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DRlMIA* villdsa. 

 Villous-leaved Drimia. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. AsPHODELEiE. 



DRIMIA Jacq. — Perianthium 6-fidum, campanulatum, limbo reflexo : 

 laciniis apice cucuUatis. Stamina filamentis basi dilatatis, laciniarum basi 

 inserta. Stylus cum ovario continuus ; stigma triquetrum, incrassatum. 

 Capsula 3-locularis, loculis dorso dehiscentibus, semibivalvibus. Semina 

 angulo centrali loculamentorum affixa. 



D. villosa; foliis oblongis undulatis glaucis villosis serotinis, racemo multi- 



floro cylindraceo, perianthii limbo obliquo. 



Folia erecta, oblongo-lanceolata, undulata, pilosa, serotina, glauca. 

 Racemvis nudus, erectus, multifiorus. Bracteolse breves, minimce, ovatce, 

 pedicellis mtdtb breviores. Perianthium sexfidum, tubo campanulato, car- 

 noso, limbo obliquo : laciniis 6, linearibus, non imbricantibus , undulatis, 

 apice cucuUatis, demitm revolutis. Staniina 6, basibus laciniarum inserta, 

 leviter declinata ob obliquitatem limbi; filamentis subulatis, basi dilatatis, in 

 conum conniventibus . Ovarium superum, intrd. tubum perianthii inclusum, 

 triloculare, loculis serie duplici polyspermis ; stylus ovario continuus de- 

 clinatus ; stigma incrassatum, triquetrum. 



A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was 

 received by Mr. Tate, in whose Nursery our drawing was 

 made in May 1826. 



A greenhouse bulbous plant, flowering before the leaves. 

 It differs from Drimia ciliaris, to which it most nearly 

 approaches, in the much greater breadth of its leaves, 

 which are strongly undulated, and far more villous, and 

 in a greater obliquity of the limb of the perianthium. 



Those who may hereafter study the genus Drimia will 

 do well to attend to the structure of the capsule, to the 



* From ^^tfAVi, acrid ; in allusion to the flavour of the leaves. 



