_Honey-cups_ four, each consisting of a small slight scale, fixed on the outside the base of each seed-bud. CHIVES. Eight short threads, four of which are fixed to the middle, and four to the base of the blossom. Tips nearly round, and simple. POINTAL. Four seed-buds, oblong, ending in awl-shaped shafts. Summits blunt. SEED-VESSEL. Four capsules, egg-shaped, tapering, upright and three sided, opening inwards along the seam. SEEDS many, very small. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Vereia, foliis oppositis, crenatis, patentibus; racemis longissimis laxis; floribus luteis. Vereia, with opposite, scolloped, spreading leaves; very long loose spikes, and yellow flowers. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, (natural size.) 2. A Blossom cut open to shew the situation of the Chives. 3. The Seed-vessel, Shafts, and Summits, with the scales of the Honey-cups, as they stand in the blossom, (magnified.) 4. One Capsule of the Seed-vessel detached. This genus of Plants must class with Linnæus’s natural order of Succulents, nearly approaching Crassula in habit; but as the Sexual System is the basis of our theory, we cannot admit it under that or any other yet described genus; we have therefore named it after James Vere, Esq. long and well known for his extended and liberal patronage to the professors and cultivators of the science; in whose beautiful and select collection at Kensington Gore, the present species, has for the first time, flowered in this kingdom. Mr. Anderson the gardener informs us, that this plant is a native of Sierra Leone; from whence it was sent to England, by Professor Eld. Elfzelius, in the year 1793; that he has treated it as a tender hot-house plant, keeping it constantly in the tan bed, by which means he has made it flower; but from every appearance of the plant, we should be led to think the common treatment of hot-house Succulents would answer for this. It is easily propagated by cuttings; grows to the height of three or four feet, having when in flower the appearance of a middle sized shrub; blows in the winter months, and thrives best in rich mould. [Illustration] PLATE XXII. GOODENIA CALENDULACEA. _Cape Marygold-leaved Goodenia._ CLASS V. ORDER I. _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium quadrifidum, superum, persistens. COROLLA monopetala, supra longitudinaliter fissa, genitalia exferens; limbo quinquefido, secundo. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ lineares. PISTILLUM. Germen inferum. Stylus simplex. Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula oblonga, bilocularis, bivalvis; dissepimento parallelo. SEMINA plura, scabrida. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-cleft, above, and remaining.