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* FUNKIA Siebddi. 

 Siebold's Funkia. 



HEXANDRIA M.O'NOGY'NIA. 



Nat. ord. Liliace.e. 



FUNKIA, Spreng. Perigonmm corollinum, tubulosum; tubo brevi, 

 limbo sex-partito, subbilabiato, connivente v. patentiusculo. Stamina 6, basi 

 limbi iiiserta, subfasciculatim declinata. Ovarium triloculare. Ovula plurima, 

 biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filifonnis, declinatus ; stigma subtrioro- 

 num, laeve. Capsula oblongo-prismatica, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Se- 

 mina plurima, ascendentia, plano-compressa ; testa membranacea, nigra, laxa, in 

 alam apice longiorem producta, raphe inter testam libera, adscendente. Em~ 

 bryones plures, dimidlo albumine longiores, inter communem cavitatem axilem 



paralleli, extremitatibus radicularibus incrassatis umbilico proximis. Herbse hi 



China et Japonica ohvice ; radice Jibroso-fasciciilatd, foliis radicalibus petio- 

 latis, ovatis cordatisve, acuminalis, plicato-nervosis, caulinis nullis, v. sub- 

 sessilibus, floribus racemosis candidis v. coeruleis. Endl. gen.pl, no. 1100. 



F. Sieboldi ; foliis oblongis acuminatis multinerviis subtils glaucis, racemo denso 

 secundomultifloro, floribus pendulis clavato-infundibularibus, pedicellis brac- 

 teis erectis brevioribus. 



F. Sieboldiana. Bot. Mag. t. 3663. 



Hemerocallis Sieboldiana. Bot. Cab. t. 1869. 



Bracteas unciales et ultrd., ovatce, acutce, herbacece, punctis pellucidis 

 sine ordine nofatcs, pedicellis duplb longiores. Alabastrus apice ventricosus, 

 ovalis, versus basin attenuatus teres. Stigma capitatum, obsolete irilobum, 

 incurvum, ultra perianlhium extensum, incurvatum. Ovula cith post j)eri- 

 unthii delapsum alata. 



This very pretty herbaceous plant is one of Dr. v. Siebold's 

 acquisitions in Japan, and has now become rather common 

 in the collections near London. It differs from the old spe- 

 cies of the gardens {Hemerocallis coerulea now Fuiikia ovata, 

 and Hemerocallis japonica or alba now Funkia stibcordata) 



* So named by Sprengcl, after Hcin-y Christian Funck, a German Crypto- 

 gamic Botanist, who lived in the early ])art of the present century. 



