28 ICONES PLANTARUM. 



Calyx limbo Lrevissimo 5-deiiticulato. Corolla tubo superne dilatato, 



limbi lobis ovato-lanceolatis. Bacca -^-^ poll, diam, — D. Oliyer. 



Fig. 1. Expanded floi^er, 2. Longitudinal section of ovary and base of corolla. 

 3. Do. of fruit. 



Plate 1236, 



LAMPBA VOLCANICA, Benth. 



COMMELTNACE^. 



L. volcanica, Benth. Fl. Harhv,, 95, sj^ecies unica. 



Hab. In the crater of the Volcan de Agua in Central America, at 

 an elevation of 14,000 feet. 



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Herla semipedalis, erecta, glabra. Folia inferiora pauca, ad yaginam 

 amplam lasam lijalinam reducta, superlora numerosa, in involu- 

 crnm conferta, vaginis brevlbus laxe imbricatis, laminis 2-3-pol- 

 licaribus lanceolatis breviter acuminatis basi parum angustatis ntrinque 



C^ -L V-%^ ^^ S-^ ^ ^ -*--^^ ^ 



_ , , _ ^ Flores ad 20, in 



capitnlam^ intra folia sessile conferti, pedicellia brevissimis crassis. 

 Perianthti segmenta exteriora herbacea, in tubum angustam apice 

 S.dentatnm demum Line fissum 1^ ad If poll, longum coalita ; interiora 

 tenuiter corollina, unguibas in tubum gracilem cylindraceum perianthio 

 extcriore snbduplo longiorem coalita, laminis 3 sequalibus patentibus 

 7-8 lin. longis latisque. Stamina 6, sequalia, tubo periantliii interioris 

 afiixa, filamentig liberis e tubo e5:sertis lamina brevioribus glabris ; 

 antberjB lineari-lanceolatfB, loculia rima longltudinali dehiscentibus. 

 varum in fundo periantliii sessile, oblongnm, 2 lin, longum, 3-locu- 

 lare, styli basi incrassata acuminatum. Ovula in quoque loculo 6, 

 per paria inter se diatanter snperposita, infima adscendentia, snpe- 

 riora pendula v. unum cujusvo paris adscendens. Stylus glaber, 

 breviter exsertns, apice in discum margine sti^matosum dilatatus. 



smot 



known 



Hartweg m the crater of the Volcan de Agaa, near Guatemala, iu 

 August 1840. My friend Mr. Salvin, on his last journey to that 

 country, kindly undertook to search for it, but his ascent of the 

 mountain was not at the same time of year, and he could find no trace 

 of it. It is said to be very ornamental, and its introduction to our 

 planthouses Tvould be very desirable. — G. Bektham. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Anther. 



