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MASSONIA loQ^qlia; /3; Candida. 

 Oblong-leaved Masaonia. 



HEXANDRIA MONOOYNU. 



NaUwd. AsPHODBLEJE. Brwmprod. L 274. 



MASSONIA. Cor, infera^ erecta, tubnlosa^ persistens, limbo 6-par> 

 lito feouali rotato, pleri^inque .^efracto. FiL exwria, rar6 inclusa. sub^ 

 uIato-filifor^a» summo. tubo mserta* erecta plenlmque jncunrescentia, 

 Bsepiils a&qualia et basi Bimtttwaii4 breri angustft conneia. Oerm, pons 3 ma^ 

 dentibus ^:op^ Oj^craft kiter . angDlo? (anne constaot^r?). Stylus setaceo- 

 eloDgatus, ciumdoa : $iia. pimetum puMuhim, rar6 tri{dex. Caps, acariosO' 

 nembraaaoea, aAJjapiittiia, trilora, S^loc.* 9-TalT*, Talvia septiferis, tur- 

 binata am|^a loWisjpbndis cuneat^ rari^s subovata parra lobu 



breribuscarinatii;,iiiii«.p]i|ra — i]umerosafparra,gM>osa|iQteniisseptonini 

 margioibus f«QlijM(kte ian«a» testdmgrS^ 



Bulbud ftmirtr/MiL , Scapus nanus reeandituSf rarb externms: corym^ 

 bus capiiaio-e^estns fcMaee^-bmeteatus^ moA im tkyrsmn brevem laxunt 

 eziensus hrtU^eis dimintms membranaceis, FoK^ MnNmlei^ bifatia^ nd»ge^ 

 mina, erectu vel r^exa et kumi appnsMf aitattf-whi^idmtm, r. linearia, JoH- 

 cealaiave. Semma viz triph ^M^ias' majord. Gf«tH» Btacintho ilfj^ 

 die dirimendum^ sed in iUo ^lametUa UAo infenU, nee summo era, tajerfa. 

 EucoMtN coUineat, aliwnde Bbunsvigiah ei Hsmantuum^ Ueetgermen 

 in S nlHmis imfemm^ Ncdria in Curtis'a ^n^^. 1468; in notft fol. tbtsu 



H. ibn^t^ib. foliis lanceolato-obloogii acumiaatia, Jocq^ Mart, sekoenb. 4. 



2». t. 4m. It 



(0) eandifU. BurcheUMSS. % 



Bulbus ooatus mmgnitudine &ei caMmai- Fol. 2 diwsrieaio^fafria^ kumi 

 appressi rtenmbentiaf glabra, ImeatmtMmga, acumd^ata, mtyms sesmciak 

 vel utird, latitndine ^^ancialu 'Flo^thC^nmcautes^ grutissim^ odaru Sea- 

 pus inelnsHs: corymbus pturimus, et^l^eshu^fqHMethbrmeteatus; pedicelli 



1-yfon, aUn, rebustU clavatif tubo bimipres : trwpee^ wato-lanceoUUiB, acn^ 

 ninata, tubo bremares^ introrsiUn deseapetcentes. Cor. 1| unc. v. eircd hmgap 

 kypocrmter^ormis: tubus erectm egttndricus, hngitudine staminum, basi 

 cuneatus: umhns MexpartituSf tenuivr, arc^defiexuSt tnbo ^ breviort ladniis 

 l^ulato-aeamitiatis^ coneavis, supemtmrescmtibnSf basi pHcA transvenS ar^ 

 euatd re^fiejeis. &tam, erecto-pateniia, incurvest^niia, aqualm. Umbo ^fsr^ 

 altuyra^ atta; &^.fobustiAs setacea, art tubi inserla, idciniis op^wsUa^ basi 

 m^nbrand brtm, angnstisHmd eonnexa; anth. panula, wrwftfef, tncambentes, 

 obbmgm, ^JSme ^aadneo-paUante. Germ, v^rnfe, iAlsk^m^ prismdiemn^ 



screMcnUs tribns cam poro piridissim^ isivtdent(^m,^if^^9^V^:A^^ impr^^. 

 sam^ loculis bis$riatO'pofyspermis : stylus albns, j&latMntis ^fualis et nisi 



graci&ar ammsio siati&s ; ^tug^uA pmnctmn puberulmm imamspicuum. 



A genus apparently confined to southern Africa^ no 

 species having been yet discovered but in the colony and 

 a!^oining districts of the Cape of Good Hope. 



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