CUMINGIA ۰ 
一 
Liliaceæ  Anthericeæ-Conantheræ. 一 Hexandria-Monogynia. 
CHARACT. GENERIS en, M rigo bracteato ; i floribus paniculatis caruleis —À 
nium corollinum campanulat atum, tubo asi 
re seg: sexpa T laciniis patentibus Sta- | eamdem. circumseisse deciduo. (An genus er e a 
a 6 perigonii tubo in Ze com- | Conanthera distinctum?) 
el ee از‎ glabra; an Ss e Dei see een. Cumingia Dox in Lov». Mag. VM Hist, = nov. p. - 
pe s, loculo altero SM produetiore, apice | f, 1690. Sweer: Brit. fl. Gard. t. 88. Hoox. exot. Fl. t. 21 
bisetæ , poro simplici apertas. Ovarium semiad- | zur. a ag. t. 2476. Bot. Reg. t. 11 e. 
gë یی مومت‎ ovula ‘laine ees pa.. 
Stylus subulat stigm mplex. Ca sala CHARACT. SPECIEI. — C. Calycibus pallide 
membranacea trilocolaris loculicido- tria Se- | violaceo-ceeruleis; fauce ech tribus were gen: 
mina in loculis pauca angulat membra- | notata ; antheris flavis. Kurta. Enum. Plant. usq. 
nacea cellulosa fusca, um ae co rali lineari. | cognit . t. IV. 632. éi ex D. gm verbis ipsi? 
ei cal in erm is umbilico parallele , p mate Cumingia trimaculata D. Dox in t. Fl. Gard. ser. 11. 
[A P 
e chilenses tubere bulboso fibrose tunicato, ud "e Et d c" io Pr 
folis Fee دب‎ nervosis ; scapo ramoso 
Texte du Magazine of Botany de M. Paxton. 
CUMMINGIA (1) TRIMACULATA. 
THREE-SPOTTED CUMMINGIA. 
Errw. Lady Gordon Cuming, Daughter of an english Consul at Valparaiso (1829). 
GENERIC CHARACTER 
see above. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER | 
The eagerness so universally manifested to possess blue-flowering plants will create for the 
present eg species, when brought more generally into cultivation ， and its qualifications as a 
b ing and SCH lant more widely known, a greater degree of solicitude than has hitherto 
of Flora’s kingdom are regarded, when the first feelings which their novelty excited have subsided, 
is a matter continually exhibited, and our greenhouses and flower- -gardens are thus prevented from 
being the gaily decorated places they might be with a judicious selection of the plants already in 
the couniry. Indeed, the introduction of new species, is in some degree at least, an evil, when 
mere novelty can usurp the place of positive merit, and really deserving and engaging plants are 
disregarded with the sole view of making room for a new candidate of inferior pretensions. 
subject of our embellishment is a Chilian species, and was first known in this 
through SE collected by the daughter of the British Consul at Va alparaiso, and forwarded to a 
friend in England, who presented them to the Chelsea M— Garden in 1829. The en n from 
which our figure was taken in the month of June 1842, at Mr. Knight’s nursery, received by 
that E in 1840, ie a friend at Valparaiso, where it is known amongst the natives by the 
name of Paxero, or Pateri 
The flower-stalk grows Gë a foot high, and is crowned with a loose and spreading panicle of 
pretty, pendulous, bell-shaped ped attached to short and attenuated , flexile pedicels. The 
leaves are long and narrow, and surround the flower-stalk without rising high enough to interfere 
with the exposure of the flowers; ie ela: they are spread out with a pleasing gentle curvature. 
(1) Some others write Cumingia (Lady Cuming)? a 
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