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CALOSTEiMMA purpureunu 

 Purple-Jlowered Calosiemma. 



Korea spathacei, umbcllati, rard solitarii. 

 C A LOST EMM A. Suprdjbl.m. 



HEXANP1UA MO.VOGYftfJ. 



1. 296. Sect. I. Radix bulbw*. 



C» purpureum, seopo florido foliis (lorato-linearibus) pracociore f corona? 



* dentibus stcrilsbus trfangularibue* Biovon prod. 1» 298* 

 Calostemnm purpurcum. Curtis 9 * $nagaz. 21 0Q* 



Bui bus tunica/us, subrolundus tnagnitudine pugnu Scapus tesqui+bipe- 



dalis, strhtust $ub(rngulari»compremts 9 folia praveniens, proportione jlortm 



robustus*. Umbella mult}flora: pedicelli gracites* JlexUes^ compretsiuscttlip 



equates corolla *cel longiorest corolla ii^undibultformh roseo-punicum^ $ 



partes uncia tonga vel circa; tubus patlescens, sextiriata~angwatu$ 9 duplo 



JfrmS br&oior limbo; limbua sexpartttus % turbhato+campanulatus, taciniU 



spathidnto*vbovatis> concavis 9 tnucronath :• corona \ irevior lm6o t angusii 



turbinata, viridis, membranis inter staminas purpureis angustmimu bideniaiu 



hand rarb medio Jissili-pariitis quandb JUamenta afata utrinque unidentata 



uti Orsithogalorum Alliorumquk plurimorum evadunt. til. (vet rectiut 



horum portioned qua exsuperant cor once membranam) viridia subulata canniven* 



tia duplo breviora corona; an th. versatiles 9 oblonga 9 bh breviorns iitameniii % 



Julvo+Jtavicantes. Stylus compressotfUiformis, yirescens, aquaks corolla: 



stigma simplex: germen subgh6osunt 9 I'loculdre, magnituaine vis dupld 



grant sinapeos. 



Native of New Holland, where the species was origi- 

 nally observed by Mr. Brown* Introduced about a year 

 ago. We saw fine plants of it at the nursery of Messrs. 

 Colville, in the King s Road, Chelsea, among other bulb- 

 ous species from the same country. 



Scape from a foot and* half to two feet high, stiff, 

 somewhat angularly compressed, stout in proportion to 

 the size of the flowers, forertmjpg the foliage. Umbel 

 many-flowered : pedicles slender, fe% fiU^rfatly compressed, 

 equal to the corolla or longer: corolla nmrielform, of a 

 rosy purple colour, about three fourths of an inch long: tube 

 pale, scored and angular, nearly twice shorter than the 

 limb; limb sixparted, turbinately campanulate, segments 

 spatulateiy obovate, concave, mucronate; crown (or mona- 

 delphous portion of the stamens) a third shorter than the 

 limb, narrowly turbinate or cucullate, green, insterstami- 

 vol. v, y 



