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Class and Order. 
HexanpriA Monoeyntia. 
( Nat. Ord.— AsPHoDELEa. ) 
Generic Character. 
Corolla subrotata. Stamina xqualia, basi petalis adnata. 
Capsula supera, trilocularis. Semina globosa. Spreng. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Scitza villosa; foliis lanceolatis laxis villosis, racemis co- 
rymbosis, bracteis lanceolatis pedunculis equantibus. 
Sprengel. 
Scitta villosa. Desf. Fl. Atl. v. 1. p. 299. t. 85. f. 2. 
Sprengel, Syst. Veget.v.2.p.67. Schultes, Syst. Veget. 
0. 7. p. 566. 
Descr. Bulb ovate, coated, about the size of a small 
onion, truncated below with a prominent, sharp border, 
from within which, many strong, wrinkled, nearly straight 
roots descend, their subdivisions spreading and villous. 
Leaves (three inches long, half an inch broad) about four, 
all radical, spathulato-lanceolate, attenuated at the base, 
and there concave in front, nearly flat above, spreading, 
more or less ciliated, with rather long, but unequal mone 
ing hairs, and more sparingly villous on the upper surface, 
glabrous below, and purple in the lower half; involute at 
the apex, giving the appearance of a mucro. Scape (an 
inch and a half long below the first pedicel) erect, shorter 
than the leaves, nearly round, glabrous, pale green. Brac- 
tee (seven lines long) single, lanceolate, attenuated at the 
apex, persisting. Racemes corymbose, few- (five to seven-) 
flowered ; pedicels erect, stout, resembling the scape, each’ 
springing from the axil of a bractea, embraced by it at the 
base, and equal to it in length in the native — 
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