .. t27. n. 5. 
Leaves narrow, upright, fhorter than Rem, with 'a tingle 
prominent midrib. Stem flexuoœe, reclined upwards, from a 
foot to two feet high. Flowers 8m5, about four'inches long, 
1traight, narrow, funnel-formed, one-ranked, fcentlefs. Upper 
fegments broader, middle one broadeR, lower ones rather 
narrower; all flat and romewhat patent. Cultivated by ML- 
ß a in x757. A native of the Cape, and feems to have been 
one of the firR denizens of Europe in this family. Has been 
confounded with the GL.DOLUS augttflus of THrOqsV.G. Is 
clofely allied to a fpecies that we have never y'et met with in 
any colleion, though cultivated by MiLLEr., viz. the G.- 
Dxoros involutus of Ds L. Rocxes, ahd figured by MxLLsx, 
tab. 3 6. fig. .probably no longer exilting in this country. 
The fpecimen from. vhich our drawitg was taken flowered in 
unufual perfeEtion at Meffrs. Gv.xwoon and WxcEs, Ken- 
tington, in the month of June. Propagates with the greatef 
facility both by feed and offsets, and s one of the commoneR, 
though reidore feen to flower fo perfeEtly as the prefent fpecimcn, 
except from recently imported bulbs. G. 
POTHOS CANNAFOLIA- 
POTHOS. 
Clafs and Order. 
TITRANDRIA MONOOYNIA (GYNANDRIAo 
] 
SWEET-SCENTED 
Generic Charac7er. 
$padix fimplex re&us. Cal. o. 
L.) 
œetala 4' œacca 
$palha.. 
difperma. 
Specific Charac7er and Synodfires. 
POTHOS cann,ejlia; foliis ellipticis venofis: venis fimplici- 
bus parallelJs. Dryander 
POTHOS odorata. Anderfon. 
A nativ of the Weft-India Iflands, and con{'equently 
with us an inhabitant of the ffovi:, where it is an ornament 
worthy of culture, its foliage being of a lively green and 
its flowers diffufing an agreeable odour, efpecially in the 
evening, a property very contrary to that of many of the tribe: 
it has the additional recommendation of taking np but little 
room. The'fpathe, which is at flrl[ white' on the inner fur- 
face, but changes to green after the flowers decay, adds much 
to the beauty of the flower. 
The excellent fpeciflc chara&er by Dr. DRYAnR, 
flaort as it is, fully diffinguifhes it from every known fpecies 
of Pothos: indeed the name itfelf will at all times de- 
note the plant, -on which account we have adopted it in pre- 
ference to that of odorata, under which it was fent by Mr. 
Ax.nR Ausora, fiperintendant of the Botanic Gar- 
den at the Ifland of St. Vincent's, to Mr. WooFost, at 
Vauxhall, at whofe colle&ion it flowered in great perle&ion 
laft June, when our drawing was taken. 
Introduced into the Royal Garden at Kew, by the fame 
gentleman, in the year 789, and a fpecimen which flowered 
there in the month of April 79o, is preferred in the Bankfian 
Herbarium. 
Seems to thrive belt when plunged into the .bark pit, and 
apparently may: be increared by offsets from the root. 
Generic Cl3arag!er. 
'MA Cal. (fepius)o: Cot. X':-petalt' 3nundibulif0mi/; 
$ti:ra; x'o. aterna breviora. " 
F.m .CAL. ('fapius) o. Cor. 5'-petal patens. 
cap g.-l:ocularis, 
$ecific Calraler and' $ynonyni.s, 
JATROPHA pandur, ejlia; foliis fimphcbus pandiarml%rm- 
bus acuminatis bari fpinulofo-dentatis, fru&ibus 
cernuis fubrotundis. 
JLA-'T R 0 PIIA impef. ialis  Pt rop-olitana.:, 
Both the male and female flowers are furiflaed'with a calyx, 
ß ,vhich in the latter is divided to the bale and perfiftent; in the 
male the lacinie are thorter and divided only half vay. In both 
the corolla appears to be pentapetalous, but more decidedly fo 
in the female flower; in the male the calyx adheres fo clofely 
to the corolla as to refiR its reparation and render it difficult to 
decide whether it be monopetalous or polypetalous. The 
flowers grow in an umbellated dichotomous panicle on long 
terminal peduncles. The pedicle in the centre of the dicho- 
tomy always bears a female flower, the fide branches all male. 
The latter are of courfe much the moR numerous. The female 
flowers are firIt expanded and of thort duration; fo that. 
at firR.thefe appear to be all female and afterwards all male, 
both rexes feldom appearing at the'fame time. The fecunda- 
tion of the germen muR therefore depend upon its receiving 
the pollen from other plants,. or at lear from the flowers 
of different branches, and not from thofe nearer it. Flowers 
and fruit exiR frequently at the fame time, the former ere&, 
the 
Rlt I111J[l'l 
the latter cernuous. Seedveffel nearly round, fmooth, three- 
celled, with one oblong large feed in-each cell. Leaves apt to 
vary in, form, bus: in general broader ,towards the point,. which 
is acuminate, contra&ed in. the middl.e, and rounded at the 
bafe , where it is beret' Witl'/a f une/lual fubfpinefcent teeth, 
apt in luxuriant growth to become auriculated proceffes, as in 
our figure: the margin'is refle&ed. The beautiful coloured 
¾ariegation of the under furface is not conRant, difappearing 
if the air has not free accefs to it. .The whole plant abounds 
vfith a femipellucid milky fluid. 
It is a very ornamental/hrub, flowering through the greater 
part of the year, and appears not to be tender, fucceeding 
heR, according to Mr. Ft,sv.t, with very-little artificial heat. 
Is a tft grower, and eafily propagated by laying down the 
banc. hes, Introduced by Mr. J FR,sER, Nnrfcryman, 
S!oane-Square, who 'brought it from the Ifiand of Cuba, on 
his return from Ii3 laR voyage to North-Ame'rica. 
]tc0x defcribe two fpecies of Jatropha, which appear 
to 'have confidetable affinity with this, both with fcarlet flowers, 
his baflata and integerrima, the firR of which he faw in the 
gardens at St. Doming0i -gut Of EaR-Indian oi:igin, the other 
in the gardens at the Havannah. 
 This form of leaf LIN.NVS has called panduvvrme, and the ten 
having been defined, is well underftood by BotaniSts, and may therefore be 
retained, notwithftanding the Pandura of the ancients appears to. have been 
wind-inftrument bearing no refembl,ance to the modern violin, 
ARISTEA CAPITATAo TAœLEST:'ARISTE:/[i, 
Cla aM Order. 
Ri, ANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charalter. 
Jeer. reguiiris-'.hexapetaloideo-6-partita rotata. Stare. diver- 
ntia 'Stylus declinatus 'Stigma fimplex inœundibuliœorme 
!Lan. s ore fubntegro *el 'tnfido, Capf. oblofiga trigone prif- 
,auca angulis compreffis œaeiebus concavis. Sero. quolibet 
1oculo plura lateraliter co,.mpreffa. G, 
ß ,'OBs' Radix fibroœa.' Folia perennia enfata vel graminea diEicho 
tlergentia plurima, nevvo hullo prmcipuo, (œemperne .) bari equitantia 
Caulis centralis annuus fepius ramofus Flores fafcic{lati pdicellat[; 
ß fingull braetea fpathacea diineti, farces fmpe pedunculati iidemclue 
aut fimplice pauciflori ab involucro fpathaceo herbaceo conduplicatim 
colleeti, aut capitati (fubinde etiam compofito-capitati) multiflori iri- 
volucris et involucellis membranaceis fcariofis laxius cineti. Corolla 
el-narcida in columellam perfittehtem fpiraUter contorta. Stamina ad 
fcendentia vel aff. urgentia.. Semia fapius contabu truncata. Genus 
n vivo parcius recognitum hinc caraeter effentialis vix in toto definite 
'.;abiliendus.- Huc tuto tamen convocentur Axsx. cyanea, 8oland, 3t 
Bot. Mag. Mo fpiraiis, Thunb. et Bt. Mag. Mo. melalcuca 
'e' MOR.. . ufilla f/nb . G. 
' 8pecc Charagter and Synonyms. 
ARISTEA capita,ta  'Toliis rigidiufculis multittriatuli, 
caule fubalato-tereti 1tri0to, floribus fafciculato- &t 
compofito-capitatis :. capitulis multifloris fpicatim 
difpofitis, fpathis integris acutis. G. 
MORAGA cerulea. hunb. Diff. n. 5' ta& . f. . prod. 
 . kk'illd. Sp. P1. . v. 43. 
GLADIOLUS capitatus. $p. PL Holm. 37- Sp. P1. 58- Burro. 
prod. fl. cap. v.. Murr. $3fl. Feœ. 86. Gruel, $. N. 
 . Houtt. Linn. Pfl. 8yfl.  . p. 
IXIA thyrfiflora caule polyltachio, ticis alternis cauli ap- 
proximatis: germinibus in fpathis pedunculatis. De la 
Roche Diff. p. o. (Synonymum haenus IxL ereee 
male adfcriptum.) Burm. prod..fl. cap. x. Houtt. Linn. 
Pfl' $Yfl' . 89. 
ARISTEA major. 23ot. Rep. tab. 6o. 
A genus 
A genus founded by Dr. gots)t, in the Hortus Kew- 
enfis, on the, only .fpecies .then cultivated amongt us, ¾iz. 
A x sx , cyimea. 
The prefent fpecies is' large and ornamental, with a ftem from 
two to four feet high, nearly twice the length b' the leaves, 
round, romewhat winged by' the alternate alecurrent cauline 
leaves, upright, fublignefcent. Leaves linear, enfiform, 
fdffifh, finely ftdd without any yrominent riblike nerve, 
polifhed, dark green. Spathes and involucres membranous, 
fcariofe, acute. Segments of the corolla obovate, equal. 
Produces abundance of feed, of which there are two or three 
in eaCla cell, and' by which it s eafily p'ropagat'e.d, as alfo 
the offsets or fuckers wliich it throws up, but hot in 
abundance. Is now pretty common in our..gat/lens. A great 
number of very fine plants werd railed two years ago at.'.the 
Botanic Garden at Brompton}r0m Cape' feeds. 
Found by Tx-uq, r on the hills. between Hauteniqmt's- 
Land and Langekloof, as h'_heie"(but not plentifully) round 
Ctpe Tovn, fio,.ring in our autumnal months. 
Two fpecies of this genus have already been figuged in this 
work, viz. cyanea and fpirt. lis, the latter under .the generic 
name of Mov..; but its fpecies, as well as thofe of D   ^¾' ', 
Wcqnogvx-, and Mot, are far h'om being. f? 
common in our gardens as thofe o{ Ix.% Gz.$voius, 
WtTsot^, Ta'ro .. SvA^xIs, and BABI/lqA, though 
'of equally eafy culture, and of at lear equal' if not fuperi0r 
bettuty; we have never yet been able to find the lear traces of 
W,xsqx^, their clofe ally, having been introduced into any 
]guropean garden, although Cape tecimens of three or four 
of its fpecies are not litangers to ou/' herbariums. Our figure 
was taken at the nurfery of Meffrs. Gtlxvoov and Wx.s, 
Kenfington, vith whom it was raifed from Cape feeds received 
rome years back. F1 ers in AuguR. Scentlefs. G. 
r.¾uOSIA JO'NC:F.A, CUT-LS,Vr-n 
Clafi and order. 
'To., qnax, MooGyNIA- 
Gene ,? Chara ter.--?id. -N' - 595. 
Spe4fi CharYalter and Synonyms. 
.!,akPEYPOU,SIA'juncea, tliis mferne intus excifis: exte- 
rioribus Oblongo-ovatis: interioribus acu 
rainotis, fpatha .brevima, laciniis tubo 
parton brevioribus fubirregularibus, copy 
.ula tuberculato-fcabra. ' 
LADIOLUS junthus. hunb. D n. 8. Lin'n. 8uppL 94- 
 VepUlr. 86. Gmel.:8)fl. Nat 
IXIA c var. prmr.  Supl. 9 
o 7. (excluto Thunbergii fynonimo.) Pgri 
prior obfervationis huc; fecunda v6ro ad 
Ixta excam Bot. iag. 584 refert. 
IXIA fpicat a. ' Burro. F;or. Cap. prod. ? 
GLADIOLUS areabills. 8alb. pmd.'l-Iort. 4. 
GLADIOLUS poflachius. Bot. Rep. 66. ejus Rece Ixa 
Os. Fi us gemris gem'ina fpec;s  G. 
Bulb ovate, largifh: tunic fibrous, loft. Leaves iffue oblique- 
ly from the earth, continue nearly horizontal while young, and 
afterwards becoxre more upright, in number 4--8, half the length 
of the Item, fmooth, fo.netimes flighty undulate, with a deep 
clear excifion on their inner fide nearly to the midrib and for 
h,f the:r length or farther: inner ones lanceolate-enfiform, 
lg y narrower, nerves not prominent. Stem from three 
two feet high: branches 8--4, patent, round like 
the ttern, often rubdivided with leafy braPes at their bar 
Flowers zt-- 9, hypocrateriform, upright. Spathes very 
outer. valve ovate, blunt, convolute, brownlib livid greed 
tube find faux narrow:turbinate, feveral times longer than t 
fpathe and romewhat exceeding the limb; the legmerits of whi. 
are rather irregularly difpofed and cuneate-fpatulate. Anth 
above the mouth of the faux, rubparallel, accumbent, nea, 
the length of the tfigmas. Caprule ovate-round, rough 
fmall thicklet glandular protuberances. Seeds like thole 
mufiard. 
This was the plant we had in view when, in the article 
IxxAfcillaris, we laid the leaves of that fpecies refembl 
thole of Ixxt exciz. TxtNeaG defcribes the flowers 
caerulefcent, LxNts the younger as violet-colou. red, b0 
which appearances they affume in a dried fate, the more 
panded flowers inclining to violet, the lefs expanded ones 
blue; the latter feems to have ranked fpecimens of the fa.m 
fpecies under two very diftin ones, and to have made thk' 
variety of Ixx., excifa as well as a different fpecies under t 
name of GtnOlUS junceus. 
Found by TvNaG at the Cape of Good Hope, 
LangeklooL Propagates abundantly both by feed and offset 
continues long in bloom. Scentlefs. Flowers in May. 
now very common. 
Our drawing was made from a plant in the greenhoufe 
Mefl¾s. Gaxxvoo and Wxxces, at Kenfington, who he 
been long in poffeffion of it, having received it by the way 
Holland. 
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IXIA MONADELPHA. 
607 -i 
I[ONADELPHOUS Ixa. 
Clafs and Order. 
TIA )IXA Moo¾'XA. 
Generic ½harat7er.--lq'd. N ' 549' 
Specific Charagler and Synonyms. 
IXIA mona&tpha; fpatha brevi, tubo ftri&iufculo, laciniis 
lanceolato-ovalibus radiatim patentibus, filamento cu- 
niculato-trigono antheras fere a:quante. G. 
IXIA nonadelpha. De la Roche defer. pl. nov. xo. p. . Houtt. 
Linn. Pfi. S)fl. 1 x. 43- 
IXIA'columnaris. 8alifb, prod. Hort. 36. Bot. Rep. tab. o3, 
lt, 3, 50' 
Bulb flattifh. Stem from eight inches to a foot, rometimes 
branched. Leaves 34 generally fpirally rolled or cirinate on 
their firPt emerfion and lbr fome time afterwards, narrow, grafs- 
like. Flowers 5--xo, of a firm fubftance, varying in colour 
from blueifl purple to purple, yellow, &c. often variegated, and 
generally having a large eound flain at the bale more or lefs 
obfolete and of various tints. Stigmas recurved, never above 
the anthers, Scentlefs, Nearly allied to Ix maculata. 
Flowers in April. 
Our figure was taken at the nurfery of Meffrs. GaxMWOO 
nd W¾};.s, who rece. ived the roots from Holland, G. 
E 6oS ] 
WATS0NIA 
WATSON I Ao 
LONG-SPIKED 
Cla and Order. 
TRIANRIA IoN OCYNIA, 
eerfc Charaenid. 
Specific Chardtier and Synonyms. 
i'WATSONIA marginata  foliis margine craffa, fpica ex acL 
preffis fpiculis confluenter continuis elongata, 
limbo regulari, fauce brevi intus fexdefitata, 
fiaminibus erec"'tis trifariam fpetCtantibus. G. 
.C-LADIOLUS marginatus. hunb. Diff. o. vat. (). prod. 8. 
