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* PHYCÉLLA brevituba. 
Short-tubed Phycella. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARVLLIDACEZ. 
PHYCELLA. Supra, vòl. 16. fol; 1341. 
P. brevituba ; periantho 1j unciali basi annulari vix tubato infundibuliformi 
rubro intüs luteo-striato, stylo perianthium et stamina superante, filamentis 
pallidis apice rubris : petalinis limbum subeguantibus, processibus fauciali- 
bus sex }-uncialibus tenuiter subulatis, folis semunciam vel ultra latis. 
Herbert MSS. 
P. brevituba. Herbert Amaryllidacee, p. 154. 
Mr. Herbert, to whom I shewed the specimen of this 
lant when I received it from Mr. Knight's Nursery in the 
King's Road, in July 1836, determined it to be Phycella 
brevituba, with the specific character of which he shortly 
after favoured me. 
Having been indulged with an early sight of an elabo- 
rate work, about to be published by the same gentleman, 
upon the natural order Amaryllidacez, I find the species 
stationed next P. Herbertiana, with the observation that it 
is remarkable for the tube of the flower being nearly obsolete. 
It is a matter of no little difficulty to distinguish the spe- 
cies of this beautiful genus; I may almost add, that it is 
impossible to do so, in the absence of information concerning 
the small appendages found at the base of the filaments. 
These bodies differ in number, proportion, and size in diffe- 
rent species, and afford the most certain distinctive characters 
I am acquainted with. In P. brevituba they are six, awl- 
shaped, slender, and placed in pairs at the base of the sepa- 
line stamens. (fig. B.); in P. ignea they are twelve in 
number, of which six are awl-shaped, and in pairs as in 
P. brevituba, and six minute, rudimentary, gland-like, and 
s. 
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ip * See folio 1341. 
