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EURYCLES* Cunninghamii. 

 Mr. Cunningham's Eurycles. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat.ord. Amaryllide* R. Br. (Fntrodtiction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 259.) 



EUR YCLES. — Perianthium hypocrateriforme, limbo sexpartito. Stamina 

 faucialia, filamentis dilatatis coronam mentientibus utrinque unidentatis ; 

 ant fierce versatiles. Ovarium 3-Ioculare ; ovulis geminis collateralibus ap- 

 pensis. Capsnla. Semina testa carnosa. 



E. Cunninghamii ; foliis oblongis cordatis, umbella. subsexflora, perianthii 

 laciniis oblongo-lanceolatis, dentibus staminum lateralibus subulatis sub- 

 bilobis intermedio subsequalibus. 



Bulbus subrotundus, apice virescens. Folia plurima, petiolata, oblonga, 

 basi subcordata, apiculata, curvivenia, venidis propriis furcatis. Scapus 

 pedalis. Involucrum diphyllum, subcequale, Jloribus brevius. Flores pedi- 

 cellati, albi, perianthii laciniis ovato-oblongis, patentibtis, planis, tubo brevi- 

 oribus. Stamina 6,fauce inserta ; filamenta tridentata, dentibus lateralibus 

 patentibus, cornutis, mine bilobis, intermedio antherifero paulb brevioribus. 

 Ovarium 3-loculare ; ovula gemina, collateralia, appensa. Stylus Jiliformis , 

 rectus, perianthii longitudine. 



A native of New Holland, whence its bulbs were sent 

 to Mr. Knight, of the King's Road Nursery, by Mr. Baxter. 

 It is a greenhouse plant, flowering in March and April, and 

 increased either by seeds or by offsets. 



From E. sylvestris and australis it differs in having the 

 flowers much smaller, and less numerous in the umbel, 

 and in the lateral teeth of the filaments being very much 

 elongated, and sometimes 2-lobed. 



It was received from the collector under the name of 

 Calostemma Cunninghamii ; but it is certainly a Eurycles, 

 which is positively distinguished from Calostemma in having 

 three cells in the ovarium, while Calostemma has but one 

 cell. J. L. 



* From ivev<;, broad, and KXu'a, to close up ; in allusion to the dilated 

 state of the stamens, which close up, as it were, the opening of the tube of 

 the perianthium. 



