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CHRYSIPHIALA flava. 
Mr. Lambert’s Chrysiphiala. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. 
AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 206. Sect. I. 
CHRYSIPHIALA. (STENOMESSON. CARPODETES. LEPERIZA. 
Herbert append. 40,41.) Umbella multiflora, pedunculata; spatha mono- 
polyphylla. Cor. anguste infundibuliformis: limbus tubo plurimàm brevior, 
sexpartitus, regularis, æqualis, explanato-patens vel erecta; tubus superne 
et inferne latior, medio vel circitèr constrictus. Corona staminea membra- 
nacea, inclusa (sapê recondita), erecta, turbinato-cylindrica, sexfida, den- 
tibus senis dilatato-subulatis per sinus totidem angustos acutos interceptis. 
Filamenta filiformia, corona dentium continua, erecta, alterne sublongiora 
vel wqualia, exserta vel subexserta: anthere lutew, vibrato-incumbentes 
lineari-oblong:e : pollen scobiformi-granulosum ? Stylus stamina plurimum 
superans, filiformis (tortus, intra tubi ventrem fusiformi-incrassatus) : stigma 
apex cum stylo clavatus depresso-obtusatus: germen tubo pluries brevius, 
obsolete trigonum, loculis tribus biseriato-polyspermis (non farctis): ovula 
contactü compressa. 
Bulbus tunicatus, ovato-globosus. Folia lineari-ligulata, vel ligulato- 
attenuata canaliculataque, vel petiolata, dilatata, lanceolato-oblonga, acuta, 
scapo tardiora vel cum eo contemporanea. Scapus erectus, foliis sepe 
equalis. Capsulam non vidimus. Hic PANCRATIA flavum, coccineum, 
latifolium, recurvatum Flore Peruviane. Differt PaNcRATIO corolle 
limbo quàm tubus plurimüm breviore: tubo utrinque dilatato medio constricto : 
filamentis rectis erectis; stylo ( torto) inferne fusiformi-ixcrassato ; stigmate 
cum stylo subclavato. 
C. flava, foliis lineari-ligulatis, scapo tardioribus ; corollz limbo divaricato, 
laciniis oblongis obtusis. 2 
Pancratium flavum. Ruiz et Pavon fl. peruv. 2. 54. tab. 2. 84. Nobis in 
Journ. of science and the arts, 3. 33; et supra folio 633 ( pagina quarta ) f 
Cor. aurea, clavato-infundibuliformis: limbus divaricato-patens laciniis 
oblongis obtusis: tubus supra et infra amplior, medio constrictus. Corona 
staminea tubo summo inserta, flava, turbinato-cylindracea, limbo duplo bre- 
vior, sinubus senis angustis incisa ; filamentis flavis dentium subulato-dilatato- 
rum continuis: antheris luteis. Stylus stamina plurimum exsuperans, n- 
iar fusiformi-inerassatus. Germen viride, turbinato-ovatum, pluries tubo 
evius. 
CHRYSIPHIALA differs from PANCRATIUM, its nearest akin, 
by a limb of the corolla considerably shorter than the tube ; 
by a tube, enlarged at each end, and contracted in the 
middle ; by straight upright filaments; by a spindlewise 
thickened lower end to the style; and a stigma, which 
forms a small glandular depressed turbinate knob at the 
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