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P L A T E CXIII.
S T R U T H I O L A I M B R I C A T A.
Tiled-leaved Struthiola.
C L A S S lY. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
G E N E B I C
.CALYX, nullus; nifi IraBcas ful germine fro
calyce ajfumas.
COKOLLA monopetala, marcefcens; tubus filiformis,
elongatus; limbus quadripartitus,
planus, tubo brevier; laciniis ovatis.
Neaarium, glándulas quatuor, feu ofto,
ovat», fauci circumpofitae, penidllo proprio
cinélíE.
STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, breviíEma, intra
tubum ocultata. Antherse lineares.
PisTiLLUM. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis,
longitudine tubi. Stigma capitatum,
hifpidum.
P E R I C A H P I UM coriaceum, ovatum, uhiloculare.
SEMEN unicum, acutiufculum.
S P E C I F I C
Struthiola foliis ovato-acuminatis, concavis, imbricatis,
glabris, margine ciliatis ; glandulae
quatuor fupra faucem.
C H A K A C T E E .
EMPALEMENT, none; unhfs you take the Jhral
leaves at the haje of the feed-hudfor the cup.
BLOSSOM one petal, withering; tube thread-
Ihaped, lengthened; border of four divifions,
flat, fliorter than the tube; fegments
egg-lhaped.
Ho?ieycup, four or eight oval glands, placed
round the mouth of the bloflbm, each being
furrounded by its bruih of hairs.
CHIVES. Four threads, very fliort, hid within
the tube. Tips linear.
P O I N T A L . Seed bud egg-fliaped. Shaft tJireadfliaped,
the lengtli of the tube. Summit, a
haity knob.
SEED-VESSEL leathery, egg-fliaped, of one cell.
SEED one, a little pointed.
C H A R A C T E H .
Struthiola with oval leaves, tapering to a point,
concave, tiled, fmooth, and hairy at the
edges; four glands upon the mouth of the
bloifom.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower with its floral leaves, or cup.
'2. The floral Leaves or Cup, magnified.
3. A Flower cut open, magnified.
4. The Seed-bud, Chives, and Pointal, magnified.
THE Genus St^thiola, from the few fpeciesyet *own, l ias been but flighUy confidered. Linnaeus
S ' a ? T '' " - th' habits of S. ; i r g a t r and
S. ereaa which are undoubtedly only varieties of the fame ftock, and the only two he had feen mfthi
lead to fuch a comment; but, from the feven fpecies of which we have drawings all "
mg plants and which wi« be brought forward in due courfe, we confider th a p e r f e M
in more eflTential charaders than merely the number of rhlve, Th. , J as perrecuy diltmft,
in his new edition of Sp. Plant, enume^tes firiplLs t l T bLt e r g ' r b S
obfer^^tion, prefixed to each, he had not feen either living or d ^ d ¿ t t n s oTat b ! T '
above named. The charaders in which we obferve this genus to difffr r r ^ ' "
are, firft, a cnp of t . . leaves, conftant in every fpeciS J e " e x " 'f™^'
.dered as floral leaves, being attached to the ba[e o'f the Z l ^ Z t^ e ; i ~ b ' o t t l " -
feondly, the honeycup formi^ug a complete cinaure to the mouth of the flower,' and
feated, four, or eight iipnght glands. This fpecies of Struthiola was firft raif d in EnglLd at the
nurfeiy, Hammerfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the vear 1704 n U . T , ^^^
plant, and very fubjea to be deftroyed by wet; the'e/ore" « e ^ e f e ^ ^ ^ ^
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