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* FUNKIA Sieboldi. 
Siebold's Funkia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LiLIACEX. 
FUNKIA, Spreng.  Perigonium corolinum, tubulosum; tubo brevi, 
limbo sex-partito, subbilabiato, connivente v. patentiusculo. Stamina 6, basi 
limbi inserta, subfasciculatim declinata. Ovarium triloculare. Ovula plurima, 
biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis, declinatus ; stigma subtrigo- 
num, leve. Capsula oblongo-prismatica, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Se- 
mina plurima, ascendentia, plano-compressa ; testá membranacea, nigra, laxa, in 
alam apice longiorem producta, raphe inter testam liberá, adscendente. Em- 
bryones plures, dimidio albumine longiores, inter communem cavitatem axilem 
paralleli, extremitatibus radicularibus incrassatis umbilico proximis. Herbz in 
China et Japonica obvie ; radice fibroso-fasciculatá, foliis radicalibus petio- 
latis, ovatis cordatisve, acuminatis, plicato-nervosis, caulinis nullis, v. sub- 
sessilibus, floribus racemosis candidis v. coeruleis. Endl. gen. pl no. 1100. 
F. Sieboldi ; foliis oblongis acuminatis multinerviis subtús glaucis, racemo denso 
secundo multifloro, floribus pendulis clavato-infundibularibus, pedicellis brac- 
teis erectis brevioribus. 
F. Sieboldiana. Bot. Mag. t. 3663. 
Hemerocallis Sieboldiana. Bot. Cab. t. 1869. 
Bractee unciales et ultra, ovate, acute, herbacee, punctis pellucidis 
sine ordine notate, pedicellis dupld longiores. Alabastrus apice ventricosus, 
ovalis, versus basin attenuatus teres. Stigma capitatum, obsolete trilobum, 
incurvum, ultra perianthium extensum, incurvatum. Ovula citó post peri- 
anthii delapsum alata. 
This very pretty herbaceous plant is one of Dr. v. Siebold's 
acquisitions in Japan, and has now become rather common 
in the collections near London. It differs from the old spe- 
cies of the gardens (Hemerocallis cerulea now Funkia ovata, 
and Hemerocallis japonica or alba now Funkia subcordata) 
* So named by Sprengel, after Henry Christian Funck, a German Crypto- 
gamic Botanist, who lived in the early part of the present century. 
