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CYRTANTHUS collinus, 
Narrow glaucous-leaved Cyrtanthus. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Dio. II. Gemen ino 
ferum. 
AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect. I. 
CYRTANTHUS. Cal.0. Cor. supera, nutans ad cernuam, tu- 
bulosa, clavata, curva, regularis, submegualis ; /ac. limbi ovato-oblonge 
tubo cum fauce triplo breviores v. ultra. Fil, fauci tubi inserta apice 
conniventia, inclusa. 
Bulbus e£ habitus omnino AMARYLIADIS. Folia bifaria, S-plurima, 
angustiùs latiùsve lorata. Spatha communis bivalvis, multiflora. Um- 
bella pedunculata, bracteatim interstincta. AMARYLLIDIS conjunctissi- 
mum genus, at limbus corolla plurimüm, brevior tubo, Fructum mas 
turum non vidimus; sed germen triloculare atque ovula plura biseriatg 
1n loculis. 
€. collinus, foliis subtrinis, linearibus, glaucis; pedunculis flore aliquo- 
tiès brevioribus, laciniis limbi apice rotundatis ; staminibus os tubi non 
excedentibus. 
"Bulbus globoso-ovatus, integumentis fuscescentibus. Folia 3, infernê ver- 
sis attenuata, canaliculato-involuta, subpurpurascentia, suprà esplicatiora, viz 
tertiam uncie lata, acumine obtusulo. ' Scapus cylindraceus, glaucus, crdstte 
tudine penne scriptoria mediocris, foliis denud subbrevior. Spatha multi(10)- 
Jora, lanceolata, rubido-sphacelata, pedicellos exsuperans, mbella cernua 
miniato-coccinea, Cor. subbiuncialis, lineis senis pallidioribus hexangularie 
striata, aliguotiês longior pedicello, tubus gracilis in faucem plurimim 
ampliorem cylindraceam dilatescens ; limbus campanulato-patens, | tubo cum 
Sauce quater brevior, laciniis oblongis obtusatis, interioribus tantuliim latiori- 
| bus, exterioribus mucronulatis, Stylus adscendens; stig. 3, brevia, replicata, 
` ore tubi emicantia, Stam. brevissima, nec excedentia basin limbi, conniventia, 
alternê subbreviora ; anth. incumbentes. Germ, glabrum, brevà oblongum, 
rotundat? trigonum, striis 6 albis notatum; 3 polyspermum ovula 
2-seriata. 
. An undescribed species, very recently introduced by 
Mr. Burchell, by whom it was found on the hills near Ge- 
nadendal, about 100 miles distant from the chief town at 
the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of, and near 
akin to angustifolius, but differs from that, in having leaves 
i i i ith 
which are glaucous, and not bright green; a germen wi 
six Whitislr lines that are continued throughout the co- 
i incli - han in 
rolla, which inclines more to a poppy colour t 
angustifolius; in having the segments. of the limb of an 
