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ANOMATHECA* cru^ta. 

 Blood-spotted Anomatheca. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. luiDEiE Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of botany, 

 p. 260.) 



ANOMATHECA Ker. — Inflorescentia spicata. .Spa^Aa bivalvis, brevis. 

 Corolla tubuloso-sexfida, hypocrateriformis, subirregularis, erecta ; limbus 

 rotatus, laciniis oblongis cuneatis, tubo recto anguste fauciali subbrevioribus. 

 Stamina secunda ; {antheris parallelis). Stigmata angustissima, condupli- 

 cata, bipartita. Capsula ovato-globosa, papilloso-aspera. Semina biserialia, 



plurima, rotunda. Herba palmaris, v. ultradodrantalis, ortu obliquissimo 



proveniens, postquam erecta. Bulbotuber ovatuni, exuviis mollibus stupaceo- 

 Jibrosis. Folia collateralia, plura (4-8), gladiata, inferne (i latere interiore 

 axifere tenus excisa, scepe subundulata ; exteriora latiora, subovato-gladiata, 

 scepius falcata. Caulis teres, subjunceus, paniculatus, multijiorus, nudius- 

 culuS, foliis plurimhn longior, ramis ad basin foliolo stipatis, plerumque 

 divisis, Flores remotiusctdi, magnitudine media. Spatha pusilla, sub- 

 herbacea, obtusa. Corollarum lacinise parum incequales, obtusce, deorskm 

 attenutce, roseo-albicantes ; infimse tres macidci dejinitd plerumque notalce. 

 Antlierse oblongce, violacece, contiguce, tubi fauce emicantes. Capsula piso 

 maJ7isculo parum grandior. Semina sinapeos subsimilia. — Ker genera 

 Iridearum, p. 111. 



A. omenta; limbo bilabiato tubo duplo breviore, maculis ovatis conformibus. 

 Valdt affinis A. juncecB, prcesertim ece in Botan. Magaz. depictce, potius- 

 quam isti grandiori et ramosiori Andreusii ; differ t tamen colore florum 

 intensiore, limbo niagis irregulari omninb bilabiato, et maculis faucis con- 

 formibus, nee intermedid diversd. 



For this we are obliged to Mr. Tate, of Sloane Street, 

 who communicated it in May last, with the informa- 

 tion, that he had received it several years ago from the 

 Cape, and finds it a very desirable plant, continuing to 

 throw out flowering shoots till late in the autumn. The 



So called from ciV6fyi.o<; and %koi. ; on account of its frosted capsule. 



