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Antholyza tEthiopica. Flag-Leaved 

 Antholyza. 



C/tf/} ^«<i Order. 



Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. 



%7/^bivalvisovata: Cor. irregularis, recurva: tubus gracilis: 

 Jimbus fexpartitus. Stam. adfcendentia. Siigm. 3, recurvo- 

 patentia. Cap/, rotunda, coriacea. Sem. piura fubrotunda. G. 



Obs. A Watfonia Jligmatibus non bifidis ; a Gladiolo, cui amjunftif- 

 Jima, fem.t >,r, fauciaribus neque alatis ; ab Ixix fauce magis ehngata Jto- 

 mtnibufque adjcendentibus dignofcenda. G. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ANTHOLYZA tetbiopica foliis enfiFormibus ftriatis, fauce e 

 tubopedicelH-formi, quo duplo longiore, ab- 

 rupte cylindrico-ampliata ; iacinia fuprema 

 maxima porrefta, cacteris recurvis. G. • 



•ANTHOLYZA <ethiopica. Sp. PL 54. Reich. 103. Vbunh 

 prod. 7. Murr. Syjl. Feg. 87. Gmel Syjl. Nat. 

 113. Hart. Kew.\. 67. J. F. Mill. Ic. Plant. 

 & Anim. t. 9. Willi. Sp. PL 1. 222. 



GLADIOLUS pyramidalis. Burnt, fi. cap. ? 



GLADIOLUS aethiopicus. Corn, canad. t. 79. Mor. Hi/}. 2. 

 p. 421./ 4. /. 23./ i. Rudb. elyf. 2. p. 235. 

 / 2. 



HYACINTHUS africanus. P/ui. Phyt. 195. / 2. 



ANTHOLYZA ringens. Bot. Rep. t. 32. iterum (anendato 

 nomine trivial:) t. 210. ejus Recenf. Antho- 

 lyza <ethiopica> n. 21. 



Bulb large, comprefled, convex, concave beneath, covered 

 *Mh a fibrous tunic. Leaves many, limber, ftriated, equitant 

 downwards, upper ones gradually longer, midrib ftiff. Stem 

 Jotindifh, ftri6t, upright, fcarcely flexuofe at the rachis, 3 — 4 

 feet high, about a third longer than the leaves. Spike pyra- 

 midal-oblong j flowers io — 40, diftich, almofl imbricate, fcent- 



lefs. 



