Seed-vessel. An oval, or globular berry with three cells; partitions skinny.
Seeds solitary, and egg-shaped.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Limonia foliis ternatis; spinis geminis, axillaribus.
Limonia with leaves composed of three leaflets; spines grow by pairs at the footstalks of the leaves close to the stem.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement, magnified.
2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified, as they stand in the Blossom.
3. The Pointal natural size.
4. The same, magnified.
5. A ripe berry.
6. A Seed.
This plant, a native of China, has since its introduction, as are most plants coming from thence, been cultivated with us as a hot-house plant; but from every natural affinity, we should be led to suppose it would endure our winters, in the green-house. As yet it is in few collections and scarce; therefore, till it becomes more plenty, it will, most likely, not undergo that ordeal. Our drawing was taken from a branch in high perfection, communicated by Mr. Anderson, from the collection of J. Vere, Esq. Kensington Gore, last year 1800, in the month of July; who informs us, he has been enabled to propagate it by cuttings, and that he keeps it in a mixture of loam and rotten dung.[Pg 579]
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