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C. candidum Lindl. — Just like C, jmrpiireuw, except that the flower 

 is rather larger and bright yellow. Staminal cup truncate or fur- 

 nished with deltoid teeth between the free tips of the filaments. 

 Perianth-tube about half as long as the segments. Stamens 

 reaching to the tip of the segments. 



Hab. Queensland and New South Wales. Introduced into cultivation 

 with C. imrpureum in 1819. 



3. C. ALBUM E. Br. Prodr. 298. — Leaves contemporary with the 

 flowers, with a long petiole and a thin oblong acute blade 4-5 in. 

 long, veined as in Kurijdes. Peduncle slender, 1-1^- ft. long. 

 Flowers 12-20 in an umbel ; pedicels |~f in. long; spathe-valves 

 lanceolate. Perianth white, ^ in. loug ; tube as long as the 

 narrow acute segments. Stamnial cup furnished with conspicuous 

 entire or bifid teeth between the free tips of the filaments. 



Hab. Grulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown 1 I have more than once seen 

 garden plants named as this species, but never rightly so. It is most like 

 Eurydea Cunninghami, much reduced in size in flower and leaf. 



Suborder 2. Alstk^merie^. 

 51. IxioLiRioN Fiscli. 



Verianth regular, without any tube above the ovary ; segments 

 subequal, oblanceolate, ascending, acute. Sunnens shorter than 

 the segments, attached to their claws ; anthers oblong, basifixed. 

 Ovary clavate, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed; style filiform; 

 stigma trifid. Cajisule loculicidally 3-valved. ticeds small, angled, 

 with a black testa. — UooUtock a tunicated bulb. Leaves linear, 

 mostly aggregated at the base of the slender erect stem. Flowers 

 in a terminal umbel, with often a few others added. Diff'ers from 

 the typical AlstneinerieiE, which are exclusively American, by its 

 bulbous rootstock. 



1. I. MONTANUxAi Herb. App. 37 ; Bot. Eeg. 1844. t. QQ. I. 

 Pallasii F. & M. Amaryllis montana Labill. Syr. Dec. ii. 5, t. 1 ; 

 Bed. Lil. t. 241. Alstrcemen'a montana Ker. A. trijiura Grifi'. Ic. t. 

 273. — Bulb ovoid, 1 in. diam., with a neck 2-3 in. below the basal 

 tuft of leaves. Stem about a foot long, with about 4 long linear 

 persistent ascending leaves aggregated at its base and several much 

 smaller ones higher up. Flowers about 4 in a terminal umbel, on 

 long unequal pedicels and often one or two solitary flowers below 

 the umbel. Perianth bright lilac, 1J-1|- in. long ; segments ob- 

 lanceolate, acute, with 8-5 distinct ribs. Filaments fihform, 

 attached to the base of the segments. 



Var. I. TATARicuM Herb. App. 37. I. Ledehourii F. & M. — 

 Stems more slender. Leaves subulate. Flowers all in a terminal 

 umbel, smaller than in the type. 



Hab. Tlie type; Syria, Lebanon, and the Cilician Taurus, where it ascends 

 to 6000 ft., to Central Siberia, Afghanistan and Beloochistau. The variety on 

 the Altai and Mountains of Soongaria. I. macranthum Hort. is a form with an 

 unusually large flower. Kegel (Descr. vii. 206) calls the collective species 

 I. taUiricnm, and describes five varieties of it. 



