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Trichonema speciosum. Crimson 

 Trichonema, 



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Generic Character. — Vid. No. 1225, 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



TRICHONEMA fpeciofum; (caulis fub antbefin adultus ;) foliis 

 trinis, gracilibus, fubjuncoideis, tereti-attenuatis, quadri- 

 plicates fulcorum labris coeuntibus, atrovirentibus, rigidi- 

 ufculis, longius vaginantibus, infimo longifliroo tortiufculo 

 vagina brevi radicali amplexo, fummorum uno fere toto 

 fpathaceo pedunculos unifloros fubaequante ; caule quam 

 infimum aliquoties breviore, pedunculis binis femiteretibus 

 bra&eola interftin&is brachiatim bifurcato (rarius umpedun- 

 culato) ; fpathae valvulis flore duplo brevioribus, ifometris, 

 extima herbacea convoluta firiata, intima ventricofiorc 

 obtufiore lateribus late fphacelatis ; corolla breviter cam- 

 panatim cohserente tubo obfoleto, inde recurvatim ex- 

 planata, laciniis inferne fubanguftatis, extima rum lamina 

 oblongo-lanceolata anguftiore, intimarum elliptico-lanceo- 

 lata obtufiore ; filamentis femitereti-fubulatis, villofis, an- 

 thera triplo brevioribus ; ftylo tereti-triquetro, ftri&o, 

 ftaminibus ad unam tertiam breviore ; ftigmatibus brevibus, 

 totis bipartitis, fegmentis eomplicato-canaliculatis margine 

 pube minuta fimbriatis, ad medias antheras recurvatis. G. 



TRICHONEMA fpeciofum. Nob. in Ann. of Bot. 1. 223. Iifd. 

 fupra No. 1225, verf.fol. in f pec. enum. 



IX I A Bulbocodium ; var. fpeciofa. Botan. Repoftt. tab. 170 ; 

 exemplari defumpta unifloro, flore male expanfo. 



Descr. Lower leaf from a foot to a foot and an half or 

 more in length, rum-like, four-furrowed, but with the fides of 

 the furrows clofing together, fo that they are fcarcely per- 

 ceptible, while the leaf retains the appearance of being uniformly 

 round; corolla about an inch and an half long, of a bright 



carmine 



