696 HEXANDRBIA. MONOGYNIA. — PorriANTHES, 
laxa, bracteà brevi suffulti, alterni, saepius gemini, 2-2*/, poll., 
albi, fragrantissimi , tubo striato , subincurvo , laciniis recurvo- 
horizontalibus subaequalibus obtusis fere duplo longiore.  Sta- 
mina limbo breviora. Antherae lineares, virescentes, filamen- 
tis longiores. Stylus longitudine fere tubi, triqueter, albus, 
stigmatibus parum divergentibus. SZmon de Tovar Sevillae in- 
tulit anno 1594,  Culturam vide in A//g. Gart. Mag. 1807. p. 93. 
e Salisbury in Trans. Hort. Soc. Y. p. 41.; in Portges. Gart. 
Mag. v. VII. p.217. et in Emerton's Treatise on the Culture 
and management of the Auricula, Polianthes, Carnation with 
figures. New edit. 1822. In India orientali, Java, Zey- 
lona; in Ind. occid., Mexico, ex Hern. Mez. 277.: Salis- 
bury. [In Peruvia tantum culta. 2|. 
9. P. gracilis Linh; foliis linearibus; scapo racemoso ; 
laciniis limbi linearibus. Linh Enum. 1. p. 550. Link et 
Otto Abbild. auserl. Gew. t. 94. : 
Folia radicalia linearia, carinata, integerrima, glaberrima, longissi- 
, mà, laxa. Scapus 5 ped. et ultra, basi foliosus, superne vaginis 
brevibus, simplex, teres, glaber. Flores spicati, sessiles, subinde 
bini. Bracteae ovatae, acutiusculae. Cor. infundibuliformis, 
alba, tubo incurvo 1 poll. 10 lin.; limbo 6 lin.; laciniis 2 lin. 
latis, aeutis, Stam. corollae adnata; antherae in fauce. Germ. 
oblongum. Stylus tubo paulo brevior. Stigma tripartitum. P. 
tuberosae valde affinis, sed differt corollà longiore, tenuiore, 
toto habitu graciliore nec non odore debiliore. An spontaneae 
ropior ac praecedens, per longum tempus in hortis culta ? 
ink. !- dn Brasilia. Sello. 21. 
Obs. Porixsues pygmaea jacg. cst Massoxra ensifolia. 
144. ALETRI S. 
"o p. * A. farinosa ; floribus pedicellatis , oblongo-tubulosis ; 
corollis fructiferis laeviusculis, farinosis; foliis lato -lanceola- 
tis, mucronatis. Mich. Fl. bor. am. . p- 189. (sub A. alba; 
uti Pursh Fl. Sept. ^m. 1. p. 995.) À. acaulis; fol. lanceo- 
latis, membranaceis; floribus alternis. Linn. Spec. p. 456. — 
ZAmón. ac. 5. p. 13. JVilld. Spec. 9. p.135. Lam. Enc. 
meth. p. 78. Mill. Dict. ed. 8. n. 1; H. le, ed. 2. Il. 
E 290. (excl syn. VVcnwmrax bullatae JFilld. Elliott 
ketch 1. jb 3s Torrey Fl. N. M. U. St. p. 344. B 
gel. 4m. B. 1.50: Gron. Firg. 38. Plu. 4malth. 119. 
t. 457. f. 9. - - €t 
Flores albi in die longa. Pursh. Folia radicalia, laevia, mem- 
branacea. apus nudus, sat longus, $picá terminatus. Flores 
arvi, alterni, farinosi. Lam. Rad. praemorsa. Folia omnià 
ere radicalia, stellatim vel erecto patentia, lanceolata, utrinque 
attenuata, apice acüta, mucronata , obsolete 5-5 nervia; glabra; 
1 favescenti - viridia, basi striatá margine membranaceà pallidiora» 
5-6-poll, 4-6 lin. lata.  Seapus strictus, teres, striatus, tenuis 
"sime scabriusculus, flavescenti - viridis, 12/,-2 ped.; foliolis raris 
.. Sparsis, appressis, lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 5-6 lin., Supe- 
Tioribus remotioribus parvis.  Racemus spiciformüs, erectus 
ante anthesin apice inflexus, 4.6 poll. | Pedunculi angulosi » */z 
