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CYRTANTHUS uniflorus. 
One-flowered Cyrtanthus. 
HEXANDRIA MUNOGYNTA. 
Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen, 54. Div. III. Germen in- 
ferum. 
AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 906. Sect. I. Radix 
bulbosa. Flores spathacei, raró solitarii. 
CYRTANTHUS. Supra fol. 167. 
C. uniflorus; folio solitario, lineari, glauco : limbo subzquante faucem. 
Amaryllis clavata. L’ Heritier sert. angl. 11. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 52. 
Folium erectiusculum, aquans vel superans scapum cum flore, viz lineam 
latum. Scapus teres, erectus, culmum triliceum crassus, stbspithameus, glaucus 
ien rubescens. Spatha foliolis duobus lineari-attenuatis, duplo longioribus 
ultrave pedicello fusco-virente. Germen oblongum, lineare, olus trigonum, 
Cor. horizontali-nutans albida, extus striis sex equidistantibus lateritiis v. 
puniceis per omnem longitudinem hezanguloso-notata, intús lineis totidem sangui- 
neis brevibus è fundo tubi alternè cum striis extimis ductis radiata, biuncialis, 
rectiuscula, ubi latior diametro digiti v. circitêr ; tubus fusco-rubens, subequalis 
ermini, angustus, ampliatus in faucem ventricosiis cylindricam limbo æqualem : 
imbus patulus, laciniis ovatis acululis nervo medio intús prominulo, exteriori- 
bus 3 mucronatis. Filamenta brevia faucem viz exsuperantia, incurvo-conni- 
ventia + antheræ incumbentes, lutee. Stylus ruber parüm excedens antheras ; 
stig. 3, rubra, patentia, 
A species wavering between Cyrrantuus and Asa- 
RYLLIS; but agreeing with the former, in having filaments 
which are inserted into the faux above the tube, and a 
regularly patent limb, as short as the faux or shorter; and 
we have enrolled it there. Indeed the two genera are in 
all else so close, that we can detect no other marks to 
keep them clear. Our plant was recorded by L'Heritier 
as an AMARYLLIS, and called clavata, before the present 
genus had been instituted. Several bulbs of it have been 
now first brought into this country by Mr. Burchell, 
three or four of which produced their blossom i of these 
7 y the larges 
the’one figured here had by ar the largesi and l ightest 
coloured flower, that of the ot | 
calibre, with less widely expanded segments, and with 
i i i ile-red, not of a 
the six external stripes of a dingy ti , 
bright carmine, as in that of the present. It grows 
spontaneously at the Cape of Good Hope, near Cam- 
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