132 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Criuum. 



i2oo^ perennial, ovate, with many thick, fleshy, fibres, 

 descending from its crown. Stem none, at least scarcely 

 any thing that can be so called has yet appeared after 

 ten years culture. Leaves radical, straight, rigid, linear- 

 lanceolate, rather obtusely pointed, concave on the upper 

 surface ; smooth on both sides, with their margins whit- 

 ish, callous and hispid, held between the light and the 

 eye, beautifully striated with double lines, and tessellated 

 with transverse green veins, from three to six feet long, 

 and from three to six inches broad. Scapes axillary, so- 

 litary, much shorter than the leaves, smooth, a little 

 compressed. Umbel from ten to twenty-flowered. In- 

 volucre two-leaved, with filaraentaceous fibres mixed 

 amongst the pedicells. Flowers large, white, pedicelled. 

 Carol ; tube cylindric, about four inches long, divisions of 

 the border linear, as long as the tube, having their 

 apices alternately hooked. Filaments ascending, colour- 

 ed, shorter than the segments of the corol . Anthers li- 

 near, incumbent. Germ inferior, subsessile, scarcely 

 thicker than the tube of the corol, three-celled, in the in- 

 ner angle of each is a fleshy succulent receptacle in which 

 one, two, or three seeds are found immersed. Style 

 shorter than the stamina. Fruit the size of a man's fist ; 

 cells uncertain, the partitions being obliterated, but the 

 whole contains one, two, or three large, bulbiform seeds, 

 covered with a tender, somewhat fleshy envelope, which 

 does not open in any regular form, but soon decays. 



8. C canaliculatum. R. 



Stemkss Leaves linearly tapering, smooth-margined, 

 twice the length of the inflorescence. Umbels, from 

 thirty to fift} -flowered ;/oit;ers pedicelled, regular. Seg- 

 ments of the border linear, channelled, obtuse, longer 

 than the tube. Leaves from eight to fourteen, sparse, li- 

 near, tapering near the apex channelled, margins quite 

 smooth ; from three to five feet long, and from three to four 



