Calostemma.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJ. 457 
about the middle in a tubular corona, truncate or shortly lobed between 
the free parts of the filaments; anthers 2-lobed at the base. Ovary 
l-celled, with 2 or 3 ovules collaterally shied to one side of the 
cavity. ‘Style filiform, obtuse, with a terminal stigma. Fruit globular, 
cree ripening usually only one rather pic fleshy seed.—Bulbous 
8. ith 
radical, nartow with close parallel veins or broad 
E more sti veins and transverse vilü ets.  Scapes leafless. 
lowers variously coloured, smaller than in Hurycles, in a terminal 
umbel surrounded by 2 or 3 membranous bracts. 
T us is endemic in Australia. The remarkable reduction of the ovary to a 
single "i appears to be due to the early abortion of two of the carpels. 
Flowers purple or pink (rarely whi rpureum 
: et P gap ear e 
"inde Pad" Garir white) ; 2. C. luteum. 
3. C. album. 
the. 
above e middle. Perianth-limb usually about 5 lines long, the 
slender tube varying from half as long to nearly that length, and 
ments obovate- quce varying i h. Corona reaching 
Eat half the length of the se ih ver resciiblo | in its orifice, some- 
times truncate between fs filaments and entire 2-toothed or shortly 
divided, sometimes produced Mtv m filaments into 1 or 2 obtuse 
Pee — Bot MM t. 2100; Bot. Reg. t. 
ead of Spencer's gulf, R. aab Barossa, Behr ; Bugle imos 
RÀ (ret vai cus Hinter iis acker. 
1 Var a. Flowers rather larger with a longer tube, approaching t those of C. 
DT det Lon or white.—C. carneum, Lindl. in Mitch. "Three Exped. ii. 39; Bot. 
x 
‘ovate Lachlan river, Mitchell ; ee river, Herb. F. Mueller; 
ope Giles; Lower Edward river, Mein 
SCi 
Tescence of C. pu rpureum of which it may be a variety. Flowers 
ratner larger, the gir -limb often above 4 in. long, and yellow or 
ly white. Corona usua y truncate between da m 
minutely toothed, but I have sometimes fou nd " Mores into short 
broad entire or notched lobes as in C. purpu tamens of 
shortly exceeding the perianth.—Kunth, Enum. v : 698; Bot. Reg. 
t. 421 and 1840, it 19; €. candidum, Lindl in Mitch. Three Exped. 
i. 54; Kunth, Lc. 
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