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what obovate and often emarginate or flightly tridentate, inner 
ones oval, more acute, entire. Filaments three times fhorter 
_than corolla, into the bafe of which they.are,inferted, fubulate, 
upright-incurved, convolutely Seitnclen teaneras mem- 
branoufly winged towards their bafes which are adpreffed to 
the germ, the three alternate ones oppofite the inner fegments 
have thefe flatly expanded’ and fometimes lengthened upwards. 
into two connivent teeth, but not fo remarkably fo as in moft 
other {pecies, thofe of the three others are convolute and hence 
_ much narrower in appearance, Anthers verfatile, fplitting at 
both ends, fixed inwards to the points of the filaments and 
burfting towards the piftil which is equal to the ftamens; 
fon oblong-oval, bluntly trigonal, black-green, flreaked by 
x 
parallel lines continued along the ftyle; ftigma confifting 
‘of three {mall yellowifh dehifcent-fringed creftlets, “99 
We had never feen it in any colle&ion until we obferved it 
Jaft Spring. at Meffrs. Grimwoop and Wyxes’s, and another 
variety at Mr. Sattssury’s Botanic Garden this Spring, both — 
imported fromthe Cape. PELs GL 
__.. Flowers in March, and requires the treatment of the hardier 
Cape bulbs, that is, to be kept in the greenhoufe and planted 
In light earth, 
« ORNITHOGALUM aurcum (/upra 190) is OnNITHOGALUM 
thyrfoides (a) of Hort. Kew. Ornitnocarum flavefcens of 
Jacquin, and Oxnituocatum thyrfoides (a). and OxnirHe- 
GALUM aureum (Band y) of Willdenow.x——OrnitHoGALUM 
ibyrfoides (B) of Hort. Kew. is the thyr/oides of Jacquin, Hort. 
Vind, and of Miller's plates, t. 4 92. Certainly a difting 
fpecies.  G, a ee ee ar 
yarn cncamtce AN 
