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GLORIOSA superba. 



Superb Gloriosa. 





HEXANDRIA MOXOGYXU. 



GLORIOSA. Cor. infera, 6-partita, aequalis, rrgutaris, laciniii 



Undulatis, longissimis, reflexis. Stum, imis laciniis insert*, gtylo (pbli- 

 <pio) breviora. Caps, ovalis, 3-Ioc, 3-valv., polyaperma ; son. m gv. 

 mino ordine disposita in singulo loculo, globosa. Can/is herbacvus, 

 scandem, ramosus-fo/ia apice cirrhosa ; peduucnli ]~Jiori, axil '/arcs et 

 terminates; radix tuber osa. Jussicu. gen. 48 ; sub Micthonica. 



G. superba, foliis cirrhiferis. Lin. sp> pi. 1. 437. 



Gloriosa superba. Mill. diet. ed. 8. n. 1. J I art. Kczc. 1. 434. ed. 2. 



2. 247- Gartn. sem. 1. 69. t. 18. /. 1. Wffld. $p. pi. 2. 95. I. G. 

 Matter sp.pl. Schneevoogt ic. 35. Andrews' s n posit. 129. 

 Methonica superba. DesfoHt. ami. du Museum. 1. 1127, Redoutc 



liliat. 26. 





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Methonica malabarorum. Herm. lugdb. 688. /. 689. Pluk. aim. J 19. 



Phyt.t.MQ.f. 3. 

 Lilium zeylanicum superbum. Comm. hort. 1. 69. t. 35. liudb. e/j/s. 



2. 178./. 7. 

 Mendoni. Rheed. mal. 7. 107. t. 57. 



Radix perennis, Jragili-carnosa, comprcsso-clongata, gnomonice curvata 

 cruribus demissis, digit urn circiter crassa, promens gemmam e summa jhxura. 

 Caulis herbaceus, orgyalis et ultra, teres crassitudine calami scriptorii, glaber 

 JbliosuSf debilist ope foliorum apice cirrhato-prehensilium sustentandus ; 

 ramosus ramis simplicibus, 2 oppositis, 3- 4rve verticillatis. Folia sparsa, dis- 

 tantia, ovato-lanceolata, lorxgius caudato-acuminata, cirrho spirali prcefixa. 

 Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, l-jlori. Flores 2-3-unciales, ccrnui, denub 

 miniato-coccinei. Corollae lacinice elongato-lanceolatce, de prope basin totes 

 reflexo-arrectce, undulatce. Fil. subulato-elongata, erecto-nntoit'm, laciniis 



2uarum basi inserta breviora; anth. vibratiles. Germ, oblongum. Stylus 

 orizontaliter assurgens, ad basin defracto-obliquatus et unguium rectum cum 

 germine ejficiens, virens, striatus : stig. 3, gracilia, patula* 



The extravagance of the present generic name, rtt being 

 accompanied by a specific one little less exaggerated, its 

 being an adjective, and more worthy of the whim of 

 a dutch florist than of the taste of Linnams, have pro- 



oked several attempts to get rid of it for that of 



nica, an appellation the plant is known by in Malabar. 

 But we see no defect in any name by which a genus is ge- 

 nerally and rightly known, of which the inconvenience 

 can ever equal that infallibly caused by the change of it; 



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