P L A T E CCLXXXV.
F E R R A R Í A V I R Í D I F L O R A.
Green-flowered Ferraría.
CLASS XVI. ORDER I.
MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Threads united. Three Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
M O N O G Y N A . Spathae uniflora;.
P É T A L A fex, undula to-crifpata. Stigmata cu
cullata. Capfula 3-locularis, infera.
O N E P O I N T A L . Sheaths one-flowered.
P E T A L S lis, waved and crifped. Summits
cowled. Capfule three-celled beneath.
S e e F E R R A K i A P A v o N i A ^ l . C L X X V l I I . V o l . I I I .
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
F e r r a r í a folds diftichis, vaginantibus, cofiatis;
petalis lanceolatis requalibus, interioribus
i m m a c u l a t i s , anguftioribus, virefcentibus.
F e r r a r i a with leaves pointing oppofite ways
fbeathing the flem and ribbed; petals l a n c e -
fhaped, equal, t h e i n n e r ones w i t h o u t fpots,
narrower and greenifh.
R E F E R E N C E TO T H E P L A T E.
1. T h e Seed-bud, Chives a n d Pointal.
2. One of t h e Chives, a l i t t l e magnified, as feen from the infide.
3 . T h e fame feen from the o u t l i d e.
4. T h e Seed-bud, Shaft a n d Summits, the Chives removed.
5 . One of the Summits magnified.
O U R n>ure reprefents t h e Monea Ferrariola of J a c q u i n ' s Collectanea 4 . p . 1 4 1 ; b u t , as w e conceive
F e r r a r i a a good, and d i f t i n a genus, w e have not followed either him, or T h u n b e r g , who h a s likewife
t h r o w n thefe plants to M o r a a . At firft fight we did not t h i n k this p l a n t poffeffed of fufficient
diftinflive character to be treated as a different fpecies from the F. u n d u l a t a ; but upon clofer
i n f p e a i o n found it to v a r y nearly in every part ; in t h e l h a p e of the flower, the leaves and t h e root.
T h e lingular character of this, and the o t h e r Cape Ferrarías, of m a k i n g b u t one g r o w t h in two, and
fometimes three y e a r s ; is h a r d l y t o be traced in a n y other plants, b u t eonflantly fo in thefe. They
produce their flowers about J u l y , t h e feafon of t h e i r flowering; the flowers are as tranfitory as thofe
of t h e F . p a v o n i a ; that is to fay, t h e d u r a t i o n of about fix hours. Our figure was t a k e n from a p l a nt
i n the H i b b e r t i a n Collection, w h i c h flowered in t h e m o n t h of J u l y 1802. T h e Ferrarías all propagate
by t h e r o o t ; and lhould be planted in fandy peat mixed w i t h a fmall portion of loam.