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Antholyza Cunonia. Scarlet- 

 Flowered Antholyza. 



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C/fl/} rt//i Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. mbulofa irregularis recurvata. Cap/, infera. 

 Specific Characler and Synonyms. 

 ANTHOLYZA Cunonia corollis re&is, labii quinquepartiti 



lobis duobus externis latioribus adfcenclen- 



tibus. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 3. p. 54. Ait. Kew. 



v. 1. p. 66. 

 ANTHOLYZA Cunonia corollis fubpapilionaceis : labii lobis 



duobus externis latioribus adfeendentibus. 



Linn. Syji. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 87. 

 ANTHOLYZA Cunonia foliis enfiformibus glabris (triatis, 



fpicaoblongadiiticha. Thumb. Prod. PL Cap. 



p. 7 . 

 CUNONIA floribusfeffilibusfpatbismaximis. Buft.cu1t.2vu 



t. 1. 

 CUNONIA Antholyza. Mill. Did. 



Amidft that variety of tender bulbous plants which the 

 Cape affords, there are none whofe flowers can boaft a richer 

 fcarlet, than the Antholyza here figured ; in their form alfo, 

 there is great fingularity, and in their mode of growth much 

 elegance ; to us indeed it is matter of furprife that this plant 

 mould not be more generally cultivated, efpecially as its cul- 

 ture is attended with fo little trouble: Mr. Miller, who 

 grew it in 1756, has minutely defcribed it in his Dictionary ; 

 he informs us, that it is eafily propagated by offsets, or railed 

 from feeds j the latter, as the plant flowers in April and May, 

 ripen about the middle of June, and mould be fown about the 

 middle of Auguft ; the plant with the pot in which it has grown, 

 after it has ripened its feeds, fhould be fet by in a fhed or fome 

 dry place, and in the autumn the largeft roots fhould be 

 feleQed, and three of them planted in a pot of a moderate 

 fize, keeping them in an open frame till the approach of winter, 

 when they are to be removed into the houfe with other grcen- 

 houfe plants. 



This fpecies is found wild in Perfia as well as at the Cape* 



