BARBACENIA SQUAMATA, 
Hæmodoraceæ $ ? Vellozieæ. 一 Hexandria-Monogynia. 
CT. R arbacenia ۵ ein Vosges v. en unifloris teretiusculis v. 
Perigonium corollinum ones extus rigonis , apicem versus pilis resiniferis e. glan- 
BS -resinosum, tubo basi Sen Con eer ales clavalis Stu, rarius Wee وا‎ nity 
exfidi laciniis مود الس‎ us erecto-paten tibus v. glabriusculis, floribus magnis , estus in 
c: emm 6, imis limbi laciniis ert e? scapi u. vestitis Bar ainsi viridibus rubris 
inclusa; filamenta plano-compressa, apice tri- | v. ipm ntus glabris sepe discoloribus. 
dentata, dente medio minore antherifero; anthe- arba Vand Mi Rö 
rae lineares, medio dorso v. prope basim affixae Hair موه‎ Zeg 
> ; à + prop e * | tius nov, gen. et sp. f. 18. t. 10-14. Bot. Md t. Me Sieg 
arium inferum triloculare. Ovula in placen- | Steud. 
tis e loculorum angulo centrali rapis Levi 
> triqueter ic^ reb stigm pit i CHARACT. SPECIEI. — | Candice, bee O 
squamiformibus E vetustorum tecto, 
ato-tri- 
apsula infera subtrigona gare? lo- 
Shni, eios medio eene placentas 
gulat 
auferentibus. Se a plurim arinaque m spinuloso-serratis, scapo bre 
Her æ perennes i in ras een a inter d (40 et 230 | OF perianthii glabri tubo superne sensim dila- 
. À, in sicci apricis montium primavorum ob- tato lacin E lanceolatis acuminatis, filamentis latis- 
vie; caudice simplici vel dichotome ramoso bre- "es SCH runcatis vix emarginatis anthera dimidio 
issimo v. bi-tripsdali, foliorum exuviis dense tu- TE 
nicato, folis spiraliter dispositis terminalibus Hoox., Bot. Mag. t. 4136. 
semiamplexicaulibus erecto - patentibus angustis 5 : 
acutis carinatis duriusculis, basi succ dae Barbacenia squamata Past. Mag. of Bot. cum ic. 
resinoso conglutinatis, pedunculis s. acapis inter 
Texte du Botanical Magazine de M. Hooker. 
BARBACENIA SQUAMATA. 
SCALY-STALKED BARBACENIA. 
Erymotocy : M. de Barbacena, ancient-governor of the brasilian province of Minas Geraës. 
GENERIC CHARACTER 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER | see above. 
SYNONYMIE. . . - 
A singular plant, and pee una to a singular Genus of HxxwononAckx , of which twelve species have 
been hitherto known, and these, accordin artius, are confined within very 1 narrow limits in 
us rane 
1,000 to 5,500 feet, and in exposed, dry situations. The present seems to diffe 
bed in several ee and was sent to Mr. Veitch 
r. William Lobb, in 1841. From a plant obligingly communicated by Mr. Veitch to Kew 
T و‎ in the summer of 1843, our present figure wa 
flowers, and general size of the plant, it resembles B. tricolor and B. toment 
Sie from both in the absence of clothing to its leaves, in the form of the flower, and especially in 
o ua of the filament of the anther, which is here unusually short and broad, and can hardly 
bifid. 
r stem , short, dichotomous, clothed with the scale-like remains of former leaves : 
from four to five or six ema 
ed with close parallel lines, and have 
ai ‚when seen under a lens; they are beautifully mark 
from among the terminal leaves, and 
