ANTHERICUM canaliculatum. I3. rufum. 
Rtifous Hairy Anthericum, 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, . 
Nat. ord. Asphodeleje. 
ANTHERICUM. Supra ttl, 7. fol. 664. 
A. canaliculatum ; foliis subcarnosis pilosis ensiformi-triquetris latere tB- 
gustiore canaliculatis, scapo simplice. Hort. Kew. erf. 1. 1.448. 
A. canaliculatum. Willd. sp. pi. 2. 141. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3.S69. 
Plialangiura canaliculatum. Pers. syn. 1.369. 
/3. rufum; floribus rufo-vittatis pedicellisque pilosis. 
Anthericum canaliculatum. Bot. mag. 1124. 
Scapus teres, pilosus. Racemus multijlorus ; pedunculi teretcs, glabri, 
vix unciales. Bracteae lanceolatee, acuminata, sub anthesi pedunculo bre- 
mores, glabra. Petals patuta, alba, dorso sordide viresceutia, semiuneialia, 
FjTamenta suhulata, alba, petalii breviora, hi^dvueula, Uia alterna minus 
hispida. Stylus longitudine staminum. Hort. Kew. 1. e. 
Obs. In varietate nostr^ scapus humilior, sepala dorso rofii pilosa, ncc 
sordid^ viridia, pedicelli pilosi, iilanienta glabra. 
We were not aware, that the subject of this article had 
been already pablished in the Botanical Magazine, until 
after our plate was in the hands of the colourers. As 
the drawing was made several years since by Mr. Syden- 
ham Edwards, representing the plant in a more perfect 
manner, and in a different state from the figure in the 
Botanical Magazine, we hope to stand excused for the 
oversight. V 
From the original state of the species this variety differs, 
as has been already remarked by Mr. Ker, in the pedicels 
and interior of the flower being hairy, and marked with a 
rufous, not green stripe. We have therefore separated it, 
as a variety of which the characters are so distinct as to 
make it advisable that it should be permanently distin- 
guished. - 
It is a native of the Cane of Good Hope, whence it was 
introduced, upon thf ai4ba|i^ of ihp Hortus Kewensis, in 
