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this Ibe leaves are perfectly straight, and upright, taper- 

 ing to a long fine point, and as completely fistulous as 

 in the Onion. The filaments are nearly of equal lengths, 

 and as much contracted immediately above their ex- 

 panded ciliate base, and swell much toward the apex. 

 ^he petals are white, with a brown line along the centre. 



ANTHERICUM. Schreb gen. n. 570. 



Calyx none. Corol beneath, six-petalled, expanding. 

 Capsule ovate. 



1. A. unijioruin. R. 



Bulb ovate. Scape simple, straight, one-flowered. 

 Leaves linear, channelled ; stamina smooth. Style scarcely 

 any. Stigma three-cleft. 



A native of Rohilkhuud, from thence introduced into 

 the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by Mr. A. Gott, where 

 it blossoms during the cold season. 



Bulb ovate, from its base spring many fleshy fibres, 

 some of which support a pendulous oval tuber. Leaves 

 two, from the crown of the bulb, and generally two, remote 

 from each other, on the lower half of the scape ; all are 

 linear, channelled, equalling in height the scape itself. 

 Scape erect, round, smooth, about a foot high, supporting 

 on its apex one, large, pure white flow^er. Petals broad- 

 lanceolate, spreading. Filaments short, broad, and smooth. 

 Anthers linear, erect. Germ oblong, obtusely three-sided. 

 Style scarcely any. Stigma three-cleft ; lobes recurved. 



2. A. tuberosum. R, 



Roof tuberous. Leaves radical, waved. Scape ending 

 in an oblong panicle. All the stamens subulate. 



Sans. Chitra, also Vrishna. 



Teling. Kushellee. 



A native of the moist vallies up amongst the Circar 

 mountains. Flowering time the rainy season. 



