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DIOSMA UNIFLORA. ONE-FLOWERED
DlOSMA.
Clafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Cor. 5-petala. NeEfaria 5, fupra germen. Caff. 3. f. 5.
coalitae. Sent, calyptrata.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
DIOSMA uniflora foliis ovato oblongis, floribus folitariis
terminalibus. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 3. p. 287. Syft.
Vegetal, ed. 1 4. Murr. p. 239. Ait. Kew. v. i .
p. 2 76.
CISTUS humilis sethiopicus, inferioribus foliis rofmarini
fylveftris punftatis, cseteris autem ferpylli fubro-.
tundis, flore carneo. Pluk. mant. 49. /. 342.^ 5.
The Diofma uniflora another native of. the Cape, that never
Failing fource of vegetable riches, was introduced to the Royal
Garden at Kew by Mr. MASSON in the year 1775, it flowers
in our Green-Houfes from April to June, and is ufually pro
pagated by cuttings.
This plant forms a fmall bufhy fhrub, the leaves are thickly
and irregularly let on the branches, quite up to the flowers,
which ftand fingly on their fummits, and are larger than thofe
of any other known fpecies of Diofma, expanding as we have
found on trial beyond the fize of half-a-crown, which the
blnffom does in our figure, though it will not appear to do fo
t«thc eye of moft obfervers; they are without fcent, the calyx
'"s '=irge and continuing, compofed of five ovato-lanceolate
''-' ivcji reddifh on the upper fide, and if viewed from above
vifiblc between the petals; the petals are five in number, much
Ur-'i r than the calyx, and deciduous, of a white colour with a
flrtiik of red running down the middle of each, furface highly
R''"ed, the ftamina are compofed of five fhort filaments, white
a''' Hightly hairy, broad at their bafe and tapering gradually
tlj a fine point, by which they are inferted into the hind part
of