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ANOMATHECA* cruenta. 



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Blood-spotted Anomatheca. 



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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat, ord. Iuide^ Juss. 



p. 260.) 



of botany 



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Stam 



NOMA THECA Ker.— /w/Zomcw^ia^spicata. Svatha bivalvis, brevis. 

 la tubuloso-sexfida, hvpocrateriformis, subirregularis, erecta; limbu$ 



Lu august^ fauciali subbrevioribus. 



Stigmata angustissima, condupli- 



tubo 



cata, bipartita. Capsula ovato-globosa, papilloso-aspera. Semina 



plurima, rotunda. Herba paZmam, v. ultradodrantalis,ortu oh 



proveniens, postquam erecta. Bulbotuber ovatum, exuviis mollihus 



fihrosis. Folia collateralia, 



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xfetnl 



falcata. Caulis teres 



nudius 



^ . ? /o?«5 plurimijLm longiory i 



divisis. Flores remotiusculiy magnu^^*. . , 



herhacea, obtusa. Corollarum laciniee varum inctquales, obtusa, deorstlm 



^jusculo parum grandior. Semiha mapcos 

 wdearum, p. HI. 



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A. cruenta; limbo bilabiate tubo duplo breviore, macuHs ovatU conformlbui. 



Vam affinis A.juncece, prcesertim etB in Botan. Magaz. deptcta, potws- 



<i^m isti grandiori et ramosiori Andreusii : differ t tamen colore Jlorum 



menswre, limbo magis i 

 jormibus, nee intermedid 



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, For this we are obliged to Mr. Tate, of Sloane Street, 

 ?ho communicated it in May last, with the informa- 

 5,on, that he had received it several years ago from tne 

 Cape, and finds it a very desirable plant, continuing to 

 throw out flowering shoots till late in the autumn, inc 



• So called from «..««. and ^v^w, on account of iU frosted capsuk 





