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Acapantuus Umpe.iatus.: AFRICAN 
AGAPANTHUs, or Biur Liny. _ 
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Cla/s and Order. 
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Hexanpria Monocynia. 
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. Generic Charaéfer. 
Cor. infera, infundibuliformis, hexapetaloidea regularis, 
Specific Chara&cr and Synonyms. 
AGAPANTHUS umbellatns. “Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 414s 09. 
L'Herit. Serto. 17. : 
CRINUM africanum. Lina. Sp. p. 419. 
POLYANTHES floribus umbellatis. “ Linn. Vir. Cliff. 29. 
. Hort. 126. Mil. fig. 8. 10. eee 
TULBAGHIA Heif. Brunfv. 10. 1.6. | 
MAUHLIA africana. Dahl. Ob/. Bot. 26. 
HYACINTHUS africanus tuberofus, fl, ceruleo umbella 
__—-Breym. prod. 1.°25. Seta 
Agapanthus is a name firft given to this genus of plants, of - 
which there is only one fpecies, in the Hort. Kew. of Mr. 
Aiton. Linnzus and Gartner have confidered it as a’ 
Crinum, and it will be feen by the fynonyms that it has had a 
" variety of names impofed on it by other authors, ere 
It is a native of the Cape, and no novelty in this country, 
having been cultivated in the Royal Garden at Hampton-Court 
in 1692: it-is now found in moft colle&tions of green-houfe 
_ plants: the nurferymen make two varieties of it, a major and 
8 piers Xe : 
Its root is not bulbous, but compofed of many thick flefhy 
fibres; the leaves are thick, about a foot long, and near an 
inch broad; the flowering ftem, which is naked, rifes to the 
height of two or three feet, and produces on its fummit a 
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