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P L A T E CCCXLVITI.
S C H O T I A SPECIOSA.
Lentifciis-leaved Scliotia.
C L A S S X. ORDER I.
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Cliives. One Pointal.
G E N E R I C
CALYX. Perianthiuiii monophyUura, coloralmii;
tubus turbinatus, lubcomprelTus, carnolus;
periìlìeiis; limbus lemiquinquetìdus; laciniis
ovaiis, coiicavis, obtufis, e reai s , aequalibus.
COROLLA. Pétala quinqué, tubo calycis impoiìta,
oblonga j concava, obtufa, creòìa, asqua-
]ia, lateribus mutuò incumbentia, lelìilia,
laciniis cnij'cinis duplo longiora.
STAMINA. Filamenta decern, lubulala, erefla,
pe_tnli.s pauJolongiora, tubo calycis in orbem
inlerta. Antiieras oblongaa, incumbcntes.
FISTILLUM. Germen oblongum, comprefliuii,
pedicellatum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine
tìaminum. Stigma iìmplex, obtufum.
PKRICARPIUM. Legumen pedicellatum.
SEMINA bina, oflea, fubovata, ma^na
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C H A l î A C T E t ; .
EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, coloured; tube
top-lhaped, rather flattened, iicdiy : perman
e n t ; border half five-cleft; fegments eggihaped,
concave, blunt, upright, equal.
BLOSSOM. Five petals, placed on Ihe tube of
the cup, oblong, concave, blunt, upright,
equal, lying over each other at the (ides,
fitting, twice as long as the fegments of the
cop.
CHIVES. Ten threads, awl-fliaped, upright, a
little longer than the petals, inferted in a
ring into the tube of the cup. Tips oblong,
laying on the threads.
POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong; flattened, with a
foot-iialk. Shaft ihread-fliaped, the length
of the chives. Summit fimple, blunt.
SEED-VESSEL. A pod wi t h a foot-ftalk.
SEEDS two, bony, a little egg-lliaped, large.
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S P E C I F I C
Schotia foliis pinnat is; foliolis ovatis, mucronatis;
floribus cymoiis, profundé carneis.
CHARACTEP..
Schotia with winged leaves; leaflets egg fliaped,
terminating in a point; flowers in tufts and
I of a deep fletli colour.
E E P E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower cut and fpiead open, fliewn from the outfide.
2. Ihelame, lliewn from the iniide.
b. A Flower, with the petals, and border of the Cup removed, to fhew the infertion
ot the Chives into the tube of the Cup.
4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, with the tube of the Cup cut in halves
OUR p ref tnt fubjea flood formerly at tached to the genus Guaiacum, under the title of G afFrum am)
has been long cuhn^ted in Britain and Holland, peih.psmore th.n a century. Profeti.rJacqui'n n
h,s Collectanea ad Bot ijo. Vol.1, p.gs, thought fit to conli.tule it a new genus, nan.ing fe"
his companion R. van der Schot. About the lame time, the year l-fe«, a m.mo.raph on tM, oTant
was pubh lied at Manhenn, by Fred. Cafim. Medikus, unde/ the name of The^lora Sp. c i l ' b"
lacqnm s title has univerfa ly obtained. To preferve ihin plant in good health, it (houId be k ^ t
the coo eil p,yt of the hot-houle, or ui a dry flove, the warmt h of a common green houfe being Íílif
hcient to preferve lis fohage through the winter months, it i.s a native of all that extent of the Afric" „
upward., The ieeds, which are frequently imported, keep many years in a vegetative thtte and is
almoft, the only method hy which, it can be propagated; f¿r little fuccefs can be hoped 'herfVom
hap.,, no plant which has been as long ,n cultivation with us, has fo feldom been feen to flower- for
although the plants HI the Kew gardens and elfewhere, are of a co.ifiderable fize, yet ha,-e we few in
coHeaion ^ "" time of inflorefcence in the catalogue of that
From a plant flill in flower, this prefent December 180,3, which was literally covered with bloffon^
is above two feet f rom ,t.s top, our drawing was taken ; it is in the valuable a.Kl extent,ve col eaiou
of Ilnac Swamlon Efq. Twickenham; which for fcientific a r rangement and richnefs in hTt-dritub
f r l ,1 T"' wc know of and wl ch
f r om the extreme urbanity of the liberal proprietor, is at all times open, to every botanift oTcoUeftor
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