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CYRTÁNTHUS* cárneus. 
Flesh-coloured Cyrtanthus. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AmaRYLLIDEE R. Br. (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 259.) 
CYRTANTHUS.— Supra, vol. 2. fol. 162, 
C. carneus ; foliis hysteranthiis loratis g 
pendulis clavatis : limbo a 
Bulbus ovalis, castaneus, pugni 
post scapum, erecta, sesquipedali 
centia, bis spiralia. Scapus er 
v. ultra. Bractew exteric anceolate, acuminate, obtuse, apice 
canaliculate, interiores subi edicellorum longitudine, Umbella 7-8- 
flora. Pedicelli ovariorum longitudine, teretes, glauci. Flores carnei, 
clavati, arcuati, penduli, 3 uncias longi, tubo cylindraceo-infundibuli ormi ; 
limbus erectus, 6-partitus, tubo tripló brevior: laciniis exterioribus ovatis, 
interioribus oblongis obtusis. Stamina 6, equalia, limbo breviora, fauce 
tubi inserta; filamenta subulata, basi membranacea, dilatata : membri 
utrinque apice auriculata. Stigma leviter trilobum, papillosum ; stylus 
antheris oblongis, erectis, equalis. Ovula plurima, ab axi ascendentia. 
T t dine, collo supraterraneo. Folia 
t, obtusa, glauca, margine lutes- 
aucus, spiraliter tortus, pedalis 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence a bulb was 
brought to the Horticultural Society by Captain Stuart, 
under the name of Cyrtanthus odorus, from which it is 
totally distinct ; see fol. 503 of this work. 
It approaches C. pallidus of the Botanical Magazine, 
from which it differs in having glaucous, obtuse, spirally- 
twisted, instead of straight, acute, green leaves, and also 
in its much larger flowers. C. spiralis has smaller, more 
scarlet flowers; and its leaves are th narrower, and much 
more glaucous and twisted. C. obliquus 1s perhaps, of all 
* So named from the figure of the flower ; xveros, incurved, and ¿»9s, a 
flower. 
