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CALOSTEMMA carneum. 
Flesh-coloured Calostemma. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACER. 
CALOSTEMMA. Botanical Register, vol. 5. fol. 421. 
C. carneum; folis contemporaneis rigidis ensiformibus scapo brevioribus, 
tubo perianthii limbo subzequali, coroná truncatá inter stamina edentatá 
emarginatá, umbellis densis, pedicellis articulatis exterioribus multó 
longioribus. i 
C. carneum. Lindley in Mitchell's Eastern Australia, vol. 2. p. 39. 
This pretty bulb is a native of Australia, where it was 
found in April, 1836, by Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, on the 
summit of Goulburn range, a chain of rocky mountains com- 
posed of **hornstone and granular felspar, light coloured, 
partially decomposed, and lying in rounded nodules and 
boulders.” Having been presented to the Horticultural So- 
ciety by its indefatigable discoverer, it flowered in a pit in the 
Chiswick garden in September last. 
It is evidently very near C. purpureum, figured at fol. 422 
of this work, 1st series, a plant now lost to our gardens, and 
which I have never seen, and at first I thought it a mere 
variety with paler flowers ; but the definition given by Brown, 
corone dentibus sterilibus triangularibus, will not at all apply 
to this plant; and Mr. Ker in his detailed description con- 
firms Brown's character by a precise account of the coronet, 
stating it to have between the stamens very narrow purple 
membranes, which are bidentate, or occasionally split, so as 
to give the filaments the appearance of being toothed on each 
side, as in certain species of Allium and Ornithogalum. Here 
on the contrary there are no processes between the stamens, 
but the space found at that place is green, and either a little 
rounded, or merely emarginate, as is shewn in the accom- 
panying fig. 1. Moreover the articulation in the pedicels, 
