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ASPIDISTRA lurida. 
Dingy flowered Aspidistra. 
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OCTANDRIA (HEXANDRIA?) MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELEX. Brown prod. 1. 274, 
ASPIDISTRA. Cor. infera, 1-petala, 6-fida, æqualis. Anthere 
coroll tubo infernè adnate, bilocwlares, introrsàm | dehiscentes : len 
pulvereo-granulosum. Stylus clavato-stipitiformis exsulcus; stigma clypea- 
tum latum carnosum solidum. Germ. repleto-4-(3 ?)-loculare, loculis 1-sper- 
mis. Herba perennis, tropica? rhizomate multicipiti, scapo squamoso late- 
rali. Folia (estivatione convoluté subcoloratá) radicalia petiolata, gemma 
perdue szpiüs singulum, è vagina radicali convolute-imbricante, bi-trifoliá, 
coloratá. y 
Aspidistra lurida. 
olia erecto-patentia, membranacea, let virentia, 6-9-uncialia latitu- 
dine subbiunciali, petiolata; lamina elongato-lanceolata, acuminata, lineato- 
nervosa, margine subtili cartilagineo-scabra, intüs sechs medium canaliculata, 
eztüs carinata, infern? in petiolum linearem erectum rigi canaliculatum 
attenuata: vagina radicalis à foliolis 2-3 alternis convoluto-equitantibus acu- 
minatis rigidis lividè purpureis inæqualibus. Scapus lateralis, declinatus, 
rhizomatosus, assurgens, uniflorus, cum flore simul unciam viz excedens, 
bracteis ovatis sordidé rubentibus (summis corolle basi appressis) squamatus. 
Cor. iurido-purpurascens, firma, cupulato-campanulata, nutans, hinc humi 
accumbens, extüs levis, intàs rn: cum fundo ochroleuco purpureo 
punctato; tubus cupulatus: limbus 6-partitus tubo 3-plo brevior, laciniis 
oblato-ovatis acuminatis subequalibus patulis. STAMINA: antheræ 8 (6?) 
sessiles, tubo infern in eodem plano adnate, parallele, contiguæ, «quales, 
oblato-ovate?, mutice: pollen flavescens copiosum è granulis sphæricis pul- 
vureum. Pist. tubo equale ochroleucum: stylus clavato-stipitiformis, ger- 
minis isoperimetric? continuus triploque altior, teres, estriatus: stigma car- 
morum, crassum, latum, peltato-pileatum, orbiculatum, convexum, obsolet? 
4-(32)-lobum, cicatriculá centrali levitèr 4-(3?) radiatá notatum, lineo- 
disque senis prominulis (pressione. suturarum corolle estivantis proveni- 
entibus?) oquidistantibus radiatum: germ. oblato-cylindricum, purpureo- 
punctatum, exsulcum, lave, farcté 4-(3?)-loculare, loculis monospermis: 
ovula subrotunda, imo loculo adnata? 
We do not know of any mention of this very curious 
plant, and believe it to be unrécorded. We are indebted 
to Mr. Brown for the suggestion of its affinity with Tu- 
PISTRA, a genus established some years ago by ourselves 
in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (No. 1655), and known 
to us only by a single sample. On recurring, however, to 
the description and. figure, it does not appear to us that 
the plant of this article can be dis included in the same 
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