PLATE CLXXTI.
C R A T j E V A c a p p a r o i d e s .
Caper-like Cratceva.
CLASS XI. ORDER I.
DODECANURIA MONOGVNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC CHARACTER. Schrel: Gen. Plant. Vol. I. p. 320.
ENPALF.MFNT. Cup one leaf, four-cleft,filling
off, Hat at the bafe; fegmenls fprcading,
egg-lhapcd, unequal.
BLOSSOM. Four petals, oblong, claws (lender,
the length of the cup and infertcd into the
divifiens.
C H I V E S . Threads fifteen or more, like brittle*,
Aiortcr then t h e blollbm. Tips erect, oblong.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud on a thrtad-lhaped and
very long foot.fialk.egg-lhaped. Shaft none.
Summit fitting on the feed-bud, headed.
SEFD-VESSEL. A Berry? flefliy, globular, large,
with a foot-ltalk, one-celled, twn-valvcd.
SEEDS many, roundilh, notched at the end, difpeiled
in pulp.
CHARACTER.
|| Cratacva with eliptical, fmooth leaflets; flowers
C A L Y X . Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifidum,
deciduum, bafi planum j laciniis patentibus,
ovatis, iucequalibus.
C O R O L L A , Pétala quatuor, oblonga, unguibus
teuulbus, longitudine calycis, diviluris inferta.
STAMINA. Filaments fedecim vel plura, fetacea,
corolla breviora. Antherae erectas, oblongas.
P I S T I L L U M . Germen, pedícello filiformi, lougiilimo,
ovatum. Stylus nullus. Stigma
fell'de, capitatum.
P B E I C A R P I U M . Bacca? carnofa, globofa, maxima,
pedicellata, unilocularis, bivalvis.
SEMINA plura, fubrotuuda, emarginata, nidulantia.
S P E C I F IC
Crata:va ibliolis clipticis, glabris ; floribus innbellatis,
terminalibus, hileo-viridibus, pctalis
umbels, terminal and yello>
longiflimis, apicibus crifpis. petals very
iped at the ends.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. Shews the Pointal, part of the Chives, and three Petals of the blofl'
the Petals, and the leaves of "the Empalemci
of the blollbm.
2. The Pointal, complete.
a few of the Chives, one of
being removed, the better to exhibit the ftructure
T o Mr. Eldred Elfzelius, a native of Sweden, we are indebted for this fpecies of Crat^va ; by whom
it was brought to Great Britain, on his return from Sierra Leone, in the year 1795. As a native of that
burning dime, it will not endure our winters, without the protection of the hothoule; to which,
climb, r it is , conlkWable ornament, both in foliage, and flower; the flowers coming, -
luccefiion,
from June, till Auguit; perhaps, much later, as we believe, this is the hrlt tune its
been produced in England. The propagation is extremely caly, by cuttings; but, to give the plant
lufficientugour tor flowcung, it mult be planted in a border, prepared of old rotten dun;;, laid)
neat and loam, of each, equal parts ; feparated from the tan-fed by a partition ot boards, hithciently
iron.' to lunport the earth, upon the removal of the tan. This method ot treating many ot the tropical
blofloms have
climbers, and even the common Caper, though a native of the tooth of Europe, has been found
neccll'aiy to their production of flowers in this country. Our figure was u * " " *f•r om a plant, treated in
the above manner, in the Stepney collection ; from whence, through the kind indulgence of the truly
urbanic and indefatigable proprietor, T. Evans, Efq. we are in hopes of ^rat.tv.ng our botamcal
at prefent,
friends, with the figures of a number of plants, new to this country; and oi which lie i
the fole poffeffor.
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