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HYPOXIS stellipilis. 
Starry-furred Hypoxis. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Die. III. Genera Narcissis non 
omnind affinia. 
ASPHODELER. Brown prod. I. 274. Div. ad calcem ordinis. 
Genera inter Asphodeleas et Amaryllideas media. 
HYPOXIS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 159. 
H. stellipilis, rhizomate ovato; foliis radicalibus plurimis trifariám fascicu- 
latis triquetro-subulatis, à pilis brevibus stellatis na ere subtüs tomen- 
toso-candicantibus, canaliculo carindque acutis: umbellä pauci-(2) flor. 
Rhizoma bulbiforme, fuscum, bulbiceps. Fol. radicalia, plurima, tri- 
Saridm fasciculata latè subulata, subsemipedalia latitudine unciæ minore, 
erecto-divergentia, suprà atrovirentia, glabra, acute canaliculata, remote 
atque obsolete lineata, infra acute carinata tomento facile solubile 2 pilis 
brevibus stellatis implexé densatis candicantia; sept supera? undulata. 
Scapus foliis brevior, fulvido-canescens, pube duplici (penicillis longis cum 
Rocculis stellatis niveis brevibus commixtis) laxi 1 Pedunculi (bini), 
terminales, solidi, teretes, pilosi, flore longiores, ted pilosissimá lineari 
appressä ad basin. Cor. germinis continua, erecta, sut partie, eara 
sesquiunciali, persistens, intis aureo-flavescens, extis flavo-virescens et stellato- 
pilosa; lacinix equilonga, lateribus denwd reflexe, exteriores oblonge, mu- 
cronatæ, dorso apicis dense barbatæ, interiores latiores ovales obtusa: muticæ 
extús nudiuscule striá angustá pilosú per medium longitudinalitèr ductá. 
Stam, flava, corollá ferè duplo breviora, erecto-patentia, disco epigyno di- 
stantiüs inserta: fil. antheris bis terve breviora, conica, subulata, glabra: 
anth. mobiles, lineari-sagittate, introrse, posticd filamenti puncto appense. 
Stylus lutescens, columnaris, erectus, tereti-3-gomus, staminibus brevior ; 
stigmata 3 flava lineari-cenaliculata fimbriatula, a s dimidii ioris 
styli adnato-decurrentia. Germ. pedunculi solidi continuum, breve turbi- 
natum, hirsutum, corollé aliquotiès brevius; triloc. loculis supernè biseriato- 
polyspermis, inferné cassis: ovula globosa, angulo interiori annexa. 
An unpublished species, and one of which we have seen 
no Feier, in any Herbariam. Introduced last summer 
from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Colvill, of the 
Chelsea Nursery. The drawing was taken from a plant 
cultivated in the greenhouse. 
The foli: Strikes us as having some resemblance to 
that of en species of the "Bromeliacex. It differs. 
in its own genus by the dense woolly snow-white fur (con- 
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