Volume 9 — PLATE DLX. VEREA ACUTIFLORA. Pointed-flowered Verea.

CLASS VIII. ORDER IV.

OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Eight Chives. Four Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 4-phyllus. Corolla hypocrateriformis, 4-fida: tubo ventricoso, Nectaria 4, ad basin germinum. Capsulæ 4, superæ, 1-loculares, polyspermæ.

Empalement 4-leaved. Blossom funnel-shaped, 4-sided: tube bellied. Nectaries 4, at the base of the seed-buds. Capsules 4, above, one-celled, many-seeded.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Verea foliis lato-lanceolatis, oppositis, crenatis, crassis: floribus paniculatis, terminalibus: corollis albentibus: laciniis oris acutissimis.

Verea with leaves broadly lance-shaped, opposite, scolloped, and thick. Flowers paniculated and terminal. Blossom whitish: segments of the border very pointed.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This new species of Verea flowered (we believe, for the first time in this country) in the collection of the Hon. C. Greville at Paddington, whence our drawing was taken. The foliage is compact, and rather handsome. The flowers are by no means specious; but, as it blossoms in the depth of winter, its rivals are but few. This considered, with the addition of its novelty, renders it a valuable acquisition to the hot-stove.