PLATE CCLXXX.
P E R S O O N I A L A T I FOLIA.
Broad-leaved Perjbonia.
CLASS IV. ORDER I.
TETRANDRIA MO NOG YNI A. Four Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENE
C A L Y X nullus. Petals 4, bafin verihs flammi- !
fera. Glandule 4 ad bafin germlnis. Stigma
obtufum. Drupa mouofperma.
E I C CHARACTER.
E M T A L F M E N T none. Petals four, fupporting
the chives near the bafe. Four glands at
the bafe of the feed-bud. Summit blunt.
A pulpy berry w i t h one feed.
SeePERSooNiA LANCEOLATA, Pl.LXXIV. Vol.11.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Perfoonia foliis • fubovatis, utrinque glabris, I Perfoonia with leaves approaching to inverfclycrafiiufculis,
uninerviis; petiolis brevibus, egg-fliaped, fmootb on both fides, thickifh,
tortis. one-nerved; foot-flalks fhort and twifted.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower.
2 . One of the Petals, with its Chive.
3 . The Pointal and Seed-bud.
4. The fame, magnified.
5. The receptacle, with the four glands at the bafe of the Seed-bud, magnified.
T H E very exatt conformation of the flower in this, when compared with the other two fpecics of the
genus, already figured in this work; is a circumftance but feldom to be found, in plants, where the
whole habit is fo totally different in each fpecies, as w e here find it. This plant, until it flowered, was
confidcrcd as a f p e c i c o f Conthium, (one of the Genera made by Dr. Smith from Bankfia,) as nighefl
in appearance to fome fpecics of that Genus. It has flowered, for the firft time in England, in the
month of October, 1802. The plant being fet in the confervatory at the Hammerfmith-Nurfery, the.
flowers have continued to fucceed each other, progreflively, upon the young branches, without intermifiion,
as the ihoot grows, from the bafe of each leaf. It is with great difficulty raifed by cultings;
but, from every appearance, feed will be procured in this country; as the feed-bods have already become
pretty large, and feeds of the other fpecics have matured with us. It was firft raifed from feed,
communicated by Colonel Palerson, from Port Jackfon, N e w South Wales, in the year 1/Q5. Sandy
loam, or a mixture of fandy peat and loam, is the foil it moft approves.