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IsMENE CALATHINA. BASKET-FLOWERED 
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Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. ! 
_Scapus solidus. Corona staminifera. Tubus curvatus, 
cylindricus. Filamenta brevia, tria in coronam deflexa, 
~tria inferiora implexé conniventia. Semina carnosa, ro- 
tunda, viridia. 3 . 7 | 
_ Plante Americane, foliis autumno depereuntibus. — 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Ismene calathina ; bulbo subrotundo, foliis 24-pedalibus 
viridibus, sub-obtusis, 24-uncias latis, infra vaginan- 
_ tibus. Scapo viridi, rhomboideo, bipedali; spatha 
igono, sessili; tubo 44-unciali, cylindrico, curvato, 
>. costato, sulcato, viridi; laciniis 4-uncialibus, albis ; 
tribus externis viridi a iculatis, :-uncie latis; inter- 
_. nis obtusis, canaliculatioribus, angustioribus ; corona 
_. triunciali, extus alba, imtus viridi-costata et inferne 
_ Virente, lobis sex interstamineis, unciam latis, barbatis, 
erosis, reflexis ; filamentis albis, infra viridibus, de- 
 Currentibus ; antheris brevibus, aureis, incumbentibus; 
Stylo declinato apice recurvato, limbo parum breviore,. 
_ apicem versus virescente ; stigmate rotundato, parvulo; 
_ capsula trigona, trisulca, trivalvi. Rigingt 
Pancrativm calathiforme. Redoute liliac. 353. 
Pancratium calathinum. Bot. Reg. 215, figuré pessimé. 
{smene calathina. Nobis in Append: p.46. W.H. 
_ _ The genusIsmenz is distinguished from Hymenocatus and 
_ Pancrarium by a curved tube, and round green seeds, and. 
from Hymenocallis by its short conniving filaments, of 
which 
