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CHLIDANTHUS fragrans. 
Perfumed Chlidanthus. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 52. Div. II. 
AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. Radix bul- 
bosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, rard solitarii. à 
CHLIDANTHUS. Cor. infundibularis subirregularis : laciniis ovali- 
bus patentibus. Stamina erecta, inclusa, tubi apice basibus subcomnatis 
inserta, inæqualia, brevioribus laciniis externis oppositis. Filamenta lon- 
giora subulata: breviora bidentata. Anthere innate. Germen 3-loculare 
polyspermum : ovulis compressis distichis. Stylus filiformis directione sta- 
minum. Stigma trilobum. Capsula subcartilaginea trivalvis. Semina mem- 
branacea marginata. — Herbe Chilenses, floribus luteis preeocibus, folis 
linearibus. Lindley collect. 34. 
Chlidanthus fragrans. Herbert append. 46. Lindley collect. 34. 
Clinanthus luteus. Herbert in eod. 40. 
Pancratium luteum. Pavon sub exemplari indigena in Herbario Lamberti- 
ano asservato. 
Folia linearia, graminea, lætè viridia, serotina (in planté à pictore 
mostro visé glauca et cum scapo simultancé provenientia). Scapus precoz, 
sesquipedalis, pauciflorus. Flores lutei, sessiles, subodori (in presenti plantá 
subpedunculati et incensam thurem jucundissime redolentes ) spathá inclusi 1-2- 
valvi, ovatä, ipsis dimidio breviore. Cor. infundibularis, subirregularis, tubo 
longo gracili sulcato: laciniis eo tripld brevioribus, patentibus, interioribus 
ovalibus, retusis, exterioribus ovatis, mucronatis. tamina recta, inclusa, 
inequelia, filamentis laciniis exterioribus oppositorum subulatis, integris, 
alternorum brevioribus bidentatis. Anihere oblongae, innate. Germen tri- 
gonum, 3-loculare, polyspermum, ovulis compressis, distichis. Stylus fili- 
formis, staminibus longior. Stigma trilobum. Capsula (quam comminutam 
tantüm vidimus) trivalvis, subcartilaginea. Semina brunnea, membrana- 
cea, marginata. Lindley collect. 34. 
Drawn at Mr. Brookes’s Nursery, Ball’s Pond. We did not 
see the plant, and have retained it under the present generic 
head, from a persuasion that the species will be found to 
combine with some of the imperfectly known Peruvian 
plants, provisionally attached to PANCRATIUM. 
The species appears to have served Mr. Herbert with the 
matter of two distinct genera; in neither of which, how- 
ever, can we perceive a single point to distinguish it from 
Amarvuus. In a character subsequently defined by Mr. 
Lindley, the filaments are described as slightly connected 
