Masson in 1774. The drawing was taken from a plant 

 which flowered in the gi-eenhouse at the nursery of Messrs. 

 Whitley, 13raines, and Mihie, at Fulham. 



Tlie following is the version of Mr. Dryander's description 

 of the species. " Leaves linear, first chauneUed, afterwards 

 *' nearly flat, a foot atjd half long, an inch broad. Scape 

 " half the length of the leaves, about as thick as a goose- 

 " quill. Raceme level-topped, as long as the scape. Pe- 

 " dunclex spreading while the plant is in flower, afterwards 

 *' upright, from three to four inches long. Bractes mem- 

 " branous, transparent, reddish at the back, about half an 

 " inch long. Flowers white. Outer petals Hnearly oblong, 

 thickened at the top, less than an inch in length, inner 

 ones ovally oblong, arched at the top, a little shorter than 

 " the outer ones. Filaments all fertile, three alternate ones 

 " rather the shortest, convex on the outside, channelled on 

 " the inside. Style prism-shaped, furrowed, a little longer 

 " than the germen, a little higher than the stamens, co- 

 " vered over with very small shreds, especially near the top, 

 " green with yellow furrows, terminated by a stigma formed 

 " of the angles of the style rounded at the top.'' 





NOTK- 



In the 20th line of the second leaf of the 268th article of this work, for 

 *• bractes" read " branches.'^ 



At the ^d line of the english text of the first pat^e of the 2G0th article of 

 this work, instead of; " On]y one .species has a station In I'-uropc, and tliat 

 " at an extreme part, viz, the shores of Naples-" read ; *' The nearest sta- 

 '* tion taken by any of the species to this part of Europe, ie ou the const of 

 the Kingdom of Naples/' 



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