P L A T E XXI.
V E R E I A CRENATA.
Scolloped-leaf Vereia.
C L A S S VmT ORDER IV.
OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Eight Chives. Four Pointals.
GENERIC
CALYX. Perlanthium tetraphyllum, foliolis
lanceolatis, concavls, ereftis, acutis, perii
ftentibus.
COEOLLA monopetala, ventricofa; limbus patens,
revolutus quadripartì tus; laciniis
ovatis, acuminatis.
Netìararia quatuor; fingulum fquamula
debilia, minima, fingulo germini ad bafin
extrorfum inferta.
STAMINA. Filamenta oiSlo, brevia, quorum
quatuor medio, quatuor vero ad bafin
corollas adnatae. Antherae fubrotundae
fimplices.
P I S T I L L U M . Germina quatuor, oblonga, definentia
in flylos fubulatos. Stigmata obtufa.
PERICAKPIUM. Capfulae quatuor, ovatae acuininatas,
reâoe, trigonae, longitudinaliter
futura introrfum dehifcentes.
SEMINA plurima minima.
S P E C I F I C
Vereia, foliis oppofitis, crenatis, patentibus;
racemis longilEmis laxis; floribus luteis.
CHARACTER.
EMrALEMENT. Cup four leaved, which are
lance-fliaped, concave, upright, fliarppointed,
and permanent.
BLOSSOM of one leaf, big bellied; border
fpreading, rolled back, and divided into
four egg-iliaped, pointed fegments.
Honey-cup four, each confifting of a fmall
flight fcale, fixed on the outfide the bafe of
each feed-bud.
CHIVES. Eight fhort tlireads, four of which
are fixed to the middle, and four to the
bafe of the bloffbm. Tips nearly round,
and fimple.
PoiNTAL. Four feed-buds, oblong, ending in
awl-lhaped fliafts. Summits blunt.
SEED-VESSEL. Four capfules, egg-ihaped, tapering,
upright and three fided, opening
inwards along the feam.
SEEDS many, very fmall.
CHARACTER.
Vereia, with oppofite,fcolloped, fpreading leaves;
very long loofe fpikes, and yellow flowers.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement, (natural fize.)
2. A Bloflim cut open to fliew the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Seed-veflel, Shafts, and Summits, with the fcales of the Honey-cups, as they
ftand in the bloflbm, (magnified.)
4. One Capiule of the Seed-veflel detached.
T H I S genus of Plants mufi: dai s with Linnaeus's natural order of Succulents, nearly approaching Craffula
in habit; but as the Sexual Syftem is the bafis of our theory, we cannot admit it under that or any
other yet defcribed genus; we have therefore named it aftei- James Vere, Efq. long and well known for
his extended and liberal patronage to the profeflbrs and cultivators of the fcience; in whofe beautiful
and feleft colleftion at Kenfington Gore, the prefent fpecies, has for the firft time, flowered in this
kingdom. Mr. Anderfon the gardener informs us, that this plant is a native of Sierra Leone; from
whence it was fent to England, by Profeflbr Eld. Elfzelius, in the year 1793 ; that he has treated it as
a tender hot-houfe plant, keeping it conftantly in the tan bed, by which means he has made it flower;
but from every appearance of the plant, we fliould be led to think the common treatment of hot-houfe
Succulents would anfwer for this. It is eafily propagated by cuttings; grows to the height of three
or four feet, having when in flower the appearance of a middle fized ftirub; blows in the winter
months, and thrives befl: in rich mould.
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