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ARISTEA CYANEA.
Blue-flowered Arijìea.
C L A S S m. ORDER L
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
C A L Y X . Spathae bivalves, laceros, perfifteiites.
C O R O L L A , hexapetala, oblonga, aequalia, ebcor-
<lata, perfiftentia, patens.
S T A M I N A . Fllamenta tria, ereda, fubulata.
Anther® fub-fimplices, magnae.
PisTiLLUM. Germen inferum. Stylus filiformls,
eredus. Stigma trifidum, concavum,
reflexum.
P E R I C A K P I U M . Capfula oblonga, trlquetra, trilocularis,
loculis compreffis, trivalvis.
S E M I N A plnra, corapreffa, fcabrida, lub-femicircularia.
SPECIFIC
Ariftea, foliis enfiformibus, radicalibas; floribus
capitatis, cyaneis.
E M P A L E M E N T . Sheatli two valves, ragged, and.
remaining.
B L O S S O M , of fix petals, oblong, equal, inverfely
heart-fliaped, remaining, fpreading.
C H I V E S . Three threads, upright, awl-fliaped.
Tips almoft fimple, and large.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud beneath. Shaft threadfliaped
and ered. Summit cut into
three, concave and refleiSted.
S E E D - V E S S E L . Capfule oblong, tliree-fided,
three cells, cells comprelTed, three valves.
SEEDS many, flrft, rough, nearly feraicircular.
CHARACTER.
Ariftea wi th fword-fliaped leaves growing from
the root; the flowers grow in heads, and
are of a bright blue.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Valve of the Sheath fpread open.
2. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, (magnified.)
3. A perfeft Seed, (magnified.)
. • of the Cane of Good Hope, and has been defcribed under various fynonyms-;
T l t i Z ^ L a Grai e by Pet i^lfas Bermuiiana Capenfis. and by Van Royen, Burmann and
i - nius an Ixi! Bu aUhough differing from L inn.us is againil the fixed intention of th.s
in i ; ; . . though no fpecific defcription is given of
i from which we may conjedure, it never tlowered there. The figure here given, was taken from
a planT.! ch fllwerelat Meffrs. Lee and Kennedys, in 1797. The ^ « e a being rather a delicate
P l a n requires an airy, warm fituation in the greenhoufe, flowering readily about the month of July
S AuguS requiring'to be kept in a fmall pot, the foil a light loam. It propagates by feeds, and
flips.