Supif/. 95. Sift. Fef. Mutt. 86. I4/illd. Sp. PA 
2. '7' (exclufo AT,. caryophylle,e fyn.} 
Mart. Mill. Dit7. 
IXIA margœnata. Hort. Kew. 2. 59. Mart. Mill. DieT. 
GLADIOLUS. Herb. Herman. 4. fol. 35- Specimen a Linna:o 
fubfcriptum. 
Bulb cqmpreffed, fubreniform. Leaves lanceolate, fubco- 
riaceous, nerved, far/hotter than the fem, edged with a very 
thick broxvni/h cartilage. Stem 'round, fri&, wood at t 
bale, gracilefcent u,waa'., _a___m_, ..... Y he 
g. t- .  ..  suo, auprcneflly polyffacnlous. 
 ,n,gn. _plke lengthened by the-aOrgedl co 
ß plxelets. 1owers numerous olr r. :n: ,, . . .uent 
s taus so% UlltlCflly lUOlmorlcate, 
diffufing a kernell froell romething refembling that of 
aøeIuperuviamtm. Spathes green at the bale, fphacelate 
Upwards. Corolla falver-aped, nodding: tube recurveal: 
faux twice orter than the tube, cyathiform-turbiate, armed 
with fix lamellous appendides on the bride alternating with 
he Ramens. Segments elliptic: interior ones fomewhat 
broade. Filaments femicolumnar upright anthers fagittate, 
yello% furrounding the Ryle (not parallel). 
TuNszo enumerates four varieties, diltinguifling them 
by their colours only; (,,) white, (/3) pale red, (,) blood- 
coloured,. () purple. there we deem to be the following dilin& 
œpecies. viz. ( our prefent plant, (/3) W(xsoN'^ brevifolia, 
(,) WxsoN'iridifolia, 13. (g) W^soe^ rofea. He adds, 
that he found them at the Cape of Good Hope, on the rummits 
of the Table. and other high mountains, and.. ov hills below 
the mountai from C6pe T6wn to Houtemqua s-Lan , grow- 
ing among the grafs in fuch abundance that whole hills appeared 
as if covered with a beautiful fcarlet carpet. 
Introduced into Kew Garden, by Mr..M^ssoN in 774' 
A lure blower about July or' Augut2, rehluiring a very deep 
pot. Propagates rapidly by feeds and offsets, and is now one 
of the com. monet of its tribe; known .among-'th½nurfery men 
under the name oœ Ix^ fceptrum. Owing to the intimate 
union of the fpikelets with the. main fpike it: appears as if it 
began to flower at the middle; but, on examination, ill be 
found to begin at the bale oF the primary.fpike as is ufua 
ith' .it congeners. G. 
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TRITONIA MINIATA. LATE-FLOWERINO 
TRITONIA. 
Clafs an Order. 
TRYANDReA MONOYNA. 
Generic Charer . 
Spalha bivalvis fcariofa. Corollm bails tubulofi: faux tm- 
binata: limbus fexpartJtus: lacinim unguiculat. Siam. inclL 
nata (nunquam erc[a) filamcnta curva. Stim. 3, rccurvo 
patentia. Cap oato rotunda. Sero. numcrofa goboa. 
Oss. ide N. 
Specc Charaer a.d Yy. onyms. 
TRITONIA miniata; caule patenterpolyflachio, foliis !onge 
acuminatis, fpatha tubo mquali, limbo rcgulari 
deorfum opaco: lacinia nulla gibba, {[amiuibus 
pifiillo paribus. G. 
IXIA miniata. JacT. ]orl. Schoenb. v. 1. p, lo. tab. 4. 
Leaves fix, enfiform, far acuininate, nerved, fibfalcate, up- 
right. Stem from a foot to a foot and half high, 5--6 branched 
and even branchletted, elaRic, upright. Spathe lk:ariolh, blunt, 
flriated, the length of the tube. Flowers micaceous Scentlefs. 
Limb regular, equal, funnel-formed, patent, longer than the 
fatIx and tube together. Segments obovate, rounded, not 
hyaline at their bales, nor any of them gibbous. Parts of 
fru&ification declined, afturgent. Pi[til equal to the ftamens, 
twice fhorter than the limb. The molt robuR and tall of its 
family yet known to us. Flowers in Augufi. The feverfed 
pofition of the organs of fru&ification in this tribe always'pre- 
fuppofes that of the corolla, and is perhaps generally the con- 
fequence of the reclined pofition of the rachis, which changes 
the dire&ion of the flower, in relation to the fun, from that 
which it would have had if it had remained tipright, as this 
inverfion is generally obferved in thole that have fuch reclined 
or bent rachis, and feldom or ever in thole that have the fame 
upright; we have feen it take place in fome fpecimens of 
Gxous where the rachis has been reclined, and not in 
others of the fame fpecies where this was not fo; but in 
W^:rsox^ brevifolia, where the rachis is quite upright this 
inverfion does neverthelefs take place. G. 
 Ad N, 58 lin. 6. pof corollw adele bails tubulofa. 
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GLADIOLUS FLORIBUNDUS. LARGE- 
FLOWERED CORN-FLAG. 
Claj3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charat7er.--14'd. 2v 'ø" 538 & 562. 
Specc Chara7er and Synonyms. 
GLADIOLUS floribundus folio extimo falcato 1ongiore, florio 
bus ereis: tubo fpatham mquante:. limbo 
turbinato-campanulato: laciniis conFormibus 
parurn inmqualibus planis fumma majore. G. 
GLADIOLUS Jor3undus. acq. ic. rat. 2. t. 54' roll. 4,' 
 69.. I4Zilld. Sp. œ1. . v. 9' 
GLADIOLUS grandiflorus. Bet. Rep.. tab.  8. ejus Recenf. 
G [ A m O [ U S .floribundus. 
Os. Hujus et aliarum generis fpecierum corolla lacinia de priRinis 
!anceolatis,- dum in horto diutius colantur, lineari-oblongte et mucro- 
nulato-retufie evadunt lateribus furfum luxuriofe dilatatis api.ce immu- 
taro. G. 
Bulb ovate, as big as a pigeoh's egg. Leaves enfiform, 
firongly and many nerved, ftifiilh, outer one broadeft, longeR, 
and generally ffi'bfalcate, with a fiEform cartilaginous edge 
nearly the length of the Item, the reft upright. Stem about 
a foot high, flexuofe, flower-bearing nearly t¾om its bale, 
whence JAcquxs's name. Flowers 4,6, upright, large. 
Spathes about two inches long, equal to the tube which i 
ftraight. Stamens fcarcelylonger than the faux. Anthers dark 
violet. Stigmas romewhat higher. The fegments vary from 
dirty white, with a broad livid-purple longitudinal fillet, to 
bright fielh colour with a broad lively red fillet. Flowers in 
May. Seenfiefs. A free blower, very ornamental, and pro- 
pagates with eafe from both feed and offsets. 
)ur drawing was taken at the nurfery of Meffrs. Grxy.- 
Woo and Wxc-s, Kenfington. G. 
....... nidnl 
F 
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EPIDENDRUM ]LONGATUMo LONG-STALKED 
EPIDENDRUM. 
ClaJ5 and Order. 
GYNANDRIA .DIAN DRI A. 
Generic C. bara7er. 
]ge7arium turbinatum obliquum reflexurn. 
Specific C. baraFler and Synonyms. 
F. PIDENDRUM elonœatum; caule ereao fuperne nudo, o- 
liis oblongis acutis, fioribus fpicatis, he&a- 
rio tripartito expan[o ferrato ereEto. 
F. PIDENDRUM elong'atum. yacq. ic. far. 3' t. 6o 4. colleL 
vol. 3' P- ,:,..60. 
EPIDENDRUM fecundurn. Herb. Bankf. 
As the EvXDZNDRUfecundum of J^qQUXN has not yet been 
feen by us, we cannot clear up the diculties which have 
hitherto attended this fpecies. We are however inclined to 
regard the Ev x D z N  R U  elongatum and fecundurn of J A c Q u  N, 
and thefufcatum of Sm'rx, as three dillinEt fpecies. Our plant 
is undoubtedly the firft of there; differing in no refpe& from 
J^cuxN's figure, except in the colour oF the flower, which 
with him is more refembling red-lead. The flowers are not 
fecund, the leaves not emarginate nor of a dark purple red as 
in y9cundum; and the feerated neEtarium feems fufficient to 
diltinguiPn it from both the other fpecies. IF the EvxzNtaut 
Jktundum defcribed by Sox^ta be not different from either, 
we fufpe& that: it belongs to this, as does undoubtedly the fpe- 
cime. n fo named in the Bankfian Herbarium. 
Our drawing was taken at E. I. A. WoonvoaD's, Efq- 
Vauxhall, in May laft, from which time it continued in flower 
during nearly the whole of the Summer. Native of the Weft- 
Indies. Requires the fame treatment as the reft of the genus, 
1 
ERXCA METULAFLORA. NINE-PIN HEATH, 
ClaJ;' and Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Chara7er. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cot. 4-fide. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. 
.4nther,e bifide. Caœf. 4-1oculares. 
Specific Chara7er. 
ERICA metuleflora; antheris muticis incluffs, corollis rub. 
ventricofo-cylindricis, nudis, foliis quinis decemfariis 
fubulatis ciliato-fpinulofis, floribus umbellatis termi. 
nalibus 
The fpecimen from which our drawing was taken was about 
two feet high, Branches few, ftric'-t. Leaves many, thick fet, 
quinate, alternating in each whorl with thofe above and be- 
low, and thus ftanding in ten tolerable even rows when viewed 
from above downwards; they are fucculent, fubulate, mucro- hate, fulcate underneath, ciliated at the edges with lhort very 
{tiff rubpungent hairs, lhort, very patent, longer in the midddle 
of the branch than at either end. Petioles very lhort, adpreffed._ 
Peduncles terminal, umbellate, fubereEt, with two coloured 
braaes near the calyx and one green below the middle. Ca- 
lyx ovate-acuminate, hairy, five times lhorter than corolla, 
Cor611a fmooth, minutely ftriated, cylindrical but fomewhat 
tvelling.in the middle. Faux gaping. Segm.ents of the limb 
roundlib, very entire, patent. Anthers enclofed, bifid, divari- 
cate: bale rounded, fpurlefs, Germen turbinate, hairy. Stigma 
fubglobofe, enclofed. 
It is related to ERICA cerinthoides of LXNNIJs (crinih'a 
of St, LISUR¾) but differs in many effential points, particular 
in that the umbels are not nodding, the corolla not hairy nor 
vifcous, the leaves lhorter, more fucculent, and much more 
lhortly haired. ' ' ' 
For this very handrome Erica, which we con{taler as entirely 
ew, We are indebted to Mr. B^Ra, Nurferyman at -Ball's- 
Pond, Iflington, by whom we are informed that it was firft, 
railed from Cape feeds, by Mr. Rt, WLINSON, of Tooting. 
Flowers in July. Requires the fame treatment as molt: part 
of the genus. '" - 
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MOR2A EDULIS. LONG-LEAVED MOR2gA. 
Clafs and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Ge,,eric Charaler.--Fid. N '' 593; ubi" 
praefigatur" 
Specific Charaler and Synonyms. 
MORJEA edulis; (imberbis) involucris herbaceis, t'olio 1on- 
giffimo, corollte iaminis fubconformibus: extimis 
dupio majoribus obovato-oblongis, ftigmatibu. s 
affurgentibus incurvo~convergentibus, filamentis 
deorfum connatis. G. 
IRIS edulis. Linn. Suppl. 93' ff'hunb. D. n. 88. vat. 
l/Filld. Sp. PL x. v. 39' 
MORJEA vefeta.. yacq. ic. far. v.. tab. v.4 ? quoad plan. ta 
majoris fragmen; planta integra enim ob n- 
volucra fcariofo_membranacea diRantia fpecies 
potius diPtinfta. Synonyma tam Milleri et Linnei 
quam Linntei ill. et Thunbergii apud Coll. vol. 4`. 
p. 4 o in his fpeciebus citata, utrifque proflus 
aliena etiamque inter fe difcordia; ira Milleri et 
Linntei ad Mo V.A (Igr) trem n. 577 re- 
trenda. G. 
IORASA Dga... ]acq. Hort. Findob. tab. eo. p. 4- (exclufis 
ß de la Roche et Van Hazen) Mutt. Sgfl. Feg. 93- 
IRIS pe,fis corolli' imberbibus foliis linearibus longitlimis. 
Brm. pt. fl. cap. ,2. 
IRIS long(œolia. $chneev. et Geuns ic. far. t. 
b,. r. 6. xo 5. BoA Rep. t. 4,5. ejus Recenf._ Ivs 
eduLs. 
cal: 'otnd,'fiaeathed by the lo,ver leaf, whic  is --o times 
:ngth, fometimc attaining, ,:cording to ScnN  voeu:r, 
length of five feet, from its Ia.Ce tb where the above leaf 
*pens from half an inch to a foot or more in height, but 
beyond 
beyond the finus formed. by the leaf always {hort and fo con. 
traed that, from the nearne[i of the terminal and cauline 
ipvolucres, the pealuncles or branches form one compound 
fafificle; upper leaf oppofite, fhort. Involucres herbaceous,. 
Jtif; upwards fphacelate ,and awnedly gracilefcent. Flowers 
delighdh!ly fragrant, varying exceedingly in fize and in colour 
from a lilac to a deep blue, open in fuccettion, ald laft about 
fix hours each. Ungues upright. Filaments nearly the length 
of the ungues, about as long as the anthers, not cormate the 
xvho!e way. Stigmas about the length of the inner fegments. 
C pfule mgonal-columnar, flender, about an inch or more 
']ong, different from Mo^ lrifiis, which has an ovate-oblong 
/hort and very thick caplhle with larger [eds. The attending 
to the form and proportion of the cap[hles will be peculiarly 
ufctl in the fpecific diftincCtions of this genus. An old denizen 
of the Dutch gardens. Found at the Cape of Good Hope by 
T,t''igo growing in fandy places in Groenekloof, Swart- 
land, and very abundantly in the low lands about Cape-Town 
and'the Duyveltberg. The fpecimen from which our drawing 
was taken was fen.t us in 9xuguff lair by Mr. Lonnzs, 
Nurferyman at Hackney, who imported it from .the Cape. 
We have always fufpEted the two varieties of the fpecies of 
Mom,x figured in the .o. 38th plate f Mxtxwr's Icones 
(and which are the original urces of L :ns's Mo 
ß w'eta) to be no other than the Mor a. 'It is) tris n. 57I 
of this work; tut we did not venture to ite them on account 
of the omiffion of all mention of thc pubefcent item; which, 
owing to its exceeding minutenell, might eafily have efcaped the 
t, raughtfnian of tiach figures as thofe, bu ß was certainly lefs 
likely to have been omitted by M in the defcription; 
yet we can trace in no colleion or herarinm any fpecies agree- 
ng with the other parts of the figures and defcriptions that has 
a fi-uooth flem; while Mot 'ris does precifely fi agree 
in  very thin- eife, eledally in the peculiar form of the cap- 
flit abo.  notced. Howe'-r this may be, Mo,r x Iriopela/a 
of I'.. r4. ill. (Is phsmaria of Tntsac.) always quoted as 
a fyno,iym to Mox ^ vegeta, is a very dirtinEt fpecies, with the 
larger Ig,n.e,ts bear0ed and the figmas fetaceoufly multifid.' 
The Mo,^ juncea of M_x has yellow flowers and 
fubulate leaves. The Mo,za veg'eta' of M_xzr's eighth 
edition' of'his DiEtionary,-figured in-his v. 39th plate, is the 
Moa^ iridiidesofLss.,zusand Tn:ag, and of courfe 
quite ditlin from their Mo.  vcgeta, though he qubtes 
L  v..ns'a fpecies as a fyonym to his. This bhmder accounts 
for the Mo a' iridioides eing fo frequently prefer,ed unde:r 
the name of.v ' in the different c..ll'eftions and saurferies of 
-England. Mzz's fpecime n is in the Bankfian Herbarium. i5. 
WACHENDORFIA HIRSUT4o 
WACHENDORFIAo 
HAIRY 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charc7er. 
Spatha o. Cot. infera, hexapetaloideo-6-partita, irregularis, 
rotata. Stare. affurgenter-declinata, divergentia. Stylus latera- 
liter obliquahs. Stigma timplex. Capf acute triquetra, velata. 
$e.;. compreffa paleis lentis veftita, in quolibet 1oculo unum. G. 
