Anthericum. | HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. De 
this the leaves are perfectly straight, and upright, taper- 
ing to along fine point, and as completely fistulous as 
in the Onion. The filaments are nearly of equal lengths, 
and as much contracted inimediately above their ex- 
panded ciliate base, and swell much toward the apex. 
The petals are white, witha brown line along the centre, 
ANTHERICUM. Schreb. gen. n. 570. 
Calyx none. Corol beneath, six-petalled, expanding. 
Capsule ovate. 
1. A. uniflorum. R. 
Bulb ovate. Scape simple, straight, one-flowered. 
Leaves linear, channelled ; stamina smooth. Style scarcely 
any. Stigma three-cleft. 
A native of Rohilkhund, from thence introduced into 
the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by Mr. A, Gott, where 
it blossoms during the cold season. 
Bulb ovate, from its base spring many fleshy fibres, 
some of which support a pendulous oval tuber. Leaves 
two, from the crowh of the bulb, and generally two, remote 
from each other, on the lower half of the scape; all are 
linear, channelled, equalling in height the scape itself, 
Scape erect, round, smooth, about a foot high, supporting 
on its apex one, large, pure white flower, Petals broad-« 
lanceolate, spreading. Filaments short, broad, and smooth. 
Anthers linear, erect. Germ oblong, obtusely three-sided. 
Style scarcely any. Stigma three-cleft ; lobes recurved. 
2. A. tuberosum. 
Root tuberous. Ane radical, waved. Scape ending 
in an oblong panicle. All the stamens subulate. 
Sans. Chitra, also Vrishna, 
Teling, Kushellee. 
A native of the moist vallies up amongst the Circar = 
mountains, - Flowering time the = Season. — 
