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P L A T E CCCCLXXIX.
F R A G A R I A I N D I C A .
Indian Strawherry.
C L A S S XXIL ORDER V.
ICOSANDRIA rOLYGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Many Pointais,
G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
CALYX. Perianthium monophvllum, planum,
decerafidum : laciniis alteruatim exterioribiis,
angustioribus.
COROLLA. Pétala quinqué, subrotunda, patentia,
calyci inserta.
STAMINA. Filamenta viginti, subulata, corolla
breviora, calyci insería. Antherae lunulares.
P I S T I L L U M . Germina numerosa, minima, in
capituKim collecta. Styli simplices, latere
gerniinis inserti. Sligmala Simplicia.
P E R I C A R P I UM nullum. Bacca fit receptaculum
commune semiuuni, rotundo-ovata, pulposa,
mollis, magna, colorata, basi truncata,
decidua.
S E M I N A numerosa, minima, per superficiem
receptaculi sparsa.
S P E C I F I C
FRAGARIA foliis tripartitis : foliolis ovatis, acutis,
crenatis : petiolis longis : calyce decemfido,
inferne piloso : quinqué exterioribus
rotundatis, crenatis : interioribus ovatis,
acutis : pedunculis longis : floribus luteis :
fructu i-ubro, insipido. Rami pilosi, repentes.
EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leafed, flat, ten-cleft;
the segments are alternately exterior, and
narrowed.
BLOSSOM five-petalled, nearly round, spreading,
and inserted into the calyx.
CHIVES. Threads twenty, awl-shaped, shorter
than the blossom, inserted into the calyx.
Tips like a half-moon.
PoiNTAL. Seed-buds numerous and small, collected
into a head. Shaft simple, inserted
into the side of the germ. Summit simple.
S E E D - V E S S E L none. 'ïhe berry becomes the
common receptacle for the seeds, is of a round
ovate form, pulpy, soft, large, and coloured,
cut off at the base, and deciduous.
S E E D S numerous, small, on the outside of the
receptacle, scattered.
C H A R A C T E R .
STRAWBERRY with three-divided leaves : leaflets
ovate, pointed, and scolloped : footstalks
long : empalement ten-cleft, and hairy beneath
: the five outer ones are rounded and
notched: the inner ones are ovate, and
pointed : peduncles long : flowers yellow :
fruit red and insipid. Branches hairy, and
creeping.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement, seed-buds, chives, and pointals.
2. The same shown from the under side.
3. A pelal.
4. Seed-buds, chives, and pointals.
5. A seed-bud and pointal.
(j. The same magnified.
7. A seed-biid from the ripe fruit.
8. The same magnified.
T H I S new species of Fragaria, from the lively yellow flowers and brilliance of its fine red fruit, is desirable
as an ornamental plant, but is in no other respect estimable, from the insipidity of its fruit,
which is entirely destitute of flavour. It is a native of the north-east parts of Bengal. Our figure
was made from the only plant that has as yet flowered in England, in the gardens of the Honourable
C. Greville.
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