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HYPOXIS obtusa. 
Mr. Burchell s Hypoxis. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. III. Genera Nar- 
cissis non omninò affinia. 
Aspnopsreæ. Brown prod. 274. Div. Genera inter 
Asphodeleas et Amaryllideas media, 
HYPOXIS. Infor, fistuloso-pedunculata. Cal. O. Cor, supera, 
hexapetalo-partita, regularis, æqualis, explanata, firmula v. coriacea, 
persistens. Fil. disco glanduloso corolla: infixa, brevia: anth. majusculæ, 
sagittatæ, erectæ. Stylus crassus, brevis: stig. 3, verticalia, adnata, 
anticê sulcata, unita v. soluta. Cups. oblongiuscula, trigona, triloc., po- 
lysperma, evalvis, basi angustior: sem. subglobosa v. angularia, affi 
angulo interno loculamenti ; testa nigra, sæpiùs punctata. 
Radix rhizoma bulbiceps polymorphum, interdùm tunicatus bulbus 
includens rhizoma. Folia ambientia, plurifaria, radicalia, sapiüs 
canaliculato-trigona, rigidiuscula. Scapi sep? plures successivi. Pe- 
dunculi bracteati. In capsulâ mafurá modo obliterantur septa, gua 
priùs evidentissima. Sem. modo biseriata, pedicellato-funiculata. 
H. obtusa, rhizomate cylindrico, conico; foliis margine et cariná hir- 
sutis; scapo hispido, plurifloro, subracemoso: corolle laciniis obtusis. 
Hypoxis obtusa. Burchell MSS. . . . 
Rhizoma bulbiceps magnum, annulatum, veleribus basibus setosum. Folia 
plurima (10), fasciculata, erecto-patentia, lineari-lanceolata, rigida, carinaíp: 
triquetra; exteriora torta in spiram, interiora longiora angustiora, sub- 
octouncialia, ad maximum 2 gre uncia lata, long? acuminata. Scapus 
strictus, inclinatus, teres, Jolis subbrevior. Flores lutei, inodari, pauci, 
laxiùs et interrupt? racemosi, superni subcymoso-fasligianles : pedunculi flori- 
bus 2-3-plo breviores, equales bracteis lineari-subulatis carinatis, Germ. 
breve, hirsutum, continuum pedicello. Cor. intàs nitens; laciniis elliptico- 
oblongis, exterioribus subangustioribus, parva mucrone prafixis, interioribus 
utringue deflexis. Anth. lanceolate, 3-plo longiores filamentis subulatis 
Jlavis. Stylus duplo brevior staminibus, conicus, triqueter; stigmata coe 
adunata. 
An unrecorded species discovered by Mr. Burchell du- 
ring his late travels iu the interior of Southern Africa, cn 
the sandy plains in the vicinity of Litákoon, the chief place 
of the Bachapin nation, distant about 1000 miles N. E. from 
Cape Town. u 
The rootstock of most tunicated bulbs is enclosed within 
concentric laminz, and forms the nucleus of the bulb; but 
in this genus it constitutes far the larger portion of the 