Oss. Radix in WACHENI)ORFIA thyrfiflora rhlzoma camorum 
b, bic.ps terra fubequatum fibrls c-rafflufculis coccineis; in reliquis 
,, ro.-ns re] Cubrepens, bulbi folido-carnofi nudi lavlgati' an- 
flave{c'ntes, tucco mut fo fcatente. Folia palmoidea plicata 
intYa petioloideo-contra&a conduplicata; illius perennia, 
...m.. CauUs ere&us te :s ca us pubefcens paniculato~ramofus 
.cm.oo-multifloms tb]iolis vagis fDhacelatis diffito-fquamatus. Corolla 
ß  up,nat:e ? lacina fuprema bari canalibus binis brevibus mellifluis 
bi 'ata; eadm lacinia vicaria, flore claufo, reliquas panes are 
%ovit. Stylus fetaceo-perfiPrens. Stigma ex Smith ad lentem deprffo- 
Capfula fupera fubturbinato-rotunda hirfuta corolla exarida 
"b"oata. Semina deorfum attenuata imis loculamentis affixa. G. 
Specific Chara7er and.Synonyms. 
WACHENDORFIA hirfuta; foliis annuis plicatis viilofts; 
ramis 'dNaricato-patentibus, laciniis 
ovali-lanceolatis: fuprema exclufa ob2 
1onga obtufa: 3 inferioribus fubma- 
joribus divergentioribus. G. " 
WACHENDORFIA hir. futa. Thunb. prod. . lilld. SI?. 
œ1. . e49' (exclufis Breynii et Rud- 
beckii fynonymis, W^cqov. 
revitblie MSS. Soland. fubjiciendis. J 
WACHENDORFIA paniculata. Burro. monogr. 4. f. . 
iVov. `4c7..4. N. C. obf. 5' t. . f. o. 
the feleOion of the effentiat charae2erittics above enu- 
m,.r,tcd, ''e have been guided by the following fpecie$ only, 
viz. 
viz. WACrXZXORFXA thyrfiflora, Thunb. WACI-IENI)ORFI.{ 
paniculata, Thunb. W.cxovxA hirta, Thunb. 
crxNzotv.x. brevifo..lia, Soland. MSS; the 
tenella-and graminea'of the former author being entirely un- 
known to us except from the {hort and vague fpecific charac. 
ters in his Prodromus. Our prefent fpecies feems chiefly to 
differ from paniculata in having hairy leaves, a more graci- 
lefcent and taller fem, which i alfo reddifh brown and not 
green as in that, its branches more divaricate, the two upper 
lateral fegments of its corolla more contig$ous, and its flowers 
when clofed form'a flenderer and more compa& column; we 
might add, that the incumbent anthers are {horter and rounder, 
but as this difference efcaped us in the living- plant and was 
obferved only in the drawings it is lefs to be depended on. 
Root leaves oblong lanceolate' 84 about 34 inches high. 
Stem about three times their length. Segments traverfed lon- 
gitudinally on the outfide by a brown hairy fillet, outer upper 
one wholly brown and pubefcent outwards. Flowers, quite 
fcentlefs, open in fucceflion, clofe towards evening; expand 
in the month of July. We have never ob{rved the fix 
Ramens mentioned by rome authbrs and figured in one fpecies 
by Bt¾sts, nor the rudiments of any more than the ufual 
three. The genus is remarkable in this natural order for its 
inferior corolla, and is perhaps one of its conne&ing links to 
the hexandrous liliaceous plants; in the habit of its leaves it 
approaches BABIANA, in that of de flower and cap{hie it 
comes nearer to CYaNtnna. IfBtta^N'S figure is atten- 
tively examined, it will be found to come nearer to this than 
paniculata; the lower leaves not being {en nor defcribed it 
is impoflible to be fo certain as we could &fire; the plant was 
only known to Btax^x by a drawing taken at the Cape, 
from which his engraving vas made. Introduced amongft ns 
by Mr. Wx,.,4...s, Nurlryman at Turnham-Green, who 
received the bulbs three or four years back from the Cape. 
Requires the fame treatment as- I x x. and other Cape 
"E L--qPII2E R ULA GRAMIN. EAo GRASS- 
LEAVED MELASPHmRULA. 
Clafs and Order. 
Tvi kNDRIrx MONOGY'IAo 
Generic CharaF/er. 
Spatiaa bivalvis. C3r. hexapetaloideo-fexpartita bilabiato- 
campanulata lacinia fingula feta prepilatae. 8tam. adfcenden., 
,a. $1igm 8, recurvo-patentia. 6œhtld obovata trilobato, 
mgona. Sero. globofa in quolibet 1oculamento pauca. G. 
ORs. Radix bulbus rotundo-ovatus, tunlca cruRaceo-fibrofa vefiltus, 
aft t. runcato-planus. Folia graminea fubulato-attenuata cofa media 
prommente; caulis his plurimum altior teres gracilefcens panicutato- 
ramofus; rmm foliolis trinis lineari-fibulatis Ripulati, rarrfuli vel pe- 
dun.cull elaftico-capillacei fecundo-fiorigeri perarcuatim fiexuofi. Spa- 
tha: valvula extima elliptica concava ora produc'ka membranacea. 
Corolla: cillime caduca: lacinia: parurn inequales elliptico-lanceolata:. 
Stylus t[aminnm .quax; Rigmata antheris imminentia. Capfifia 
chartaceo-membranacea. Semina rubella, in fingulis Ioculis --3- 
hE? J,ac. qui?o axillar!ter bulbiferus, bulbJill globoti nitidi nigertirol; 
noms utique nonalum comperti, neque a Thunbergio commorati. 
Dfcrepat a G.^x)xor.o printer habitu, fpatha: f'rma, corolla: baq 
non tubulofa, laciniis fctaceo-terminatis feminibus haud foliaceo 
compreflis. G. 
Specific Chara/er and Synods, ms. 
MELASPHERULA graminea. G. 
GLADIOLUS gramineus. hunb. Diff. n. 6. prod. 9' Lœnn. 
exclufis f nonvmis 
$uppl. 95. ( y . ) Sj,fi. Feœetab. 
Murr. 86. 8yfl. Nat. Gruel.   . (exclufo 
nymo Milleft) Hort. Kew. add. 8. ]acq. ic. 
far. . t. 86. Coll. . 8o3. lilld. 8p. 
x. Bot. Rep. ta& 6. ejus Rece n. . 
GLADIOLUS famous. Roy. Lugd& 9 ? $P. ]L 58 ? Reich. 
o 8 ? 8yfl. Fegeta& Murr. 86 ? Gruel. 
]Vat. x o ? Mart. Mill. Di7. ? 
IH.LANGIUM ramom. 2urm. prod. fl. cap, ? exclufis 
nonymls. 
.As 
As yet a folitary fpecies, nor have we in the many fpeci~ 
mens we have feen ever obferved it to vary eve0 in colour. 
Flowers fcendefs, --6 on each peduncle-like branchlet, which 
laft, in the archedly-fiexuofe curvatures and one-ranked man- 
her of bearing their flowers, refemble the rachis of IxxA 
fecunda. 
Found by TVNBG at the Cape of Good Hope, on 
the Groenekloof hills and near Bergrivier; introduced into 
Kew Gardens, by Mr. M,sso in x787. The generic name 
xve have derived from tzc black and q0, a globe, in allu- 
fion to the colour, and form of the bulblets produced on the 
ftem, as mentioned and figured by [^cou. In the capillary 
tenuity and elaftic tremuloufnefs d{ its brauchlets it reminds 
us of the quaking-grafs,. Briza. 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Wvxcs 
and Gv,woon, Kenfington. Requires the treatment of the 
other Cape Enfata. Propagates plentifully by feed and bulbs; 
but the leaves are apt if kept in a pit to be eafily bitten and 
defttoyed by the froit, and though this does not kill the plant 
it weakens it very much; to make it produce the bulblets 
mentioned by J.c2V Ilq, and to have it in periktion, we lhould 
think the dry (tore would be the belt place to grow it in. G. 
!1, m'll--,][ L 
II 
:i 
¾kCHENDORFIA PAN!CULATA. 
WACHENDORFIA. 
PANICLED 
Cla and Order: 
T.  AN ). I A.Mo N o c x t,t 
Generic Charagler.--Fid. N, m. 614. 
Specific Charaler and Synonyms. 
WACHENDORFIA paniculata; foliis annuls plicatis nudis 
glabris, caule virefcente corymbofo. 
paniculato, corolle laciniis lateralibus 
fuperioribus parum approximatis: 
prema fubexclufa. G. 
WACHENDORFiA panicqlta. $p. P1. 59. (exclufis fyno- 
nyms Breyn. cent. et Rudb.) Hort. 
Ifew. x. 75' qhunb. prod. v.. Linn. 
8uppL   . Mu. Syfl. Fegela& 9' 
Smith ic. pi. fafc. . ta& 5. Grad. 
8)fl. Nat. xo. illd. 8p. PL . x48. 
(exclufis fynonymis Mill. Di&. . 
Burm. monog. et Nov. a&. A. N. C 0 
Kerner Horl. Semperv. v. 4. t. 48. 
SPHODELUS latlius. Breyn. prod. 8. P. . tab. 9' . 
ERYTHROBULBUS hellebori albi plicatis foliis. lu& 
Manl. 7o ? 
For the difference between this and 'rfuta, fee number 6s 4. 
* in july. 
Introduced into Kew Gardens by Mr. MALCOZ in 767. 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. GaM- 
'"non and Wxxs Kenfington. Scentlefs. G. 
] 
FLESH-COLOURED Ix^. 
Clay3 and Order.. 
TarANtUlA MONOGYNI A. 
Generic Charac7er.lq& N . 566. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
IXIA capillaris f3 et L vid. N urn- 57o.--Ubi ad lin. . pro 
(vAR. ,) lege (VAR. g)--et ad lin. 4- pro capillaris 
lege flric7a. 
To the article above quoted to we have only to add, that 
it is at all times eafy to diftinguith the flefh-coloured variety 
given in the plate, from Ixl. ariflata Orflexuof_a, by its paper- 
like fcariofe membranous fpathe, which has ailb five rib-like 
re_aks ending in as many teeth, and is much'larger in pro- 
portion than in thole. The anthers in IxA capillaris are aifo 
more clofely and conftantly fqueezed together, or fafcicled, 
than in arcata and flexuofa; in the pale blue or lilac variety 
the' filaments are fo clofely preffed that they have the ap'- 
pearance of being monadelphous, whence the plant has been 
callg.d a S.SYRINC}Ilbl among the lurfcrymen. 
'ne drawings c? both thefe were taken at Mr. Coz- 
.e't's in the King's-Road, Chelfea, where they flowered 
m Alrii; the flefn-coloured one vas lately imported by 
in t,'om Holland. G. 
[ 6,8 ] 
TRITONIA CAPENSIS, LONo-TuuD 
TRITONIA. 
Cla and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
.sric CharatIer. mFid. N o'. 58t & 6o9,mQuo in calce adcle 
HoTTuYx^. ttoutt. Nat. Hifl. v. 2. p. 44:8. œinn. pfl. 
,SyJt. xx. p. 523. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
TRITONIA capentis t fpatha lanceolata cufpidato-attenuata, 
corolla venofo-periata: tubo 1ongiffimo: lacinia 
fuprema ere&iore ovata majore: reliquis lineari~ 
oblongis divergenter-patentibus. G. 
I-IOUTTUYNIA capentis. Houtt. Nat. Hifl. x2.' p. 448. tab. 
85. f' 8' Linn. pfl. 8)fl. t. p. 523 . tab. 85. fi a- 
GLADIOLUS rous. )eacq. ic. ra: .. t. 
145'lld. $p, PL t. '7' 
GLADIOLUS flriatus. Herb. Bankf. exemplarium caperife. 
Leaves grafs-like, far attenuate. Stem often branched; 
outer valve of the fpathe fcariofe, green at the bale, longeft, 
quie entire, romewhat keeled, awnedly attenuate. Corolla 
funnelform-clubbed; limb fubbilabiate; tube filiform-cylindric, 
nearly twice the length of both limb and faux, three times 
longer than fpathe; faux narrow, turbinate, flightly tumid at 
the bale; fegments blunt, uppermoPe nearly twice the broadeft, 
.rregular, rePt regular, equal, rounded at the ends, and fome- 
urnes emarginate; peamens adfcendent, anthers parallel, thorter 
thanlimb, above the faux; Ri mas overtop ing there. Scentlefs. 
¾ktwerz ill July: ...... 
ß . t-IouTxuye's Natural Hipcory this fpecies ferves him for 
the foundation of a new genus, to which he has, given his oxon 
name i his effential chara0er would nearly fuit any genus of 
the 
the whole natural order; the figure is good and the del'crip. 
tion very intelligible. We have retained his trivial name in 
preference to Jacut4's, bo.th on 'account of priority and o 
its not being taken from colour, which in this natural family 
/hould be avoided as much as poffible, a name without 
any meaning being greatly preferable to fuch; yet where 
we have found them aread¾ given we have never changed 
them. It is clofely allied to the G LaD x o L u s longiflorus of the 
COLLECTANEA, and the firft variety of the fame oœ the Icot4 zs 
]RaRoRzs, differing chiefly in the fpathe, which in tbe laft 
is. blunt and dentate. Our fpecimen has no claim to the title 
of rous, though the Fame bulb may produce one that has 
next feafon. This lecies is alfo clofely allied to Ttxotat, 
(GAO/US) tineata, n. 487 of this work. 
Above we have.quoted both the Dutch and German edi- 
tions of HOUTTUYt4'S Natural Hiftory, bu.t in general our 
quotation refers to the German tranflation only, printed at 
different periods in Nuremburg and tranfiated by different 
hands. This very rare plant was introduced amongft us from 
lhe Cape, by the way of Holland, by Meffrs. CoLvx."a, 
Nurferymcn King's-Road: Che!fea and i. frill very fearce. G, 
[' 9 J 
Claj and Order. 
)E NTAN DB..I A DIGYNIA. 
Generic Charat7er. 
\ 
.etIrium duplici ellula tegente genitalia. 
Specific Charac7cr and Synonyms. 
STAPELIA radiata  ramis confertis brevibus: dentibus 
conicis acutis, corolla: laciniis dittantibus repli- 
catis nudis: fundo elevato tiareformi, pedun- 
culis geminis. 
This fpecies comes very near to Sx.VZZXA c,efpitofa oœ 
ß V[AS$ON, t. 9, but differs in the fegments of the corolla not 
being ciliated, and in the peduncles g.en. erally coming in pairs. 
When the corolla opens, the lacmze are doubled back as 
thatply as if pinched, enclofing the fegments of the calyx in 
ß .he fold fo cotnpletely that the flower appears to have no 
alyx. After the flowering is over thefe expand and clofe 
again, as is ufual in the genus, when the calyx comes in 
fight. The ne&ary conrifts of five tongue-fhaped hollow' 
bodies, fupporte. d upon fmall pedicles, difpofed in the form of 
[tar, t!? , ve' p'onts ,, i.... --- '_h -entre of the flower, 
i the re appears to be a perforation oppofite the points 
th . germen. Between thefe are five round yellow bodies 
tLvided by a dark line having an anther-like appearance, from 
each c, c thefe proceed what we would-caJl. the two lobes of the 
 anther 
I[ 
anther, or in the language of Sw^vTz, the pollen-maffes, 
club-thaped, lying each in a hollow, in which they are con- 
fined by the netary, one ray of which covers a right and left- 
hand lobe of two different anthers. Upon the removal of this 
tar the lobes of the anthers rife up, fometimes fuddenly with 
a fpring, rometimes more gradually, and, if touched with the 
point of a pin, difcharge a colourlefs fluid. 
We have been thus particular in defcribing there parts, 
becaufe being more fimple than in molt of the fpecies it feereed 
to throw fome light on their ufes. The five rays of the Rar 
pointing exa611y to the centre of the corolla feem admirably 
calculated to diret a fluid pollen more furely to the real 
{tigmas lying immediately under their points. We would not 
howeer leak with too much certainty of the perforation of 
the centre of the corolla, having ufed only a common lens, and 
not having ob[erved fuch an opening in any other fpecies that 
we have examined. 
The plant from which our drawing was made was fent us 
by Mr. LODDXDGS of-ttackney, in AuguR. It is a fi-ee 
blower, flowers coming 'n fucceflion through moR part of the 
year. Has an ill froell and little beauty to recommend it, 
The Stapelias are generally kept in the dry Rove but we learn 
from the Rev. Mr. Ba, that many of them thrive better, and 
flower with more certainty, if kept in the bark Rove and 
watered plentifully. 
i)TEROSPE RMUM ACERIFOLIUM, IV[ A PLE- 
LEAVED PTEROSPERMUMo 
and Order. 
