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IIABRANTIIUS* Phycclloidcs. 

 Phycella-rikc Hahranth u.s. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaryllide^: R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 2.'59.) 



HABRANTHUS.— Supra, vol. \Q.fol. 1345. 



H. Phycclloidcs; bulbo magno, rotundo, nigro; foliis obtusis, p;laucis, 

 1^ unciae latis ; scapo subpurpurascente, crasso, 8-unciali ; sputhii bi- 

 tblia, 2^-unciali, marcescente ; umbclla, sexflora, bracteatii ; pedunculis 

 3^-uncialibus ; germine viridi ; tubo -\\ unciae, viridi-luteo ; limbo '2i- 

 unciali, coccineo, basi lutescente ; laciniis externis latioribus, uncatis ; 

 stylo albo, filamentis longiore, apice rubescente, tubo 2^^ uncias longiore; 

 stigmate brcviter trilobo ; filamentis decurrcntilnis, albis, externis lougi- 

 oribus ima abbiwiata ; internis brevioribus summii elongata ; genitalibus 

 pauUum recurvatis, annulo membranaceo insertis. W. H. 



" This fine species, which must be referred to the genus 

 Habranthus, appears to be the point by which it connects 

 itself with Phycella ; the generic distinctions between this 

 plant and Phycella ignea being very slender ; but it has 

 none of the peculiar features which remain to Phycella, as 

 it has been lastly defined. It only departs from the general 

 form of Habranthus in having the style and filaments less 

 curved, and the stigma less deeply cleft than usual ; but 

 the filaments are decidedly of four lengths, the lowest 

 being shorter than the two external laterals, and the upper 

 longer than the internal laterals. There is also a small 

 fourfold discrepancy in the breadth of the petals. The 

 filaments are decurrent in the tube, and their insertion is 

 screened by an annular bearded membrane, as in some 

 other species. Its broad glaucous leaves, the number and 



* See fol. 1.345. 



