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LEUCOCORYNE* odoráta. 
Sweet-scented Leucocoryne. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. AsPHoDELEZ. » 
LEUCOCORYNE.— Perianthium hypocrateriforme, cum, pedicello 
continuum,. limbo 6-partito. Stamina 3 fertilia è tubo exorta; tria sterilia 
carnosa teretia è fauce laciniis corollinis opposita. Squame hypogyne 
nulle. Ovarium sessile, triloculare, polyspermum ; stylus teres, cum ovario 
articulatus ; stigma simplex. Herbe (Chilenses), cormis induviatis. 
Flores umbellati. 
L. odorata; foliis linearibus glaucis, limbi laciniis lanceolatis sublaciniatis, 
staminibus sterilibus subulatis obtusis, pedunculis subeequalibus tub 
brevioribus. 
Folia debilia, valdè glauca, linearia, scapi pedalis longitudine. Scapus 
teres. Involucrum bifolium, floribus brevius. Umbella 3-4-flora. Flores 
albi, odorem Oxyacanthe debilem spirantes, pedicellis equalibus duplo 
brevioribus. . Perianthium Aypocrateriforme; tubo subcylindraceo, atro- 
viridi, circa medium subtumido ; limbo. patente, 6-partito: laciniis sub- 
@qualibus subrecurvis, corollinis nunc laciniatis. Stamina fertilia 3, è 
medio tubo exorta, subsessilia, 3 sterilia laciniis corollinis opposita, subu- 
lata, obtusa, è fauce, nunc, nec rarò, antherifera ; anthere ovate, bilocu- 
lares, longitudinaliter intüs dehiscentes. _ Ovarium superum, obovatum, 
cylindraceum, 3-loculare, polyspermum, apice truncatum, ‘intrusum ; stylus 
staminibus inferioribus demissior, teres, cum ovario articulatus: stigma 
simplex, papillosum. f 
This pretty little plant was found by Mr. M‘Rae, in November 1825, 
along with two other. species, upon the sides of the mountains lying between 
St. Jago and Valparaiso, in places where the snow had been a few days 
melted. It is rather delicate, requiring in this country the protection of 
a frame or greenhouse, when it produces its fragrant flowers in August. 
It is to be increased by offsets, and grows best in a light loamy soil in which 
some coarse white sand is mixed. It was received from Mr. M‘Rae by the 
Horticultural Society in the spring of 1826, and flowered for the first time 
in August of the same year, at which period the drawing was made. 
From Brodisa this genus differs in the texture of its sterile stamens, 
* From Asuxd,, white, and xopivn, a club; in allusion to the club-like sterile stamens. 
