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CALOSTEMMA carneum. 

 Flesh-coloured Calostemma. 



HEXANDRIA MONOOYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaryllidace^. 



CALOSTEMMA. Botanical Register, vol. 5. fol. 421. 



C. carneum; foliis contemporaneis rigidis ensiformibus scapo brevioribus, 

 tubo perianthii limbo subsequali, corona truncata inter stamina edentata 

 emarginata, umbellis densis, pedicellis articulatis exterioribus niult6 

 longioribus. 



C. carneum. Lindley in Mitchell's Eastern Australia^ vol. 2. p. 39. 



This pretty bulb is a native of Australia, where it was 

 found in April, 1836, by Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, on the 

 summit of Goulburn range, a chain of rocky mountains com- 

 posed of "hornstone and granular felspar, light coloured, 

 partially decomposed, and lying in rounded nodules and 

 boulders." Having been presented to the Horticultural So- 

 ciety by its indefatigable discoverer, it flowered in a pit in the 

 Chiswick garden in September last. 



It is evidently very near C. purpureum, figured at fol. 422 

 of this work, 1st series, a plant now lost to our gardens, and 

 which I have never seen, and at first I thought it a mere 

 variety with paler flowers ; but the definition given by Brown, 

 coronce dentibus sterilibus triangularibus, will not at all apply 

 to this plant ; and Mr. Ker in his detailed description con- 

 firms Brown's character by a precise account of the coronet, 

 stating it to have between the stamens very narrow purple 

 membranes, which are bidentate, or occasionally split, so as 

 to give the filaments the appearance of being toothed on each 

 side, as in certain species of Allium and Ornithogalum, Here 

 on the contrary there are no processes between the stamens, 

 but the space found at that place is green, and either a little 

 rounded, or merely emarginate, as is shewn in the accom- 

 panying fig. 1. Moreover the articulation in the pedicels, 



