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BRUNSVIGIA minor. 
Small Brunsvigia.. 
H£::^DRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. onl. AmaRTLI^^^ 
BRUNSVIGIA. Supra^vol3.foL 192, 193. 
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B. miner: foliis 3-4 oblongis humifusis scapo brevioribus, sca^ radiitf 
umBellee longidit, spathS, erects caniosd, perianthiis 6-partitis. 
For this-*eautiftit little species of Brunsvigia we are 
indebted to James H. Slater, Esq., of Newick Park, a 
gentlemau whose valuable communications have often been 
gratefully a^teHrledged in this publication. 
We were at first disposed to esteem it a variety of 
Amaryllis laticoma, figured at fol. 497 of this work, but 
upon further consideration, and aided by the intelligent 
notes of Mr. Slater, me are now\ satisfied of their dif- 
ferences. 
Mr. Slater thus points out the characters by wliicli 
B. minor is essentially distinguished: Tlie flower-stem 
of my plant rises long before the leaves, that of A. Lati- 
coma, when they are full grown. The spathe of my plant 
is fleshy, peculiarly/ thick, and continuea fresh ana erect 
until the flowers died off; in A. Laticoma this is i^ot the 
case. The leaves of A. Laticoma are described as 1 finches 
long, by two-thirds of an inch broad. The leaver of my 
plant are rather broad for their length ; ])erhaps 6 inches long, 
by rather more than 1 inch wide. Those of A. L. rise from 
the' neck of the bulb, and are described as falcate ; those 
of my plant fall directly, and cling round the edge of the 
pot ; in their growth, as well as in their shape, very much 
resembling the leaves of B. Multiflora. The germen of my 
plant very nuicli resembled, in its early state, the germen 
of B. Josephinae ; that of A. Laticoma, by the figure, 
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