NAT. ORDER. 



Lillacece. 



HABRANTHUS ROSEUS. ROSY HABRANTHUS. 



Class VI. Hexandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Flowers, declined. Anthers, adhering in the middie. 



Style, declined, recurved. Leaves, linear, ovate. Stigma, threts 



lobed. 

 Spe. Char. Leaves, glaucous. Flowers^ two, rose-colored, green at 



the base, expanding wide. Filaments, conspicuously, of four 



lengths. Faucial membrane not recorded. 



This is a very highly ornamental plant, with beautiful rich dark 

 rose-colored ^oi/7ers ; the leaves are long and glancous, linear-lorate, 

 umbel precocious, unequally pedmiculated ; stigma, three-lobed ; cap- 

 sule, tubinate ; faucial membrane (as far as is known) never want- 

 uig ; Jlower, declined ; perianth, short-tubed, subcampanulate, not 

 convolute, more or less patent ; alternate scgmeiUs nearly equal ; Jilor 

 ments, properly of four lengths, inserted alike at the mouth of the 

 tube, declined, recurved, semi-fasciculate ; faucial membrane (when 

 manifested) annular ; aiUlwrs affixed at the middle, incumbent, versa- 

 tile ; style, declined. It is a native of Chiloe, whence it was introduo 

 ed in 1818. It flowers in June and July. 



Hahraixtkus gracilifoUus. Slender-leaved Habranthus. The btdb 

 of this plant is oblong and blackish ; and there are four or five very 

 long slender leaves, which are almost cylindical, with a channelled 

 line on the inner side. The species is a native of South America, 

 near Maldonado, whence it was introduced in 1823, The flowers 

 are without scent, and two or more are produced from each scape ; 



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