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GRIFFINIA intermedia. 
Mr. William Harrison's Griffinia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Amaryllideje. 
GRIFFINIA.—Supra, vol. 6 .fol. 511. 
G. intermedia ; foliis ovalibus in petiolura canaliculatura attenuatis, scapo 
ancipite, floribus breviter petiolatis, laciniis oblongis obtusis planis 
subsequalibus. 
Folia omnirib Griffiniarum (fuoad texturam; forma autem intermedia , 
circumscriptione ovali in petiolum subalatum canahculatum attenuate • 
Scapus compressus , obtuse! anceps, dodrantalis. Spatha erecta , persistens , 
pedicellis longior, non sub anthesi marcescens. Flores palhdc amethystim, 
unicolores, in umbella coarctata multiflora congesti, post anthesin nutantes. 
Lacini® subcequales oblonga, obtusce, regulariter patentes, extenonbus pau- 
lulum angustioribus, apice appendiculatis, ut mos est. Stamina laciniis 
breviora; quinque declinatis incequalibus, sexto assurgente. Ovula duo 
cuique loculo, erecta, collaterals. 
This interesting addition to the genus Griffinia is, as 
it were, exactly intermediate between the two species 
already known. From G. hyacinthina, it is distinguished 
by its smaller flowers, with equal obtuse segments, which 
have a regular expansion; from G. parviflora it is equally 
different, not only in the greater size of its flowers, and in 
the form of their segments, which are never acuminate, but 
also in the compactness of the umbel, and in the channelled 
somewhat margined petiole of the leaves. In the foliage, 
indeed, the present species offers obvious marks of dif¬ 
ference from both the two former species. The leaves are 
shorter, much more oval, and more decidedly tapeied into 
the footstalk than in G. hyacinthina; they are larger, and 
more obtuse, and have a very differently formed petiole 
from those of G. parviflora. 