Generic Charat7er. 
Cal. fimplex 5-partltus. Cor. 5-petala. Stare. o, quorum 
fterilia. Capf. lignofa 5-1ocularis. Sero. alata. 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
PTEROSPERMUM acerilium; foliis fubrotundis peltatis 
repando-crenatis. 
PTEROSPERMUM acerilium. 14?illd. Spo PI. 3' P. 79 ß 
PENTAPETES acerifoliat foliis .cordatis repandis. Linn. 
Amwn. Mead. . p. 34' 8p. Pl. 959' 
Reichard. 8. P. 83- Cavan. Dff. 3' 
P.  8 t. t. 44. Mart. Mill. Dit7. 
PTEROSPERMADENDRUM folio aceris, flore fruuque 
majore. Amman. Corn. Petrop. 8. p. 
6. t. 6 et 7' 
VELAGA xylocarpa. AdanJbn, p. 389. Gerln. frut7. 2. P. 245. 
t. 83'f- ' 
The firft mention we find. of this plant is in the eighth vo- 
lume of the Petertburgh Commentaries, by Profeffor AMM^. 
Lxeejs eftablifhed the genus in his Flora Zeylani -. under 
tho name of .PINTAPETIS, but having afterwa,,s adrhltte 
Plhta?,- s ph. "ice -f:d/pec:es, this ra'tre is now generally 
':". to the latter, undoubtedly a different genus, and 
c}tee in his edition of the Genera Plantarum, reftored, 
nearly as poffible, AA'S original name, taken from the 
ged feed, in which he has been followed by WILLDF-NOXV 
and 
and MA.:INo A native of the Eaft-Indies where it grows 
into a tree'; the bark is covered with a white wool, as is the 
underfide of the leaves, which are peltate and fupported on 
long footftalks thickened at both ends. Flower terminal, 
fweet-fcented. Calyx very 'like thick buff leather. Petals 
vhite, oblong, the length of the calyx, widened at the tips 
oblique, inferted imo the receptacle. Real ftamens fifteen, 
xvith long twilled anthers; filaments united at the bafe; among 
thefe are five dub-pointed bodies, twice the length and much 
ttouter than the filaments, as thefe are the only internal parts 
xvhich come in fight _without forcibly opening the flower, this 
has the appearance, when fuperficially oblirved, of being 
pentandrous; but thefe bodies have no anthers. 'Has been 
rome time known in our colleEtions, but we have never heard 
of its having flowered in this country until laft September, 
at Meffrs. Wxxx, E¾ and Brtt:s at Old-Brompton, where 
our drawing was taken. 
Muir be kept in the ftove in the Winters but in the Summer 
may be removed into the greenhoufe. Is propagated by feeds 
imported from the EaR-Indies, 
I I 
,/ 
[ ] 
BABIANA STRICTA. UPRIGHT BABIANA 
Cla and Order. 
TRIANDRI. MONOGYNIAo 
Generic Charaer,--Fid. . 576. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
BABIANA flrila; caule fubaffurgenter-f[rico, foliis anguf[e 
enfiformibus, fpatha tubo quali, corollis infundi- 
buliformi-campanulatis erefiufculis regulafibus 
laciniis acutis, organis qualibus. G. 
GLADIOLUS firius. Hort. flew. 
0. 
GLADIOLUS flrius () Her& 
IXIA plicata. Amen. Acad. 4- 30% exclus fynonymis. 
IXIA villa. ac. Coil. 3' P' 67. 
GLADIOLUS plicatus. 8p. 1. 53. (exclufo Bro, n. in fyn.) 
Murr. Syfl. Veg. 8. 
IXIA fcillaris. Mill. Di. ed. 8. n. 3. 
In Hort. Kew. du, in Herb. Bankf. quatuor obveniunt 
hujus fpeciei varietates; () Ix. vill(a. Jacq. fragm. et hujus 
o eris ? 
.P . () Gozs plicats var. anguifolia Jacquini 
[) planta de qua agitur. 
In nonnullis hujus generls indlviduis flores ejufdem fpicm inferiores 
Irregulares alum fuperiores omnino regulates evadunt. Spath fus 
l?fum gradatim minores, alum infima terrainall duplo fit:ra'ir. 
therm qum fub floris evolutione trifariam diriguntu f e denuo 
amllel evadunt quamque prbent frontem. G. 
Not having as yet had an opportunity to compare, in the 
living Rate, the two varieties of tbe Hort. Kew. nor the four 
f Herb. Bankf. we have not ventured to enumerate them 
as fuck, ,or finally to diRinguilh them as fpecieso 
.The 
The prefent plant differs from B^x^t, plicata in the 
greater regularity and uprighthers of its corolla, in being 
{lenderer, its leaves and ftem much firmer and lefs villous, 
{lowers [maller, differing in fradance, which in this plant is 
weak but plearant; from difiicba the difference is f.ufficiently 
evident. Cultivated in a757 by Mr. Pn. 
Our drawing was taken at the nurfery of .Meff. 
King's-Road, Chelfea, where it flowered in May. 
F. RRATA IN 'ASCICULO POSTRKMO. 
pal. $i4, lib. 8, pro fititente legefiatente*. 
 - lin. ', pro laiinti  bcinia. 
.- . in. tSt pro lacinia fpatb, 
 lin. go, po rotunda infere triobato-tigona: Io.d-,liecomr' 
Pag. 6t 5, lin. t6. pro coroll lege corolla. 
.P. 67, lin. 3, po fuotd delc I. 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYN IA. 
Generic CharatTer.--Vi& N ø" 5B x & 6ø9' 
Specific Charat7er and Synonyms. 
RITONIA deufla  limbo regulari inferne trigono urceolato 
laciniis exterioribus gibbis intus areola atrofulva 
in jugum elevata notatis: unguibus opacis. G. 
IXIA deufla. Hort. Kew..x. 60. Mart. Mill. Dill I/I41M. 
PL 1. 0 5. 
IXIA gia. $aE.[& Prod. Hort. 88. n. 81. 
IXIA crocata; () macula atra fupra tkneptrata.' iFbun& 
o. Bot. Rep. ta}. i34. 
(t2} Areolis fubobfolefcemibus jugis depreffioribus. G. 
-IXlAg miniat,e vat. yacq. fragm. p. $. n. 96. t. 3.f. 
Leax/es refembling thole of Twtrott. crocata, from which 
as well as from fqualida and miniata it differs in having the 
three outer alternate fegments gibbous towards their bale and 
bearing inwards a tawny-black fpot furnilhed with a ridge- 
like excrefcence, and further from the two firft in not 
having any part of its ungues tranfparent or hyaline. Tube 
rather thorter than the fpathe. Limb campanulate; lamina: 
if the fegments ovate, blunt, patent, inner fegments ftraighter; 
,rgans of fruatification inclined-affurgent, nearly equal, much 
th rter _hah limb. From many well-preferved indigenous 
fpe :imen, we find it is but little altered by culture m our 
gat3ens. The tunic of the bulb is darker than in crocata. 
Thio fpecies was firPt defined by Dr. SoL^Da in Hort. Kew. 
where ,,re learn that it was introduced by Mr. Mxsso. 
Flowers in May. It 
It is of eafy culture, propagates rapidly both by feed and 
offsets, quite fcentlefs but very ornamental. Our fpecimen 
was furnifhed by .Meffrs. GRxwoon and WYxc.s, who have 
frequently imported it boh fr6m the Cape and Holland. 
The term feneflrata, ufed by TIUNBRe in the quotation 
above cited, is not meant to denote a tranfparent or hyaline 
quality, but merely that the fpot has the appearance of a 
blank window or outlet; but in J^cQuN, tranfparency is 
intended to be expreffed by that term. Since publiflfing the 
article TR:roN., fqualida (fupra 58x) we have feen the 
FR,OM:rA of JAcQues, in which we find the fpike of 
that fpecies admirably delineated in the 34th plate, fig. , and 
defcribed in letter-prefs p. 8. n. 96. under the title of a 
v.ariety of Tx:roa (Ixx^) fenqTrata; as we/hall hereafter 
gve that fpecies, we/hall referve our further obfervations till 
then, and merely offer the above figure and defcription as a 
fynonym to be added to the article of Ta:rox. fqualida. G. 
,I 
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[ 623 ] 
Ixi^ ERECTA. UPRIGHT 
Cl, O and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic CharalYer.--l;id. _2V,'. ,666. 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
XIA erea; fpatha membranacea tubo-filiformi breviore, 
laciniis patentiflimis oblongo-ovalibus immaculatis, 
ftigmatibus ufque tuburn difcretis, antheris filamentis 
longioribus. G. 
' XIA erea. Berg'. plant. cap. p. 5, 'hunb. d/fl.  8. (cun&afne 
quoad varietates ?) prod.  o. Murr. Sfl. 1œ. 85. GrueL' 
$y. Nat. o 9. acq. Hort. Schoenb. . tab. aS. (vix 
propter figuras minores ?) ldqlld. $p. Pl., . o4. 
XIA polyflachia. $p. œ1. 5' Hort. Kew. . 58. Mart. Mill. 
DiY. Bot. Rep. tab.  55- 
'XIA Jkrotina. Sali,[b, prod. Hort. 35' n. 5'- 
:IA foliis lineari-gladiatis floribus alaribus et terminalibus. 
Mill. ic. p. o4. t. 55- f' . ]-'hil tranf. 52. t92. 
OBS. ORNITHOGALUM fpicatum. P!uk. aim. 7. t. 3o. f. . hue 
Bergio allatum, fynonymon nimis anceps, Ixz; illaris variethti 
'id.;e aequ.e refpondens.--.Ix,^ thyrJiyqora, De la Jocbe, hujus ex fyno- 
ms orereno ejicienda et ad Axsxaa ca2)itatam transferenda. 
Bulb round, ovate, tightly compreffed. Differs from Ixia 
'naculata, N ø 549, only in not having the large circular/lain 
the bale of its limb, and is perhaps fcarcely to be preferveal 
a difffnOt fpecies. Our prefent variety is defcribed by both 
I z;us and Bv.xus, by the latter with the greateli mi- 
elL ' ,he other varieties with which We are acquainted are 
and yellow, of the firPt of which there is a fpecimen 
-der the title of Ix.,, w'ridis in the Bankfian Herbarium. 
The yellow is figured by J^cqtsx in his Idortus Schoen 
"inn ntis. All li:entlefs. 
OUr 
Our plant generally blows very late in the Summer, whence 
ß ve fuppofe Mr. SALS.UR¾ derived his trivial name. Said 
by TxuN.Ro to be common about Cape Town. 
Is one of the oldell inhabitants of its family in our green- 
houfes; cultivated by MLLER together with IxA fiextofa 
in x757; propagates molt abundantly, requiring little or no 
care. 
Our drawing was taken the latter-end of June, at the 
nurfery of Meffr$. GxxwooI) and W'Y-Es, Kenfington. O 
II 
II 
IXIA FLEXUOSA. FLEXUOSE IXA. 
,,, ,,, , ,, _,,..,.._,,, _,,,_...,,_.-...-f.,....-' 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TRIANI)RIA MONOGYNIA- 
Generic ½harat7er.--Fid. 
Specific Charat7er and Synonyms. 
XIA flexuofa  tubo gracili paulatim ampliato: limbo infra 
breviter campanulato-contra6to: laciniis ovali-oblongis 
patentibus, ftigmatibus baud uœque tuburn difcretis. G. 
IX [A flexuqfa. Linn. Sp. Vl. 5 . .lilL Di7. 8. Hort. Kew. 
p. 58. Houtt. Lin. œfl. Syfi. x. p. 3t. l/I/illd. Sp. 21. 
1. 2C2. 
KIA polyflachia. Burro. flor. cap. prod. x. var. maculata more 
I x   maculate. 
XIA erea var. violacea. ffhunb. Diff. 8. ? 
XIA capitata. Bot. Rep. tab. 
XIA foliis linearibus, floribus fpicatis feffilibus. Mill. ic. 
tab. x56. f. -. cujus fpecimen apud Herb. Bankf. re- 
ponitur. 
Bulbs plano-convex or rather romewhat depreffedly fiat up- 
ards and umbilicately convex underneath. Leaves linear, 
o,fifort, graffy, nerved, three inner ones rheathing the ftem 
arly to  the flowers. Stem upright, gracilefcently filiform, 
netally lax and romewhat bent, longer than the leaves, x$ 
t high, timpie or branched; branches 36,.panicul.ately' 
ß flFofed, often fubdivided, upright. 'Flowers 61o, in a 
oft oblong fpike. Slathe fcariofe, .membranous, corn- 
,only denticulate. Tube rooffly fhorter than the limb, 
aich is fomewhat campanularely narrdwed at its bale, feg- 
.nts obtu{O: alternate ones rather narrower. Stigmas diltin 
tbout the ha{} of the anthers, recurved. Anthers l'oofe, or 
fqueezed together, fometimes curved and connivent at the 
reit and lafe. Varies with white, vhite with red ftreaks, 
and violet-coloured flowers, which are alfo frequently 
' ftained 
ô1 
as'in Ixt^ maculata; too nearly allied to Ixt^ paget, 
ivnaerdity of which is .[xc/u's I x^ leucantha) differing in 
little elfe except fize and colour and the 'campanulate contrac. 
tion of the limb at the bale. 
Although Lus has given it the fpecific name of 
fiexuofa, yet in his defcription he fays it is "aftore adflorem 
parurn  xus. This now vague and inappropriate name 
nofl: probably led Tuuutue to fufpe& it to be a variety 
of his "jcunda," which is truly flexuofe. The plant defcribed 
and figured as a variety of this by Mr. Cuw:rs, N ø 27 of 
this work, has partly its habit and partly that of IxA 
conica, and is fo equally claimed by both, that we have named 
it "hy3rida ;" it has the flat hypocrateriform ltained bale o[ 
conica, and the polyftachious flerfi, white corolla, and fragrance 
of this, but does not expand fo freely as it, nor fo fhyly as 
conica, and the leaves are rather more'glaucous than in either 
of there. Cultivated by Mxzztw in 757- Propagates freely. 
In bulb Ix^ fiexuofa, hy3rida, patens, and conica, agree to- 
gether, but differ from Ix^ ere7a and maculata. All our 
Varieties were drawn in April at Meffrs. Gxwoou and 
WY.s's. G. 
GLADIOLUS 
BLANDUS 
CORN-FLAG. 
FAIREST 
Cla and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYi IA, 
Generic Charagter.i/id. No,./53 8 & 362. 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
GLADIOLUS landus; laciniis femicampanulato-ringentibu . 
fubnutantibus tubo fubequalibus: fuprema 
elliptico-concava: lateralibus oblongo-lanceo_ 
latis: infimis recqo-patulis anguffioribus: me. 
dia acutiore. G. 
GLADIOLUS bladus. Hurt. Kezv. 
u2o. 2lot. Rep. tab. 9' iterum t. 88. œjus 
Recenf. GLADIOLUS albidus. 
GLADIOLUS albidus. acq. Ic. far. . t. 256. Cull. Suppl. 
2. I4/illd. Sp. P1. . 
'GLADIOLUS carneus. De la Roche, Difc. p. 3o. ta& 4. 
21urm. prod. fl. cap. . ttoutt. Linn. pfl. 
 . 63. Gruel. S,fl. lUSt. 8. 
GLADIOLUS floribus patenti'!us externe carneis interne 
candidis feila maculifque purpureis infignitis, 
lacinia fuprema maxima. 21reyn. ic. rat. 
t. 7o. 
() Carneo-albefcens. Hurt. Kew. 
(1) Niveus laccato-emarcefcens. 2lot. Rep. t. 99' 
(.) Purpureo-albefcens. yacq. & œot. Rep. t x88. 
Leaves enfiform, nerved, thorter than the {[em, which is 
from fix inches to two feet high, $xo. flowered. Flowers 
!arge, tube thorter than the fpathe, fegments varying much 
m fize, fumetimes acute, fumetimes retufe-mucronate, and 
often rubundulate. Scentlefs. Clofelyallied to GLaDiOLUS 
carneus, 'N ø 59 . All the varieties are very ornamental, blow 
freely, and propagate plentifully both by feed and offsets. 
Flowers in June. Introduced into Kew Gardens by Mr. 
MASSON in x774. 
Our drawing was made at the nurfery of Meffrs. 
and Guuwoou, 'Kenfington. G. 
l 
[ -! 
