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TRICHOPETALUM* gracile. 



Slender Trichopetalum. 





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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 





Nat. ord. Asphodeleje Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 



Botany, p. 273.^ 



TRICHOPETAL UM. 



Calyx herbaceus recurvus. Petala extfts 



herbacea, intils colorata, margine barbata, fer& ex eadem serie cum sepalis 

 originem ducentia, recurva. Stamina 6, &qua\\dL 9 filamentis glabris, antheris 

 linearibus innatis. Ovarium 3-gonum, 3-loculare, polyspermura. Stylus 



simplex. Stigma : punctum triangulare. 



Capsula oblonga, nuda, 3-locu- 



Semina 



laris, polysperma, apice loculicido-trivalvis ; pericarpio chartaceo 

 reniformia, compressa; testd nigra, embryone circa albumen subcorneum 



arcuato. Herbse Chilenses 9 radicibus fasciculatis f caulibus annuis, tereti- 



bus, floribus albis, subsolitariis , racemosis v. spicatim paniculatis. 



T. gracile ; caule paniculato, petalis sepalisque revolutis, floribus nutantibus. 

 ? Anthericum plumosum. Ruiz et Pavon fl. Peruv. v. 3. t. 300. f. 6. 



R'dmer et Schultes syst. veg. 7. 481. 



Radix fasciculatus, carnosus. Caules subramosi, glauci f striati, in solo 

 pingui (undb exemplar quod icon, nostram prcebuit) 3-pedales. Folia glauca, 

 lineari-ensiformia, canaliculata, debilia, glaberrima ; superioribus sensim 

 minoribuSy demtlm sub summis floribus depauperatis in bracteas membranaceas 

 mutatis. Flores albo-virides , inconspicui, nutantes. Sepala et petala in 

 eadem serie, basibus levissimi connata, subcequalia, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, 

 striata. Pili margin is duplici serie inserti } crassi, scabri, brevi-articulati. 

 Semina duplb majora qudm in T. stellato. 



Found by M'Rae near the baths of Colina, in Chile, 

 and by him sent to the Horticultural Society, in whose 

 Garden it has been cultivated several years. In a starved 

 or unhealthy state it is a dwarf few-flowered plant, scarcely 

 exceeding a span in height; but planted in rich soil, and 

 under good cultivation, it rises to the height of full 3 feet, 

 flowering and seeding abundantly from June to August. 



* From ${£, i-gigo?, hair, and *rgT*Ao>, a petal ; in allusion to the fringes 

 of the inner series of the perianthium. 



