Diosma, foliis oppositis, serratis, ovalibus, latissimis; floribus terminalibus, albidis, sessilibus. Diosma with opposite leaves, sawed, oval, and very broad; flowers terminal, white, and sitting close to the branches. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Blossom complete. 2. The Chives and Pointal, with the surrounding Seed-buds and Honey-cups. 3. The Pointal, natural size, with the Empalement attached. 4. The same magnified. 5. A Seed taken from its coat. There are few genera of plants more deserving our notice than Diosma; the fragrance of the leaves of most of the species, and the beauty of the flowers of others, has rendered them so common, (being easily propagated by cuttings) that few collections but have a number of the different species. They are all very hardy greenhouse plants, the present species excepted; this, requiring a dry situation, and rather more warmth than the rest. It was sent to the royal gardens at Kew, about the year 1791, by Mr. F. Masson, to whose industry botany stands so much indebted. Of all the Diosmas this is the highest grower, aspiring to three or four feet, or more, if encouraged; delights in peat earth, and flowers about the month of August. [Illustration] PLATE XXXIV. CHELONE RUELLIOIDES. _Scarlet Chelone._ CLASS XIV. ORDER II. _DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA._ Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quinquepartitum, brevissimum, persistens; laciniis erectis, ovatis. COROLLA monopetala, ringens; tubus cylindraceus, brevissimus; faux inflata, oblonga, supra convexa, infra plana; limbus clausus parvus; labium superius obtusum, emarginatum; limbus inferius cum superiori fere æquale, lævissime trifidum. STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, sub dorso corollæ recondita, quorum duo lateralia paulo longiora; antheræ incumbentes. Rudimentum quinti filamenti, mucronis instar, intra superius staminum par. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis, situ, et longitudine staminum. Stigma obtusum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula ovata, bilocularis, calyce longior. SEMINA plurima, sub rotunda, margine membranaceo cincta. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five divisions very short, permanent; segments upright and egg-shaped. BLOSSOM. One petal, gaping; tube cylindrical, very short; mouth swelled, oblong, rounded on the upper, and flat on the lower part; border shut, and small; upper lip blunt, bordered; lower lip nearly as long as the upper, slightly divided into three at the end. CHIVES. Threads four, hid under the upper part of the blossom; of which the two side ones are a little longer than the others. Tips fixed sideways to the threads. The rudiment of a fifth thread, like a sharp point is placed equal with, and between the upper chives.