Seed-vessel none. Fruit furnished with long awns, five dry berries.

Seeds solitary, in a seed-coat with a very long awn, becoming spiral.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Monsonia foliis inciso-lobatis, hirsutis; lobis inequaliter dentatis.

Monsonia with deeply-cut lobes, hairy; lobes unequally toothed.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Petal of the flower, shewn from the backside.

3. A Petal of the flower, shewn from the inside.

4. The Chives and Pointal divested of the petals.