BABIANA'DISTICHA. HYACINTH-SCENTED 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Cbara[ler.--?id. N '. 576. 
Specific Charagler and Synonyms. 
,ABIANA diflicha; foliis'rigidiufculis fubvillofis plicis alte 
liratis, fcapo ftri6-to, floribus diftichis: tubo 
fpatha triplo 1ongiore: laciniis ,qualibus lineari- 
oblongis alterhis crifpatulis. G. 
GLADIOLUS plicatus. ]acq. ic. far. .t. 37' Cøll"4' x55- 
Leaves {hortee than the fiere, oblong-lanceolate, thinly vii- 
iore, ciliate, deep green, plaits deepty furrowed; corolla 
.early regular and upright; fegments patently recurved, ob 
rule, longer than faux and tube, upper one rather the largeft. 
?lowers fo exceedingly fragrant, that we do not know a plant 
on this account more defirable :' fcent romewhat like that of the 
Single Oriental Hyacinth, but much more exquifite. Native 
of the Cape. Is eafily increafed, but like the whole of this genus 
is not fo free a blower as lxia, Watfonia, or Gladiolus; we 
{hould think it advifable' not to remove the roots from their 
ß pots above once in three or four years, as there require to be 
of a good age before they flower at all, and are not nearly 
fo Fable to rot as many of the fl?ecies of Ixia and Gladiolus. 
Our drawingwas taken at the Nurferyof Meffrs. Co/vi LLes, 
KinL's-Road , Chclfea, where it flowered in June. G. 
, liJIIl& 
,I 
,, II 
Clad5 and Order. 
,PoLY AN DR l. MONOC;¾N IA. 
Generic Charalter. 
C0r. 5-petala. Cal. 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus minoribus. 
Capfula. 
Specific Cha}'alter and Synonyms. 
CISTUS algarvenfa arborefcens exPtipulatus, caule affurgente, 
pedunculis fubpaniculatis pilofis, calycibus triphyllis 
acutis hirfutis, foliis incanis ovato-lanceolatis. 
HELIANTHEMUM algarvienfe Halimi folio, dore' luteo 
punicante macula infignito. 5ourn. b. 250 ? 
CISTUS fruticofus ere&us foliis oppotitis feffilibus oblongis 
utfinque incanis, calycibus'triphyllis. Mill.. Icon. 
9 o ? 
This beautiful little fhrub was railed from feeds received 
from Portugal by Mr. Lo)))½ES, Nurferyman at Hackney. 
It comes very near to fome of the- varieties of Cts'rus hali- 
nifolius, particularly to variety 7 of MARTYN, the one figured 
in MILLEa'S Icones, vhich probably belongs to this fpecies; 
but our plant feems never to grow ere, nor are the branches 
decuffated; it is likewife of much humbler growth. 
There is a fpecimen without name in the Bankdan Her- 
barium, brought from the province of Alg. arw5 in Portugal, by 
MAsson, with an extremely hairy calyx, n other refpe8s ex- 
aly agreeing with this; culture may probably occafion it to 
lore much of its hairinefs. 
The calyx conrifts of three equal very harp-pointed leaves, 
v,-ithout any trace of the two'narrower ones. The leaves of 
the flowering branches are not hoary. Flowers in July and 
_AuguR. May be propagated by feeds, :hich it rarely pro- 
duces with us, or .by cuttings, and treated as a hardy green- 
houfe flrub, requmng only to be prote6ted fi'orn revere 
frofl. 
[ 
PETREA VOLUBIL1S, 
Cla and Order. 
DVNAA 
Generic Charaer. 
Cal. 5-partitus, maximus, coloratus. Cot, rotata ? 
:ulans in fundo calicis. Sero, folitaria. 
Specc Charaer and Synonyms, 
PETREA voluilis. Hort. Chff 39, 3pec,' P1. 873. 
meg x8o. la. x 4. Mart. Mill.'DiZA 
Sp. 3. 313- 
] 
TWINING PœTREA. 
Cap 
BOVSTOV firff difcovered this plant at Vera Cruz in New 
Spain, and named it in honour of the then Lord PTRE, who 
was much attached to Botany, but unfortunately died of the 
I'mall-pox when a very young man, having in his lite-time 
.reed the moff magnificent contervatory then exiffing in 
Europe. 
There appears to be two varieties of this fhrub, one with 
'hire, the other with violet-coloured corollas, but the calyx in 
.,h is blue; ours is the precife variety defcribed by 
ho-found it in Martinique, where h fays it alEends to the top 
)f'trees twenty feet high. The corolla, which is five-cleft and 
qbbilabiate, Js of very fhort duration, but as the calyx is a 
nfpicuous part of th flower, the long racemes hanging pen. 
ent from the extremities of the branches make"a handlbme 
pearance for rome time. It. has been fufpeed that the 
.le and female flowers are difiin&; as only one hunch was 
boduced we cannot decide the quefiion, but the piffils ap- 
Feared to us to be either totally wanting or very imperfect. 
It is a very. ornamental fhrub, requires to be kept conantly 
in the tove and might be advantageoufly planted in a box in 
the corner of the tan-pit and trained to the rafts or to a trellis, 
thrive; heft in rich loam and loves a warm moiff air. 
Iml: )ned by Mr. Woo)vow) from St. Vincent's, ii whole 
[ove at Vauxhall it flowered, as we believe, for the firff time 
.n this country, in Auguff laff: in the Weft-Indies its biGflOraS 
produced in .November. 
[ 
IXIA POLYSTACHIA. 
SCENTED IXIA. 
.g__,g_g__.:.--'4..-$--&-.-:..-?,',-': 
ClaJ3' and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIAo 
Generic Charagler.--Fid. ?v,. 566. 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. 
IXIA 
IXIA 
IXIA 
69 ] 
LILY OF THE VALLEY* 
pol)flachia; tubo capillari fpatha -o.-3plo 1ongi'ore: 
ciniis ligulato-oblongis complanatis regularibus, antheris 
didymo_rotundis, Rigmatibus ufque tuburn difcretis 
hiantibus. G. 
pol)flachia. ]acq. Ic. rar. . t. 75' Coll. 3. P' 'ø'69' 
Gruel. S)fl. Nat. xxo. Bot. Rep. ,8. ejus Rece app. 4o. 
fi'illaris . fipra N ø' 54g- Houtt. Linn. pt. $yfl. 
P-88-tab. 77' f' ' tanturn veto propter totem de- 
cerptum leotrim delineatum. 
IXIA retu. $aliJb. prod. hort. 35' n. x. Mart. Mill. Die7. 
Os. IXL frillarls charaerem  (olim ad fpeciem premiffam pro 
varietate ecipiendam adaptatum) privius retra&atum hic de novo tra- 
dimus; nempe, "IXA frillaris; fpatha tubo ,vquali, laciniis fp. atulat!$ 
i e is' lamlnls coneavis, antheris bre.vibus' oblongts conm- 
t3birregulariter d4gefl . . ............ . . ,, 
%enter teflexis, fiigmatibus mjS, ndibuliforrm-hmnttus_ antner, s juvjec,s. 
The above fpecies is here feparated from Ixa frillaris, 
under which we had left it as a variety in our 54d article. 
Betides, in the chara&ers above detailed, this further differs 
from that in being a taller tenderer plan( with much narrower 
grafs-like leaves, having a far thallower lateral excifion 
and never curled or undulate i Rachis lefs flexuofe, fewer 
flowered, flowers fragrant ith their legmerits regularly and 
equidiftantl difpofed; tube proportionably longer; ftigma. s 
more cleft d their funnel- or club-form nearly obfolete. Eac! 
varies with white and with paler flowers. Both remarkable 
for a proportionately fmall regular fubglobular bulb with a 
dark brown covering, los, their funnel-fhaped hiant ftigmas, 
which fhould be obferved ith a glafs, both commonly 
branched. The tlowers of our fpecimen-were unufually 
large and the ftem fimple. This tlowers in May, frillaris 
January or February. Our drawing was taken frbm an 
orted bulb at the N'urfery of Mclti's. GtIlX,twooD and 
Kenfington. G. 
x 
IXIA COLUMELLARI$.' VARIEGATED IXX,. 
Ch and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charac?er.--lqd. N ' .566. 
Specific Charac7er and S),nonyms. 
XIA ?olumellaris; foliis gramineis, ['patha brevi, tubo ftri&o, 
laciniis fubcoriaceo-firmulis ligulato-oblongis rotaris, 
framinibus columnariter compacCtis bari tantum con- 
cretis. G. 
rXIA varieœata. Herb. Bankf. exempl. capenfe. 
Bulb round, compreffed, covered with a tunic of paralleI 
r,a-like fibres reticu!ately contra/:ted upwards. Leaves 3-4, 
grafs-like, narrow, nerved, lhorter than the frem. Stem up- 
right, frri&, generally with one or two fiort branchlets. Spathe 
fcariofe, membranous, denticulate. Tube filiform, frri&, rather 
longer than the fegments which are linear, flightly attenuated 
downwards, and not feparated quite to the mouth of the tube. 
Stamens form an upright column, filaments femicylindrical and 
cormate at their bafe only, anthers fubulateooblong, longer than 
their filaments; which !afr are the length of the pifril; Rigmas 
ui'ghtly recurred, proje&ing [Yore between the framens near the 
ß afe of the anthers. Corolla on the outfide of a dingy purplilh 
hite, within exceedingly brilliant and iridefcentlv variegated 
in circles, with a dark fpot at the bale of the lihab. When 
fmelt clofe to, a ftrong fcent is perceived, very much re- 
fembling that of the Tongo_ Bean (BAP, Yosa ongo-). It ex- 
pands its flowers about eight in the morning if the weather is 
hot, clear, and frill, but clofes again about noon, opening in 
the' fame manner feveral days in fucceffion. Differs from 
I xxa monadalpha in the filaments not being cormate beyond 
their bale, in habit of expanfion, and in being fragrant; 
flowers in Augur; is eafi!y increared both by feeds and off- 
lets. The drawing was taken from a plant putchafed ac 
Meffrs. L-- and Kzn's Nurfery, Hammerfmith. G. 
VATsONIA HUMmS. LAKE-CoLOURED 
WATSONIA. 
Clafs and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA- - 
Generic Charafler.--Fid. N o" 537 &'553- 
WATSONIA 
WATSONIA 
GLADIOLUS 
VATSONIA 
Specific Charafter and Syno,o'ms. 
h:ccata; foliis anguPdoribus verticaliter enfi- 
formibus {{ri&is to[flu[culls, [patha tubo [auce 
limboque invicem equalibus, pittil!o lacinias 
pariles'acutas regulari-patulas [ubequante. G. 
humills foliis lineari enli[brmibus tubo floris 
1ongifiimo. Mill. Ic. p.  98. t. 97' f ' 
laccatus. ]acq. Ic. rar. . t. 3 . CoIL 4. 
P'  7 t. k[/illd. Sp. Pl. .  15' 
erubefcens. Herb. Bankf exempl. cape . 
'This is one of the fmaller fpecies of its genus, the Cape 
œpecimens we have len being generally from eight inches to 
a foot high and the leaves about the third of an inch broad, 
linear and [horter than the i[em. Corolla one uni[brm colour 
recurved, in jxcqu's figure refra&ed. Spathe acute. Faux 
a complete cylinder. Segments quite regular, oblong-ovate, 
acute. Anthers above the faux below the ttigmas: 4-6 flowers 
in the primary [pike. Differs from Wxrso^ rofeo-alba in 
a proportionbl [hotter tube, from Meriana in a per[kaly 
and re'curvedlv patent limb, from iridifolia in. a pro 
e:ularly .... ß . -a eua, 
uttionatelv 'longer rpathe, que xe,gma.r ,,mu, _a,2ad' at 
egments. 'Flowers in May. Our (irawing was ,- 
Meffrs. Gaxwoo) and WYKEs s ur{i ry, Kenfington, where 
Raifed originally 
it had been lately imported fi'om Holland. ß 
in this country from feed brought fro the Chpe, by Captain 
HUTCHINSON, to L,, in the year ;754' G. 
GLADIOLUS MLLER. MLLER's'CORN-FLA(. 
Cla nd Order. 
TgaN tA MONOYA. 
Generic Charac7er.--Yid. N " 538 & 56. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
GLADIOLUS illeri; foliis prnervofis, fpatha turglda 
tuburn riimum {hbexcedente, floribus 
ereo-fecundis bilabiato-campanulatis hinc 
femiurceolato-gibbis: lacinia {hperiore late- 
ralibus angulliore. G. 
ANTHOLYZA foliis linearibus fulcatis fioribus albis uno 
verfu diFpofitis. Mill. Di. n. a. Ic. p. . 
tab. 4o. 
GLADIOLUS cundus. . Hrb. Bankfi exempL caperS, 
Bulb about the fize of a pigeon's egg faftigiately ovate, 
Leaves 4-5, enfiform4anceolate with many prominent nerves 
(whence MLLztt's idea of their being fulcate) lhorter than 
the Item which is generally about a foot high, reclined and 
flexuofe at the rachis. Flowers pointing one way, uprightilia, 
large, inconfpicuous, fcentlefs. Outer valve of the fpathe 
convolute, turgid, greenith, generally fiffulkd with purplith 
brown, reaches nearly to the middle of the faux in rome, in 
others tkarcelv to the top 'of the tube. Tube fieflay, very 
Itfik--t, pedunc'le-like, much thorlet than the fegment. s of the 
limb, xehich are urceolately turgid downwards on the under fide.; 
upper middle fegment narrower than its fide ones refembling in 
fiape the lowell ;' fegments in general linear-oblong, equal in 
length, patent upwards, two upper lateral ones rather the broadeft; 
Itamens not half their length. The corolla on its firPt emerfion 
from its fpathe is quite white, but gradually changes to the colour 
exhibited in the plate; which charaOteriltic is noticed by M  L -  v 
in his general, though he calls it white in his fpecific defcription. 
Clofely allied to Gt,)o.us undulatus andfioribundus. Its tube 
is fingularly tblid, fieflay, and fomewhat brittle. Railed by' 
MILLER from Cape feed in 757; flowers in April. We have 
never yet found the above cited figure of M   . a's adduced as 
a 5,nonym or quoted as a fpecies in any book known to us. In 
th Bankfian Herbarium there is a Cape tecimen. Our figure 
,,'as taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Gtnwoo 'and W¾zs, 
Kenfington; the.plant was not fo much reclined at the rachis, 
nor fo many flowered as ulhal, as the entire inflorefcence of a 
tkong plant could not have been .thewn in our fized page. G. 
,,,/ 
CASSIA COR-¾MBOSA. CORYMBO'U$ CASSIA. 
Gaff and Order. 
DICA1N DRI A MONOOYN XA. 
CaL 5-phyilus. 
fima: 3 roftrata. 
Generic Charagler. 
Petala 5.  lntherce ,fuprema 3 fleriles; 
Legumen. 
ino 
Specific Charal7er and Synonyms. 
CASSIA corymaofa; foliis trijugis lanceolatis fubfalcatis gla- 
bris, glandula inter infima, corymbis pedunculati.s 
axillaribus, leguminibus cylindricis. Lamarck Encycl. 
. p. 6. art.  g. PI/illd. $p. IPL 9. p. 5  7' 
LAMARCK has given an accurate defcription of this beau- 
tiful fhrub from a plant that flowered in the Botanic Garden 
at Paris, adding' that of the feed-veffel from an imported 
fpecimen. ']['he leaves are without Ripules, conrift generally 
of three pail' of leaflets, between the two lowermoft of which 
is a froall conical lharp-pointed gland: the bunches of flowers, 
about eight in each, ftand upon pealuncles the length of the 
leaves to which they are axillary. According to LaM,Rcxc 
is a native of Buenos Ayres, in South America. 
Our drawing was taken at the garden of E. j. A. Woo>- 
roR>, Efq. at Vauxhall, in Auguft, from a plant purchafed 
of Mr. Nortxu, Nui'feryman at Lambeth, who fays he raifed 
it from feeds received from the Weft-Indies about feven 
years ago. We are informed by Mr. W,xso,',r, Gardener to 
Mr. Woo>rou>, that whilft contined in a pot and kept in 
the ftove it never flowered, removed into the greenhoufe it 
fuffered fi'om the cold, but when planted in the border of the 
confevatory it throve exceedingly and' flowered freely, 
making a very ornamental lhrub about five or fix feet high. 
May be increafed by cuttings. 
IUNICA 
NANA, DWARF 
POMEGRANATE 
,, 
Clafs qnd Order. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYN[Ao 
Generic Charafler. 
Cal. &fidus fuperus. Petala 5' œomum multiloculare poly- 
t'permum. 
