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LEUCOCORYNE* odorata. 

 Siveet-scented Leucocoryne. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. AsphodelEjE. 



LEUCOCORYNE.— Periantliium hypocrateriforme, cum pedicello 

 continuum, limbo 6-partito. Stamina 3 fertilia e tubo exorta; tria sterilia 

 carnosa teretia e fauce laciniis corollinis opposita. SquamcB hypogynae 

 nullae. Ovarium sessile, triloculare, polyspermum ; stylus teres, cuui ovario 



articulatus; stigma simplex. Herbae {Chilenses), cormis induviatis. 



Flores umbellati. 



L. odorata; foliis linearibus glaucis, limbi laciniis lanceolatis sublaciniatis, 

 staminibus sterilibus subulatis obtusis, pedunculis subaequalibus tubj 

 brevioribus. 



Folia debilia, valde glauca, linearia, scapi pedalis longitudhie. Scapus 

 teres. Involucrum bifulium, jioribus brevius. Umbella 3-4-Jiora. Flores 

 albi, odorem OxyacanthcR debilem spirantes, pedicellis cequalibus dupVo 

 brevioribus. Perianthium hypocrateriforme; tubo subcylindraceo, atro- 

 viridi, circd. medium subtumido ; limbo patente, Q-partito : laciniis sub- 

 cequalibus subrecurvis, corollinis nunc laciniatis. Stamina fertilia 3, e 

 medio tubo exorta, subsessilia, 3 sterilia laciniis corollinis ojjposita, subu- 

 lata, obtusa, e fauce, nunc, nee raro, antherifera ; antherse ovatcE, bilocu- 

 lares, longitudinaliter intus dehiscentes. Ovarium superum, obovatum, 

 cylindraceum, 3-loculare, polyspermum, apice truncatum, intrusum ; stylus 

 staminibus inferioribus idemissior, teres, cum ovario articulatus: stigma 

 simplex, papillosum. 



This pretty little plant was found by Mr. M'Rae, in November 1825, 

 along with two other species, upon the sides of the mountains lying between 

 St. Jago and Valparaiso, in places where the snow had been a few days 

 melted. It is rather delicate, requiring in this country the protection of 

 a frame or greenhouse, when it produces its fragrant flowers in August. 

 It is to be increased by offsets, and grows best in a light loamy soil in which 

 some coarse white sand is mixed. It was received from Mr. M'Rae by the 

 Horticultural Society in the spring of 1826, and flowered for the first time 

 in August of the same year, at which period the drawing was made. 



From Brodiaea this jrenus differs in the texture of its sterile stamens. 



" From Xiuxoi, white, and Ksoivn, a club ; in allusion to the club-like sterile stamen*. 



