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P L A T E CCCXVIII.
H í E M A N T H U S M U L T I F L O R U S.
Many-flowered Blood-Flower.
C L A S S VI. O R D E R I.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.
G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
CALYX. Involucrum hexaphj'lluni, maximum,
umbelluliierum ; foliolis ereélis, obloiigís,
perfifteiitibus.
COROLLA monopetala, erefta, fexpartita; laciiiiis
ereñis, lincaribus; tubo breviflimo,
angolato.
STAMINA. Filamenta fex, fubulata, tubo corollie
inferta, corolla longiora. Antherse
incumbentes,, oblongae.
PisTiLLUM. Germen inferum. Stylus (implex,
longitudine ftaminum. Stigma limplex.
PEKICAKPIUM. Bacca fubrotunda, trilocularis.
SEMINA folitaria, triquetra.
EMPALEMENT. Fence fix-leaved, large, bearing
a fmall umbel ; leaflets upright, oblong, permanent.
BLOSSOM one petal, upright, fix-parted ; fegments
upright, linear; tube very fliort,
angular.
CHIVES. Threads fix, awl-fliaped, inferted into
the tube of the bloffom, longer than the
bloffbm. Tips laying on the threads, oblong.
POINTAL. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple,
the length of the chives. Summit fimple.
SEED-VESSEL. Berry roundiili, three-celled.
SEEDS folitary, three-fided.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Haemanthus foliis plicatis, undulatis, ereftis,
lato-ianceolatis; umbella globofa; floribus
confertis ; petalis paten ti b u s ; fcapo
ad bafin maculato.
Blood flower with plaited leaves, waved, upright
and broad-lance lliaped; umbel globular;
flowers crowded; petals fpreading;
flower-ftem fpotted at the bale.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE,
] . The Leaves and part of the Flower-Stem, in miniature.
2. A Flower, complete, natural fize.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.
4. A Seed-bud, cut tranfverfely.
5. The embryo of a Seed.
THIS plant is faid to have been in our European gardens fo long ago as the year 1603: having, at
that time, been fent to Paris by the younger Robin from Guinea. But however this tnay be, as yet
there is no figure of the plant by which it may be known from many of this beautiful tribe, except
the one by the late Mr. Nodder. We are indebted for its lail introduilion to the honourable the
Sierra Leone Company, who received, in 1792, the roots of this plant, amongfl; many others, from
that fettlement; vthich were by them prefented to MeflTrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammerfmith. Our
figure was taken in June from a plant in flower this prefent year, 1803, in the colleftion of J. Vere,
Esq. Kenfington Gore, where, from the particular management of Mr. Anderfon, the fame root
has flowered feveral times; a circumftance that but rarely happens wi th thefe bulbs after the firfi: year
f r om importation. As a native of fo hot a clime it mull be kept in the bark bed of the hot-houfe;
and, when the plant is not in flower, fhould be watered but fparingly. We as yet are unacquainted
with any mode by which it may be propagated. It flouriihes moft in rich mould. Our figure reprefents
the plant in a fmall fpeciinen, as the head of flowers is frequently, in this country, of three
times the fize.
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