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 PLemanthus albiflos. White-flowered- 



HjEMANTHUS. 

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C&z/i #«^ Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — Fid. No. 1075. 



Specific Character and Synonyms . 



HjEMANTHUS albiflos; (foliatione floref centime contemporali ;) 

 foliis paucis, oblongo-loratis, glabris, mar- 

 gine villofo-ciliatis ; fcapo tereti-compreflb ; 

 villofo-hirfuto, afiurgenter-reclinato; fpatha 

 inequivalvi, umbellae fubifometra, albido- 

 .membranacea, venis viridibus reticulata, 

 glabra, ciliata ; corolla infundibuliformi, 

 angufta ; limbi laciniis linearibus, con- 

 vergentibus, tubo triplo longioribus ; fila- 

 mentis corolla fubtertia longioribus ; an- 

 theris ovato-rotundis ; ftigmate leviflime 

 trifido, patulo. G. 



HJEMANTHXJS' albiflos. Jacq. Hort. Schccnb. v. 1. 31. t. 59. 

 Willd. Sp. PL 2. 27. 



Leaves about four, 1 — 2 inches broad, 4 — 6 long, fome- 

 what fhorter than /cape, of a deep green colour; flowers white 

 with very fhort pedicles ; anthers deep tawny yellow, incum- 

 bent ; flyle rather thicker and higher than Jlamens, upright ; 

 lerry about the fize of a pea, roundifli, trilocular, of a bright 

 fhining red-lead colour ; locnlaments one-feeded. 



Introduced into this country from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, of Hammerfmith, in whofe 

 greenhoufe it bloomed laft Auguft. We did not perceive that 

 it had any fcent. G. 



