here the capsule is short rounded, many and closely seeded, 
full, and swoln abruptly above a round peduncle; but there, 
long turbinate acutely triangular few and tuberously seeded, 
always in great part empty, and egnably continuous with 
an angular peduncle. In foliage, however, they tally ex- 
actly; this in both is bifarious lorate glaucous and falcate 
or bent at the edge like a scythe, and towards each side alter- 
nately, with a slender finely serrulate membranous margin. 
Our plant recedes from the other also in the following fea- 
tures; the scape is flat acutely ancipital, more than twice 
as long as the inflorescence and inclined. Flowers some- 
times 40 in the umbel, of a dull palely shaded rose-purple, 
not four inches long with the peduncles. Tube obtusely 
trigonal, about twice as short as the limb, which is regular 
turbinately campanulate and revolute at the top, with 
narrow lanceolate segments keeping apart down to the 
base. Stamens a third shorter than the limb, upright and 
divergent. Stigma an obtuse point. Germen shortly ob- 
long, rounded, even, nerveless, and replete with seed. 
The drawing was taken from a plant in Mr. Burchell’s 
garden at Fulham, 
NOTE. 
In the 1217th article of Curtis's Botanical Magazine (one for which we 
are responsible), it is observed, that HaMANTHUS tozicarius was defective 
in a principal feature of that genus, but that the fruit being then unknown, 
its removal to another place might be as well suspended. We have now seen 
its fruit in Mr. Burchell's Herharium, and find it 5 be the genuine tri ue 
trally Jobed few.seeded membranous capsule of BRUNSVIGIA, with 
genus the plant agrees also in habit, and in which it should certainly be 
included. 
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