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PLATE LXXXIX.
O N I D I A LEVIGATA.
Shinmg-leaved Griidìa.
CLASS vm. ORDER L
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Eight Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
C a l y x infundlbuliformis, 4-fidus. Pelala quatuor,
calyci inferta. Semen unum, fubbaccatum.
Cup funnel-fliaped, 4-cleft. Four petals fixed
into the cup. One feed, fometliing like a
berry.
See Gnidia pinifolia, PI. LII. Vol. I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Guidia foliis oppofitis, glabris, ovatis, quadrifariam
imbricatis; Acribus tenninallbus,
feffilibus, luteis.
Gnidia with oppofite fmooth egg-fliaped leaves,
forming four angles and tiled; flowers terminate
the branches, fitting clofe to the
Hem, and yellow.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Bloflbna complete.
2. The fame cut open, with the Chives attached; the Pointal taken oat.
3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, (magnified.)
This Gnidia is from the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was firft fent to England about the ye.r
1783, by Mr. F. Maffon to the Royal gardens Kew. It is a tender, and delicate greenhoufe plan ,
very fub eft to be deftroyed by tl.e autumnal rains, or over watering during the winter^ It is with
.reat difficulty raifed from cuttings, and its feeds feldom or ever, we believe, are perfeaed with us;
from which circumstance, it is to be found in very few colleaions. Our drawing was made from a
plant in the poffeffion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham, about the middle of July 1790-
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