4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits. This most singular Gladiolus was received, amongst a variety of others, in the year 1799, from the Cape of Good Hope, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith; at whose nursery it flowered in March, this year 1801, for the first time. It is a hardy bulb, and propagates freely from the root; grows about two feet high, and, before flowering, has much the appearance of G. tristis. [Illustration] PLATE CLXVII. BRUNSFELSIA UNDULATA. _Waved-flowered Brunsfelsia._ CLASS XIV. ORDER II. _DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA._ Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, campanulatum, quinquedentatum, obtusum, minimum, persitens. COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus longissimus, subincurvus; limbus planus, quinquefidus, obtusus. STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, brevissima. Antheræ oblongæ, erectæ, filamentis dorso affixæ. PISTILLUM. Germen subrotundum, parvum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi. Stigma crassiusculum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula extus baccata, globosa, unilocularis, bivalvis. SEMINA plurima, compressa, hinc convexa, inde angulata, punctato-scabra. RECEPTACULUM fundo capsulæ adnatum, paleaceum; paleis coadunatis, apice subulatis, semina distinguentibus. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, bell-shaped, five-toothed, blunt, very small, remaining. BLOSSOM. One petal, funnel-shaped; tube very long, rather curved; border flat, five-cleft, obtuse. CHIVES. Four threads, very short. Tips oblong, upright, fixed by the back to the threads. POINTAL. Seed-bud roundish, small. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the tube. Summit rather fleshy. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule on the outside a berry, globular, one cell, two valves. SEEDS many, flat, convex on one side, angular on the other, roughly punctured. RECEPTACLE fixed to the bottom of the capsule, chaffy; chaffs joining at the base, awl shaped at the point, separating the seeds. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Brunsfelsia foliis lanceolato-obovatis, utrinque acuminatis, petiolis brevissimis; tubus parum incurvatus, laciniis limbi undulatis. Brunsfelsia with leaves between lance and inversely egg-shaped, tapered to both ends, footstalks very short; tube a little incurved, the segments of the border waved. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The tube of the blossom cut open, to shew the insertion and character of the Chives. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud.