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P L A T E XC.
SEPTAS CAPENSIS.
Cape Septus.
C L A S S VIL ORDER IV.
HEPTJNDRIA HEPTJGYNIJ. Seven Chives. Seven Pointals.
G E N E R I C CHARACTEK.
CALYX. Perianthium ieptempartitum, patens,
acutura, periiftens.
COROLLA. Pétala feptem, oblonga, a:qualia,
calyce duplo longiora.
STAMINA. Filamenta feptem, fubulata, longitudine
calycis. Antherae fubovata;, ere£la;.
PisTiLLUM. Germina feptem, oblonga, delinentia
in Itj'los fubnlatos, longitudine ftaminum.
Stigmata obtufiufcula.
I'EKICARPIUM. Capfula feptem,oblong.-E,acut;E,
parallelse, univalves.
SEMINA plurima.
S P E C I F I C
Septas, foliis fubrotundis, crenulatis, oppofitis;
glabris; radice tuberofa.
EMPALEMENT, Cup of feveu divifions, fpreading,
lliarp-pointed, and remaining.
BLOSSOM. Seven petals, oblong, equal, twice
the length of the cup.
CHIVES. Seven threads, awl-ihaped, the length
of the cup. Tips nearly egg fliaped, and
upright.
P O I N T A L . Seven feed-buds, oblong, and ending
in awl-ihaped fliafts, the length of the
Chives. Summits bluntiih.
SEED-VESSEL. Seven capfules, oblong, Iharppointed,
parallel, and of one valve.
SEEDS many.
C H A E A C T E E .
Septas with roundiih leaves, flightly fcolloped,
oppofite and fmooth ; root tuberous.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The En>palement.
2. The Chives, and Pointals, (magnified).
3. One of the Pointals detached, (natural fize).
WE are happy in having procured for the entertainment of our botanical friends, a Ipecimen of fo
Jincular a plant as the Septas: which, from the conformity of its conftituent generic charaaers m
point of numbers, has given it the title it bears and forming for itfelf an order of plants, m which it
L n d s alone. No plant is better known to botanifls than Septas by name; but as yet, t
only one miferable uncoloured figure of it, which is to be found in the Mantiffa
ño a The firñ plants feen of Septas in England, were purchaled in roots from Holland, under the
name of Saxífraga Tuberofa, by Meifrs. Lee and Kennedy Hammerfmith. The beginning of Auguft
üiis year, a drav^ing was taken from a plant in the colleffion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham he having
received fome fine bulbs of it, in the fpring, from his colleaor at the Cape. There are few plants
rival Septas for beauty that are of equal fize; it is herbaceous, ihould be removed from its pot when
in a Hate of inaaion, and dried like the Anemonie. The bulbs may be cut, or parted at the time
of removal for propagation.
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