Tab. 5361. 

 PH-/EDRANASSA obtusa. 



Blunt Phcedranassa. 



Nat. Ord. Amaryllidace.e. — Hexandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, tubuloso-infundibuliforme, sex- 

 partitum ; tubo brevi crasso, fame nuda, laciniis spathulatis inferne canaliculato- 

 convolutis, subeequalibus. Stamina 6, summo tubo pariter inserta, e basi geni- 

 culato-adscendente recta, exserta, tria superiora breviora. Filamenta filiformia, 

 inferne gradatim latiora et complanata, in tubum decurrentia. Anthera lineari- 

 oblongge, dorso infra medium affixse, versatiles. Ovarium inferum, trigonum, ellip- 

 ticum, triloculare; ovula inloculis crebra, angulo interno affixa, biseriata, borizon- 

 taliter superposita, superne alata, anatropa. Columna stylina^ filiformis, erecta, 

 exserta. Stigma subcapitato-incrassatum, integrum. Capsula trigona, triloculans, 

 polysperma. — Herbse Americana, bulbiferce, scapigeree ; bulbo tunicato. Folia 

 codetanea petiolata, striato-nervosa. Scapus teres, tenuiter fstulosus (potius totus 

 spongiosus). Spatba poly morpha, mar xescens. Flores pedicellati, penduli. Kunth. 



Phcedranassa obtusa; folio synantbio sesquipedali horizontali oblongo in pe- 

 tiolum longe angustato (4-pollices lato), scapo stricto tereti glauco subspirali, 

 umbella 6-flora, pedunculis tubo brevioribus, tubo cylindraceo basi abrupte 

 obtuso sexcostato (carueoj apice (viridi) patulo, staminibus stylo multo bre- 

 vioribus. Kth. 



Ph^edranassa obtusa. Herb, in Bot. Reg. 1845 ; Misc. p. 17- Benth. Plant. 

 Hartw.p. 260. Kth. En. Plant, v. 5. p. 501. 



Phycelia obtusa. Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1844 ; Misc. p. 91. 



The genus Phadranassa* was founded by the late Hon. 

 and Rev. William Herbert, upon an Aniaryllidaceous plant of 

 Ecuador and Peru, the Haemantkus dubius of Hunib. and Kth., 

 Collania dubia, Schult., Crinum Quitense, and his own Phycelia 

 cldoracra, Herb. Amaryll. p. 155. It is well represented by 

 Dr. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. v. 31. t. 17. To this he added his 

 Phycelia obtusa, which we are glad now to have the opportunity 

 of figuring ; a native of the same region, introduced to this 

 country by James Anderson Hay Henry, Esq., of Hay Lodge, 



* Prom </><u8pos, gay, and avaaaa, queen. 



FEBRUARY 1 ST, 1863. 



