Volume 2 — PLATE CXXXIX. STRUTHIOLA CILIATA. Var. flore rubro. Fringed-leaved Struthiola. Var. red flowered.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Perianthium diphyllum. Corolla tubulosa, 4-fida; Nectarium, glandulæ octo fauci circumpositæ.

Semen unum, subbaccatum.

Cup two-leaved. Blossom tubular, 4-cleft; Honey-cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth of the blossom.

One Seed, like a berry.

See Struthiola imbricata, Pl. CXIII. Vol. II.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Struthiola foliis ovato-lanceolatis, mucronatis, ciliatis, concavis, quadrifariam imbricatis; glandulæ octo supra faucem; corolla rubra.

Struthiola with leaves between egg and lance-shaped, pointed, fringed, concave and tiled in four rows; eight glands upon the mouth of the blossom, which is red.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A leaf, natural size, from one of the younger branches. 2. A Blossom, with its Cup, or floral leaves. 3. The Cup, magnified. 4. A Blossom cut open, and magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified.

The two varieties of this species of Struthiola, the other with a white flower being intended for our next number, were introduced at the same time with the Struthiola imbricata, to which they much affine, in general habit. But, the strong distinction in the number and character of the glands, induced us to consider them of a distinct species; in this, they are eight, in S. imbricata there are but four; the leaves likewise not so closely set upon the stem, and they are much more fringed. For the culture and treatment of this, we must refer our readers to the directions, for managing the above named plant. We had our specimen, for the figure, from the Clapham collection in May 1800.

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