'HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 22% 
HYACIN’'THUS. Tourn. 180. Gertn.i2. 
Car. Cup none. 
Buoss. 1. petal, bell-shaped. Border with 6 clefis, re= 
flected. 
Nectary, 3 pores filled with honey, at the point of 
the germen. 
Stam. Filaments 6, awl-shaped, rather short. Anthers 
approaching. 
Pist. Germen roundish, but with 3 edges, and 3 furrows. 
Style simple, shorter than the blossom. Summit blunt. 
S. Vess. Capsule roundish, but with 3 corners, 3 cells and 
valves. 
Sgeps 2 for the most part, roundish. 
* Oxzs. In the Hyacinthus non-scriptus the blossom is tubular, 
but expanding at the mouth, and its segments so deeply divided 
that it is not easy to determine whether it is formed of one, or 
of six petals ; and the 3 nectariferous pores are not to be found 
on the germen ; so that it rather ranks with the Scilla than with 
the Hyacinthus, only that the blossom in all former is decidu- 
ous, in the latter permanent, — 
 ¢ 
AC/ORUS. Leers 13. f. 12. 
Car. Spike-stalk cylindrical, undivided, covered by the 
florets. Sheath none. Cup none. — 
- Bross. Petals 6, blunt, concave, flexible, thicker upwards, 
and almost lopped. 
Sram. Filaments 6, rather. thick, som Jonger than 
the petals. Anthers thick, terminating,dou gery 
Pisr. Germen bulging, oblong, as long as the stamens. = 
Style none. Summit a prominent point, 
S. Vzss. os Es short, triangular, tapering each way, 
“blunt, c : 
SEEDS sete ce-cblong. 
; TA’MUS. ida 28, Tamms. 
