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STRUMARIA filifolia. 
Fine-leaved Strumaria. 
— aana 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. Div. IL 
AMARYLLIDEE. Brown 1.296. Sect. O 
STRUMARIA. Spatha a-valvis, brevior umbellá bracteatà. Cor. su- 
pera, erecta v. nutans, regularis, subeequalis, 6-petalo-partita, turbinata ad 
stellato-divaricatam, laciniis lanceolatis, nunc in tubum ad basin connexis. 
Fil. disco corolla inserta, haud rarò exserta, distincta v. monadelpha v. 
alterna 3 inter se concreta 3 altera gynandricé cum stylo: anth. oblonge, 
plurimüm breviores filamentis, versatiles. Stylus strictissimus, polymorphus, 
nunc fusiformis triquetro-sulcatus, nunc alatus, nunc infernè strumà varia 
protuberans: stig. 3, attenuata, replicata vel in cuspidem coadunata. Caps. 
membranacea, trigibba, g-valv. valvis medio septigeris: sem. biserialia, in 
loculamentis singulis pauca, v. unicum bulboso-laxatum albumine herbaceo- 
emollito. Bulbus tunicatus. Fol. 2-plura è vaginá radicali, filiformia ad 
lorato-oblonga, à plano bifaria, nunc tardiora scapo. Umbella parca laza ad 
congesto-multiradiatam. In quibusdam corpuscula 3 strumosa inter stylum 
et stamina videnda, Differt HEMANTHO, tam ob spatham non multivalvem 
quàm ob capsulam non baccatam; à LEUCOJO ob spatham non follicularem 
ob antheras breviores filamento, necnon. haud inversas neque apice hiantes. 
Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 1303. 
8. filifolia, foliis filiformibus, corollis stellato-divaricatis: stylo strumA inflatá 
anguloso-plicatä infra medium protuberante. 
Strumaria filifolia. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. 14. Willd. sp. pl. 2.32. Hort. Kew, ed. 
2.2. 213. 
Leucojum strumosum. Solander in Hort. Kew. 1. 407. t. 5. Jacq. coll. 3. 
222. ic. rar. t. 361; (in ipsá icone non verò in textu.) Thunb. prod. 68. . 
Crinum tenellum. Lin. suppl. 194; (excl. synonymo). . . 
Bulbus ovatus magnitudine ovi passerini. Fol. plura, plurimim longiora 
scapo, procumbentia, subtus convexa, suprà canaliculata. Scapus 3-4-uncia- 
lis penné corviná duplo gracilior, flexuosus, nunc infra sanguineo-rubens. 
Umbella pluri(6-10-)-flora, laxa: pedunc. patentes, unciales v. ultrà, EE 
formes, strictiusculi, suprà subtriquetri. Flores inodori. Germ. subg 
sum, 3-gibbum. Cor. erecta, micans, intús candicans, extis cinamomeo- 
punicans, semunciam transversa v. circà, laciniis 3-plo latitudine engustiori- 
bus, subunguiculatis, concavis, ad basin usque distantibus. Fil. distincta, $ 
breviora corolle, basi ovato-dilatata contigua, indé setaceo-subulata patentia: 
anth. cinnamomeo-rubentes. Stylus albus, inferné strumá obovato-turbinatá 
angulari-plicatá micante extumescens, indè triquetro-subulatus, 3-suleus: 
stig*. obsolete trina. 
This genus, comprising a very naturally assorted group, 
is remarkable in its ordinal section, for the strange incon- 
stancy in the configuration of the style, a part of almost un- 
deviating uniformity throughout the rest of the section. 
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