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ORNITHOGALUM CONICUM. PURE-WHITE- 
FLOWERED STAR OF BETHLEHEM, _ 
SKK KEKE KEK KEK EEE KEE 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—AsPHopDELEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Corolla 6-petala, patens. Filamenta basi dilatata recep- 
taculo inserta. Capsula trilocularis. Embryo axilis.— 
Flores racemosi. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ORNITHOGALUM conicum; racemo conico, filamentis subula- 
tis, bracteis membranaceis (longitudine pedicellorum), 
foliis lanceolatis planis ciliato-marginatis, sepalis (albis) 
lanceolatis. 
OrnitHoGaLum conicum. Jacq. Coll. v. 3. p. 232. Ic. Rar. 
v. 2. t. 428. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v.77. p. 514. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 31. 
We are indebted for our knowledge of this plant to Baron 
Lupwic, who sent bulbs from the Cape of Good Hope 
to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in 1835. Flowering spe- 
cimens were produced in the greenhouse in the summer of 
the same year. The flowers are large, handsome, pure 
white, the sepals acuminate, spreading, but never curled 
back as in O. revolutum, to which this plant, in other re- 
spects, bears some affinity. 
Descr. Leaves few and springing from the root, or from 
the base of the scape, lanceolate, plane, acuminate, bright 
but pale green, the margin white and delicately fringed ; 
the lower part is sheathing. Scape a foot high, terminated 
by a raceme of flowers, at first conical, afterwards more 
elongated. Pedicels an inch Jong, erecto-patent, having 
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