“(1900)” 
Arprie’ cernuA. Droopine enue “a 
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Class and Order. | 
Monanpria Monoeynia, | 
Generic Character. 
Anthera duplex. . Filam. extra antheram non elonatiint: 
Stylus longitudine filamenti, in -sulco: cen at te toh 
Stigma obsolete trigonum. Caps. carnosa. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Auprnia cernua ; racemo terminali cernuo, nectario apice 
bifido, foliis ‘lanceolatis acuminatis spinuloso- -denticulatis, 
» ©. germine villoso. 
Arpinia calcarata. Bot. ‘Regist. 4Y.? 
Grozpa erecta. Redouté Lilie. 174. ? 2 
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Axpinia cernua is smaller in all its parts than nutans, to — 
which it is very closely allied, but is considerably stonter Bate 
_ Lamperr’s calcarata, fizured in the Botanist’s 
Leaves lanceolate, smooth, with oblique : | 
margin irregularly toothed with small. spinescent. ‘teeth, apex | 
elongated, linear : petiole sheathing with a dark~ 
stipular process or ligula of Curtis. _ Inflore 
minal compound raceme ; commo uncle 
_ articulate ;_ partial pedun very short, vill 
or three-flowered. — Bractes | boat-shaped, ei BB oat 
subdiaphanous, smaller an the flower, deciduous... Calyx 
(outer perianthium of Brown) tubular, three-toothed, mouth 
oblique. Corolla (imer perianthium of Brown). haying the 
three outer lacinie equal, shining ivory white, connected at 
the base into a curved tube : inner lacinie unequal, consist- 
ing chiefly of one large (nectarium of Linnaus, Labellum of 
some authors) and. two very small spur- -like processes at its 
base (lateral lacinie of Brown): nectarium oblong, some- 
what boat-shaped, be beautifully streaked with red and orange ; 
apex purple, curled, bifid. Filaments nearly the length of 
the nectarium. -Germen villous, style the Gagth of the fila- 
-* in the dorsal groove of which it is concealed: stigma 
canelianse fringed with hair. 
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