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GRIFFINIA parviflora. 
Small-flowered Griffinia. 
A 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. NARCISSI. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. 
AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1.296. Sect. I. 
GRIFFINIA. Nobis suprà fol. verso 444. in notá. Spatha bivalvis 
umbellá polyanthà brevior. Cor. infundibuliformis, nutans; tubus brevis; 
limbus 6-partitus inzequalis bilabiato-campanulatus. Fil. summo tubo inserta, 
altern® longiora, unum assurgens, cetera declinata: anth. incumbentes. 
Germ. 3-loculare; ovulis 2 parallelo-erectis imo cujusque loculamenti angulo 
annexis. Stylus tinbriaio- Aioria: stig. simplex. Capsula pedunculata, 
membranacea: sem. subsolitaria, obovata, nitida, apice chalazà fuscà in- 
signita. 
Bulbus tunicatus. Flores scapum subcylindricum terminantes, violaceo et 
albo varii. Fol. 2-3, coriacea, petiolata, laminá oblongá costato-nervosá, 
reticulato-venosá. Differt AMARYLLIDE stamine wno ceterorum directione 
deflectente; ovulis parallelo-gemellis erectis fundo loculamentorum insitis ; 
foliis petiolatis, cum nervis pluribus longitudinalibus costato-prominentibus. 
Semina, secundùm observationes Dom. Brown, obovata, ventricosa, ni- 
tentia ochroleuca; umbilicus basilaris: apex chalazà fuscá insignitus; raphe 
tenuis, immersa; integumentum duplex, exterius membranaceum nitens, per 
lentem pulchre areolatum, ventre longitudinaliter incrassatum, presertim. in 
regione umbilici; membrana propria tenuissima, albumini adherens, separa- 
bilis tamen, evasculosa, basi chalaze inserta ceterúm libera: albumen semini 
conforme, dens? carnosum: embryo axilis, longitudine dimidii albuminis, cy- 
lindraceus; radicula umbilico approximata, apice exserto. Brown MSS. 
G. parviflora, foliis ovali-lanceolatis petiolo transversé ancipiti; umbella in- 
signiüs pedunculata; corolla laciniis uniformibus. 
Bulbus ovatus, ovum columbinum mole subequans. Folia GRIFFINIE 
hyacinthinz minora; petiolo transverse compresso. Scapus tereti-subcom- 
pressus. Spatha arida, reflexa, valvis lanceolatis. Cor. lilacino-pallescens, 
turbinato-rotata, $ uncie longitudine viz excedens: tubus germinis con- 
coloris isoperimetri continuus, multotiès brevior limbo: limbi lacinie 5 
labium superius constituentes, altera porrectior inferius; omnes spathulato- 
lanceolate, 3 exteriores mucronate, 3 superiores coloratiores proximiores, 
summa media sublatior, laterales 2 inferiores divaricate, ima media reli- 
quis plurimùm minor, albicans. Stam. bis fere breviora limbo: fil. violaceo- 
albicantia, subulato-filiformia. Germ. ovali-oblongum, lucidum: stylus vio- 
laceo-pallescens, rectior, subulato-filiformis, strictus, triqueter, puncto stig- 
matoso nudo acuto terminatus. Sem. obovato-oblonga, lucida, melino et 
fusco varia, magnitudine Pisi grandiusculi. 
This genus, founded on AmaryLLIS hyacinthina, was pro- 
posed in a note at the end of the 444th article of our Re- 
gister. Since then the present species has been introduced 
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