Tas. 4895. 
CLIVIA GarRDENI. 
Major Garden's Clivia. 
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Nat. Ord. AMAnryLLIpacE#.—HEXxANnDRIA’ MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char, Perigonium superum, corollaceum, tubuloso-infundibulare, 6-parti- 
tum, irregulare, deciduum; tubo brevi, tereti; laciniis imbricatis; exterioribus 
lineari-lanceolatis ; interioribus paulo Jongioribus, spathulatis ex his inferiore 
magis producta, apice leviter recurvata, ex illis superiore breviore, convexo-cur- 
vata, cseteris rectiusculis. Stamina sex, summo tubo inserta, decurrentia, erecta ; 
petalina paulo longiora, parum exserta. Filamenta filiformia. Anthere oblonge, 
dorso supra basin bifidam affixee, erectee (versatiles, Lindl.). Ovarium inferum, 
subovatum, obsolete trigonum, triloculare ; ovu/a 6-7 in quolibet loculo, angulo 
interno affixa, biseriata, hemianatropa. Columna stylina filiformis, teretiuscula, 
erecta, stamina superans. Stigma trifidum; laciniis patulo-recurvatis. Bacca 
abortu monosperma (sub-6-sperma, Hook.). Semen adscendens, subgloboso- 
compressum ; testa carnosa, areolata; hilo et chalaza lateralibus, raphe brevi 
elevata conjunctis. Hméryo axilis, albumine carnoso dimidio brevior; extremi- 
tate radiculari hilo parallele contigua infera—Herba acaulis, Capensis. Bulbus 
imperfectus; fibris fasciculatis, carnosis, tuberoso-incrassatis. Folia crebra, disticha, 
lorata, rigida, persistentia. Scapus plano-converus, solidus, apice umbellato-mul- 
tiflorus. Spatha polyphylla, marcescens. Flores pedicellati, bracteolis linearibus 
distineti, nutantes, luteo-crocei, apice virescentes. Semina sepe in fructu germi- 
nantia. Kunth. 
Ciivia Gardeni; foliis obtusiuscule acuminatis, umbella sub-14-flora, floribus 
falcato-curvatis, sepalis apice patentibus. 
Clearly a species of CZivia, Lindl. (Imantophyllum, Hooz.), and — 
perfectly distinct from the only hitherto known species of this 
African genus, figured at our Tab. 2856. ‘The leaves are longer, 
and they taper gradually into an acuminated but not sharp point ; - 
the umbel has fewer flowers, but these flowers are twice the size _ 
of C. nobilis, and more brightly coloured, very much curved or 
falcate, and the apices of the sepals, instead of being incurved so 
as to form a very contracted mouth, are spreading, thus forming 
an infundibuliform corolla. Clivia nobilis is an inhabitant of the _ 
Albany Tracts, near the Great Fish River, South Africa; C. Gar- 
deni was discovered in the Natal Colony by our excellent friend 
Major Garden, and by him introduced to the Royal Garden of _ 
Kew. ‘Treated as a greenhouse plant, it flowers finely in the — 
winter months, and continues for several weeks in blossom. _ 
JANUARY Ist, 1856. : 
