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ORNITHOGALUM revolutmn. 

 B.evolute-Jlmv€red Star-of- Bethlehem, 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNJA. 



Nat, ord, Asphodelt. Jussieu gen. S3. 



AsPHoDELEiE. Broton prod. 274-. 



ORNITHOGAL UM. Supri vol ^.fd. \ 58. 



O. revolutum, racemo paucifloro, petalis lineari-oblongis obliquS flexis 

 emarginatis, filamentis lanceolato-subulatis, foliis liaearibus. IViUd. tp, 

 ^.2.118. 



Ornithogalum revolutum. Jac^. hort. scha-nh, I. 46. /. 89- Curiu's ma^t, 

 658. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2, 258. 



Totum glabrum. Bulbus subrotundusy tunicatus, tdbidus, avellana mag* 



niludine. Folia Sispe tria^ suhlinearia, integerrima, obtusula, in/erne canau- 



culata, cateriim ptaniusculay erectiuscula, plus minus semipedalia. Scapua 



teres, calamo gracilior, plus minus octo uncias longuSf flexuosus, erectus, 



racemosust rmUtifioriis. Pedunculi crassidi, unciales. Bracteae lancedaUe, 



acuminattB, conniventes et amplexanteSy scarioste, infeme elbidee, supemi 



Juscescentes, pedunculis duplo breviores. Coroll« lacinitB obversi ovattr, o6- 



tusulce, ad oras revdutee, convexultB, patentissinu^, subtequales, Jeri unciales^ 



alba cum base sold utrtnque virente. Fil. subulata, planiuscula, erecta, brevia, 



alba, tria alterna basi latiora. Anth. oblongiBf subincumbentes, fiavee. Genn. 



ovatum, 3-sulcatum. Stylus crassus, brevis. Stigma capitatum, subrotun- 



dum, flavescens. Jacq. loc. cit. 



We are obliged to Mr. Griffin for the specimen from 

 which the drawing of this rare species was taken. The 

 bulb had been imported from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 where it is native, and had been first observed by Mr, 

 Masson, who introduced it in 1795. Not having had an 

 opportunity of describing it from the present plant, we shall 

 subjoin a description which we have given in another work 

 from another specimen. 



Bulb tunicated. Leaves 3-6 inches long, ambient, re- 

 curvedly patent, linearly lanceolate, thickish, nearly flat 

 upwards, channelled downwards, edged with a very slender 

 minutely ciliate white cartilage. Scape about eight inches 

 high, upright, round, flexuose. Raceme conically oblong ; 

 flowers white, with a round darkish stiun at the base, scent- 

 less ; hractes acuminately lanceolate, convolute, some of the 

 lower ones equal to the peduncles, upper ones gradually 

 shortened, greenly or sphacelately membranous. Corolla 



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