called BrodicEa. ^ 3 



ronatd foliolis tribus, petaloideis, erectis, oblongis, uniformibus, 

 indivisis, dilute flavescentibus, limbo dupl(l> brevioribus, cum 

 staniinibus alternantibiis. Filamenta tria, brevissima, fauce, in- 

 ter corona; fbliola, inscrta. AnthercE verticales, fulvae, oblongae, 

 coronft pariim breviores, bilobaj, lobis extiis longitudinal] t^r de- 

 hiscentibus, baud absolute bilocularibus. Germen pedicellatiim, 

 elliptico-trigonuni, triloculare, seminibus columellae insertis. 

 Stylus cylindraceus, longitudine ferb staminum. Stigma trigo- 

 num, trilobum. 



2. B. congesta, coronae foliolis bifidis. 



Tab. I. 

 Radix et herba fere prioris. Umbella minor, condensata, brac- 

 teis majoribus, latis, pedicellos superantibus. Flores cjanei, co- 

 rona dilutiore, nee flavescente, foliolis seraibifidis, acutis an- 

 theras longfe superantibus, at limbo dupl6, ut in priore, brevio- 

 ribus. Stamina parilm e fauce prominentia inter coronae foliola. 



The three petal-like leaves, which crown the tube of the corolla 

 in this genus, are, without doubt, analogous to the cup in Nar- 

 cissus, the membranous expansion attached to the base of the 

 stamens in Pancratium, and still more precisely to what Jussieu 

 calls squamulce, and Linnaeus nectarium, in Tulbaghia. I see no 

 more reason to reckon them barren filaments in one case than in 

 the others ; though, if my Brodicea grandiflora were the only lilia- 

 ceous plant furnished with them, they might, with great appear- 

 ance of probability, be taken for such. But Brodicea congesta 

 guards us against this error, and approaches a step nearer to 

 Pancratium and Tulbaghia. These three genera indeed bear the 

 same relationship to the other liliacca, that Gnidia, Strut liiola 

 and Quisqualis do to Daphne and the rest of its natural order. 



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