[ H97 ] 



Lachenalia nervosa. Nerved-leaved 

 Lachenalia. 



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Generic Char at! er. — Vide N' s - 745, 854, 993. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



LACHENALIA nervofa ; (flos media magnitudine ;) foliis fub- 

 binis, humi apprefTe recumbentibus, oblongo-ovatis, acu- 

 tulis, planis, immerfe nervofis, fcapo duplo brevioribus, 

 denticulis in margine cartilagineis minutiifimis, (interdum a 

 fupino pujlulatis ;) racerao numerofo, laxiufculo; pcdicellis 

 divaricaris, flore parura brevioribus, braftea fubeequali 

 fuffultis ; corolla horizontali-nutante, curtatim cylindrico- 

 campanata ; laciniis extimis ovatis, concavis, bafi fubgib- 

 bofis, extus callo parvo prominulo proxime infra apicem 

 notatis ; intimis fublongioribus, oblongis, obtufis, recurvis ; 

 ftaminibus corolla duplo longioribus, declinato-afTurgenti- 

 bus, divergentibus, infimo remotius deflexo ; piftillo iftis 

 aequali ; germine ovato, rotundate trigono, fulcis tribus 

 profundioribus ; ftylo ter longiori, trifiriato-fetaceo ; ftig- 

 mate inconfpicuo. G. 



Comes very near to purpureo-cternka (No. 745 ;) from which 

 however we are inclined to think it mould be fpecifically dif- 

 tinguifhed, on account of its deprefTedly nerved recumbent flat 

 leaves ; its corolla is alfo lefs widely expanded, and lowermofl 

 flamen divaricate. Our fpecimen, which was kindly fent us by 

 the Hon. William Herbert, from his collection at Mitcham, 

 had been raifed with feveral others from feeds produced by a 

 bulb imported from the Cape of Good Hope. The offspring 

 differed in nothing from the mother-plant, but that their leaves 

 were entirely fmooth, while in that thefe were pullulate ; a 

 variation that takes place in feveral other fpecies, particularly in 

 purpureo-Cicrulea. BlofTomed in June. Flowers about the third 

 of an inch in length, of a chocolate-purple hue, difFufing a very- 

 powerful fcent, which appeared to us to refemble that of new- 

 bay. G. 



