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32. Gastkonema sanguxneum.* 



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A native of CafFraria ; 

 presented to the So- 

 ciety by INIessrs. Back- 

 house, Nurserymen, 

 York, in 1845. 

 A hollow glaucous 

 stem, four or five inches high, supports 

 a single sessile flower of its own length, 

 surrounded at the base by a pair of long 

 narrow spathes. The tube is slender 

 and greenish, and expands into a deep- 

 rose obconical throat, having six crimson 

 lines running from the sinuses of the 

 limb on the outside, and on the inside as 

 many white bands, each with a crimson 

 streak along the middle. The limb is 

 very deep rose-colour, with six equal- 

 spreading, oblong, whole-coloured seg- 

 ments. The leaves are nearly as tall as 

 the flower, dark green, in a very small 

 degree glaucous, and gradually widen 

 towards the end, which is blunt. 



A greenhouse bulb, which should be 



* G. sangidnenm; foliis solitarlis Ihieari- 

 spatliulatis obtiisis viridibus caiile imifloro lon- 

 gioribus, spatha diphylla tnbo periauthii tcquali, 

 flore sessili suberecto, tubo teieti in faucem 

 obconicamanipliato,limbi patuli recurvi laciniis 

 oblougis Eeqnalibus concoloribus. — J. L. 

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