fhorter than corolla, Germ elevated within the corolla on 
| nae? a Gage 6” olsemamn 
— Lacuenaria Lancearouia. ‘Spotren 
Copreras-LEAVED LACHENALIA. 
OHednnee sisi ebb ded 
Clafs and Order. ; Zee 
' Hexanpraia Monoeynyia, 
Generic Chara&er.—Vid. Ne™ 588. 
| Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms. 
LACHENALIA Janceefolia ; foliis lanceolato-acuminatis in — 
—_orbem recumbentibus maculatis, pedunculis 
corolla campanulata triplo longioribus, la- 
ciniis recurvis: alternis revolutis depref- . 
: - fioribus, germine ftipitato. G. | 
LACHENALIA lJanceefolia. Facq. ic. rar. 2. tab. 402. Coll, 
Suppl. 69. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 178. 
Leaves many, lying in a crowded circle round the ftem, 
Copperas-coloured, fpotted, fomewhat convolute upwards, and 
cowled at the bafe. Stem round, attenuated downwards, _ 
weak, generally recumbently affurgent, rachis interruptedly 
Many-angled, owing to the decurrent braétes, of which many 
are barren and fit clofe to the fide or under the fertile ones, — 
all {mall and fubulate. Flowers with deflex filiform pedicels, 
three times longer than the corolla, fparfely, but often crowd- 
Pek difpofed in. an oblong raceme. Corolla regular, deeply 
-parted, virefcent upwards, within thickfet with liver- 
coloured confluent dots, fegments with their apices glandularly 
thickened and. infle&tedly-retufe, linear-oblong, equal, inner 
Ones recurved to the bafe, outer ones revolute and thence 
fhorter ; when impregnation has taken place thefe all unroll, 
and converging proteét the germ while it ripens into a capfule. 
Stamens upright, adnate to the claws of the fegments, fhorter 
than ftyle at corolla, Style inclined, flightly curved, rather 
