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Massonia Ensifolia. Trumpet-Flowered 

 Massonia. 



C/tf/} awi Order. 

 Hexaxdria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. infera limbo fexpartito. Filamenta collo tubi impofita. 

 Cap/. 3-alata, 3-locularis polyfperma. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



MASSONIA enfifolia i braQeis pedicellis brevioribus, corollas 

 laciniis revoluto-patentibus tubo pluries brevi- 

 oribus, filamentis feflilibus capillaribus : alternis 

 longioribus, foliis lanceolatis. Gawler. 



MAUHLIA enfifolia. Thunb. nov. gen. 111. Nov. gen. char. ejf. 

 apud Prodrom. iterum, p. 60. t. 1. 



AGAPANTHUS enfifolius. Wtlld. Sp. PL 2. 48. 



POLYANTHES pygmaza. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. /. 380. Collecl. 

 Jupp. 56. IVilld. Sp. PL 2. 165. itentm ! 



MASSONIA violacea. Bot. Repof. tab. 46. Ejufque recenf 

 Agapanthus enfifolius. 



Desc. Bulb tunicated. Leaves two, oppofite, from two to 

 four inches long, lanceolate, contracted at the bafe into a fort 

 °f petiole, firm, fmooth, mining underneath with a fubtle cartila- 

 ginous acute-crenulate margin, fcarcely vifible to the naked eye. 

 Scape central from the bofom of the leaves, round, but (lightly 

 fulcate-angulate from the decurrent bra&es, whitifh, from two 

 to three inches long. Pedicels fcarcely half an inch long, fili- 

 form, whitifh. BraBes ovate-fubulate, fubdecurrent, whitifh, 

 °ne at the bafe of eacb pedicel, than which it is fhorter by 

 naif. Flozvers in a compaft corymb, rarely lengthened out 

 into a lax thyrfe. Cor. fubperfiftent, narrow-tubed, club- 

 inaped when not expanded, from one inch to an inch and half 

 long, pale violet coloured, very mining. Tube nearly ftraighr, 

 fomewhat recurved, feveral times longer than the limb, with a 

 honey-bearing bafe. Segments of the limb equal, rather ob- 

 l° n g, acute, revolute-patent. Filaments feflile (i. e. inferted 



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