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P L A T E CXIX.
S T R U T H I O L A OVATA.
Oval-leaved Struthiola.
C L A S S IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
See Struthiola inilricata,
Pl.CXIlI. Vol.11.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
P E R I A N T H I U M • diphyllura. Corolla tubulofa
4-fida; neftarium, glandulae cito fauci
circumpofitae. Sem. 1. lubbaccatum.
CUP two-leaved. Bloflbm tubular, 4-deft; honey
cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth
of the bloflbm. One feed like a beny.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Struthiola foliis ovatis, glabris; ramis glabris,
rugofis.
Struthiola with egg-ihaped, fmooth leavess
branches fmooth and wrinkled.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Bloflbm, complete.
2. The Empalement, magnified.
3. The Bloflbm cut open, with the Chives attached, magnified.
4. The Pointal and feed-bud, magnified.
T H I S fpecies of Struthiola is defcribed by Thunberg, in his Prodromus, under tlie fpecific title it here
bears, and was first introduced to us in the year 1794, in feeds received from the Cape of Good
Hope, by Mefljs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. It is a very tender greenhoufe plant, and very
fubjea to be deftroyed by damps, or too much moifture, even in fummer; the flowers, (as are raoft of
this natural order,) are extremely fragrant and continue in full perfeftion from March till June. The
mode of propagation is by cuttings, made in May, which ihould be placed under a hand-glafs in a
pot of light loam, and lhaded from the mid-day fun. It thrives beft in a mixture of half peat and
half loam. The drawing was made in the fpring of 1798, from a plant in the Hibbertian Colleaion,
Clapham; then in flower, for the firft time in England.
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