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UROPETALON glaucum. 
Grey-leaved Uropetalon. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat.ord. AspuoneL. Jussieu gen.51. Div. IV. “Flores spi- 
cati. Radix bulbosa. Cor. sexpartita, basi stami- 
nifera. ] 
ASPHODELES (includentes ÁsPARAGOS plerosque Jus- 
sieuii). Brown prod. 274. 
UROPETALON. Zuccacnia. Bodin in Schrad. Journ. fur 
die bot. 1.204. Dircanr. Usteri ann. der botan. St. 2. 13. Infor. 
scaposa, simplex, racemoso-spicata, bracteato-distincta. Cal. O. Cor. 
infera, nutans, tubuloso-sexfida, limbo subduplici, laciniis 3 includenti- 
bus intimas 3 erectiores seorsim conniventes, cunctis inferné connatis v. 
rariús solis intimis, extimis reflexis et sepids caudatis. Fil. adnata, in- 
clusa: anth. verticales à medio aflixe, introrshm verse. Stylus cras- 
siusculus, tereti-3-gonus, trisulcus, ex 3 filiformibus solubilibus coarc- 
tatis. Cups. erecta, membranacea, elliptica, trilobato-trigona, lobis 
alté compressis, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis septiferis margini internze utrinque 
seminiferis. Sem. numerosa, cumulata, complanata, festá nigrá, nitidâ 
Bulbus tunicatus. Bractem simplices, membranose. Folia plura, 
erassiuscula, vari? lorata, ambientia. Genus inter SciLLAM et ALBU- 
CAM veniens; necnon hinc Drimiæ accedens. 
U. glaucum, foliis lato-lanceolatis, erectis, scapo multò brevioribus; 
pedunculis longissimis. Burchell MSS. . y . 
Bulbus ovato-globosus. Folia plurima (septena circa), sesuncialia ad. pe- 
dalia, 2-3-plo breviora scapo, basi convoluto-ampleza, erecta, lorato- 
oblonga, lanceolata, ac tota planta glauca, plana, exteriora latiora latere 
utroque subrefleza, interiora angustiora cuspidata, Scapus erectus, parüm 
Rexuosus, 2-3-pedalis, crassitudine Jer? penne scriptoriz majoris, terminatus 
racemo spicatim educto, multifloro, irregulariter et remote sparso, patentis- 
simo; pedunculis strictis, l-floris, flore duplo longioribus magisoe, suffultis 
bracteá lineari-lanceolatá sphacelatâ, erecto-patenti us ad divaricatos. Cor. 
viridi-fulvescens, extern? glauco rore canescens, unciam fer? profunda, tubu- 
doso-campanulata, laciniis oblongis, obtusis, intüs glabratis, ad medium usque 
conferruminatis, inde solutis, limbi extimi refleco-patentibus extra apicem 
parietis interne caudam educentibus ipsis æquilongam crassam subulatam conte 
pressam, limbi intimi erectiìs conniventibus, patulis, ecaudatis. Fil. brevis- 
sima, planiuscula: anth. oblonge, lutea, mucronate, sagittata. Germ. 3 
sulcum, Stig. 3, replicata, inclusa. 
An unrecorded species found by Mr. Burchell near 
Klaarwater, a village beyond the Gariep or Orange river, 
at the Cape of Good Hope. By combining with it two 
species, to which we have added a third, its discoverer has 
