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P I - A T U ( X V I I.
A) R A M A I - I I ' D I ! M I S .
!/•/,' fruiU •(! Pajfion- Flower.
O R D E R IV.
MANDRIA. C H I V E THEPOINTAL. 1' I VE C H I V E S .
C-.KNF.IUC CHA1IACTER.
inrliluiii, pin- . t'MP\ i.IMKST. Cup five-parted, fl.it, coloured,
forme, likr idr prinl-i.
in • raaii üvr, half lance-fltapedj flat,
blunt, cit (hr fize ami lliapc of the tup.
Hunty Iup, a triple(TOWN; theouter longer,
encircling ihc (haft within the petals, more
cnnlrattcd above.
CHIVES. Fin ilueads, awl-lhapcd, fixed In the
bale of the column of the leed-bud, ipiiading.
Tipt fixed by their hacks.obluug.obt ule.
I'OINTAL. Seed-bud roundilli, lalling into the
rnd of a rvlindi ic.ll, upright column. Three
(hafts, thicker above, fprcading. Summits
headed.
SHED-VKMEI.. A flclliy bciry, nearly egg-flnpcd,
one-celled, pedicel led.
SPMI-, many, egg.lhaprd, covered by a feed-coat.
RmUMth of the leed» triple, rived longitudinally
to tl:e rind of the berry.
• O i r l O CHAllACTKII.
igis, inte- P.i fiion - Flower with utidiiided leaves, heartinvolucro
' il I •. quite entire; fool-llalk* with
ililormi, two glands, fence three-leaved, larger than
the flower; fruit like ;ui apple.
U-LATICEOLALA, PLA-
[•t figura calycis.
. exterior lonirior,
ns, fupcrne magis
lubnlal.i, nd
bloHB) nhtiil'.i.
nudum, npici CO-
• nilldens. Styli
paiuii. Stigmata
ha, lubov.ua, unit
I F BR 1 NCR TO T it I I'l.ATF..
>er|iriidieularly through tlic middle, to Ihe
Ih the parts of fru 0. i rica lion complete.
is laid lo be a lojtmnier with us lince the year 1731, and to have been
is likewifc laid to be a native of Dominica, but it is found in all ihe
llowcis in ibis climate; and we Ihould not now have been able to grar,
but for the particular ingenuity, in llie treatment of hot-houle plants,
lint of the rich collection »1 plants in ihe gardens of |. Vere, Kfo. Ken.
pcricnec ill cultivation, added to a particular love tor the protemoti, ha«
reatment of exotics, in pai ticular, much beyond mod cultivators of the
taken from a plant which continued in flower irom July rill November;
eh earth, dole to the tan-pit, and trailed along the front rafter of ihe
efunie, by which it can be induced to flower, as we have, never feen it
th cafe bv cuttings.
IN amonj; hut.iiulK, lince the days of I.inn.en*. where to place this tribe
J MottMpbta, who is lately followed bv Willdenow, Schrebrr, Thun-
|Vnl.uidria. Hut our antii|u.ited notion* of the capability of that c.reat
i'yitem, thole plants which came under his actual review, has occaits
old clafs, jiitt as he left it.