P L A T E LXXIV.
PERSOONIA LANCEOLATA.
Lance-Jìiaped leaved Perfoonia.
C L A S S IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointai.
G E N E R I C
CALYX, nullas.
COROLLA. Petak quatuor, bafin verías ftaminifera,
reflexa, apice incraflhta.
Neaariai. Glandulie quatuor globofae, ad
bafin germinis.
STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor brevia, fingula
ex finguli petali medio enata. Antherse
lineares, conniventes, demum reflexoe.
P I S T I L L U M . Germen fuperum, ovatum. Stylus
fubulatus, glaber, perliftens. Stigma obtufum,
declinatum.
P E K I C A R P I U M. Drupa fubrotunda, monofperma.
SEMEN. NUX offea, fubrotunda, compreffa.
S P E C I F I C
Perfoonia foliis lanceolatis, acutis, ener\-iis,
iitrinque glabris; petiolis tortis ; floribus
axillaribus, flavis.
C H A E A C T E R .
EMFALEMENT, none.
BLOSSOM. Four petals, fupporting the chives
near the bottom, bent back, and thickened
at the point.
Honey-cups. Four round glands at the bafe.
of the feed-bud.
CHIVES. Four Ihort threads, one growing out
of each petal about the middle. Tips linear,
and approaching each other, then reflexed.
P o i N T A L . Seed-bud egg-fliaped, and above.
Shaft awl-lliaped, fmooth, and remaining.
Summit blunt, and bent downward.
SEED-VESSEL. A pulpy berry, roundiili, with
one feed.
SEED. A hard, roundifli nut, flattened.
C H A R A C T E R .
Perfoonia with lance-fliaped leaves, fliarp pointed,
without nerves, and fmooth on both fides ;
foot-ftalks twifted; the flowers grow at the
lower part of the leaves, clofe to the item,
and yellow.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
]. A BIolTom.
2. One divifion of tlie Bloflbm with its Chive.
3. The Pointal (natural fize).
4. The fame (magnified).
5. The Receptacle, with the Honey-cups (magnified).
6. A Berry cut in two, the Seed taken out.
7- A ripe Seed.
Every ftep we make in the examen of plants, from that endlefs fource for botanical refearch. New
H o l l L d ; nature almoft as conftantly, prefents us with a perfeaiy new face; fuch is the objeft of
our prefent confideration. Dr. Smitli, P. L. S. in the Linn,xan Tranfaftions, Vol. IIII. p. 215, confidering
a new Genus as neceifary for this tribe of plants, has named it in honour of C. H. Perfoon,
much noted for his works on the fungi. This is a handfome, fpreading greenhoufe plant, growing about
five feet high, and covering itfelf with deep yellow bloifoms. It is propagated by cuttings, or feeds,
which come to maturity with us, and are produced in great numbers. J. Willfon, Efq. of Iflmgton,
raifed this fpecies from feeds about the year 179I5 from a fpecimen in whofe colleaion our figure wastaken,
this year in July, and where it flowered for the firft time laft year, in the month of Auguft,
and is ftiU in bloom, although many feeds are already perfeaed, from the flowers of laft year.