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DRIMIA* villdsa 



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Villous-Ieaved Drimia. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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J y'Nat. ord. AsPnoDELEiE. 



DRIMIA 3 acq.— Perianthium 6-fidum, campanulatum, limbo reflexo : 

 laciniis apice cucuUatis. Stamina filamentis basi dilatatis, laciniarum basi 

 inserta. Stijhis cum ovario continuus ; stigma triquetrum, incrassatum. 

 Capsula 3-locularis, loculis dorso dehiscentibus, semibivalvibus. Semina 

 angulo central! loculamentorum affixa. 



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D. villosa ; foliis oblongis undulatis glaucis villosis serotinis, racemo multi- 



floro cylindraceo, perianthii limbo obliquo. 



Folia erecta, oblong o-lanceolata, undulata, pilosa, serotina, glauca, 

 Racemus nudus, erectus, multiflorus. Bracteote breves, minim(B, ovatte, 

 pedicellis multh breviores. Perianthium sexfidum, tuho campanulato, car- 

 noso, limbo obliquo: laciniis 6, linearibus, non imbricanttbus , undulatis, 

 upice cucuUatis, demhm revolutis. Stamina 6, basibus lactmarum inserta, 

 leviter declinata ob obliquitatem limbi; filamentis subulatts, basi dilatatis, in 

 conum conniventihus. Ovarium superum, intrd tubum penanthii inclusum, 

 triloculare, loculis serte duplici polyspermis ; stylus ovano continuus de- 

 clinatus; stigma incrassatum, triquetrum. 



A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was 

 received by Mr. Tate, in whose Nursery our drawing was 

 made in May 1826. 



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A greenhouse bulbous plant, flowering before the leaves. 

 It differs from Drimia ciliaris, to which it most nearly 

 approaches, in the much greater breadth of its leaves, 

 ^hich are strongly undulated, and far more villous, ana 

 »n a greater obliquity of the limb of the perianthium. 



, Those who may hereafter study the genus Drimia will 

 do well to attend to the structure of the capsule, to the 



* From Jg.^J,, acrid ; in allusion to the flavour of the leaves. 



