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BRUNSVIGIJ* grandifldra. 



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Large-flowered Brunsyigia. 



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BRUNSVIGIA.—Suprd, vol. 3. foL 192. 



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B. grandi/lora ; foliis ligulatis erectis obtusis, umbella patente trigintiflora, 

 perianthiis patentibus : laciniis subsequalibus vix obliquis. 

 Bulbus ovalis, collo nullo. Folia ligulata, pallide viridiuy falcata, 

 plana, erecta, margine scabriuscula. Scapus ascendens, compressus, leviter 

 glaucus, l^-pedalis. Umbella patens, trigintiflora ; spatha bifoM: foliolis 

 ovatis, membranaceiSy pallide brunneis, acuminatis. Pedunculi teretes. 

 Perianthium sexjidum, subcegualiter patens, laciniis carneis, linear i-oblongis, 

 undulatis, obtusiusculis, subrecurvis ; interioribus latioribus. Stam'nia/aMce 



filamenta 



Ovarium 



viride, teretiusculum, ovale, triloculare ; ovulis numerosis carnosis, disfichis. 

 Stylus fliformis, declinatus. Stigma parvtim, obscure trilobum, papillosum. 



This noble addition to the genus Brunsvigia 



sent 



us, in August 



whom 



by M 



Tate, of Sloane Street, to 



have on former occasions had to express 



It 



no 



obligations for favours of the same description. 



doubt a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and requires 



the same treatment as other Brunsvigias. 



Mr. Herbert, to whom the drawing has been shewn, 

 considers it new, approaching B. striata in flower, though 



larg 



but differing entirely 



bulb and fol 



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and in 



those respects coming near B. Joseph 

 recumbent 



B. striata h 



_., and a bulb like a turkeys egg, with 



the coat hard and shining as porcelain, of the colour of 



yellow bay horse 



characters at variance with those of 



the species now described 



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VOL. XVI. 



See fol. 1153 



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