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Peliosanthes humilis. Dwarf 



Peliosanthes. 



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Generic CharaHer. — Videfupra No. 1 302. 



Em e n d. et A d d. Cor. perfiftens, femiinfera (ni reBius inferam 

 dicenda?), fru&um bafi cingens. Bacca fupera, ex fmgulis uni 

 loculanbus monofpermis oblongis glabris ima fede ope recepta- 

 culi aut fundamenti ftyli connexis ternata (aut Japius t horum 

 unius vel et alterius abortu geminata tantum, fimplexve). Ne- 

 qiiedum tamen vidimus plene maturatam. Dele punBum interro°ationis 

 Pfi « binis" in Char. Gen. G. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



"ELIOSANTHES humilis : foliis pluribus (fubquinis ?), ellip- 

 tico-lanceolatis, longius utrinque attenuatis, cauliculum 

 denfe ftriatum fuperantibus ; racemo fimplici, multifloro, 

 confertius fpicato ; bracleis geminis pedicellum folitarium 

 flore breviorem includentibus ; corolla rofaceo-patente, 

 papulis rugulifVe extrinfecus fcabrata; laciniis ovato-ellip- 

 ticis, acutulis, acie marginis membranacec extenuata ; co- 

 ronula ftaminea breviffime prominente, cupulato-aperta; 

 germine difco incraffato corollae toto immiffo (nee poftice 

 extante) ; ftylo annulum difci ferme duplo tranfeunte. G. 



PELIOSANTHES humilis. Botan. Repof. lab. 634. 



Leaves rather more than three inches high, about one broad ; 

 ftem with the rachis of the inflorefcence about two high j corolla 

 Smaller and of a purer green than in Tela (fee No. 1302), with 

 * 'me down the middle of each fegment. Blooms in November, 

 introduced from Prince of Wales's Ifland about 1808, by Mr. 

 *vans, from whofe hot-houfe at Stepney we received the fpe- 

 Clmen from which the figure was taken. G. 



NOTES. 



A llium Cepa; 0. fupra No. 1469. 



The following obfervation belongs to this variety; 

 . Allium Cepa. Varietatem coluimus, feu fi mavis fpecicm 

 IPneftat enim cultura) in quam dihnitio data de Cepa omnino 



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