MONOGYNA. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rostratus, penta-coccus.
ONE POINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furnished with long awns, five dry
berries.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis pinnatis; foliolis inequaliter dentatis barbatis;
floribus umbellatis; staminibus quinque fertilibus, binis longioribus
reflexis; scapo polystachio; radice tuberosa.
Geranium with winged leaves; leaflets unequally toothed and bearded;
flowers grow in umbels; five fertile chives, the two longest reflexed;
flower-stem branched; root tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The cup, natural size, cut open.
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural size.
3. The Chives cut and spread open, magnified.
4. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified.
The singular bearded termination, on each tooth, of the leaflets of this
species of Geranium, has induced us to give it a specific title;
although, in many other respects, it approaches very near two or three
others, already figured, by us, of this long genus. It is from the same
country with the other tuberous species, and introduced to the
Hibbertian collection in 1800, where our drawing was made in July 1802.
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PLATE CCCIV.
DAVIESIA ULICIFOLIA.
_Furze-leaved Daviesia._
CLASS X. ORDER I.
_DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Ten Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, campanulatum quinquedentatum; laciniis
equalibus erectis.
COROLLA papillionacea, pentapetala.
_Vexillum_ cordatum erectum.
_Alæ_ oblongæ, vexillo duplo breviores.
_Carina_ dipetala, alis paulo longiora.
STAMINA. Filamenta decem, distincta, assurgentia, longitudine carinæ.
Antheræ simplices minimæ.
PISTILLUM. German ovato-oblongum. Stylus subulatus, magnitudine et situ
staminum. Stigma acutum.
PERICARPIUM. Capsula triangularis, compressa, acuta, unilocularis,
bivalvis.
SEMEN unum, reniforme.
EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leaf, bell-shaped, five-toothed; segments equal,
upright.
BLOSSOM butterfly-shaped, five-petalled.
_Standard_ heart-shaped, upright.
_Wings_ oblong, half the length of the standard.
_Keel_ two petals, a little shorter than the wings.
CHIVES. Threads ten, distinct, turned upwards, the length of the keel.
Tips simple, very small.
POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong egg-shaped. Shaft awl-shaped, of the same size
and station as the chives. Summit pointed.
SEED-VESSEL. Capsule triangular, flat, sharp pointed, one cell, two
valves.
SEED one, kidney-shape.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Daviesia foliis lanceolatis, rigidis pungentibus; floribus axillaribus
spicatis.
Daviesia with lance-shaped leaves, harsh and pricking; flowers grow from
the insertion of the leaves in spikes.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement of the flower, natural size.
2. The Empalement magnified.
3. The Standard, or upper petal of the blossom.
4. One of the Wings of the blossom.
5. The two petals of the Keel.
6. The Chives, magnified.
7. The Pointal.
8. A ripe Seed-vessel.
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