_Honey-cups_ five, each consisting of a small scale notched at the end, and fixed on the outside the base of each seed-bud. CHIVES. Five threads, awl-shaped, the length of the tube, fixed into the claws of the blossom. Tips simple. POINTAL. Seed-buds five, oblong, pointed, ending in awl-shaped shafts, the length of the chives. Summits blunt. SEED-VESSEL. Five capsules, oblong, pointed, upright, pressed together, and opening inwards along the seam. SEEDS, many, small. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Crassula foliis oppositis, amplexicaulibus, ciliatis, linearibus; floribus capitatis, odoratissimis, luteis. Crassula with opposite leaves that embrace the stem, fringed and linear; the flowers grow in bunches, are sweet-scented and yellow. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Blossom cut open to shew the insertion of the threads. 3. One Petal of the blossom. 4. The five Pointals as they stand in the blossom, with their honey-cups attached to the bottom of the Seed-buds. 5. One Pointal (magnified). The Crassula Odoratissima is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was introduced to our gardens about the year 1794, but did not flower till 1796. The scent of this plant at night is so very powerful, that by many it may be deemed almost offensive, though by others it is considered as most agreeable; the flavour is nearly affined to the tuberose. This is not a very shewy plant, growing about a foot high, and flowers from March, till May or June. It is most easily propagated by cuttings, lives in the common greenhouse with very little care, and in almost any sort of earth. This figure was taken at Messrs. Lee and Kennedy’s, nurserymen, Hammersmith, where the plant was first raised. [Illustration] PLATE XXVII. GLADIOLUS RINGENS. _Var. cinereo odorato._ _Gaping Ash-coloured sweet Gladiolus._ CLASS III. ORDER I. _TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-partita, ringens. STAMINA adscendentia. BLOSSOM six divisions, gaping. CHIVES ascending. See Plate XI. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis linearibus, costatis; floribus ringentibus, cineriis, odoratissimis. Gladiolus with linear, ribbed leaves; the blossoms gaping, ash-coloured, and very sweet-scented. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two sheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Blossom cut open to expose the insertion of the Chives. 3. The Pointal (one Summit magnified). 4. A Seed in its coat.