BARNARDIA scilloides. 
Chinese Barnardia. 
hexandria monogynja. 
Nat. ord. AsphodelejE. 
BA RNARDIA. — Perianthium hexapetalo-partitum, patens, aequale, 
persistens. Stamina 6, filamentis basi dilatatis. Ovarium triloculare, 
3-spermum: ovulis solitariis erectis. Stylus subulatus, continuus. Stigma 
simplex. Fructus .*..-■ Herba Chinensis. Bulbus tunicatus. 
Folia linearia, canaliculata. Flores carnei, racemosi. Hujus certi conge- 
neres Ornithogalum japonicum Thunbergii, et Ornithogalum chinense Lou- 
reiri, si non omnino conspecifca . 
Barnardia scilloides. ... 
Bulbus ovatus, tunicatus, ovi columbini magnitudine. rolia debilia, 
duriuscula , linearia, canaliculata, cuspidata, extiis subangulata, scapi longi- 
tudine vel longiora. Scapus erectus, 6-angularis, glaber, 1^-2 -pedalis. 
Racemus simplex, conicus. Ped'icellijiliformes, subhorizontales, basi brac- 
teold minima suffulti. Perianthium 6-phyllum, erecto-patens, carneum, 
laciniis oblongis, concavis, basi angustatis, dorso viridibus: exterioribus 
latioribus. Stamina 6, cequalia, patentia, basi sepalorum inserta, basi lata 
fimbriatd earned. Antheree anticce, oblongat. Ovarium ovatum, substipi- 
tatum, obtuse triquetrum, inflatum, 3 -loculare, loculis monospermis; ovulo 
solitario, erecto, inf undo cujusvis loculi, vix tertiam partem cavitatis replente. 
Stylus rectus, continuus, subulatus. Stigma simplex. 
This very interesting plant was sent from China to the 
Horticultural Society, by Mr. J. D. Parks, in 1^4, b> 
whom it had been collected in the neighbourhood ot Macao. 
Having suffered injury during its voyage, it did not pro¬ 
duce its flowers till September ot the present year, when 
it blossomed in a stove. 
We entertain no doubt of the generic identity of the 
Ornithogalum, chinense of Loureiro, and the O . japonicum of 
Thunberg, with this plant, if they be not all the very same 
species, as seems probable. 
In the natural assemblage of plants to which this 
belongs, the characters by which the genera are distin- 
