Tan. 7249. 
PASITHEA camru.ra. 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. Liniacrm.—Tribe ASPHODELE. 
Genus PasituEa, D. Don ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 791.) 
Gen. Char. (Emend.) Perianthii patuli segmenta post anthesis contorta; 
tubus brevissimus, ovario adnatus. Sepa/a oblonga, obtusa, medio tenuiter 
5-nervia. Petala paullo majora, nervis 3 crassis percursa. Stamina 
6, perigyna, alterna breviora, suberecta, filamentis basi incrassatis et 
puberulis; anthere oblong, versatiles. Ovariuwm semisuperum, globo- 
sum, 3-loculare; stylus gracilis, staminibus longior, inclinatus, stigmati- 
bus 3 brevibus apice stigmatosis ; ovula in loculis 4, superposita. Capsula 
globosa, membranacea, sub 3-loba, loculicide 3-valvis. Semina loculis 
subsolitaria, subglobosa, testa crustacea nitida atra, albumine carnoso.— — 
Herba perennis, scapigera, elata, glaberrima, rhizomate brevi fibris vestito, 
Folia anguste linearia, graminea, attenuato-acuminata, basi vaginata, 
vaginis distichis, costa valida carinata, nervis tenuissimis. Scapus 
gracilis; panicula erecta, laxe ramosa, ramis gracilibus, erecto-patentibus, 
apices versus floriferis ; bractewe subulate. Flores crulet, 1-poll. diam. 
breviter gracile pedicellatt. Capsula parva, 
Pasithea cxerulea, D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. vol. xiii. (1832) p. 237; 
Kunth Enum. Pl. vol. iv. p. 635; C. Gay Fl. Chil. vol. vi. p. 1383; Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiti. p. 320. 
AntTHERICUM ceruleum, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. vol. iii. p. 67, t. 299. 
PHaLaNeium ceruleum, Pers. Syn. vol. i. p. 368. 
Srypanpra ? cerulea, R. Br. Prodr. p. 279; Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 
49. 
Cyanetta Illus, Molina, Sag. Chil. Bd. 2, p. 130 (Ed. 1, 1782). 
BerMuprana ceerulea, Phalangii ramosi facie, Fewillée Journ. Obs. Phys. 
&c., vol. ii. p. 715, t. 8 (1714). 
satiety 
I have given above a full generic description of this 
beautiful plant, those hitherto published being more or less 
deficient or inaccurate, especially as regards the stamens, the 
filaments of three of which are very much shorter than the 
others; and the ovary, which is described in the ‘‘ Genera 
Plantarum” as small in a concave torus, is really adnate 
to the perianth-tube for half its length, as described by 
Endlicher and others. 
P. cerulea was discovered and described by Feuillée, a 
Franciscan friar, mathematician and botanist, born at 
Mane, in Provence, in 1660, who was commissioned to 
Avaust Ist, 1892. 
