The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom . the Marquis of Blandford atWhite Knights, near Reading, Berks, from a branch of which, obligingly communicated by his Lord-Ihip, our drawing was taken, the b
The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom . the Marquis of Blandford atWhite Knights, near Reading, Berks, from a branch of which, obligingly communicated by his Lord-Ihip, our drawing was taken, the beginning of July, this year. The Plant grows to the height of lix or feven leet, upright, very branching, the branches weep-ing, and the flowers, which grow in fpikes or branches of about fix inches in length, project, ftraightout, from about the middle of the Item. Jt grows belt in a mixture of two thirds fandv peat, and one third loam; may be propagated bycuttings made, from the tender fhoots, in the month of March, and kept under a glafs, in the tan bedof the hothoufe, or in a melon frame until rooted. Ibis fpecies of Melaleuca and the Metrolideios Nodofa of Gaertner, lit Vol. de fruft. p. 1 2, t. 34,f. 6, we mult conlider as the fame, though made by Dr. Smith, fee Linn. Trail I. Vol. III. p. 2/t>,diflinct fpecies; perhaps from fpecimens gathered at different times, differently dried, or from difler-rnt parts of the I PLATE CLXXVt. CHAT/EVA Crateeva. CLASS XL ORDER MONOGVNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Search. Gen. Plant. Vol. I. p. 320. Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifi-dum, deciduum, ball planum; lacmiis pa-tentibus, ovatis, inaequalibus. Corolla. Petala quatuor, oblonga, , longitudine calycis, divifuris in-ferta. Stamina. Filamenta fedecim vel plura, fetacea,corolla breviora. Antherae erectae, oblonga;. Pistillum. Germen, pedicello filiformi, lon-giflimo, ovatum. Stylus nullus. S
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