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Melanthium monopetalum. Many- 

 flowered Melanthium. 



Oafs and Order. 



Hexandiua Trigynia. 



Generic CharacJer. — Vid.fupra No.. 994. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



MELANTHIUM monopetalum ,- fpica multiflora, denfiore, 

 cylindracca ; corollae tubo longitudine 

 limbi campanulati. G. 



MELANTHIUM monopeta/um. 'Lttm. Suppl. sgft (alVMde- 

 novio minus recle ad Wurmbeam Juatn 

 longifloram citatum.) Hort. Kew. 1. 489* 

 (exclufis Burmanno ad revolutum nobis 

 fupra No. 994 in Spec. Emm. et Houttuynio 

 ad fpicatum fupra No. 694 allegandts.) 

 Nobis fupra No. 994 in Spec. Enum. (ex- 

 clufis fynonymis ad pu mil urn transferendis.) 

 M. pumilum IVilld. Sp. PL 2. 270 nequa- 

 quam hujus generis ? 



WURMBEA campanulata. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 265. exclufa «w- 

 rietate (3 qua jam fupra in No. 694 u * 1 

 diverfaf pedes depicla efl. 



WURMBEA capenfis. y. calycibus albis ; marginibus fufcis; 

 fpica longiore. Thunb. Dijf. Nov. PL Gen. 

 1. 19. tab. fig. 1. 



WURMBEA. Lam. Illuftr. tab. 170. fig. 1. 



A greenhoufe plant from the Cape of Good Hope. Intro- 

 duced into Kew Gardens, by Mr. Masson, in 1788- W e 

 did not fee the living fpecimen. In the enumeration of the 

 fpecies of this genus, which we have given in No. 994. l "*j 

 fynonymy belonging to pumilum, has been by miftake added 

 to monopetalum. The Melanthium pumilum of W 1 l l d e n a W 

 belongs moft probably to another genus; our M. pumilum ishis 

 Wurmbea pumila. G . 



