[Illustration: _Vol. VI._ _of the_ Botanists Repository _Comprising, Colour’d Engravings_ of _New and Rare Plants_ ONLY With Botanical Descriptions _&c._ ----_in_---- _Latin and English, after the_ Linnæan System, _by H. Andrews Botanical Painter Engraver &c._ Mo. Bot. Garden. 1904. ] PLATE CCCLXI. SANSEVIERA CARNEA. _Flesh-coloured Sanseviera._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA infera monopetala, tubo filiformi, limbo, 6-partito, revoluto. Stamina limbo inserta. Bacca 1-sperma. COROLLA beneath of one petal, with a thread-shaped tube, and 6-parted revolute limb. Threads inserted into the limb. Berry one seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C. Sanseviera. Foliis distichis, lanceolato-ensiformibus, carinatis, floribus solitariis sessilibus. Sanseviera. With leaves two-ranked, lance-sword shaped, keeled, flowers solitary, sessile. DESCRIPTIO. Herba perennis, habitu Hemerocallidis. _Radix_ subcarnosus, fibris longissimis subsimplicibus. _Folia_ radicalia, subdisticha, effusa, lanceolato-ensiformia, fere pedalia, trinervia, (nervo medio carinæformi) basin imbricata et profunde caniliculata, marginibus apices versus asperiusculis. _Scapus_ radicalis, et quasi lateralis, palmaris, suberectus, angulatus, superne carneus. _Flores_ spicati, ascendentes, sessiles, alterni, carnei, intus pallidiores. _Bracteæ_ ovato-acuminatæ, concavæ, carneæ, flores amplectentes. _Corolla_ 6-partita, tubo angulato longitudine bractearum; laciniis revolutis sublanceolatis, tubo aliquo longioribus, supremâ paulo majore. _Filamenta_ 6 æqualia, alba, basi laciniarum inserta, laciniis aliquo brevioribus. _Antheræ_ erectæ, utrinque emarginatæ, sulphureæ. _Stylus_ carneus, paulo declinatus, antheris vix superans. _Stigma_ obtusum album, obsoletissime trilobatum. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A floral leaf. 2. The flower cut open, with one of the tips magnified. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud, and the summit magnified.