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DoORYANTHES EXCELSA. GIGANTIC 
| DoRYANTHES. 
WEE HERE eRe ek te se se sh se she de 
Hexanpria Mowocyrntia, 
Generic Charaéter. 
Cor. fupera, fexpartita decidua. Filam. bafi laciniis adnata, 
iifque breviora. Aunthere erette, tetragone, bafi cave ex- 
tinctoriiformi afixe. Cap/ula. 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
DORYANTHES excelfa. Correa in Lin. Soc. Tranf. v.6. p. 211. 
tab. 23 et 24. Brown Prod. p. 298. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. 
Pp» 303- 
This magnificent plant, of the liliaceous tribe, flowered laft 
fummer in the greenhoufe of the Right Hon. Cuarxes Lone, 
at Bromley-Hill, in Kent; probably for the firft time in Europe, 
except the fingle flower produced from a portion of the ftem, 
without roots, which had been cut many months before in New- 
Holland, and from which chiefly M. Correa eftablifhed the 
us. 
__ From this plant we fketched the following brief defcription. — 
Radical leaves about a hundred, four feet long, fword-fhaped, 
{mooth, quite entire, with a very narrow cartilaginous margin, 
lower ones recurved, the others ere&t. From the centre of thefe- 
grew the fiem, or /cape, quite ftraight, ten or twelve feet high, 
clothed with linear-lanceolate acute /eaves fheathing the ftem at 
their bafe and fpreading upwards. Flowers of a deep crimfon 
or morone colour, colleéted in a roundifh terminal bead, fur- 
rounded at the bafe by large, ovate-acuminate, green braées ; 
within there were other lanceolate braétes, of the fame colour 
with the flowers, and feparating thefe into fafcicles of two, three, 
or four ; two ftill narrower braétes accompanied each individual 
flower the length of the germen and peduncle. Lacinie of the 
corolla fix, tongue-fhaped, obtufe with a nipped point. Filaments 
fubulate, fhorter than the corolla, to which they are adnate or 
:  foldered, 
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