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EURYCLES* Cunninghamii. 



Mr. Cunningham's Eurycles. 



MONOG YNIA 



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Nat.ord. Amaryllides R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system 



of Botany , p. 259.) 



EUR YCLES.—PerianthiumhyipocTditeTxfoTme^mbosexp^viito. Stamina 



faucialia, filamentis dilatatis coronam mentientibus utrinque unidentatis; 

 antherce versatiles. Ovarium 3-loculare; ovulis geminis collateralibus ap- 

 pensis. Capsula. Semina testa carnosa. 



E. Cunninghamii; foliis oblongis cordatis, umbella subsexflora, perianthii 

 laciniis oblongo-lanceolatis, dentibus staminum lateralibus subulatis sub- 

 bilobis intermedio subeequalibus. 

 Bulbus subrotunduSj apice virescens. Folia plurima, petiolata, oblonga, 



• • - - • • • '• --- furcatis. Scapus 



pedalis. 



fioribus brevius. FJores pedi- 



cellati, albi, perianthii laciniis ovato-oblongis, patentibus, planis, tubo brem- 

 oribus. Stamina 6,fauce inserta ;filamenta tridentata, dentibus lateralibus 

 patentibus, cornutis, nunc bilobis, intermedio antherifero paulb brevionbus. 

 Ovarium 3-loculare ; ovula gemina, collatcralia, appensa. Stylus filiformis, 

 rectus, perianthii longitudine. 



A native of New Holland, whence its bulbs were sent 

 to Mr. Knight, of the King's Road Nursery, by Mr. Baxter 

 It is a greenhouse plant, flowering in March and April, and 

 increased either by seeds or by offsets. 



From E. sylvestris and australis it differs in having the 

 flowers much smaller, and less numerous in the umbel, 

 and in the lateral teeth of the filaments being very much 

 elongated, and sometimes 2-lobed. 



It was received from the collector under the name of 

 Calostemma Cunninghamii ; but it is certainly a Eurycles, 

 which is positively distinguished from Calostemma in having 

 three cells in the ovarium, while Calostemma has but 



cell. 



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From *fc, broad, and «*«'., to close up; in allusion to the dilated 

 state of the stamens, which close up, as it were, the open.ng of the tube of 

 the perianthium. 



