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PLATE DXX.
E U O S M A ALBIFLORA.
White-Jiowered Euosma.
CLASS V. ORDER L
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointat.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALTX persistens, basi bracteatus, quinque-partitus,
laciniis subrotundis appressis.
COROLLA canipanulataj limbo patente 5-lobo.
STAMINA quinque tnbo inserta, inclusa, divisurisque
corollae alterna : Filanienta brevia ;
Antherae subrotundae, compressas,
GEKMEN superum, subovatum : Stylus crassus,
brevis : Stigma capitatum.
CAPSULA glabra cuneato-ovata, stylo persistente
coronata, bisulca, dicocca : Cocculi bivalves
polyspermi, intus ad apices dehiscentes :
Eeceptacula in singulo cocculo singulum,
subtrigonum, longum, erectum, marginibus
valvarum annexura.
SEMINA ovata, 'hinc convexa, inde depressa papillis
minutissimis undique scabra, duplici
serie receptáculo imposita.
EMPALEMENT persistent, bracteated at the base,
5-parted, with the divisions nearly round,
and lying close.
BLOSSOM bell-shaped, the mouth spreading 5-
lobed.
CHIVES five inserted in the tube and included,
alternate with the divisions of the blossom :
Threads short : Tips nearly round, compressed.
SEED-EUD above, oval: Shaft thick and short:
Summit simple-headed.
FRUIT a dry capsule of an oval wedge-shape,
two-furrowed, dividing into two parts, and
crowned with the persistent shaft : each
part is two-valved and many-seeded, opening
on the inside at the top : Receptacles for
tlie seeds one in each cell ; they are long,
three-sided and erect, lying upon the edges
of the valves.
SEEDS oval, convex on one side and depressed
on the otlier, eveiy where rough with minute
tubercles, and placed upon the receptacle
in a double series.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A blossom.
3. The same spread open.
4. Seed-bud and pointal.
5. The same magnified.
6. The capsule.
7- The same split into two divisions.
8. One of the divisions uncovered, to show the situation of tlie seed,
g. A ripe seed.
THE specimen of this new and very distinct genus was communicated April the 11th by the marquis
of Blandford frorh a fine plant in his lordship's collection at Whi t e Knights, planted against a wall on
a south aspect, about four ieet high, and nearly covered with blossoms. Its great fragrance, more resembling
that of the Afay (Crataegus Oxyacantha) than any thing else we are acquainted wilh, makes
the plant very desirable to collectors, and the more so, that it is hardy enough to bear our winters
witliout the shelter of a green-house, and blossoms so early in spring. This fragrant shrub is a native
of New Holland in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson, from whence we have seen fine specimens ia
the collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. who favoured us with the ripe fruit. Who first introduced the
plant, we have not beeii able to learn, but iiave seen it in several collections.
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