Specific Charaler and Synonyms. 
PUNICA nana; foliis linearibus, caule fruticofo. 8p. PL 
676. Hort. Kew. 2. 260. 14/illd. Sp. œ1. . 981. 
Marl. Mill. DifF. 
PUNICA americana nana feu hunfillima. ff'ournef. Ind. 686. 
The PuNltCA nana, of which no figure hag, to our know- 
ledge, been hitherto given, is a fhrub of humble growth, in 
other refpe&s fo clofely allied to Pu N CA Granatum, that per- 
haps they might be confidered as mere varieties, at leaft it is 
difficult to find dittinguifhing characCters, the leaves of our plant 
not being narrower in proportion to the length than in the 
other. Is generally fuppofed to be a native of the Weft- 
Indies, and Boxvx, in his Hiltor), of Jamaica, mentions a 
larger and fmaller variety of PuNic^, cultivated there, but 
does not fay whether indigenous or not, nor do we find the 
other authors who have mentioned it, fufficiently explicit to 
admit of afcertaining its native country. 
It is wonderful that fo beautiful a fhrub, cultivated by 
M,.,.Ea fo long fince as the year 173, and eafily propagated 
by layers, fhould not be more common; certainly there are 
,ew inhabitants of the greenhoufe more ornamental, continuing 
full three months in bloffom. 
/[I LLER 
ß I 
MILLER informs us, that when the flowers begin to appear, 
if the plants are expofed to the open air, the buds will fall 
off without opening; and recommends that they .lhould at this 
time be placed in an airy glafs-cafe, and a large lhare of'air 
be admitted in warm weather. 
Perhaps, for want of attending to thefe diregtions, few 
cultivators have feen this lhrub in full beauty, as it appeared 
in the confervatory at Mr. WooxoRx's, where our drawing 
was taken. 
SCUTELLARIA RANDIFLORAo LARG- 
LOWERED CUTELLARIA 
"t 
''. .. - 
'1' 
Ch and Order. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIAo 
Generic CharaZter. 
Calyx ore integro: poR florefcentiam claufo, operculato. 
Specific CharaJ7er and Synonyms. 
SCUTELLARIA grandiflora; foliis cordaris incifo-crenatis 
utrinque pubefcentibus petiolo brevioribus, 
fpicis breviffimis tetragonis, corollis hirfutis 
braeteis quater longioribus. 
This fpecies approaches very near to the Scutdlaria okieutalis, 
efpecially to the variety found in Georgia, by TovRnv. voRT, 
and defcribed in his travels: but betides that his 'plant has. 
yellow flowers, ours diflbrs in having much/horter fpikes, 
corolla larger in proportion to the fize of the bra&ea, leaves 
rounder, lefs tomentofe underneath, but fort like velvet on: 
.both fides; the flowers are fcentlefs, and, as well as the whole 
plant, intenfely bitter. A hardy perennial. Flowers in .July. ' 
The fpecimen from which our drawing was made, was Ibm us 
,by Mr. LoDx)cEs,.Nurferyman at Hackney, wh railed it 
ß kern fe ds lent bim from Siberia. 
RHODODENDRON DAURICUM. DOTTED- 
LEAVED RHODODENDRON. 
Clafs and Order. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charafler. 
Cal. &partitus fubinfundibuliformis. Stare. declinata. Capri 
-locularis. 
Specific Charafler and Synonyms. 
RHODODEND.ON dauricum; foliis glabris pun&atis nudi,, 
corollis rotatis. ,S. Pl. 562. Pall. Roff. 
x. p. 47- t. 32. Bot. Rq. t. 4. Mart. 
Mill. DiD. H/illd. $p. PL 2. p. 604. 
CHAMALRHODODENDROS folio glabro majufculo, am- 
plo flore rofeo. Anm. Ruth. 8,. t. 27ø 
ANDROMEDA foliis ovatis utrinque pun&atis. Gruel. $ib. 4. 
p. ,24. n. 
This very beautiful {hrub is, according to PALLAS, pecu- 
liar to the fubalpine tras of eattern Alia, occurring chiefly 
in the northern'parts of Siberia between the Jenifea and Lena 
rivers, where the northern fides of the' mountains in the be- 
ginning of May are entirely empurpled by it. It tour of 
courfe be confidered as a very hardy plant, though like many 
other inhabitants of the colder regions, when cultivated in 
this country, from the greater mildnefs of our winters it is apt 
to expand its flower prematurely, which are tifually deftroved 
by fubfequent frofts and cold winds. On this account it is be(ter, 
as foon as the bloflbms begin to appear, to remove the plant 
under lhdlter, where it will prove exceedingly ornamental in 
the very depth of winter; but fhould the froft bein early and 
continue fo long as to retard the opening of the bloffoms till 
its 
its mturalfeafon, it might be fqffered to contlnue.in the open 
border. 
-Gxq remarks a refemblance between ibis plant 
Az^L^ la)oponica, which comes much nearer' to 
oN vaoN ferrugineum: perhaps it was this obfervation that 
led Mvaa^¾ in the 18th and i4th editions of the Syttema Ve- 
getabilium to quote Lvv  œroenlandicum of the_Flora Danica 
(gle. Labrador ea) as a fynonym; an error which P,.œAS 
has properly correaed. The leaves, which are dotted on both 
fides, continue all the Wimer on the plant'in Siberia ands, as 
'in our fpecimen, change to a brown colour; it rometimes 
however happens with us that all of them {hll off before the 
.appearance of the flowers. The leaves and more elecially 
the bark have a 1trong aromatic talte and fmell, and the fcales 
of the flower-buds difih'tE this odour fome dittance; but, when 
feparated from thefe, the flowers themfelves appear to us to 
be fcenttefs. 
Our drawing was made at the garden of E. j.. A. Wool- 
worth, Efq. of Vauxhall, from a very fine fpeclmen, which 
began to expand its bloffoms in the open air in the beginning 
f Januar¾,.an d wa thq. removed undc, r lhelter, 
FRRATA [N ;'A$C1CULO POSTREMO. 
N. 61, lin. o, pro jujus operls? lege Babiaa willo../'a (} hjus oierlt  
infra n. 687 
1NI. 6 4. p. - 1. 6, pro u that the 
iN. 6 7, lin. x & g. pro .algkrs'er{l$ !ege algawe&. 
tSABIANA flriYa.Fide fipra N,. 62 ,. 
Corolla faturate cacrulea, tubo et bari laciniarum e purpureoo 
nigris. Soland. Hort. Kew. x. 03. 1/14'lid. $p. PL x. o. 
IXIAZ villofe vat. eacq. frag'm. p. 2, n. 70. tab. '4. f. 3' 
This very beautiful variety was introduced into Kew 
gardens by Mr. M^sson. We did not obferve whether it had 
the fame fcent as its co-fpecies given N ø 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Co:- 
vLxds, King's-Road, Chelfea. 
Jtcuu has publilhed a beautiful figure of it in his 
Fv^cunx^, feveral numbers of which have been lately 
ceived in England. G. 
ERRATUMo 
1qo ,576, 1'. , fin. '4, pro N ø 
[ ] 
BABIANA SPATHACEA. STIFF-LEAVED 
BAIANA. 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaer. mVid. N "'. 576. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
BABIANA fpathacea; foliis plicatis rJgidiffimis pungentibus, 
brafea fpathzeformi ariflata, fpathis imbricatis fub- 
ariltatis nudis turgefcentibus, tubo longo: laciniis 
regulari-patentibus. G. 
GLADIOLUS Jpathaceus. qhunb. Diff. n. '5' prod. 9' Linn. 
Suppl. 9 6. l14'lld. $p. œL x. ..x. 
Leaves narrow, linear-lanceolate, villoœe, (thole of old 
plants with us commonly naked, but thole of the younger 
bulbs always pubefcent) very rigid, deeply plicate, terminating 
in an awn-like prickle, petioles long, widened at their bales. 
Stem from {bur inches to near three feet high, with from two 
to four adpreffed branches and an upper fpathe-like brafe or 
cauline leaf with a very long awn; rachis fcarcely flexuofe, many- 
flowered. Spathes imbricate-difdch, largifh, romewhat mem- 
branous, naked, fmooth, twice fhorter than the corolla, awned- 
acuminate and fometimes torn. Corolla narrow-funnel-formed, 
upright: tube flliform, flraight: fegments divided to the tube; 
than which they are twice fhorter, linear-oblong, alternate 
ones inclined to lanceolate, all regularly patent, turb{nately 
contrafled downwards, three of them generally terminated by 
a foft mucro. Anthers incumbent, linear, above the bale of 
the fegments, beneath the ftigmas. In rome luxuriant dried 
native fpecimens the fpathes are pellucid and their awns fome- 
thing longer than with us. The leafl pubefcent of its family 
yet known to us. Found by TxtsEug at the Cape in 
Bockland and Hantum flowering during our winter months. 
As yet, we fippofe, only in the collefion of Mr. Alderman 
ttxsuuz, at Clapham, by whom it has been lately imported 
and with whom it flowered in June laft, /nor probably for the 
firit time in Europe. G. 
, / 
,/ 
GENTIANA CILIATAo FRNGED-FLOWERED 
ENTIANo 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA DGYNIA. 
Generic Charaer. 
Cot. monopetala. Capri -valvis, x-locularis: 
longitudinalibus, 
Receptacmts  
Specific Charalter and Synonyms. 
GENTIANA ciliata  corollis quadrifidis marglne ciliatls. 
$p. Pl. 834- Pollich. Pal. n. 6o. Gruel. Sibir. 
4. P- 805' n. 73- 8cop. Cam. 8. p. 876. 
287. acq. luflr. t. 83. Martyn Mill. DiS. 
n. 44- Allioni Ped. 555- 
GENTIANA corollis quadrifidis, lciniis ferratis medio 
incifo-ciliatis, foliis lanceolatis linearibufque, 
caule flexuofo angulato. Froelich. Gent. p. xo 9. 
GENTIANA n. 43- Id/illd. Spec. . 358. 
corollis quadrifidis incilhris ciliatis. Pallas 
Rofs : . p. 8o. t. 9 . f. . a. b. 
GENTIANA tlore quadrifido, ore ciliato. Hall. Helv. . 658. 
GENT IANA anguftifolia autumnalis minor, floribus ad latera 
pilolis. Bauh. Pin. a88. 
GENTIANELLA carulea oris pilofis. Bauh. Pi. 808. Gefn. 
GENTIANA autumnalis, folio centaurii minoris, riore 
ruleo. ttort. œyfl. Autum. or& . t. 3' f' " 
It appears uncertain ,,vhether the European, the Ame- 
rican, and the Ariatic fpecies are the fame; our plant is the 
Siberian variety, and correfponds with the figure and defcrip- 
tion given by Pant^s, except that the ftalk in his is quite 
ereEt. That figured in Flora Danica t. 887, a native of Ice- 
lanck 
land, feems to be a diftina fpecies with quinquifid corollas and 
five ftamens. 
In JcQvx's figure of the European variety, the fegtnentf 
of the calyx are more equal,' blunt, and/hort; and Sco,oLt 
defcribes four neariferous glands at the bale of the germ, 
'hich we could not difcover in our plant; the American 
variety has broader leaves and larger flowers. 
In this the leaves are fuhconnate, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
keeled underneath, the edges rolled hack; Pe'duncles long, 
angular, and hollow i Ca)yx four-cornered, alternate feg- 
ments lor'ger, more acuramate, flarper keeled; Tube of 
the corolla veined in ftripes, longer than the calyx: limb 
four-cleft: fegments t,ifted, oblong, obtufe, deeply fringed at 
the fides. Stamens 4 filaments flat, concave, diftin& but by 
..approximation forming a tube round the germ, intErted into 
the bafe 'of the corolla: Anthers yellow, incumbent. Germ 
raifed on a pedicel, fquarifl, twift'ed, unilocu!ar: feeds very 
ß many. Style hardly any; ftigmas orbicul. ate, fo as to give the 
appearance of the fiower's being monogynous; but when more 
carefully..examined is found to be bipa.rtite. Said by 
to be bi½.nn'!al, but is really-perennial.; for ahhdt/gh the 
ifiowering Plant appears always to peri/h 'yet it throws'up a 
fucceffi90 of young ones, at a confidetable diltance from the 
parent, ciofe to the edge' of the pot; hence it feems to be 
one 0f .thofe plants which are continually flfifting their place 
of growth, as if the fame earth could not for a ficceffion of 
ye.ars fupply them neceffary nourifiment. Flowers in Autumn. 
Raifed from Siberian feeds by Mr. Lorntcs, Nurferv- 
man at Hackney. Is hardy, anal requires a treatment fimilr 
to other alpine plants. 
LONICERA 
[ ] 
IMPLEXA. MNORCA HONEY- 
SUCK,... 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
PlaNTAN IIIA MONOaYNIAo 
Generic Charalter. 
Cot. monopetala irregularis. Bacca polyfperma o. 4ocularis 
infera. 
Specific Charalter and Synonyms. 
LONICERA implexa; floribus ringentibus verticillatis, brac- 
teis kevibus, foliis perennantibus glabris ob- 
longis: fuperioribus connato-perfoliatis: fum- 
mis dilatatis. Hort. Kew. . p. u3. H/illd. $p. 
xPl. . p. 984. 
The Minorca Honey-Suckle belongs to the divifion of Pri- 
clymenum, and approaches very near to Lonicera Caprifolium, 
differing irincipally in having froall evergreen leaves, which 
on the lower part of the plant are narrower with ftraight fides; 
branches intricately interwoven; whorls containing fewer 
flowers; tube of the corolla ftraighter and fegments of the limb 
thorter in proportion. The flowers are pale coloured, ftreaked 
with red, white within. when firft expanded, but changing to 
yellow as in the common Woodbine. 
lf lefs flewy than rome other fpecies, it certainly yields to 
none in fragrance, and bloffoms abundantly from Midfummer 
to Michaelmas. 
Is hardy, but thrives belt in ,a {heltered fituation. At the 
Dowager Lady DE CLxvogDs, from whofe very curious 
colle&ion of exotics, at Paddington, our drawing was taken 
in July x8o, it flourifled with great vigour in the open air, 
in front of the confervatory. 
May be propagated by cuttings, as other Honey-Suckles are. 
Introduced, according to Hort. Kew. about the year 
by Monf. R-c,v. Never before figured. 
MLANirmUM EUCOMOrEs. 
MELANTI-IIUM. 
DWARF 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
Generic CharaSTer. 
CaL o. Cor. unguiculato-hexapetala feu 6-partita unguibus in 
ubum concretis. Getmina 3 jun6'ta fupera ttylis. acumfnata. 
Stigmata obfoleta. Capridge uniloculares introrfum conjuna 
iftorfumque dehifcentes, ftylis perfiftentibus roftrata. $emina 
plurima rotunda. G. 
Os. Radix 3ulbus tunka)us. Folia $3, perraro plura, di_fllcha, caullna, 
plana, rninu, fiepe fiflulofa, infra vaginantia. 8capus de brev.imo et fire 
hullo fpeciatlm bipedali$ vel ultra evadit ; rachis vd pedunc'di .angulati. 
Flores nudi fplcati, aut paniculato-racemofi, nunc etiam umbellati. Filamenta 
unguibus vel lumtoo tubo inJiflentla. Capfule coriaceo-membranace,* noddoff, 
rarius fubinjqatm. tnne MINTUM viride revera hujus generi$ ? 
Specie, .4merican,e et Ind[ce certe depellende, VtRXRO forJgn adjiciend 
aut in alterum five in plura colligan&e genera. WugMzlz. omnino congener 
buc relata. G. 
8peritic Chara7er and Synonyms. 
MELANTHIUM eucomddes; unguibus laciniarum coro!lze 
compreffo-tipitiformibus, laminis ovato 
acuminatis infi'a membranaceo-auOis in- 
trorfum ventricofe conniventibus, longitu- 
dine unguium. G. 
MELANTHIUM eucomoides. eacq. ic. rat. 9.. t. 452. Coil. 
juppl. o 4. 1/14'lld. $p. PL . 269. 
Bulb tunicated, ovate, acuminate, integument dark brown. 
Caudex rometimes wholly under ground, and nearly ob- 
folete, at other times $4 inches above it, covered by the 
imbricate cowled ½quitant bales of the leaves/ hich are 
4--6 or even more, alternate, difich, oblong-lia. nceolate, re- 
curved, fmooth and fomewhat fhining with a middle longitu- 
dinal fhrrow,. the upper ones ovate-laneolate, theathlng the 
:t--8 flowered umbel by the finus formed of their cowled 
bafes; peduncles hid by the leaves, one-flowered, about an 
inch long, equal, thick, triquetral, attenuated downwards. 
