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CYRTANTHUS* caineus. 

 /• 'Icsh-coloured Cyrta n thus. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaryli.i ni:.i: R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Boldnii, p. 2')9.) 



C yji TA N TH US. — Supr^ , vol. 2 . fol. 162. 



C. coTneus ; foliis hysteranthiis loratis glaucis obtusis bis spiralibus, floribus 



ptndulis c'hwatis : liinljo tubo ter breviorc. 



Biilbus ovalis, castancus, jnujui niagnitudlne, collo supraterranen. Folia 

 post scnpum, erecta, sesquipcdalia, lorata, obtusa, ylauca, marcjinc lutcs- 

 centia, bis spiralia. Sra[»us erectus, teres, (jlaucus, spiralitcr tortus, pedalis 

 V. ultra. Bracteoe exteriores ovato-lanccolatcc, acurninat(e, obtusce, apice 

 canaliculat(E, interiores subulatce pediccllorum longitudine. Umbella 7-8- 

 Jlora. Pedicelli ovariorum longitudine, tcrctcs, glauci. Flores carnei, 

 clavati, arcuati, penduli, 3 uncias longi, tubo crjlindraceo-infundilndiformi ; 

 limbus erectus, 6-partitus, tubo triplo brevior : laciniis exterioribus ovatis, 

 interioribus oblongis obtusis. Stamina 6, cequalia, limbo breviora, fauce 

 tubi inserta ; Jilamenta subulatn, basi membranacea, dilatata : mcvibrand 

 utrinque apice nuriculata. Stigma levitcr trilobum, papillosum; stylus 

 antheris oblongis, erectis, (equalis. 0\'\i\^ ijlurima, ab axi ascendentia. 



A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence a bulb was 

 brought to the Horticultural Society by Captain Stuart, 

 under the name of Cyrtanthus odorus, from which it is 

 totally distinct ; see fol. 503 of this work. 



It approaches C. pallidus of the Botanical Magazine, 

 from which it differs in having glaucous, obtuse, spirally- 

 twisted, instead of straight, acute, green leaves, and also 

 in its much larger flowers. C. spiralis has smaller, more 

 scarlet flowers; and its leaves are both narrower, and much 

 more glaucous and twisted. C. obliquus is perhaps, of all 



* So named from the figure of the flower ; kv^tV,, incurved, and ii-^ef, a 

 flower. 



