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Melantkium Spicatum. Star-Flowered 



Melanthium. 



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Oafs and Order. 



HeXANDRIA TRICYNIA. 



Generic CharaBer. — Fid. N um - 641. 



L. c. addenda. Quibus petalorum ungues liberi, iifdem corolla 

 Cito decidua, quibus hi connati hie perftat ufipiedum ex ingm ndefcente 

 germine difrumpitur tubulus. Species ha&enus obfervata; funt, lon^i- 

 jiorum (Wurmbea longifloray TVilld.); mampiialum (Wurmbea cam- 

 panulata, Willi.) ; pumilum (Wurmbea pumila, Willd.); revo- 

 lution (Wurmbea revoluta, Herb. Bank/.) ; inujium (Wurmbea w- 

 u/la, Herb. Bank/.): remotum (Wurmbea rcmota. Herb. BanhJ.) ; 

 Jilgmofum (Wurmbea ft'tgmoja, Herb. Bank/. ) ; Jpicatum ( W urmbea 

 purpurea. Herb. Bank/.); triquetrum (id. cum junceo P) ; fecundum ; 

 cUiatum ; capenfe (id. cum blando, Herb. Bank/.) ; phalqngoides (id. cum 

 luctdo, Herb. Bank/.); viride ; unijiorum ; eucomoldes ; his radix 

 bulbus, ovatus, acutus, faspe lubcompremis ; nucleus amygdalino- 

 carnofus ; integumenta cruftofa, fubputaminea, fufca. G. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



MELANTHIUM Jpicatum $ mukiflorum, fpica oblonga, fcf- 

 filiflora ; foliis remotiufculis, convofuto- 

 canaliculatis, ex lads fubulatim attenuatis; 

 tubo limbo 3 — 4 breviore ; laciniis ftellato- 

 patentibus, lineari-fubulatis, tandem invo- 

 luto-marginatis. G. , 



MELANTHIUM Jpicatum. Houtt. Linn. Pfi. Syfi. 1 1. p. 503. 

 /. 85. f. 2. exclufb Burmanni fynonymo, 

 Melanthio revoluto potius attributu. 



WURMBEA purpurea. Herb. Bank/. 



WURMBEA campanula ta. 0. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 265. 



Obs. Wurmbea campanula/a [a) Willdcnovii eadem eft ex Herb. 

 Bankf. cum Melanthio mompetah fpecicfquea noftrafatisdiiiincla. G. 



Bulb as uTual in the genus, about the fizc of a large filbert. 

 Leaves generally three, diitich, rather cliihnt, convolute- 

 channelled, 



