SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Embothrium foliis linearibus, subtomentosis, uninerviis; florum racemis axillaribus; corollis albis. Semina nuda.
Embothrium with linear leaves rather downy, one-nerved; the small heads of flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves; the blossoms white. Seeds naked.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower, complete.
2. One of the petals, with the chive at the end.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified.
4. A ripe Seed-pod burst and empty.
5. A ripe Seed.
This species of Embothrium was introduced to Britain at the same time as the Silky Embothrium, of our second volume, plate 100; and has been considered but as a third variety of it, by Dr. Smith, in his First Number of New Holland Botany, page 23. But the total difference in the habit of the plant, except in the shape of the flowers, has induced us to give it a specific title. It grows to the height of five or six feet, not very bushy; abounding through the whole year in a succession of flowers, which proceed from the young branches; ripe seed being produced upon the plant at the same time. It should be planted in light sandy peat, and kept in a dry part of the green-house, as the younger branches are apt to suffer from damps in the months of December and January. Our drawing was made at the Hammersmith nursery, in the year 1800, about the month of July.[Pg 518]