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BARBACENIA PURPUREA. PuURPLE=-FLOWERED 
BARBACENIA. 
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Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord—Hazmoporez. Br. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium corollinum, ovario adnatum, infundibuli- 
forme, sexfidum. Filamenta bifida, antheras dorso affixas 
in divisione (non semper) gerentia. Capsula trilocularis, 
polysperma. Mart. 
Specific Character. 
Barpacenia purpurea ; foliis lineari-acuminatis carinatis 
spinuloso-serratis, scapo foliis longiore, ovario elon- 
gato lineatim tuberculato, antheris basi filamentorum, 
affixis. 
Descr. Caudex scarcely any, divided in a dichotomous 
manner, bearing a few striated, brownish scales, and nume- 
rous, linear, somewhat spirally inserted, acuminated, flexu- 
ose and slightly twisted, carinated, striated, rigid leaves ; 
their margins are beset with many, but rather distantly 
placed, minute, spinous teeth, pointmg upwards; the bases 
are sheathing. Scape much longer than the leaves, obtusely 
trigonal, scabrous upwards, single-flowered. Flower erect, 
moderately large, of a beautiful purple colour. Peta/s six, 
united into a tube at the base, lanceolate, the three outer 
narrower, reflexed, much acuminated, obscurely striated, 
the three inner broader, waved, more erect, acute, veined ; 
at the mouth of the tube, are six broadly linear, petaloid, 
bifid, purple filaments, opposite the petals, at the base of 
which, by the lower part of its back, is fixed the linear, 
erect: Anther, two celled, enclosing a white pollen, shorter 
‘than the filaments. Pistil: Germen inferior, oblong or 
subclavate, greenish, with six lines of purplish tubercles, 
and scabrous, with minute elevated dots between them. A 
transverse section of this germen, shews three cells, essa 
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