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Cyanella Capensis. Purple-Flowered 



Cyanella. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 

 Generic Cbaracler. 

 Cor. 6-petala : petalis 3 inferioribus propendentibus. Stamen 

 infimum declinatum longius 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



CYANELLA capenfis; foliis undulatis, ramis patcntiffimis. 

 Syji. Vegetab. 329. J acq. Hart. 3. p. 21. t. 35- 

 Andrews's Bot. Rep. /. 141. G*rt. fruB. 68. 



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CYANELLA caule foliofo paniculate), racemis divancatis, 

 foliis lanceolatis undulatis. Willd. Sp. PL t. 2. 



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CYANELLA foliis lanceolatis undatis, ramis divancatis. 



"Thunb. atl. Holm. 1794. p. 196. Prod. 65. 



This is a native of the Cape of Good- Hope, growing fpon- 

 taneoufly at the foot of the Table Mountain. The conical 

 bulbs about the fize of thofe of Crocus vcrna are faid to he 

 edible when roafted. There is a great Angularity in the growth 

 of the ftamens, which diftinguifhes the genus from every other: 

 five of them have very fhort filaments and erect incurved an- 

 thers which open at the point, the fixth is declined and much 

 longer both in the filament and anther, which lad is tongue- 

 fhaped and grooved in the middle, upon this the ftyle is in- 

 cumbent ; the lower one only, except in colour, has the common 

 appearance of an anther, but all fix are confidered as fuch. 



In external habit it is very fimilar to Di an el la c^rulea, 

 No. 505, and in the flower to lxiAfcillaris, No. 542. 



Is faid to have been cultivated by Miller, in 1768, but in 

 his defcription, he fays, " the peduncle arifes immediately from 

 " the root fupporting one flower;" from which we infer that; 

 his plant was not the Cyanella capenfis. Our figure was| 

 taken in April 1801, at the Garden of George Hibbert,; 

 F.lq. at Clapham. Requires the fame treatment as other Caper 

 bulbs. 



