The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 06 [of 10]

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.
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.