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Hypoxis Serrata. Saw-Leaved 



Hypoxis. 



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CAz/} «;/^ Qrder, 

 Hexandiua Monogynia. 



Generic Chamber. — Vid, N um - 662. 



Obs. l. c. addenda. Americanls lulbus titnicatus, attenuatim 

 ehngatus, cuticulis membrancice'is vejlitus, fibris dc tnargine bafts orbicuhtim 

 erumpenttbus ut in Hyacintho. Capenfibus rbizoma in Jpeciebus varium, 

 ratione gemma aut larvati bulbiUi magnum, undique fibratum. Scapi Juc- 

 ceflive plures, in quibufdam pedunculi fiftulofo-cavi , hinc facili gradu apud 

 proximam Gethyllidem tranjewites in tubas corollaceos, cum germen a 



fumrno et pedunculato gradatim per /pedes medias in imum radicah dilabitur. 

 Folia communiter canaliculata vel exceptione rara cavo-teretia, fubambientia, 

 deorfum complicata vel convoluta. Corolla coriaceo-tehax, poji antheftn per- 



Jlanter connivens. Capfula in ferrata verlicaii-cblonga, trigona, a/jus diffluit 



port to fuperna injiar aperculi circumcijfe dij'rupta, dum Jcinditur paries la- 

 ciniatim et reflexo-revolvens Jenftm dimittit fernina ; ea numerofa, b'ferialia, 



fcabrata, nigricanta, libera, receptaculo quoque libera, centraU, triquetro 

 circumfunduntur. ^ Infruclu nondum plene rnaturato adfunt dejppimenta tria 

 tenuijjima, et fernina a funiculo umbicali capillaceo detineri videntur. G., 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



HYPOXIS ferrata ; rhizomate fubglobofo, annue renovator 

 fcapis articulatim unipedunculatis ; bra&eis ge- 

 minis, fubulatis ; foliis glabris, aculeolis remotis 

 retrorfis denticulato-ferrulatis vittaque argenteo- 

 pallefcente undata percurfis ; fligmatibus turbi- 

 natim fecedentibus. G. 



HYPOXIS ferrata, Linn. Suppl. 197. Syfi, 326. Hort. Kew* 

 1. 439.. Mart. Mill, Din, Thunb. Prod. 60*. 

 J acq. Ic. rar. 2. /. 369. Coll, 4. 134. Willd. Sp^ 

 PL 2. 109. 



FABRICIA ferrata. Thanh, in Fair. It. Norv. 29, 



Rootftock annually reproduced, dark-brown, fubfphaeroid, 

 hollowed out on the upper part, for the bulb, throwing out 



fibres 



