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HABRANTHUS* Phycelloídes. 
Phycella-like Habranthus. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNI A. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEE R. Br, (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 259.) 
HABRANTHUS.—Supra, vol. 16. fol. 1345. 
H. Phycelloides; bulbo magno, rotundo, nigro; foliis obtusis, glaucis, 
3 unciw latis; scapo subpurpurascente, crasso, 8-unciali; spathá bi- 
folià, 24-unciali, marcescente; umbellá sexflorá, bracteata; pedunculis 
34-uncialibus; germine viridi; tubo 3 uncis, viridi-luteo; limbo 24- 
unciali, coccineo, basi lutescente; laciniis externis latioribus, uncatis ; 
stylo albo, filamentis longiore, apice rubescente, tubo 24 uncias rit ai 
stigmate breviter trilobo; filamentis decurrentibus, albis, externis longi- 
oribus ima abbreviatä ; internis brevioribus summa elongata ; genitalibus 
paullum recurvatis, annulo membranaceo insertis. W. H. 
‘ This fine species, which must be referred to the genus 
Habranthus, appears to be the point by which it connects 
itself with Phycella ; the generic distinctions between this 
plant and Phycella ignea being very slender; but it has 
none of the peculiar features which remain to Phycella, as 
it has been lastly defined. It only departs from the general 
form of Habranthus in having the style and filaments less 
curved, and the stigma less deeply cleft than usual; but 
the filaments are decidedly of four lengths, the lowest 
being shorter than the two external laterals, and the upper 
longer than the internal laterals. There is also a small 
fourfold discrepancy in the breadth of the petals. The 
filaments are decurrent in the tube, and their insertion is 
screened by an annular bearded membrane, as in some 
other species. Its broad glaucous leaves, the number and 
* See fol. 1345. 
