_DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Twelve Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Schreb. _Gen. Plant. Vol. I. p. 320._ CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifidum, deciduum, basi planum; laciniis patentibus, ovatis, inæqualibus. COROLLA. Petala quatuor, oblonga, unguibus tenuibus, longitudine calycis, divisuris inserta. STAMINA. Filamenta sedecim vel plura, setacea, corolla breviora. Antheræ erectæ, oblongæ. PISTILLUM. Germen, pedicello filiformi, longissimo, ovatum. Stylus nullus. Stigma sessile, capitatum. PERICARPIUM. Bacca? carnosa, globosa, maxima, pedicellata, unilocularis, bivalvis. SEMINA plura, subrotunda, emarginata, nidulantia. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, four-cleft, falling off, flat at the base; segments spreading, egg-shaped, unequal. BLOSSOM. Four petals, oblong, claws slender, the length of the cup and inserted into the divisions. CHIVES. Threads sixteen or more, like bristles, shorter than the blossom. Tips erect, oblong. POINTAL. Seed-bud on a thread-shaped and very long foot-stalk, egg-shaped. Shaft none. Summit sitting on the seed-bud, headed. SEED-VESSEL. A Berry? fleshy, globular, large, with a foot-stalk, one-celled, two-valved. SEEDS many, roundish, notched at the end, dispersed in pulp. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Cratæva foliolis elipticis, glabris; floribus umbellatis, terminalibus, luteo-viridibus, petalis longissimis, apicibus crispis. Cratæva with eliptical, smooth leaflets; flowers grow in umbels, terminal and yellow green; petals very long, crisped at the ends. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Shews the Pointal, part of the Chives, and three Petals of the blossom; a few of the Chives, one of the Petals, and the leaves of the Empalement, being removed, the better to exhibit the structure of the blossom. 2. The Pointal, complete.