Liriogame. Cl. 6. Spathacee, Orv. 7. HÆMANTHES. 133 
1075th number of the Botanical Magazine, agreeing with Gyawis in 
Habit; but the Bulb differs greatly being more spherical after the 
Leaves have pushed up, its solid base small, and there sending out 
among the Fibres one or two jointed Suckers, which after running 
horizontally to the distance of a foot or more terminate in Leaves, 
and a Bulb is soon formed by the returning tap deposited at their 
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bases, see Tab. eaves of a brighter green, 
muc Med in Gyawvis, d long sheathing Petioles and Sti- 
arent variegated red Blotches 
ind f ‘au, all decaying together. here about November or December ; 
Flowers wi as many a 0 in a round headed Fasciculus; Pe- 
duncle rising up from one oof the ubi Stipules with the fresh Leaves 
in pne or May ; Bractes green with small red Specks, much shorter 
than the Flowers, soon reflexed and withering; Pedicels slender, 
from 1 to 2 inches long; Petals blood-colour, coalescing into a long 
narrowly funnel-shaped Tube, then diverging into a Star, and nar- 
rowly spatulated ; Filaments pete inserted in one series and 
dilated into a saucer at their base ole this beautiful 
Exotie grows wild in moist woods at Sierra Leone, and will not thrive 
here without more constant heat than the sa of the Order; it 
requires a light vegetable soil mixed wit ever sufferin 
to be ,even when the Bulb is at rest, and the Leaves 
decayed. At Chapel Allerton, it was cultiva the Bark Stove 
under the r Plants, and by re ys g 
ut of 
scarlet eiga containing perfect Seeds, one of which 
germinate is here delineated Tab. . 
Ord. 8. ZEPHYRANTHES. 
ricarpium figurá varium, 3-loculare, membranaceum, ab apice 
3- cae Petala 6, coalita in Tubum fere constanter brevissimum, 
cylindrieum turbinatum tum infundibuliformemve, ore in plurimis pone 
vel inter filamenta squamigero annulatove; dein in Limbum basi 
crassitie parietis tubi, plus minus irregularem disjuncta, marcescentia 
vel tandem decidua. Filamenta 6, “sub ore tubi inserta 1 vel 2 
proximis seriebus, breviter decurrentia, plus minus 
subulata. Anthere vacillantes, 2-loculares, 4- 4-valves. Stylus or 
sum reclinatus. Stigma varie 3-fidum. Semina numero definita 
vel indefinita, compressa vel obovata, nune alata ; rion melina vel 
nigra, membranacea ; Albumen carnosu m vel durius um ; 
rsá 
ro 
u ova unicis mem 
2-faria, ena latave, in multis lorata, rarius petiolata Laminá 
ovali, per estatem evanida aut constanter vegeta. Flores omnium fere 
colorum, rarius fragrantes, Pedunculus aaillá foliorum vel ad latus 
nonnihil precocior, solidus vel sepius fistulosus, erectus, 1—20-florus. 
Pedicelli breves vel lo denas. in incen sepius erecti. Bractee 1-2, 
spathacec preter ramentacea. 
