i 
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et Stylum stipantia, dein erecto-patentia. Anthere vacillantes, 
idle), introrsum dehiseentes. Pericarpium superum, obovatum, 
3-lobum, 3-loculare ; an melliferum, et gravi ignotum lus 
sensim latio tigma 3-fidum lateribus laciniarum inflexis et juxta 
basin transversim fissis e tria circa aliud centrale simulant. 
caris. Radix perennis fibris aules tenues, juncei, dense 
cespitosi, Phi geh ae folio. 1 elon mox arido cincti, apice 
2 aliis € wmaceis sub flore imbricati, cylindrici, 
leves. Fo lia i ipsa yen amie teretiuscula, obtusa, basi in Sti- 
pulam intrafoliaceum glumaceum parum -auritum dilatata, perennia. 
Flores cærulei, erecti, a mane ad vesperem expansi, 1-2 fasciati, ter- 
minales. Pedicelli brevissimi precipue dum modo 1; altero si adest, 
ad latus flexo, paulo longiore, et sensim incrassato ; venen 
Bractea 1, ferruginea, glumacea, 5-fida uno ae re aree us fisso, 
vices faciemque calycis Tillandsiarum omnino si 
Aphyllanthes J. L. est totus Ordo. Fructu oe et Seminibus 
ignotis locus in serie naturali parum incertus: olim ad Bromeleas 
retuli, sed a partium nimis abludit, et Pedicellorum basis pro 
certo articulata 
It is ads ‘that so little i is yet known of the real affinity of 
a Plant, which is very common in the south of France, Spain and 
Algiers ; it has none to Juncus infir however similar in general 
appearance. I formerly supposed it related in some degree to 7il- 
landsia, its glumaceous Bracte being very similar to the Calyx of 
several Species now referred to that Genus, but its number of Petals 
is 6-nary ; for the present therefore I insert it here between Aspho- 
delee and Bromelee. The name of Aphyllanthes, as we learn from 
L'osEL, was given to it by some of the Mont woes Botanists before 
his time, not that they supposed the Plant destitute of Leaves, but 
delee. In the Generic ch ter of Paradisus Sone its Peri- 
carpium by a typographical — is described loculis 5-spermis 
but in the subsequent remarks, t are said to be solitary i in 
each cell, as they y are. 
Ord. 10. DRACÆNEE. 
Petala altius demissiusve coalita, marginibus infra juncturam non 
liberis, receptaculo inserta, regularia, sero detrusa. Filamenta petalis 
inse: 
i grandia; Tunica scariosa ; 
Albumen cartilagineum; Papilla embryotega, ab Hilo ls Herbee 
