P L A T E CLXVII.
B R U N S F E L S I A U ND UL ATA.
Waved-flowered Brunsfelsia.
CLASS XIV.
DIDYNAMIA A NGIOSPE R MI A.
ORDER II.
Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.
G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
C A L T X . Peñantliium moiiopbyllum, campanu-
1.11 i.im. q u i n q u e d e n t a t u m , o b t u i u i n , mínimum,
perfitien*.
C O R O L L A monopetala, infundibuliformis; tuhus
longillimus, fubi Kiirvus; limbus planus,
q u i n q u e f i d u i , obtufui.
S T A M I N A . Fiiamenta quatuor, brevimnia. Anthera;
oblonga:, erectee, filamentis dorfo
aflixa-.
P i s t i l l u m . Germen fobmtundum, parvum.
Stylus filit'ormii, l u n g i l u d i o e t u b i . Stigma
c r a l l i u l c u l u m .
P E i u c A n r i u M . Capiula exius baccala, globola,
unilocalaria, b i v a h i s.
S e m i n a plurima, compreffa, hinc convexa, inde
angula t a , punciain-fcabra.
R E C E P T A C U L U M fundo capiula: a d n a t u i n , paleüceimi;
palei- condunat.s, ápice fubulatis,
femina diftinguenlibas.
E M P A L E M E N T . Cup one leaf, bell-fhaped, fivetooibed,
blunt, very filial), remaining.
BLOSSOM. One p e t a l , funnel-Hi aped; tube very
long, r a t h e r curved; border flat, five-cleft,
obtufe.
C h i v e s . Four thread*;, very ihort. Tips oblong,
upright, fixed by the back to the
threads.
P o i n t a l . Seed-bud rouiidifli, (mall. Shaft
thread-fhaped, t h e l e n g t h of t h e t u b e . Summit
rather fleftiy.
S E E D - V E S S E L . Capfule on the outfide a berry,
globular, one cell, two valves.
SEEDS many, flat, convex on one fide, angular
on the other, roughly punctured.
1111. j i• i 11 l i fixed to the b o t t om of t h e capfule,
chaffy; chaffs j o i n i n g at t h e b a l e , awl fliaped
at t h e point, leparating the feeds.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER
Brunsfelfia folds ¡nnceolato-obovatis, atrinque
a c u m i n a t i s , petJolis brevillimis; tubus par
um i n c u r v a t u s , laciuiis limbi u n d u l a t i s.
Brunsfelfia with leaves between lance and inverlely
egg-fhaped, tapered to both ends,
footftalks very t h o r t ; tube a l i t t le incurved,
t h e legments of the border waved.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE P L A T E.
1. T h e Empalement.
2. T h e t u b e of t h e bloffbm cut open, to fiiew t h e i n t e r t i on and eharacter
of the Chives.
3. T h e Pointai a n d Seed-bud.
T H E Genus Brunsfelfia (by P l u n d e r fo named, in honour of O t h o llrnnsfels a monk, the firfi who
edited in 1.530 a Botanical work with good figures, it contained 238 plates) has undergone a very
nccelfary revilion fince the days of Linnaeus; indeed, it appears Angular [hat Father Plumier, from
w h o m Linnaeus quotes his G e n e r i c i h a r a c i e r , Ihould have committed fo great au o v e r h g h t , as to
defcribe it w i t h five chives; a feature fcareely t o be expected, from a fport of n a t u r e , in p l a n t s of this
Clafs. So however it is on record, and the fifth Clafi of the Gen. and Spe. Plant, and of the Syft.
N a t . torn. ii. each includes this G e n u s ; from w h i c h , we (liould be induced to t h i n k he had defigned
fomc other p l a n t : if the figure, and the reft of the defcription, did not confirm it. Schreber, in
liis fien. Plant, has l i k e w i f e an obfervalion, that the fruit ihould be named a capfule, ratlier than a
b e r r y ; as given by Linna:us, Miller, and Swartz; his realbn, that it lp]its determinately, by a future,
from the top to the bafe.
O u r fpecies, is the t h i r d n e w in B r i t a i n ; they are all natives of the Weft India Iflands. The
1ft B. americaua has been long an inhabitant of o u r h o t h o u l e s ; the 2d B. maculata is b a t l i t t le known
to moll, though long cultivated h e r e ; as it has been treated as a variety ot the rirlt fpecies, notwithflanding
the ftrong fpecitic difference, in the ftinpe of the leaves and blolform; which in the B.
maculata, are beautifully marked at t h e b a l e , and as large as the u n d u l a l a ; the leaves iuverfely eggfliap'
d and more downy. The preient plant feldom grow* mo'€ than four feet high, flowers freely
about March, is very (west fcenied, a n d is eafily propagated by c u t t i n g s . It was firlt lent t o England
in t h e year 1/84, by Mr. Hlcnck from the I Hand of B a r b a d o s , to MelTr-. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfniith.
Our drawing was made from a plant in the C l a p h am Collection, in March iSOO, It
Ihould be p l a n t e d in r i ch e a r t h.