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P L A T E XCIV.
G A L A X I A O V A T A .
Oval-leaved Galaxia.
C L A S S XVL ORDER I.
MONJDELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Th r e a d s united. Three Chives.
G E N E R I C
CALYX. Spatha univalvis, membranacea, connivens.
COROLLA monopetala, fupra; tubus filiformis,
longus, ereflus, apice paullulum ampliatus;
limbus fexpartitus; laciuiis obovatis,
patentibus.
STAMINA. Filaraenta tria, in cylindrum conata.
Antheree ovata:.
P1ST1L.LUM. Germen inferum, obtufe triangulare,
glabrum. Stylus filiformis, fìaminibus
paullo longior. Stigmata tria, filiíbrmi
multipartita, patentia.
. PEEICAEPIUM. Capfiila oblongo-tubcylindrica,
trifulca, trilocularis, trivalvis.
SEMINA plurima, globofa, minima.
C H A E A C T E R .
Sheath of o EMP A L EME N T . ne valve, Ikinny, and
cloiîng.
BLOSSOM, one leaf, above; tube thread-iliaped,
long, upright, the upper part a little widened;
border divided into fix parts; fegments
inverfely egg fliaped and fpreading.
CHIVES. Three threads forming a cylinder.
Tips egg-iliaped.
P 0 1 N T A L . Seed bud beueath, obtnfely triangular
and fmooth. Shaft thread-fliaped, a
little longer than the chives. Three fummits,
each divided into a number of Imall
threads, and fpreading.
SEED-VESSEL. Capfule of an oblong, and almoft
cylindrical üiape, with three furrows, three
cells, and three valves.
SEEDS numerous, globular, and fmall.
S P E C I F I C
Galaxa foliis ovatis margine ciliatis; corollis
longiffimis, arcuatis, flavis.
C H A K A C T E K .
Galaxia with egg-fliaped leaves, fringed at the
edge; bloflbms very long, bowed, and yellow.
E E P E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Sheath.
2. A Flower cut open, to fliew where tlie threads are fixed to the tube of the bloffbra.
3. The Chives with the Pointal inclofed, the BlolTom cut away.
4. The Pointal and Seed-bnd.
ANY fpecies of this Genus, muft be interefting to the Englilh botanift; as, till laft year, not one was
to be found, in any colleaion of this country. The G. ovata is figured in Cavanilles, Diff. 6. p. 340.
t. 180; and defcribed by Thunberg, in his Nova Genera Plantarum, p. 50. It is a moil fingular
little plant, but we much fear will prove a fugitive to us; like the Ferraría, (to which in many particulars
it very nearly affines,) its beauty is but of a few hours duration: indeed, fo fliort is the
period, that had not Mr. Hibbert taken a Iketch of it, whilft in perfe£tion; and from which our
drawing was completed, we could not have accompliihed a figure of it. As yet, the true feafan of
¡.ts flowering cannot be afcertained; but, it was in the month of Oftober, that the plant flowered laft
year 1/79; bulbs having been received, from the colleñor for the Clapham collection, ftill at the
Cape, in the fpring of the fame year. The treatment for this, appears to be the fame as that neceffaiy
for moft Cape bulbs; light fandy peat, a little warmth when approaching to flower; and to be
removed from the pot afterwards.