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mi WAcHENDORFIA HirsuTa. Harry 
gtetis <fiosc] oy WiACHENDORFIA} 
JHEP ebiee 
ea Cleivard Orde te 
TRIANDRIA Monocynia. 
Generic Charafer, 
_Spatha 0. Cor. infera, hexapetaloideo-6-partita, irregularis, 
rotata. Stam. aflurgenter-declinata, divergentia. Stylus latera- 
liter obliquans. | Stigma fimplex. Cap/. acute triquetra, velata. 
Sem. compreffa paleis lentis veftita, in quolibet loculo unum. G. 
Ozs. Radix in WacHENDORFIA thyrfiflora rhizoma carnofum 
bulbiceps terra fubequatum fibris crafliufculis coccineis ; in reliquis 
bulbofa, repens vel {ubrepens, bulbi folido-carnofi_ nudi lavigati_an- 
nulati flavefcentes, fucco miucofo fcatente. Folia palmoidea plicata 
difticha infra petioloideo-contraéta_ conduplicata ; illius perennia, — 
Orum annua, Caulis ere&tus teres cavus pubefcens paniculato-ramofus 
Tacemofo-multiflorus foliolis vagis (phacelatis diffito-fquamatus. Corollz 
tefupinate ? lacina fuprema bafi canalibus binis brevibus mellifluis 
\calcarata ; eadem lacinia vicaria, flore claufo, reliquas par es arcte 
_ Obvolvit. Stylus fetaceo-perfiftens. Stigma ex Smith ad lentem depreffo-_ 
hians. Capfula fupera fubturbinato-rotunda hirfuta corolle exarida ra- — 
Mentis fubvelata, Semina deorfum attenuata imis loculamentisaffixa. G, — 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms... 
WACHENDORFIA hirfuta ; foliis annuis plicatis villofis, 
: | ramis divaricato- patentibus, laciniis 
ovali-lanceolatis: fuprema exclufa ob- - 
Jonga obtufa: 3 inferioribus fubma- 
7 _ joribus divergentioribus. G.— 
WACHENDORFIA birfuta. Thunb. prod. 12. Willd. Sp. 
; Pl. 1. 249. (exclufis Breynii et Rud- 
beckii fynonymis, WacHENDORFI£ 
brevifolie MSS. Soland, fabjiciendis.) 
WACHENDORFIA paniculata. Burm. monogr. 4. f. 2% 
: Nov. AG. A. N.C. obf. 51. t. 2, f. 10. 
Died 
____In the fele&tion of the effential charafteriftics above enu- 
Merated, we have been guided by the following fpecies only, 
