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Pale-blue-flowered Lachenal«« 



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Nat. ord. Asphodele^. 

 LACHENALIA.—Supr<}, vol. 4. fol. 287 



L. pallida ; corollis campanulatis, petalis 3 interioribus longloribus, flori- 

 bus brevissim^ pedunculatis horizontalibus, foliis linearl-oblongis scapo 



Hort. Kew. ed. 1. 1. 460. 



Redouts Liliacc 



s 22. Willd. sp. pi. 

 Romer et Schultes syst. veg. 



longioribus. 

 li. pallida. Thunh. prodr. 64. 



2. 172. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 285. 



7. 605. ' 



fi. minor ; petalis sepalis siibaequalibus, racerao paucifloro. 



L. pallida «, Suprd, fol. 314. 



Rachis angulata, multijlora. Flores sessiles, in axilla bractecB scariosa:. 

 C&iyx pallid^ plumheo-ccBTuleus, laciniis petalis multb hrevionbus, sub apice 

 viridibus. Petala concolora, sed pallidiora. Folia atroviridia, tmmaculata. 



We consider this the type of L. pallida, rather than the 



smaller variety represented 



with the descript 



of 



fol. 314: it agrees better 

 s. and is undoubtedly the 



take 



from which the definition in the Hortus Kewensis was 

 .-, as we know from the inspection of specimens lor- 

 y obtained from the Garden at Kew by Mr. James 



I^onn, and now in our possession 



The 



pposed variety figured at fol. 287, is altogether 



another species 



Our drawing was made many years ago in the Garden 

 of our late friend. Mr. Griffin, whose fine collection ot bulbs 



is 



nfortunately dispersed 



gh so many hand 



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Werner 



beautiful 

 history o 



rs his name than by any trace that he 

 died in 1800. 



