P L A T E CLXXXVII.
E C H I T E S S U B E R E C T A
Oval-leaved Echites.
CLASS V. ORDER I.
PEN T A ND R JA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.
G E N E R I C
CALYX. Fcrianthium quinquepartitum, acut
u t n , parvum.
COROLLA monopclala, inftindibuliformis; limbos
quinquefidus, planus, paten tí ib mus.
Nectarium glandulis quinqué, germen circumliantibus.
S T A M I N A . Filaments quinqué, tenuia, erecta.
A n t h e r x rigid;e, oblonga;, acuminata;, apice
convergentes.
PisTiLLUM. Germina duo. Stylus iïiiibrmis,
l o n g i t u d i n e ilaminum. Stigma oblongoc
a p i t a t u m , bilobum, g l u t i n e antheris adnexum.
P E R I C A R P I U M . Fnlliculi duo, longitliiui, unilocularcs,
univalves.
C H A R A C T E R .
II EMPALEMENT. Cup five-parted, pointed, and
[| (mail.
SEM]NAplurima,Ímbricata,coronatapappo longo.
BLOSSOM one-petal, funncl-fhaped ; border fivecleft,
flat and fpreading very much.
Honey-cup five glands, (landing round the
b u d .
C H I V E S . Five threads, (lender, e r e a . Tips fiifF,
oblong, tapered, and doling together at
t h e top.
P O I N T A L . Seed-buds two. Shaft thread-fliaped,
t h e length of t h e chives. Summit oblongheaded,
two-lobed, attached to the tips by
a glutinous fubftancc.
SEED-VESSEL. TWO follicles, very long, one
celled, one valved.
SEEDS many tiled, crowned with a long feather.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Echites pedunculis racemofis; foliis ovalibus,
obtufis, mucronatis; floribus luteis, amp
l i t l i m i s ; corolla: tubus hirfutus.
Echites with bunched foot-Balks; leaves oval,
blunt and pointed at t h e ends ; flowers yellow
and very l a r g e ; the t u b e of t h e bloffom
h a i r y .
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
2 r F l o w e r ' c n t o p e n , with the chives remaining, but detached from each other.
3*. T h e Chives and Pointal as they are in the flower, the lower par. of the bloffom rematnmg,
t h e upper cut away, magnified.
4. One of the Chives a l i t t l e magnified.
5. T h e Pointal and Seed-buds, magnified.
T H E Lady Dowager De Clifford received this plant from the illand of St. Vincent's, in the year \yg4,
and we much queilion, whether i t was ever fi-en in Britain prior t o that p e r i o d ; although faid to be
cultivated in 1 ?jg, l>v M i l l a r , in t h e j~ih Edit, of his Dictionary, and from thence, collated into the
K e w Catalogue, p, 2Sy, Vol. I . Jt is a climbing p l a n t , if fupportcd; but does not grow to any confideiable
height, it kept in a pot. 1 he be ft method of treating this plant, is the limit as that propofed
for the Cratxva cappnroides, PI. 1"6. Vol. H E The fpecific name Suberccta, of Jacquin and
Browne, mutt undoubtedly have been taken from the plants which grow in the Savannas; where,
they fcldom acquire ahovc t h e height of two feet. The whole p l a n t , from which, if any part is cut
or broken, there i flues a milky fubftance, is confidercd by D r . Browne as poifonous. Our figure was
taken at Mt firs. E t c and Kennedy's, t h i s y e a r , in A u g u l t . It is propagated by c u t t i n g s , put in about
t h e month of May.