Corolla terminal, romewhat herbaceous, petals campanulately 
radiating from the crown of the peduncles; ungues thick, 
flelhy, compreffedly columnar; lamina ubmembranous, freak- 
ed, incurveal at their fummits, and fubgibbous outwards, 
rolling inwards they embrace the bales of the filaments which 
are brown, tumid, ond ftand on the upper extrer9ity of the 
ungues, incurved, round, the length of lamine and ityles; 
anthers linear-oblong, purplilh brown above the points of' 
the petals; pollen yellow. Styles patent upwards. Stigmas 
froall brown points. Seeds about the fize of thofe of mu{tard. 
_An inhabitant of the Cape, to be treated a.s a greenhoufe- 
plant. Flowers in February. 
Our drawing was taken a.t the garden of Mr. Woono- 
Vauxhall, a never-failing fource'of rare and new plants, G, 
[642] 
MAssONiA PUSTULATA. SHAGKEEN-LEAVED 
MA$$ONIA. 
Clafs and Order. 
II xAq I)  .a 1Io oc¾q iA. 
Generic Chara7er.--Vid. 2V . 559- 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. 
MASSONIA puflulata acaulis, foliis orbiculatis acutis diflite 
fulcato-ftriatis: tuberculis pyramidaris fine ordinc 
denils exafperatis, thyrfo umbellato-congeR% 
collo denudato-elevato. G. 
MASSONIA puflulata. acq. Coll. 4- t77- apud Iconesomiffa, 
MASSONIA J?abra. MSS. Bankf. Spec. caten  $t . v. con- 
J?rvatum. Bot. Ret. tab. 46. 
Leaves round with a point, fiat, recumbent, thick, leathery, 
afa deep lhining green ftreaked with feveral difiant furrow- 
like longitudinal lines converging at each end, upper furface 
thickl fet with froall conic tubercles in the manner of thagreen, 
Y . 
but not befet wth hairs, as in thofe of MASSONIA echinata. 
The braces elliptic-lanceolate, large, foliaceous, hemming in the 
flowers like the calyx of a fyrigenefious plant, equal to the 
top of the tube. Pedicles about half the length of the floweri 
Corolla of a watery green; tube cylindric, twice longer tha 
the fegment, equal to the iramens that fland on its neck, whic 
is thickened, of a deeper green than any other part of the 
flower and, by the rolling back of the fegments of its outer 
coat below the bales of the filaments, has the appearance 
of being prominent: fegments ovate-acuminate, convolute, 
concave, with a tranverfe plait at their bafe.. Filaments 
firm, cyathiformly arranged, as it were mediately inferred, 
whiti/h; /tyle about their length, fix-ftreaked. Stigma nearly 
obfol.ete, but, examined through a glafs, hiant and fringed. 
The 
The tube of the corolla iõ fill.edvitli a clear neEtareous liquid, 
ß ahich riffrig above the brim adi:t to'the fingular appearance of 
lbwers in 'Jahuary, wlthdut fcent; f' as dafy culture a 
Ixia, Gladiolus, or any other'Cape btflb. 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meff. Got, wLL-s 
King's-Road. ..C., 
LAcHFNALIA LANCE.YEFOLIA. SPOTTED 
COrPERAS-LEAVED LACHENALIA. 
CI,s ny Order. 
HEXANDP. IA {ONOGYNIA. 
Gnutic Charaer.''d. N ' 588. 
Specific Charac7er and Synoyms. 
LACHENALIA lanceefolia; foliis lanceolato-acuminatig in 
orbem recumbentibus maculatis, pedunculi' 
corolla campanulata triplo longioribus, la- 
ciniis recurws: alterhis revolutis depref- 
fioribus, germine ftipitato. G. 
LACHENALIA lanceefolia. acq. ic. far. . tab. 4or-. Cola 
fuppl. 69. 144'lld. $p. Pl. .. x 7 8. 
Leaves many, lying in a crowded circle round the fiem, 
copperas-coloured, fpotted, romewhat convolute upwards, and 
cowled at the bale. 'Stem round, attenuated downwards, 
veak, generally rectimbently afturgent, rachis interruptedly 
many-angled, owing to the decurrent bra6'tes, of which many 
are barren and fit clofe to the fide or under the fertile ones,- 
all fmall and fubulate. Flowers with defiex filiform pedicels, 
three times longer than the corolla, fparfely, but often crowd- 
edly, difpofed in an oblong raceme. Corolla regular, deeply 
fix-parted, virefcent upwards, -ithin thickfet with liver- 
coloured confluent dots, fegments with their apices glandSflatly 
thickened and infie6'tedly-retufe, linear-oblong, equal, inner 
ones recurved to the bafe, outer ones revolute and thence 
Pnorter; when impregnation has taken place there all unroll 
and converging prote& the germ xvhile it ripens into a capfule. 
Stamens upright, adnate to the claws of the fegments, fhorter 
ß than ftyle and corolla. Style inclined, {lightly curved, rather 
]horter than corolla. Germ elevated within the corolla on a 
ftipitate 
flipitate receptacle. A native of the Cape. Bulb and feed 
we had not an opportunity of ohf'erving, but their deliafiction 
will be found in 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. 
woon and WYcs, Kenfington, who imported the bulb from 
Paris with many other new and rare plants. 
We have feen a fpecimen having only three flowers and ve'ry 
narrow leaves. 
Flowers in Oober. 
' Jl 
Ef44] 
LOELL CO,OOVOA. 
LOV.LA. 
BUCK'S-HORN 
ClaJ and Order. 
PtNTANDIttA MONOa¾ItA. It/illd. Smith.. Thun$. 
Generic CharaCter. 
Cal. 5-fidus. C0r. x-petala, irregularis. Capri infera - œcu 
3-1ocularis. 
Specific haraFler and Synonyms. 
LOBELIA coronopilia; foliis lanceolatis dentatis, pedunculis 
1ongiffimis. Sp. P1. 2322. lt/illd. Sp. 2. 952. Hort. 
Kew. 3- 286. 
LOBELIA foliis oblongis dentato-pinnatifidis, cauleque erefro 
hirtis, pedunculis elongatis. Thunb. prod. 4o. 
RAPUNTIUM folio Iongo profunde dentaro, florurn petalis 
1ongiffimis. Burro. lfr. 98. t. 38. f... 2. 
RAPUNTIUM ethiopicum; flore ceruleo galeato, foliis co- 
ronopi. Herin. dfr.  8. Breyn. Cent. t. 88. 
This is a fhewy plant from the fize of its flowers, which in 
brilliancy perhaps furpals thole of every other fpecies of Lo- 
bella, the delicacy of the blue colour is inimitable. It varies 
with folitary flowers and with two on each pedunde. A 
native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was in- 
troduced into the Kew Gardens by Mr. FIANClS MAsso% in 
787 . Requires the fheher of a greenhoufe in winter. 
Flowers in .July and AuguR. 
Our drawing was taken at Mr, Woouvou)'s, Vauxhall. 
½UR TI$' $ 
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The molt Ornamental FORE,ON PZATS, cultivated in the 
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accurately reprefented in their natural Colours. 
TO 'VHICH ARE ADDED, 
Their Names, Clafs, Orde?, Generic and Specific Chara&ers, according 
to the celebrated LNN_mUS; their Places of Growth, 
and Times of Flowering: 
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v OL. XVIII. 
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CORN-FLAG. 
PALE-PuRPLE 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TtANX)tt A MONOCYXA- 
Generic Charac7er.--Vid. N o" 538 & 562' 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. 
GLADIOLUS blandus.l/id'fuP ra N' 6v'5' 
() I, urpureo-albefcens. 
This is the ftrongeft and largeft variety of the three, and 
the fegments romewhat {horter and arranged in a wider or 
broader campanulate form than in the others. 
Our drawing was taken at the' Nurfery of Meffrs. GaxM- 
voo and Wyr.s by whom it was raifed from feed. G. 
.46 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
TRXAN ltX.a MONOC¾A. 
Generic Chara7er.--Fid. infra N u' 655. 
Specific Charaler and Synonyms. 
MARlCA paludofa; foliis petiolato-plicatis utrinque lamellato- 
coltaris caule terete plurimum altioribus; corolla: 
laciniis intimis eregtioribus minimis cochleari- 
concavis apice recurvulis. G. 
MARICA paludofa. l/Filld. Sp. PL . 6. Mart. Mill. DiF1. 
MARICA Cipura. Gmel. S«fl. Nat. 8. 
CIPURA paludofa. _dubl. Guian. . p. 88. t. 
Root a round tunicated bulb covered with membranous in- 
teguments. Leaves radical, about a foot high, narrow-lan- 
ceolate, laxly plicate, three-nerved or thereabouts, with lon- 
gitudinal parallel lamellofe ribs, .thin, grafs-green, quite fmootb, 
far-acuminate, upright, fpringing from even petiole-like con- 
volute fubmembranous bales, equitant near the bulb. Stem 
round, thort, Rri, terminated by the fiower-fafcicle, which 
riles from the boœom of a two-valved involucre, the outer 
valve of which is timilar to the leaves and though œmaller yet far 
longer-than the faœcicle and even with the œummits of the other 
leaves, inner valve œeveral times leœs, convolute. Pedicles of 
the faœcicle equal to their valves, one-flowered; flowers fevera !, 
expanding in fucceffion, and but of very thort duration; a 
deœcription of them will be found in the generic charakter and 
obœervation intended to accompany two other-fpecies in the 
next faœciculus. A native of Guiana, where it was found by 
uur.x in moirt meadows (Savannahs) at the foot of Mount 
Courou, flowering in Augurt; he fays it varies with blue 
flowers. Our drawing was made at Mr. WoolvOe. l'S, who 
received it from the Botanic Garden of the Ifland ,of St. 
Vincent's; with him it flowered laR year in Jufie, mort pro- 
bably for th: firPc time in Europe. It requires to be kept in 
the tan-pit ff the Pcove. 
Why has ScxP changed Aur.x's original name of 
Cxeuta for Mxc ' G. 
 647 'l 
GLADIOLUS UNDULATUS (Va?'. .) 
FLOWEaED COaN-FLAG. 
WAVED-, 
Cl, and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Chara7er.Yid. N ø" 538 8: 56z. 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms.. 
GLADIOLUS undulatus.mFid. fupra &'' 538. 
() Corolla luteo-fqualens viais livido-purpurafcentibus per. 
curfa; tubo nunc fpatha aliquantulo breviore, nunc equali, 
nonnunquam altiori. G. 
This is a far lefs elegant variety than (/3) N ø 538 of this 
'work, 'has generally narrower larger flowers, and may be 
confidered by many as deferving to be ranked as a feparate 
fpecies; but from the obfervation of long cultivation and the 
variations of the fame bulb in different years, we think it is 
a mere variety. 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. G 
voo) and WYxcss, Kenfington. G. 
I- 6,8 ] 
OL.rnot, us BL,rus (van t.) 
S[ow-WHITg 
Claj5 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNX 
Generic Charaer.-?Fi& N o" 538 & 56. 
Specific Charat7er an Synonyms. 
GLADIOLUS blandus.--Yid. fupra IN '' 6 5. 
() Niveus laccato-emarcefcens. 
A mere variety of the fpecies above referred to. Generally 
a lower plant than the other two, 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. GRx 
ffoo) and WVV. ES Kenfington, G. 
PROTEA CORDIFOLIA. I-IEART-LEAVED 
PROTEA. 
Cla and order. 
TETRANDRA MONOGYIA. 
Generic Charadr. 
Cot. 4-petala (petalis fubinde vario modo cohrentibus). 
dntherm infert petalis infra apicem. 8era. x, fupemm 
udu. 
pecc Character an 8yno,ms.. 
PROTEA cerdata ; foliis cordaris. hunb. D 
f . illd. 8p. PL t. 535- Murr. 
Gmelin. 32fi. Nat. 5. ot. Rep t. 89. 
This beautiful dwarf fpecies of Protea flowered the beginning 
'of lafl March at Mr. WoonFortn's,'Vauxhall, as we fuppofed, 
for the firft time in Europe; but, fince our engraving was pre- 
pared for publication, we learn from a figure in the Botanical 
Repofitory, that a timilar plant has alfo flowered this feafon 
at Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY.'S Nurfery at Hammerfmith. 
Stalks always of a bright red colore; not branched except 
very near the root, flexuofe, from a fpan to a foot long. 
Leaves alternate, heart-flaped, of a pale glaucous green colour, 
quite entire, with a red cartilaginous margin. Stipule three 
or four, linear-lanceolate, deciduous. Flower fertile, very near 
the' root: fcales of the calyx or involucrum imbricate, oblong. 
ovate, obtufe, of a purplifh red colour, very bright in the fun- 
fifine, with a fcariofe margin. Florets crowded on a flat re- 
ceptacle: claws of the petal chaffy, diaphanous, three of them 
united and one diftin6t. The three concave fegments of the 
limb of the coalefced petals enclofe three of the linear anthers 
in fuch a manner as exaalv to reprefent a large bilocular 
anther; fo that to a fuperficidl obferver the floret would appear 
to he diandrous, having one large and one flender anther, the 
latter [landing confiderably above the former from the greater 
length of the folitary petal. The germ is fu. rrounded by a dull- 
purple coloured pappus. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, firft difcovered by 
THUNnErtG in the mountains of Hottentot's Holland and near 
the river Zonder-End. Should be' kept in a very airy part of 
the gre4nhoufe and planted in a loamy tbil. May be propagated 
by cuttings. 
ILl 
RHODODENDRON PONTICOM. 
RHODODENDRON. 
PURPLE 
Clafs and Ordcr. 
D .cA RX'A IiON OO' I" 
Generic Charafler. 
CaL 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis. Stamina declinata. 
Capf. 5-1ocularis. 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. 
RHODODENDRON ponlicum; foEis nitidis lanceolau 
utrinque glabris, racemis tenninalibu 
8pec. PL 56.. 5facq. Ico. rat. t. t. 78. 
Pall. Re/[. x. p. 43- t. 9' HorI. 
. p. 67. Martit Mill. Di% 
RHODODENDRON ponticum; foliis oblongis glabris ut,-in- 
que concoloribus, corymbis -'qnin 
libus, corollis campanulato-r,,tatis pe- 
talis lanceolatis. [P?ll,i. _/]rb. 
Ejufdem Sp. PL . p. 606. 
CHAMAZRHODENDROS pontica maxmib folio lauro- 
cerafi. riourn. Cot. 4.. It. P; 99' 
This beautiful ever-green flrub is a native of Gibraltar, the 
Levant, and of Georgia, particularly on the fouthern fide of 
Mount Caucafus, growing in the rocky moiR woods of beech 
and alder, and fometimes acquiring the height of' eight or nine 
feet. As P^n^s had no opportunity of procuring a living 
fpecimen in bloffom from Caucafus, his figure was taken fi'om 
'the Gibraltar variety, familiar as he fays to the Englifl gardens; 
and he doubts if this be the fame {ecies with that defcribed by 
TOURNEFORT; becaufe he lays it wants the ti0ots on the 
broader fegment of the-.flower. Whether we were really at 
firft fupplied x'ith this plant from Gibraltar, and the one here 
figured, now become fo extremely common, has been fince 
raifed from feeds imported from Aria, we know not: but our 
llant certainly agrees in every refpe with the defcription of 
TOUl:FoT, and differs from that of PALL.S, not only in 
having the broadeft lacinia of the corolla fpotted with orange 
colour, but alfo in having all the lacinia-obtufe, ¾hich are 
both figured and defcribed by him as acute. 
TotltWeOlT fuppofed that the narcotic deleterious honey 
familiar to the inhabitants of Georgia and known to the an- 
cients, being particularly mefftioned both by Doscotnes 
and P4¾, owed its origin to the flowers of the Ronone- 
o ponticum; but later travellers have, with more proba- 
bility, attributed this quality to the honey gathered from the 
flowers of Az^e potica, fee No. 4'43 of this work. 
A middl'ing-fized Rhododendron, which had been fonewhat 
forced flanding in a very light airy bow-window faing thu 
1North, produced a large drop of very pellucid neEtar at the 
bale of the broadeft fegment of each corolla: as the flower 
decayed, this drop moftly cryftallized, a number ofthefe cryfals 
was colleEted, five of which wighed a grain; they were very 
tranfparent, refembling in. appearance and tare the purer 
white fugar-candy: the fftme has been obferved in fome degree, 
but not nearly to the fame extent,- on fome other trees fimilarly 
fituated. 
