593 



OPfflOPOGON spicatus. 



JBlue-flmvered Snakesheard. 



HtXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat, ord. Asphodele^. Brown prod. 1. 274. 



OPHIOPOGON, Cor, ^emisupera limbo 6-partito rotato a-quali per- 

 sistente. Stam. inclusa, gequalia, conniventia, ^lamentis brevibus imo co- 

 rollse limbo insertis : antk. introrsae, erectae, sagittato-lineares, extfts prope 

 basin insertae. Germ, semiinferum, 3-loc. loculis di-poly (6) spermis, ovulu 

 adscendeotibus : stylus robustus, triquetro-subulatus ; stig. apex trigonus con- 



tinuus. 



Herb« perennes humiUores, radice repente, jibn$ camods scBpius tube- 

 Toso-nodosis* ToLgramineay radicalia^ sempervirentia? numerosat linearia^ 

 fasdculato-ambientia, infemh semivaginose compacta incrassato-rigeniia 

 ockreataque vel membran& tenui spkacelatd utrinque aucta, Racemus 

 laxus, scapi simplicis rigidi flexuosi tereti-angulosi contimms. Flores ^rmi 

 r- rigentes, ex aUndis obsoletius conspicmisve camlescentesj minusculi, cum 

 pedicello articulati, aggregatiy raro soHtarii : fasciculi paud-plurifiori, pbiret 

 V. numerosij laxiiis sparsif dnguU bracteS communi mbfoliaced suhtensi par- 

 tialibusque tenuibus spliacelatis interstincth Staminum situs pne immerso 

 germine epigynum comparens: anth, ex bremtate Jilamentorum subsessiles, 

 Germinis loculamenta in sfic2Lto parallelo-disperma^ in ^eLpon\co( ex Richard) 

 Itexasperma, Fructus in japonico (ex dicto aut.) bacca carulea subgtoboso- 

 ovoidea apice areolata, 3-toc. seminibus pawns v. interdiim solitariis; in spi- 

 cato verb (monente 1>- Brown) semen (&ep^ 2-3j nudum baccatum de ovulo 

 mox post factum conceptum auctii prmcodori astera illidente exque ger- 

 minis vertice erumpente excretum: bun cum exuto germine coluBrens. 



O. spicatus, scapo foUis subxquali v, longiqre, fasciculorum racemo laxius- 



culo numeroso longo, germinis loculamentis dispermis, 

 Opbiopogon spicatus. Nobis in Curtis's magaz, 1062: in lined penultimd 



folii versi. 

 Convallaria spicata. Thunb.jap. 141. Willd. sp. pL 2. 161. 

 liriope spicata. Lmreiro cochin. 200 ; (monente D- Br&wn ab autopsid 

 edocto exemplaris archetypi in Herb. Parisiano asservati.) 

 Fol plurimay inaqmlia, longiara nunc pedalia, latitudine subbilineari, 

 striata, extima brevia dura vaginas radicalcs ^mulantia, Scapus aphyllvs, 

 tereti-angulosusy rigidus, violaceo-virescens, crassitudinc^vix penmB corvine. 

 Fasciculi 2-4'Jkyri: pedicelli rarb solitarii ^rum Umgioresjiore, stricti erecti, 

 I'flori, cum Jlore articulati: bracteae partiales squanue breves fuscte obhngte 

 obtuscB subsquarroso-imbricat^E : comrmmes subkerbac€<B, acuminatie, eximit 

 fasciculo subhngioribus sursOm decrescentes. Flores diametro mbtrilineares 

 dilutius violacei, nitidis inodari, laciniis oblangis obtusis 6(m pallentibus, 

 3 interiorihus latioribus ovatis, Stam, carolld i breviora: fil. antheris feri 

 <€qualia, filiformia, Jirma^ distanti-incurtfescentia: anth. lut€<B, & dx}rso 

 juxta basin infix<E, erecto-amniventes, indt demisso poUine vibratiles. Genn. 

 suprddepresso-orbicuUttumtrigibbum: loculamentis repfetc dwpemw, ovulis 

 parallelis, imo anguh annexis, adscendentibus, obwato-oblongis. Stylus 

 obsolete violaceus, staminibus ceguatis, Jilamentis ter crassior v. ultrd, puncto 

 stigmatoso pallida ghnduhso triangulari apiculatus. 



