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ARTHROPODIUM minus. 
Small Arthropodium. 
nen 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELEZ. Brown prodr. 1. 274. 
ARTHROPODIUM. V. supra fol. 709. 
A. minus, racemo simplici paucifloro; pedicellis solitariis, bulbis sessilibus. 
Brown prodr. 1. 276. 
Herba 13 pedalis, gracilis, glaberrima, glaucescens. Folia radicalia, 
lineari-lanceolata, subcanaliculata, erecta, obscurè striata, scapo multo bre- 
viora. Scapus erectus, subflexuosus, divisus, ad ramificationes foliosus. 
Racemi cernui, multiflori, pedicellis aggregatis, 2-3, raro solitariis, medio 
articulatis, bracteà communi ovato-lineari, partialibus minutis squamifor- 
mibus. Perianthium album, reflexum, hexaphyllum, post anthesin. convolu- 
tum, assurgens, sepalis exterioribus oblongis, angustis, interioribus duplò 
latioribus, margine crispis. Stamina sez, sub ovario inserta, erecta, sepalis 
paulo breviora, regularia, filamentis supra medium villosis, flavis, antheris 
linearibus, purpureis, innatis, polline albo. Ovarium parvum, subrotundum, 
glabrum, sex-nerve. Stylus declinatus purpureus. Stigma punctum fimbri- 
atum.— Obs. Villi filamentorum simplices, articulati; articulis plurimis ro- 
tundis, ultimo cylindraceo elongato. 
proun 
Of this pretty genus a fine species has been published at 
fol. 709 of this work. A second, A. paniculatum, is not 
uncommon in collections. The present we have now to add 
as a third species cultivated in this country. It was sent 
from Port Jackson, in 1823, by Mr. Charles Frazer, the 
Colonial Botanist, to the Horticultural Society, in whose 
garden at Chiswick it flowered in September last. 
The differences between the plant now represented, and 
the definition applied to his A. minus by Mr. Brown, are 
not greater tban may be expected to exist between culti- 
vated and wild plants. With specimens from Port Jackson, 
presented to the Horticultural Society by James Brogden, 
Esq. and which unquestionably are referable to the A. minus, 
this agrees in all important particulars. 
A hardy greenhouse tuberous-rooted plant, a foot and 
half high, slender, smooth, and glaucous. The Leaves are 
radical, linear-lanceolate, channelled, erect, obscurely stri- 
ated, much shorter than the scape. Scape erect, wavy, 
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