_OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Eight Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, infundibuliforme, coloratum; tubo filiformi, longissimo; limbo quadripartito, plano. COROLLA. Petala quatuor, sessilia, plana, calyce breviora, eique inserta. STAMINA. Filamenta octo, setacea, erecta, longitudine ferme floris. Antheræ simplices. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis, germinis lateri insertus, longitudine staminum. Stigma capitatum, hispidum. PERICARPIUM nullum. Fructus in fundo calycis. SEMEN unicum, ovatum. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, funnel-shaped and coloured; tube thread-shaped, very long; border of four segments, which are flat. BLOSSOM. Petals four, sitting close to the cup, flat, shorter than the cup, and fixed within it. CHIVES. Threads eight, awn-like, upright, scarcely the length of the flower. Tips simple. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, fixed into the side of the seed-bud, and of the length of the chives. Summit headed, and hairy. SEED-VESSEL none. Fruit in the lower part of the cup. SEED one, egg-shaped. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gnidia, foliis sparsis, lineari-subulatis; ramis verticillatis; floribus aggregatis, terminalibus. Gnidia with scattered, linearly awl-shaped leaves; branches grow in whorls; the flowers terminating the branches in clusters. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Flower with its seed, (natural size). 2. The same cut open, to shew the situation and insertion of the Chives into the tube of the Empalement. 3. The Pointal, (magnified).