The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 05 [of 10]

Volume 5 — PLATE CCCXXIX.

Reading edition

PHARNACEUM LINEARE. Var. flo. albo.

Linear-leaved Pharnaceum. White Var.

CLASS V. ORDER III.

PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Five Chives. Three Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 5-phyllus. Corolla nulla.

Capsula 3-locularis, polysperma.

Cup 5-leaved. Blossom none.

Capsule 3-celled, many-seeded.

See Pharnaceum lineare. Pl. CCCXXVI. V. V.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Pharnaceum foliis linearibus, verticillatis; umbellis inequalibus; calycibus albo-virentibus; caule decumbente.

Pharnaceum with linear leaves, growing in whorls; umbels unequal; cups whitish green; stem bending downwards.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Flower. 2. The Cup and Chives. 3. The Seed-bud and Pointals, natural size. 4. The same, magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, cut transversely, magnified.

We have given this variety of the linear-leaved Pharnaceum, at the same time with the orange-coloured, as being the only two Cape species, at present, in our gardens. It is equally tender and delicate with its fellow, is equally difficult to propagate; and was introduced, this last time, to the Hibbertian Collection in 1800, by Mr. Niven, with it.

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