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CYRTANTHUS odorus. 
Sweet-scented Cyrtanthus. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 64.^. Div. II. 
AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 296, Sect. I. 
CYRTANTHUS. Spatha uniflora v. umbellato-multifiora. Cor. nu- 
tans v. cernua, elongato-oblonga, tubulato-infundibuliformis, curva, limbo 
regulari subzquali, laciniis oblongis fauce brevioribus. Fil. brevia, fauce 
longè supra tubum inserta. Sem. numerosa, biseriato-cumulata, paleaceo- 
compressa, festá fuscntà. . 
Cera omninó AMARYLLIDIS; und? discrepat limbo breviore fauce, 
non longiore, filamentis fauce longé supra tubum insertis, mon ore tubi 
infra faucem. 
‘C. odorus, pauci (47) flora; corolla rectiuscula subnutante, fauce angust? 
turbinata, limbi laciniis subdistantibus: antheris fauce inclusis, alternis 3 
cseteris pro duplo eorum longitudinis demissioribus: foliis non glaucis. 
Fol. 2-3, angusta, lineari-lorata, deorsúm attenuata, longitudine scapi, 
mon glauca. Umbella floribus pluribus (4) odoratis punicantibus: pedunc. 
pluries. breviores floribus, vel subnulli, virentes: spatha sphacelata, lanceo- 
lata, triplo fer? brevior umbellé. Cor. angustè tubata, unciis 2 lon- 
gior, curvo leni obsoletiore nutans; tubus gracilis, rotundatè trigonus in 
Saucem aquabilitór transeuns; faux angustè turbinata; limbus tubo cam 
Fauce 4-plo ferm? brevior, patens, laciniis subdistantibus lineari-oblongis 
planis obtusulis exterioribus subangustioribus acutioribusque. Stam. fauce 
inclusa: fil. brevia, conniventia, subulata, alterna 3 brevissima fauci proxime 
infra limbum inserta antheris incumbentibus, 3 altera plurimum demissiora 
antheris erectis: anth. oblonge, polline flavo. Germ. oblongum, minimum, 
fusco-virens, ovulis numerosis compressis biseriato-cumulatis: stylus filifor- 
mis, medium attingens limbum, suprà roseus: stig. 8. 
Àn unrecorded species, introduced about two years ago 
from the Cape of Good Hope, by Messrs. Colville of the 
Chelsea-Nursery, in the King’s Road, where the drawing 
was taken. It differs from all the species we are acquainted 
with, by the deep crimson hue and fragrance of the flowers: 
specially from collinus (see v. 2. fol. 162) by a foliage 
which is not glaucous, by a fewer-flowered more upright 
umbel, longer less curved slenderer corolla, more narrowly 
turbinate faux, less contiguously spreading segments, and 
essentially by having 3 alternate stamens placed lower than 
the others by twice the length of their anthers (when they 
have shed the pollen); whereas in collinus the tips of these 
reach to the base of the three upper, and rather above; 
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