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PLATE LIV.
A L E T R I S SARMENTOSA.
Creepmg-?'ooted Bajlar'd Aloe.
CLASS VL ORDER I.
HEXJNDRlJl MONOGYNIJ. Six Chives. One Pointai.
G E N E R I C
C A L Y X , nulkis.
C O R O L L A , monopetala, oblonga; limbi laciniis
lanceolatis, acuminatis, ereétis; perfiñens.
S T A M I N A . Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine
corollae, inferta bafi laciniarum corollas.
Antlierae oblongas, ereñse.
PisTiLLUM. Germen ovatum. Stylus fubulatus,
longitudine ftaminium. Stigma trifidum.
P E K I C A K P I U M . Capfula ovata, triquetra, acuminata,
trilocularis.
S E M I N A plurima.
S P E C I F I C
Aletris, acaulis; foliis enfiformibus, laxis; floribus
fpicatis, luave rubentibusj radicibus
farmcntofis.
C H A R A C T E R .
E M P A L E M E N T , none.
BLOSSOM, one leaf, oblong; the fegments of the
border are lance-iliaped, tapering, and upright;
remaining.
C H I V E S . Threads fix, awl-ihaped, the length
of the bloflbm, and inferted into the divifions
of it, at the bafe. Tips oblong, upright.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud egg-ihaped. Shaft awlihaped,
the length of the chives. Summit
three-cleft.
SEED-VESSEL. Capfule egg-ihaped, three-fided,
tapered, and of three cells.
SEEDS many.
C H A R A C T E R .
Bailard Aloe, without a ftem; having fwordfliaped,
weak leaves; flowers grow in fpikes
of a foft red colour; roots producing fuckers
from the joints.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower.
2. The Chives, and Pointal.
3. The Pointal.
T H I S fpecies of Aletris was introduced to us, from the Cape of Good Hope, about the year 1789; it
is a hardy plant, requiring the fame management as Aletris Capenfis, that is, to be kept in a dry part
of the greenhoufe; although the plant ihould be frequently watered when in bloom, as fhould mollly
all plants, notwithilanding (as in the prefent inftance is the cafe) their flowering in the winter
months. This caution we have thought neceflarj', as it is a general rule with gardeners during that
feafon, to put as little moifture as poffible to their plants, whether in flower or not, to avoid damps.
The little difficulty in propagating this handfome fpecies of Aletris, will render it foon common; the
roots grow nearly horizontally, and from their joints numberlefs young plants are produced; which
character we were defirous of exprefling in the figure, as from thence we have taken our trivial name;
but from the iize of the work, it was found iinpraaicable. The drawing was made in December
1798, from a plant then in flower, at the Hammerfmith nurfery: we are neverthelefs informed, that
from being planted in a light, rich foil, it may be. made to grow to the height of three feet; with a
fpike of flowers, cue fourth the length of the flower-ftem.
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