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LACHENAL/v^* pallida. 

 Pale-blue-flowered Laclienal/«. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Asphodelea:. 

 LACHENALIA.— Supra, vol. 4. fol. 287. 



L. pallida ; corollis campanulatis, petalis 3 interioribus longioribus, flori- 



bus brevissime pedunculatis horizontalibus, foliis lineari-oblongis scapo 



longioribus. Hort. Kew. ed. 1.1. 460. 

 L. pallida. Thunh. prodr. 64. Redoute Liliacces 22. Willd. sp. pi. 



2. 172. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 285. Rbmer et Schultes syst. veg. 



7. 605. 

 /3. minor ; petalis sepalis subsequalibus, racemo paucifloro. 

 L. pallida x. Supra, fol. 314. 



Rachis angulata, multiflora. Flores sessiles, in axilla bractecB scariosce. 

 Calyx pallida plumheo-cmruleus, laciniis jjctalis multh brevioribus, sub apice 

 viridibus. Petala concoZorct, sed pallidiora. Fo\i>i atrovi7'idia,immaculala. 



We consider this the type of L. pallida, rather than the 

 smaller variety represented at fol. 314: it agrees better 

 with the descriptions of authors, and is undoubtedly the 

 state from which the definition in the Hortus Kewensis was 

 taken, as we know from the inspection of specimens for- 

 merly obtained from the Garden at Kew by Mr. James 

 Donn, and now in our possession. 



The supposed variety figured at fol. 287, is altogether 

 another species. 



Our drawing was made many years ago in the Garden 

 of our late friend, Mr. Griffin, whose fine collection of bulbs 

 is now unfortunately dispersed through so many hands. 



* Werner Lachenal, a professor of Botany at Basle, is much better 

 known by the beautiful genus that bears his name than by any trace that he 

 has left in the history of science. He died in 1800. 



