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Strumaria gemmata. Jewelled- 

 flowered strumaria. 



Generic Character. — Fide No. 1363. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



STRUMARIA gemmata ; (gynandra $) bulbo ovato ; foliis 

 fcapo tereti tardioribus, fubtrinis, lanceolato-loratis acumine 

 brevi, glabris, ciliolatis, lateraliter fubfalcatis ; umbella 

 pluriflora, laxa, diffufa; pedunculis gracilibus, ftriftis, 

 laevibus, fpatha acuminata floreque pluries longioribus ; 

 corolla fubnutante, micante, hexapetalo-ftellata, bullis 

 fenis chryflallino-glandulofis ^roftrato-ovatis in difco; la- 

 ciniis oblongis, crifpis, utrinque inficxis, exterioribus api- 

 culopuberulo; genitalibus gynandris, punaiculato-pruino- 

 fis, inclufis; filamentis imo flylo infertis, fetiformibus, 

 patentiflimis, gutta limpida in axillis, alternc fubbreviori- 

 bus ; antheris ere&is, ovato-rotundis ; ftylo ftaminibus 

 ifometro, ovato-pyramidali, inferne inftar bulbi ventricofo 

 exfulco, fuperne fubulato-attenuato trifulco ; ftigmatibus 

 claufis v. replicatis; capfula tenuiflime membranacea, ob- 

 lato-globofa, trigibba, femine bulbaceo-laxato fingulum 

 loculum (plerumque ad dehifcentiam ufaue) replente. G. 



Desc Bulb tunicate, in the prefent fpecimen naked, about 

 the fize of a pigeon's egg; leaves 2 — 3, about three-parts of an 

 inch broad ; jftem about a foot high, rather thicker than a crow- 

 quill ; peduncles ftraight, elaftic, about four inches long; corolla 

 fcarcely an inch in diameter, whitifh within, pale-rofe-coloured 

 without, having a green keeled line down the centre of the back 

 of each fegment ; parts of fruclification white, and, when viewed 

 through a magnifier, plainly frofted over with clofe minute 

 points. An unrecorded fpecies, differing from all yet known to 

 us, in being completely gynandrous ; we had already noted in 

 our generic character, in No. 1363, that others were partly fo 

 as well as monadelphous. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Lately introduced by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, in whofe 



confervatory 



