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ANTHOLYZA MERIANA. Rep-FLOWERED 
- ANTHOLYZA. | 
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_ Clafs. and Order. es 
‘Trranprra Monocynia. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cor. tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap/: infera., — 
Specific Chara&er and § synonyms. | 
ANTHOLYZA Meriana corollis infundibuliformibus, foliis : 
ve enfiformibus, Linn. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. 
_- Murr. p. 87. Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 67. 
MERIANA flore rubello. Trew. Ehret. t. 40. 
WATSONIA Meriana floribus infundibuliformibus fubz & 
: qualibus, Mill. Did. ed.6. 4fo. —* 
Mr. Mrcver informs us in his Diftionary, that he raifed 
this moft elegant {pecies of Antholyza from feeds fent bim by 
_ his friend Dr. Jos Baster, which fucceeded in the Chelfea 
garden in 1756; conceiving it to be a diftin&. genus,’ he — 
named it Wat/onia, in honour of Mr. (afterwards) Sir Wit- 
ttaM Warson ; Dr. Trew, of Nuremberg, figured it in his — 
Icones by Euret, under the name of Meriana, from Sypriva 
Merran, the celebrated female Dutch naturalift, fo eminently — 
diftinguifhed for the produétions of her pencil; Linnaus” 
ranges it with the Antholyza’s, preferving the trivial name of © 
Meriana. 3 : ee 
It is unneceffary for us to defcribe this plant minately 
’ ftronger plant than the Antholyza Cunonia, already figured in 
ough the colour of its flowers is not — 
fo {plendid, the whole plant poffeffles more elegance. ee 
It requires the fame treatment as the Cape bulbs, fucceeds 
_ very: well, and produces plenty of offsets when planted in 
light fandy bog-earth. ote : 
Flowers in May and June, and is propagated | by | offsets. 