Is a hardy evergreen, but apt to be injured by late frofts  
loves a moif foil and flady fituation; bears forcing remarkably 
well, and in this Rate great numbers have of late years been 
brought to the London markets, to ornament our houfes in 
the Spring. Introduced about the year 763. May be pro- 
pagated by layers, which is the moft expeditious mode of 
having large trees, but can be eafily raifed from feed, and fuch 
plants are much the handfomeft, and' will flower in three or 
four years, 
PASSlFLORA SERRATIFOLIAo NOTCH-LEAVED 
PSSON-FLowER. 
Cla and Order. 
GYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA. 
MONADELPHIA PENTADRIA. SW. ITilM. 
Generic Charac7er. 
Trigyna. Cal. 5-phyllus. tetala 5' Neftarium corona, 
Bacca pedicellata. 
Specific Charaler. 
PASSIFLORA Jrratilia; foliis indivifis ovatis ferratis. 
8yfl. ?eget. 82. Spec..P/. 355. Hort. Kew. 
8- P. 806. tm,en. lcad. . p. g 7' f. . 
Mart. Mill. Die7. a. . acq. Hort. t.  o. 
PASSIFLORA foliis ovatis venofis fubferrulatis, petiolis bi- 
glandulofis, involucro triphyllo. 14/illd. Spec. 
_P1. 8. P. 6o6. 
PASSIFLORA foEis ovato-oblongis ferrulatis, corolla caly- 
cem fuperante. Car. Diff. o. p. 452. t. 279. 
GRANADILLA americana, folio oblongo lcvitcr fcrrato, 
petalis ex viridi rubefcentibus. Mart. Gont. 
36. t. 36. 
The P.SSIFLORafirrat]lia is a native of Surinam, and 
confcqulently requires to bc kept conlantly in the bark lovc, 
where it flourJibes vigoroufly and produces plenty of flowers 
through the greateli part of the Summer, which arc both 
plcaœant to the eye and very agreeably fccntcd. 
Was firf railed in the Apothecaries Garden at Chclfca, in 
the year 73, from feeds fcnt by HOVSTON. 
ß Our drawing was made at Mr. WoovoR's, Vauxhall. 
','C.R0.,QU.S' SUSIANUS. CLOTH OF 'GOLD 
CROCUS. 
Clafi and Order. 
TgI'Aq 13RI A MONOOYNIA. 
Generic Charaer. 
paha -valvis, z-flora, hyalino-membranacea, alva intima 
eranguior, acuminata, altera contenta; Cot. fupera, termi- 
n,is,. infundibuliformis, ereaa; tubus elongatus partim fub- 
{erraneus; limbus fubaqualiter fexpartitus, regularis, ampins. 
Stiffre. , convoluta fentim cfiato,dilataa vel fumm0tim erofa 
aut multifida. G.  
,rut a expaunt prinum ,ox an;dum, exfugunt 
Crdl, cini, oblng* vel fublanceolat,, tubus a fpatha vaglnatm. Fdia 
plva, radicala, clrcumfltla, anga, acut-linearla, cadnata, a vagmt$' 
pludbus 'membranacds radicalibm mbricatis longe f;ata. 8capi fubge- 
Specc Charaer and Synonyms.. 
CROCUS..furlanus pauciorus, bulbo groffe retiUlato maculis 
irregularibus apertis '; laciniis extimis corolla fura 
perfienter revolutis; igmatibus antheris femi- 
fuperantibus.' G. 
CROCUS remus latifolius flavo-vario flore. Cluff Hifl. 
CROCUS remus aureus vaegatus. Horl. e)fl. byere. lab. 
CROCUS vernus flore aureo-rutilante. heatr. Flor. Paris. 
ROCUS vernus latifolius flavo-varius. Rudb. Efi 1  1. fi iv. 
CROCUS vetflus aureo-rutilante. Vallet yard. du Roi. 
CROCUS luteus lineis nigris. Sert. floril. fol. 5' fi 3' 
CROCUS remus latifolius flavo-varius. auh. Pin. I. . 
p. 66. 
CROCUS vernus luteus verficolor primus. Park. Parad. p. 
ic et Cocus vernus (nobls mz[iacus) fupra 45, a Coco verno 
(fl0re violacco) recedun! r.primi$ rg tubi nudo, nee ut in illo pilis glauls 
We believ.:' our prefent plant to be as fpecifically dittina 
from the one already figured N ø 4 of this work under the 
"- - name 
name of CRocus vernus,. as any one fpecies of this natural 
order is from its neareli neighbour or relative. This has its 
bull..clcgl:l with :oarfe viry-fibrous' netted coverings, sihe 
outelm6ff'one of which has large irregular-limped intrfl'ices, 
the coverings of that are fmooth fcariofe lhel14ike membranes, 
clofely ribbed with fine parallel fibres without the' above- 
mentioned kind ofinterftices. This is a'.'fmaller plant in all 
its parts, producing about two flowers from each mother-bulb, 
whereas that throws up.:many in fucceffion; this expands its 
flowers in all weathers, the three outer fegments of which up- 
vards are rolled back and continue fo even when the flower is 
elofed in the evening, never returning to a Rraight-: pofition 
in 'that the flowers expand only in clear or-warm weafiaer,,and 
white, in ,igour all the fogmerits open uniformly (none being 
,evolute). and clofe in the fame manner towards evening; in 
is the' :igmas are narrower cowled-convolute;,o[ .a deep 
orange colour, and reach lialf their length above the..anthers 
in that they are conx/otme and flatly comp,r. effed, yellow.-,aith 
their rummits romewhat below the tops oœ the a0thers:;. '.tlis is 
the earlier blower, and feems more eafily affeEted by' froR 
'hile in bloom. Mr. S^sua¾ of the Botanic Garden, 
Brompton, where our drawing was taken, informs us, that he 
xqever obferved this fpecies to feed with him, though molt others 
elo freely. This fpecies (fo charafleriffically figred in.,.m.ny of 
the older books, particatarl, in the blortus. JE)fleIettffO 
received by Crusus at Frankfort, about the year 587, from 
Conftantinople, as was the Caocus vernus of this w9$k .(our 
m%iacus) from near Belgrade; both may be.eafily diftinguilhed 
from the purple-flowered Caocus vernus (which we fuppofe 
{o be a native of our parts of Europe and'is the later flowerer 
of the. three) by not having the mouth of' their tube .clofed by 
a ring of glandu_lar entangled hairs; to this laR the.fpecific 
name of venus may be comihued. 
The obfervations ofJaequ   and E.Rt aR:r, from vhich we 
aere led to look for and afcertain the exiftence of the fecond 
valve in the fpathe of this genus and corre& an error fanEtioned 
by the names of L.us and Jussxu, were kindly pointed 
o.nt to us by Mr. C. KiSi4 , a gentleman from whom the 
public may /hortly expeEt mukh ufefifi information in a pe- 
ri.odical work, the firR number of which is now in the profs, 
and' which is to confiR of tranflations of traEts as yet little 
known amongPt us, from all languages, with notes and obfer- 
vations. Jacques, when he fays that the valves are three 
and rometimes four, feems to us to have .miRaken the /heath 
hat envelopes the fiems for the valve.. G. 
ORNITHOGALUM RE.VOLUTUM. REVOLUTE* 
ClaJ' and Order. 
:I-I E. XA.bl D R I & MO:IqOGY.N-X A. 
Generic Charager. 
Cot. 6-parti-ta, bari aminifera, in[ra connivons fupra .patens 
aut fimpliciter rotato-patens, perfens. .Filam. 8, alterna 
,deerf:m di!atata. Stigma ,. Cap 8-1ocularis. 8em. fubro- 
,tunda, nuda. 
Spe-c(c-Charae.r and Synonyms. 
ORNITHOGALUM revoletum; racetoo oblongiufculo, la- 
ellis ovalibus tandem revoluto-co,- 
vexis, flylo fubulato germine duplo 
be4o. re, igmate lhbtrilobo-capitato, 
.1obulis fimbriatis fubdecrfivis canali- 
culato dehifcemibus. G. 
ORNITHOGALUM revohtum. ]acq. Hort. $choenb. . 6. 
t. 8 9. 'lld. Sp. PL . x  8. 
Oss. Spalh in nro fpd,n&e virentr,, in yaqu;niano fphacrlato- 
fcentes, ari& ; raviario in planti 3ul capeb, bit cuMs fmpff- 
Jime occurtens. G. 
Root a tunicated bulb. Leaves all radical, 3--6 inches 
long, patently-recurved round the fiere, linear-lanceolate, 
thicklih, fubcoriaceous, without prominent nerves (when viewed 
through a magnifier both furfaces appear roughened like 
tiaagreen by innumerable clofe glandular points) rather flat 
upwards, channelled downwards, edged with a very flender 
white cartilage minutely ciliate. Scape about eight inches high, 
upright, round, polifhed, terminated by' a romewhat conic- 
oblong raceme 'of white flowers with a round da-rkifh Rain at 
their hal%, quite fcentlefs; braes acuminately lanceolat% 
convolute, rome of the lower ones the length of the pedicles, 
upper ones gradually lhorter, green or fcariofe and brownlib. 
Corolla rotate, fegments before they decay revolute as to their 
whole Circumference, hence linear convex outer ones rome- 
what 
vlat obovate and often emarginate or fiightly tridentate, inner 
ones oval, more acute, entire. Filaments three times ihorter 
than corolla, into the bafe of which they are inferted, fubulate, 
tlpright-incurved, convolutely channelled downwards, mem- 
branoufly winged towards their bafes which are adpreffed to 
the germ, the three alternate ones oppofite the inner fegments 
have thefe flatly expanded and fometimes lengthened upwards 
into two connivent teeth, but not fo remarkably fo as in moil: 
other fpecies, thole of the three others are convolute and hence 
much narrower in appearance. Anthers verfatile, fplitting at 
both ends, fixed inwards tc the points of the filaments and 
burring towards the piftil which is equal to the Ramens 
germ oblong-oval, bluntly trigonal, black-green, Rreaked by 
fix parallel lines continued along the Ryle; Rigma conrifting 
of three froall yellowifh dehifcent-fringed creffiets. 
We had never feen it in any colle&ion until we obferved it 
laft Spring at Meffrs. Gtxawoox) and WYxcEs's, and another 
variety at Mr. S^LXSBU'RY'S Botanic Garden this Spring, both 
imported from the Cape. 
Flowers in March, and requires the treatment of the hardier 
Cape bulbs, that is, to be kept in the greenhoufe and planted 
in light earth. 
ORblITHOGALIJM aureum (J7pra 9 o) is OR. Iq'ITHOGALIJ1V[ 
"thyrides () of Hort. Kew. OR4XTHOgALUX flavefcens of 
Jacquin, and OTHOa^LU thyrides ()and OTO- 
 ^ LUU aureum ( and y) of Willdenow.Oa4 
thyrides (3) of Hort. Kew. is the thyrides ofJacquin, Hort. 
Vind. and of Miller's plates, t, 9o. Certainly a diin 
ß œpecies. G. 
MARICA 
MARICA. 
Clafs and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.' 
Generic Charaler. 
Involuerum .-valve; $patha i-valves, x-flora, inclufa. Con 
hexapetaloideo-fexpartita, lacinie intime minores. Fil. dif- 
creta, tlyli angulis oppofita, antheris breviora, difco glandulofo 
corolla: infiftentia. $tigm. 8, reaiffima, turbinato-divergenti, 
(fepius in compagem alato-triquetram & 8 canaliculatam cujus 
angulis anthera: affiguntur altius breviufve coalira), fummatim 
hiantia vel breviter fiffa & fubbilabiata, ttylo 1ongiora. Capf. 
columnariter elongata, tereti-trigona, polfperma, apice latius 
denudata. G. MARICA. $chreb. CxPvt. tubl. & yuff. 
Ous. PlanIra her}aceve perennanles ;n paludi}us  ad marglnes fluminum 
.mericve .4uJtraliorls prenientes. Radix vel }ul}us tunlcatus vel de rhl- 
. zote }ro-a ' Fdla in }ulbo ts etlolata, plicata, in fibres en rmia, 
. . . 
lana. 8patbin congim  alternat,m adve, ,,cem condupllcanter 
anlex, a} involucro in faiculum comprm coarat. Flores plure$ 
fuccwe prodeunte,. Corolla inviluto-marc(cens, decidua, feplus fugacma 
&ini iatlt polymerphi, re mper perexffuioms extimque admodum 
dmiles. 8tamlna agulis flyll t4uetri exaae 'oppta, anther lineari- 
blong in plurlmls primo hber mox fwndationem abfoentes 
compagls fllgmat& humore v jam madentis per fuos loculos intus coMutli- 
cantibus equitanter prehendunt ii[que appiw manent ; un& area f imntto' 
filammta,-qu, fi }uncce admoio: acu f3lvas nem, fuccldunt dete,fa. Capf 
canilagieo-corlacea, traffam deh?ens. 8era. in 
fubfpherlcea, fplus fubangulata. -Tioexxa (fupra 
fereganda, Maexc proxlmior a qua Oommode quidera, 3fan 
nimis artifici) iflinguenda filamento cuniculato tereti antheris prolonglore, 
Jylque flign;ailbu3 nzffs )lurles longlore; cwteri compa?_ 
facebus innrangularibus [ilabiath fllgmatum accumbentta ab utrffquecernunt 
lmi & Moeam. -Huc IRis martinicenfis (fupra 
$sxxc,= palmifolimLhmM. G. 
$ecific 
?pecific Ch arac7ev anll Synonyms. 
:MARICA norbiana ' vlviparl¾ fubbarbata, foliis etifor/n/rbus 
flabellatim diftichis, caule alato-enfiformi toro ab 
involucri extima valva folioformi concreto-vaginato, 
laciniis extimis fubdeflexis. G. 
FERRARIA eleœans. Sali/b. Prod. Hort. 42. 
MORAGA nvrthiano- Kern. Hort. Setup. t.. Bo: Rep. t. 55' 
Root fibrous; caudex fhort, generally hid by the laterally 
far imbricate equitant 'bafes ,of_the -leave, -wiich are v.-- 3 {et 
high, linear-lanceolate, flat, polifhed, with a lateral excifion 
on their inner fide for half their length, fliffened from below 
by a flattifh but broad and 'thick midri-b gradually obliterated 
upwards; .ftem longer than there, often falcate, fheathed its 
av'hole length by the 'lower braeqe, vhich refemb{es'the 'leaves 
but is narrower, wih this it is entirely grown together; from 
neat its fummit iffues 'laterally the common pealuncle or rachis, 
efra.&ed in the oppofite direCCtiOn and fheathed by the oppofite 
-13ra&e whiC. h is many ti-mes final'let' than the lower one; flower- 
½afcicles '--3, fometimes twin, terminal one the fargett and 
raott flowered; one or more of there inftead of flowering is 
genecally transformed into a perfeCCt plant prefcntly {hooting 
out its fibres through the-{heathing brae're, its -involucre and 
fpathes becoming fo manyleaves, it grows and increales thus pen- 
tile till its weight bends:the mother-ftem near enouõh to the earth 
f..or it to take root t-herin. Flowers-in April and May, but its 
:bloom fcarcety tas through the forenoon; very frugrant 
Exterior fegments o[ Corolla large, lanceolate-elli.ptic, interior 
fubu-rceolately afturgent, obovate-oblong, -far œma!.ler, broad, 
concave, 'pube.fcent ungues, recur-v, ed lamiiam with rev. olute 
.margins. P:iftil rather longer than ftamens; fti-gmas fhortly 
=trifid, two leg. merits upright, acuminate, the third rolling back 
forms a kind of lip on the angles and not in the fpace between 
lthe angles, as i.r} Iuxs and Moua:,x. A native of the Brazils, 
where it was gthered on the ifland of Raza, near the mouth of 
Rio .Janei. ro, by Sir joszvI B,xlS; introduced here via 
.Li.ltmn, by the late Mrs. Nouv-, in honour of whom the. 
.gardeners have du-bbed it with its prefent barbarous nick-name. 
Requires to be kept in the ftove, where it flowers freely, does 
not feed, but produces abundance of offsets or fuckers. Our 
drawing was taken at Mcffrs. Gwoo and Wr,-s's Nur.- 
fery, Kenfington. G. 
/[ARICA PLIC. ATA. SMALL-FLOWERED 
MARCA. 
Clafi and Order. 
TxADA Moocx,xA. 
Generic CharacTer.--':Fid.' N ,. 654. 
Specific Charagler and' Synonyms. 
MAR!CA