This new and undescribed species of Gentian possesses many attractions. Its flowers are of a fine shining purply blue colour, and remain a long time in perfection, but only expand with the assistance of solar ray. Our figure represents a group of seedling plants, just as we found them growing in a small pot in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, who inform me they raised them from seed, and they flowered the second year, but think they will only prove biennial.[Pg 35]
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PLATE DX.
ASPALATHUS GLOBOSUS.
Round-flowering Aspalathus.
CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads in two Sets. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx quinquefidus. Corolla papilionacea. Legumen ovatum, inaristatum, sub-dispermum.