800 AMARYLLIDEAE brOwn. (Bomaria.) 



limbo revoluio, parallele lineata, ncrvo medio vix promineiite. 

 Involucri foliola inaequalia, rcvolula, numero radios aeqnantia; 

 radii saepc 5, ad bracteolain bifidi, nnde biflori; pcdiccllis 1-|- 

 poll. Perigonii superi foliola tnbuloso-approximata, ovato-ob- 

 longa; 3 sepalina coccinea, apice viridia: 3 pctalina viridia, vcr- 

 sus summitatcm planiuscula punctisque nigris variegata; limbo 

 infcrne in canalcm involuto; omnia faucem patulam sistcntia. 

 Stamina alba, ovario prope folioiorum basim affixa, subulata. 

 Antbcrae ovatac, fuscae. Ovarium viride, sulcis 6, apice cre- 

 nulis totidein. Colnmna stylina crassiuscula, subulata. Stigmata 

 3, acuta. Capsula globosa, poll. in diametro, 6-sulcata, margine 

 6-crcnato , supernc circumscissa ; valvulis concavis. Ex Cav. 

 Vidi in planta cxsiccata Horti Bcrolinensis ut scquiturt Caulis 

 volnbilis, tercs?, glabcr. Folia sparsa, |>ctiolata, oblonga, acu- 

 minata, basi in pctiolum dccurrentia, striato-multincrvia, mcm- 

 branacca, intcgerrima, plana, supra glabra, subtus in ncrvis pi- 

 loso - pubcsccntia , rcsupinata, 3y- 4-pollicaria , 15-16 lin. lata. 

 Pctioli complanati, spiraliter torti, glabriusculi, basi violacei?. 

 Umbella terminalis, 8-radia(a, pcndula?, basi foliis totidcm mi- 

 noribns valde inaequalibus involucrata; radiis 6-7-pollicaribus, 

 glabris, apicc trifloris (cincinno belicoidco, trifloro), Flores pc- 

 diccllati, 13-18 lin. longi ; pcdiccllis 6-11 lin. longis, glabris, 

 basi bractca brcviore oblonga acuminata glabriuscula suflultis. 

 Perigonium 6-phyllum, snpcrum, tubnloso-infundibularc, regu- 

 larc, glabrnm; foliola distincta, acquilonga; scpalina oblongo- 

 spatbulata, obtusa, rosca?, apice viridula? ibique cxternc pubc- 

 rula ; petalina spatbnlato -unguiculata, acutiuscula, dorso mcdio 

 bisulcata ibiquc supcrnc pubcrula, viridia, macuiis linearibus 

 nbliquis atro-sanguincis picta; unguibus marginc glanduloso- 

 pubcrulis. Stamina inacqualia, longiora perigonium subaequan- 

 tia. Antherac viridcs?. Ovarium licmispbacricum, juvenilc sub- 

 turbiuatum , glabrum. Capsula (suppctens nondum matura) 

 crasso- herbacca, viridis, magnitudinc cerasi, turbinato-trigona, 

 trilocularis , vertice amplissimo dimidiam partcm supcriorem to- 

 tius capsulae constitucnte trigono-convexo pubcrulo quasi opcr- 

 culata ibiquc per suturas tres angulis rcspondcntcs loculicido- 

 trivalvis; locnli abortu trispermi. Scmina (suppctentia vix ma- 

 tnra) angnlo interno funiculis crassis brcvibus in rbapbcm atlc- 

 nuatis affixa, uniscriata, hcmianatropa, subgloboso-ovata, lacvia, 

 aurantiaca, nitida, glabra, magnitudinc grani cannabis majoris, 

 apice dcorsum spcctantia ; tcsta carnosulo-crassa, albumini arctc 

 adbacrcns; rbaphc prominula, scminc dimidio brcvior; cbalaza 

 sub tcsta mediocris, orbicularis, viridis. Albumcn carnosnm, 

 albnm. Embryo minutissimus, ovatus, obtusus, basi (exircmi- 

 tatc radiculari) apiculatus, ad exiremitatcm albuminis cbalazac 

 oppositam inclusus. 



18? B. JACQ.UESIANA. Alsiroemcria Jacquesiana Vanlloulle, 

 Flora 2. lAef. 12. Jig, 10. Alstrocmcria Jacobi vel Jacquesii 



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