Tas. 6809. 
ANTHERICUM  secneanpiorpes. 
Native probably of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacrm.—Tribe AsPHODELER. 
Genus AntHERIcUM, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 788.) 
ANTHERICUM (Hesperanthes) echeandioides ; fibris radicalibus cylindricis carnosis, 
foliis basalibus productis 5-6 lanceolatis sessilibus membranaceis subpedalibus 
glabris margine undulatis, pedunculo foliis longiore bracteis 2-3 lanceolatis 
membranaceis erectis amplexicaulibus predito, racemo laxissimo simplici, 
floribus geminis, pedicellis cernuis medio articulatis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, 
perianthio luteo segmentis dorso venis 3 sejugatis viridulis percurso, exterioribus 
oblanceolato-oblongis, interioribus obovato-oblongis, staminibus perianthio 
paulo brevioribus, filamentis hispidis, antheris lanceolatis, ovario oblongo, stylo 
ovario longiore, stigmate capitato. 
Echeandia eleutherandra, K. Koch in Hort. Berol. inedit. 
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The present plant was flowered for the first time at Kew 
in November, 1883. It was received not long before from 
Mr. R. J. Lynch, of the Cambridge Botanic Garden, and is 
probably a native of Mexico. We have no wild specimens in 
the Herbarium that correspond to it, but within a few days of 
the time when it flowered at Kew it was brought from the 
Berlin Garden for determination by Herr Vatke, with the 
_information that it was grown there under the unpublished 
name of Hceheandia eleutherandra, K. Koch. The principal 
character in which Hcheandia differs from Anthericum is in 
its syngenesious stamens, so that it properly should be 
classified under the latter genus, but otherwise, in habit, 
leaf, and the size and colour of the flower, it closely resem- 
bles Echeandia terniflora, which has been cultivated in 
European gardens from the beginning of the present 
century, and is figured in Redonte’s Liliacew (Tab. 313). 
_ Desor. Moot-fibres densely tufted, cylindrical. Produced 
leaves five or six, confined to the base of the stem, lanceolate, 
about a foot long, bright green, glabrous, membranous, an 
inch or an inch and a quarter broad at the middle, narrowed 
gradually to an acute point, deeply channelled and clasping 
APRIL Ist, 1885. 
