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Tulbagia Alliacea. Narcissus-Leaved 



tulbagia. 



Oafs and Order* 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Cbaracler. 



Cor. infundibuliformts, limbo sequali ; fquamulze 3, bifidae, 

 faucem coronantes. Stam. 3 in fauce, 3 intra tubum* Stigma 

 turbinatum. Cap/, fubtrigonum. Jujf. Gen. 54. 



Specific Cbaratler and Synonyms. 



TULBAGIA alliacea collo in coronam corollacearn, fexfidam, 

 laciniis extimis aequalem produ&o. G, 



TULBAGIA alliacea. Linn. Sup pi 193. Hort. Keiv. 1. p. 408. 

 ^hunb. prod. 60 JVilla. Sp. PL 2. 33. 



TULBAGIA capevfis. Man/. 223. Jacq. Hort. Vtndb. 2* p* 52. 

 /. 115. 



Tbis Gngular plant, which, according to Jacquin, unites 

 the habit of Allium with coroll§ of Hyacinthus and the 

 toothed corol let of Silene, is not uncommon in low (andy 

 fpots near the town at the Cape of Good Hope, where it 

 dowers about July ; is called by the colonifts wilde knop/ook, 

 1. e. wild Garlic, and ufed by them, when ftewed in milk, for 

 diforders of the brent 



Hootp'k foboliferous, fubbulbicipitous, in form fubftance 

 and colour not unlike a turnip- radifh, throwing out from its 

 bafe a circle of flefhy fibres, and from the centre of its depref- 

 fea fummit a fafcicle of numerous diftich leaves, which are lorate- 

 linear, channelled, obtufe, glaucous ; towards their bafe con- 

 duplicate and fubbulbiform in the manner of a fmall leek; 

 from the midft of thefe iflues its roundifh upright/rtf/)*? to the 

 height of about two feet, terminating in a loofe umbel, furrounded 



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