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Massonia Angustifolia. Sweet-Scented 



Massonia. 



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Oafs a?id Order, 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Chara&er. — Vid. N um - 559. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



MASSONIA angujiifolia (acaulis) foliis lanceolato-oblongis 

 nudis ; thyrfo congefto ; tubo pedxellis duplo 

 breviore, laciniis oblongo-ovatis reflexis lon- 

 giore, filamentis aequali ; ore ferme claufo. G. 



MASSONIA angujiifolia. Linn. Suppl. 193. Hort. Kew. 1. 

 405. /. 4. Willd.Sp. PL 2. 28. 



MASSONIA lanceolata. Ibunb. Diff. Nov. Gen. Plant. 2. 40. 

 Prod. 60. 



Root a tunicated bulb. Leaves two, fmooth, oppofite or 

 lateral and contiguous with their inner edges parallel, generally 

 upright and about three times higher than the fub-glomerated 

 thyrfe, the bafe of which is even with the ground. BraBes fhorter 

 than pedicles and nearly of the fame fhape with the leaves, but 

 fmaller. Corolla tubular, twice fhorter than pedicles, narrow 

 cylindrical, with its orifice nearly clofed by the ftyle and 

 tumid bafes of the filaments ; fegments oblong-ovate, reflected 

 to beneath the filaments, with a tranfverfe plait at their bafe ; 

 filaments as long as the tube, campanulately conflex, fubfeffile, 

 gracilefcent ; anthers fmall, incumbent. Germen trifulcate, 

 cylinder-fhaped j ftyle equal to the filaments attenuated, 

 obfcurely three-channelled, angular ; ltigma obfolete, red. 

 Flowers exceeding fwcet, fmelling fomething like the com- 

 mon angle oriental Hyacinth; of a watery-white colour, 



greenifh 



