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the cultivated plant, twice as long as it. Corolla (nine lines 4 
a 
across,) of six petals, spreading ; petals ovate, attenuated — 
at the base, each with a small tuft of crystalline tomentum — 
at the apex, pale lilac, with a broad, deep green stripe in — 
the centre below. Stamens shorter than the petals, rising | 
from the leaves of these, and adhering to them by their 
backs for a little way ; filaments lilac, tumid in the middle, — 
slightly concave in front and nectariferous ; anthers versa- — 
tile, pollen yellow. Pistil equal in length to the stamens, 
of a dull purplish-green ; stigma small, terminal, villous ; 
Style short, conical, six-furrowed ; Germen ovate, six -fur- 
rowed, the alternate furrows hairy, trilocular, the dissepi- — 
ments double, being formed by a duplicature of the mner — 
membrane, opposite to the hairy lines on the germen, and — 
globular, several in each — 
alternate with the sutures ; ovules 
loculament ; receptacle central. 
Specimens of this pretty little plant, which no doubt will — 
bear cultivation in a warm border in the open air, I receiv-_ 
ed from my friend Dr. Dickson in 1831, having been gath-_ 
ered by him in the neighbourhood of Tripoli. Among the— 
specimens, some of the bulbs yet retained life : these were © 
planted in the stove, at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, — 
and flowered there in November, 1832. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Back view of a Petal. 2. Front view of ditto, with a Stamen. ; 
3, Capsule : magnified. 
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