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CYRTANTHUS spiralis. 
Spiral-leaved Cyrtanthus. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. III. Germen ine 
ferum. 
AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect. I. Radix 
8» bulbosa. Flores spathacei, raró solitarii. 
CYRYANTHUS. Supra fol. 162; ubi omittendum est verbum 
“curva,” et pro. * lacinie limbi tubo cum fauce triplo breviores" 
legendum “ laciniæ limbi fauce breviores," pro “ Fil. fauci tubi inserta” 
ponendum ** Fil. fauci supra tubum inserta," e£ pro “ spatha multiflora,” 
** spatha uni-multiflora." 
Dignoscatur AManvutive er limbo breviore quàm faux tubulosa, 
mon longiore; filamentis insertis fauci supra tubum, non summo tubo 
infra füucem. Semina in C. angustifolio paleaceo-compressa. — Fortà 
eliam in reliquis congeneribus. 
C. spiralis, pluriflora, foliis subtrinis, ligulatis, spiralibus, obtusis, glancis, 
Cyrtanthus spiralis. Burchell MSS. 
Cyrtanibus angustifolius. Jacq. hort. schanb, 1. 40. t. 761 (non alio- 
rum); tantummodo tamèn quod ad figuram bulbi aphylli floridi; folia 
enim in textá descripta et icone seorsim delineata suspicamur species 
Pertinere aliena. HN 
Cyrtanthus ventricosus. Willd. sp. pl. 9, 49. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9, 
222. 
Bulbus oblongo-ovatus magnitudine £f? ovi gallinacei, industo glabraio 
Jusco, nervis rectis parallelis remotiusculis striato. Folia tardiora inflores- 
tentià, 2-3, erecta, spiralitr contorta, semipedalia, dimidium uncie lata, 
inferno versús attenuata, subsplendentia, glauca. Scapus pedalis, penná 
enseriná crassior, columnari-strictus, teres, viridis rubedine aliquá suffusus, 
lauco rore opacatus. Spatha 2-valvis, lanceolata, subeguans pedunculos, 
Úmbella subseptemflora, bracteis interstincta, foribus cernuis miniatis biune 
cialibus, Cor. clavato-cylindracea, ubl latior diametro Jere ne olorina ; 
tubus gracilis, recurvus, in faucem inflatis et abruptius dilatatus quàm. in 
congeneribus glauco aut angustifolio; limbus pen? quater brevior portione tus 
bulosá, patens, laciniis elliptico-ovatis, exterioribus mucronulatis: Stam. 
medium timbi usque vel ultra prostantia : anth. fave. Stylus equans stamina, 
We have no doubt that our plant is of the same 
species with that cited from the Hortus Schenbrannensis 
of Jacguin, in as far as relates to the description an 
figure of the plant with a bulb and inflorescence, wit rout 
leaves; but we suspect that the foliage describe M the 
text, and represented in another part of the plate, belongs 
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