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P L A T E CCCXXXiy.
S T R U T H I O L A TOMENTOSA.
Downy-leaved Struthiola.
CLASS IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHAKACTEK.
PiKiANTHiUM diphyllum. Corolla tubulofa,
4-fida. Neftariiim glandulae ofto fauci circumpofitae.
Semen unum fubbaccatum.
Cur two-leaved. Bloflbm tubular, 4-cIeft. Honey
cup 8 glands, placed round the mouth
of the bloflbm. One feed like a berry.
S e e STRUTHIOLA IMERICATA, PI, C X I I i . V o l . 11.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Struthiola foliis ovatis, concavis, calloCs, tomentolis,
imbricatis ; neftario duodecim
partito.
Struthiola with egg-ihaped leaves, concave, callous,
downy and tiled j honey-cup with
twelve divifions.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The two leaves of the Empalement, magnified.
2. A Flower complete, magnified
3. A Bloflbm cut open, to (hew the fituation of the chives, magnified
4. A Seed-bud, witli the Shaft and Summit, a little magnified.
THE Clapham Colleaion is the only one in which this curious fpecies of Struthiola is, at prefent to
be feen. t was fent by Mr. Niven, from the Cape, in 1799, and flowered, for the firft t iml laft ye r
1802, m the month of Auguft, when our drawing was made. It is a tender Green-houfe plan , a,
a r e m o f t o f th:s natural order, from that country; being fufceptible of too great moifture, ei^e
^ l e n expofed to the open air during heavy rains in fummer, or from over watering in winter
Wherefore they are beft preferved by flieltering them in an airy fituation during fummer! and giving
them but httle water in winter. It is encreafed by cuttings, taken oflf in the month of May, planted
an a pot, filled to the margin with fandy loam, and plunged under a hand-glafs, in a (hady border,
without watering the loam. It grows moil flouriihing in a mixture of fandy peat and loam, the peat