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OrNITHOGALUM REVOLUTUM. REVOLUTE- 
FLOWERED STAR-OF-BETHLEM. 
Jeno ide niente 
: Clafs and Otters 
Hexanpria Monocynia. 
Generic Charafer. — 
Cor. 6-partita, bafi ftaminifera, infra connivens fupra patens 
aut fimpliciter rotato-patens, perfiftens. Flam. 3, alterna 
deorfum dilatata. Stigma1. Capf. 3-locularis, Sem. fubro- 
tunda, nuda. ; ; 
| Specific Characder and Synonyms. 
ORNITHOGALUM revolutum ; racemo oblongiufculo, la- 
ciniis ovalibus tandem revoluto-con- 
vexis, ftylo fubulato germine duplo 
breviore, ftigmate fubtrilobo-capitato, 
‘Jobulis fimbfiatis fubdecurfivis canali- 
culato dehifcentibus. G. 
ORNITHOGALUM revolutum. Facq. Hort. Schoenb. 1. 46. 
4.89. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 118. , 
Oss. Spathe in nofiro Specimine wirefeentes, in Facquiniano phacelate- 
Sufcefcentes, Seariefe ; variatio in plantis bulbsfis capenfibus hie cultis Sepif~ 
Sime occurrens, 
Root a tunicated bulb. Leaves all radical, g—6 inches 
long, patently recurved round the ftem, linear-lanceolate, 
thickifh, fubcoriaceous, without prominent nerves (when viewed 
through a magnifier both furfaces appear roughened like 
fhagreen by innumerable clofe glandular points) rather flat 
upwards, channelled downwards, edged with a very flender 
white cartilage minutely ciliate. Scape about eight inches high, 
upright, round, polifhed, terminated by a fomewhat conic- 
oblong raceme of white flowers with a round darkifh ftain at 
their bafe, quite fcentlefs; brattes acuminately lanceolate, 
- convolute, fome of the lower ones the length of the pedicles, 
upper ones gradually fhorter, green or fcariofe and brownifh. 
Corolla rotate, fegments before they decay revolute as to their 
whole circumference, hence linear convex, outer ones fome- 
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