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P L A T E DLXVIII.
L I P A R I A S P H i E R I C A .
Round-headed Liparia.
C L A S S XVII. O RDE R IV.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives.-
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
C a l y x quinqiiefidusj lacinia infima elongata.
Corollae al^ inferius bilobse. Filamenta alternatinj
breviora. Legumen polyspermum.
CALYX 5-cleft, the lower segment very long.
Wings of the blossom two-lobed on the
lower side. Chives alternately shorter. Pod
many-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
LIPARIA floribus capitatis; foliis lanceolatis,
nervosis, glabris. Willi, 8p. PI. vol. iii.
LIPARIA with flowers In heads; the leaves lanceshapedj
nerved, and smooth.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A bract.
2. The empalement.
3. A flower spread open.
4 . The chives.
5 . The same spread open,
6. Seed-bud and pointal.
7. A back view of the head of flowers.
AFRICA has long been celebrated as the land of wonders and novelties, and its vegetable as well as animal
productions well entitle it to that character. The beauty and astonishing variety of ever-varying
Geraniums, delicate Ixias, elegant Ericas, superb Amaryllises, and magnificent Proteas, received from
the Cape of Good Hope alone within these few years, and many of them totally unknown before, have
given to our gardens that splendour and perpetual novelty which justly make them the admiration of
the world. Whatitill more enhances the pleasure is, that the mine is yet unexhausted, as our present
charming subject, not before enumerated in any of our catalogues of cultivated plants, will testify.
Mr. Milne, gardener at Fonthill, well known for his zeal and skill in the cultivation of rare plants^
obligingly communicated the specimens. Having,forwarded the first a little- too early, being struck with
the singular beauty, and not knowing the habits of the plant, a fortnight after he forwarded a third
specimen fully expanded, from which the figure is taken. Mr. Milne informs us, that he raised the
Liparia from Cape seeds some years ago, and has kept it in the conservatory, where it is now in blossom.
The plant is branchy, and between four and five feet in height. He thinks he possesses two
more new species of the genus raised at the same time, which have not yet blossomed with hiir.