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AcsBuca Puysopes. Dincy-FLOWERED 
ALBUCA. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
HEXxANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charafter.—Vide N*™ 871. 
_ Ons. Differt ORNITHOGALO alternis lacinits apice fornicato-inflexulis 
incraffatifque ; fiylo triquetro quafi ex tribus concretis ; ftigmate glan- 
dulofo pubefcente; ANTHERICO per radicem folido-bulbsfam, G. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ALBUCA pby/odes ; bulbo fubtunicato-folido; foliis lanceolato- 
oblongis, diu poft emarcidam inflorefcentiam pro- 
venientibus ; racemo pyramidato-oblongo, con- 
fertiufculo; pedicellis horizontaliter porreétis ; 
tota corolla ftellato-patente; filamentis bafi extus 
glandulofo-pubefcentibus ;_ftigmate parum con- 
{picuo, depreffo, glandulofo-hirtulo. G. 
ANTHERICUM phy/odes. Facq. Ic. Rar. 2. t. 418. Coll. 
Suppl. 94. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 147-—rejetto Thun- 
bergii fynonymo nimis dubio. G. 
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Descr. Root fubtunicate, nearly folid, of a very clofe 
texture and firm fubftance, ovate-pyramidal, of a pinkifh hue 
on the outfide, covered with very fine cuticles; /eaves 5—6, 
6—~g inches long, 1—14 broad, appearing long after the 
entire decay of the inflorefcence, feveral, ambient, from up- 
right diverging, oblong-lanceolate, channelled-concave, con- 
volute at the bafe, entire, ftreaked, fhining; /cape naked, 
upright, round, purplifh; raceme upright, fparfe, from oblong- 
Pyramidate, many-flowered, not clofe; pedicles filiform, feveral 
umes longer than the diameter of the corolla, horizontally 
Patent, at right angles with the rachis ; brades {mall, concave, 
bluntifh ; 
