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Hyroxis Ovata. Smooru-LEAVED 
Hypoxis, 
Serko seeks se deck shea shale dee. 
Cla/s and Order. 
Hexanpria Monocynia, 
Generic Charaéer.—Vid. N*- 662 & 709. 
Specific Charaézer and Synonyms. Seas 
HYPOXIS ovata; rhizomate annuo, depreffo-rotundo, 
tunicato-gemmifero, fubtus nudo, convexo; fo- 
liis angufto-lanceolatis, acuminatis, canaliculatis, 
nudis integerrimis, ftriatulis; fcapis unifloris ; 
_ braéteis folitariis, anguftiffimis; ftylo fubnullo ; 
ftigmatibus bafin ufque difcretis, ereétis, lineari- 
fagittatis, glandulofo-puberulis. G. 
HYPOXIS ovata. Linn. Suppl. 179. Thunb, Prod. cap. 60. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 108. 
Oss. Flos a Linneo filia male albus dicitur. G. 
Descr. Rootfock annually reproducing itfelf, depreffed- 
orbicular, crowned by a bulb or bud covered with fibrous 
Coats, underneath convex, fmooth, naked; /eaves feven to 
eight, ambient, from upright recurved, narrow-lanceolate, 
far-acuminate, channelled, ‘ carinate, quite {mooth, ftreaked, 
entire; outer ones the fhorteft, inner about four inches high ; 
Jcapes about three, nearly equal to thefe, round, flender, one- 
flowered, one-jointed; at the joint a fingle very narrow re- 
curved drafe, about half an inch long; corolla ftellate ; /eg- 
ments elliptic-lanceolate, flat, outwards green, fubcalycine ; 
inwards yellow, corollaceous, alternately fomewhat narrower, 
fharper and fubunguiculate ; ffamens about a third fhorter than 
the fegments, ere€tly patulous ; filaments fubulate, fhorter than. 
anthers, 
