PuaTe 2734. 
DIURANTHERA MAJOR, Zemsl. 
Livtacez. Tribe AsPHODELES. 
Diuranthera, Hemsl. Genus novum a generibus “he affinitatis 
differt staminibus sreraantibins, antheris basi bicaudatis 
D. major, Hemsl. (sp. nov.) ; a D. minore, H. CO. Wri ight (infra), 
statura, foliis n multo latlocious pas latis flaccidis recurvis, floribus 
majoribus, antherarum caudis acutis recedit 
Herba scaposa, aa nage eta! Folia pauca, subcarnosa, 
late finearia vel lingulata, maxima visa pedalia, crispato-undulata, 
Scapus erectus, pauciramosus, bracteis quam floribus brevioribus 
angustis acutissimis. lores albi, glabri, circiter 2 poll. diametro, 
geminati vel terni, singillatim evoluti, breviter pedicellati, pedicellis 
medio articulatis. Perianthii segmenta similia, sed interiora angustio 
: i a : dj 
linearia, acutissima, a, cescenti ‘tamina aricata, 
quam perianthium breviora, filamentis filiformibus 3a longatee, 
curvatee, basi bi a Ovarium sessile, 3-loculare, loculis circiter 
12-ovulatis ; stylus valde declinatus, apice recurvus, stigmate parvo 
Capsula trialata, loculis sepius dispermis. Semina orbicul om- 
ressa, circiter 13 lj la basi biauriculata, funiculo inter 
Pp 4 in. 
auriculas posito ; testa crustacea, nigra, punctulata ; embryo clavatus, 
in albumine carnoso centralis et oblique positus, radicula hilum 
spectans 
WESTERN CHINA : raised from seed pctohes: by Mr. E. H. Wilson 
for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, who presented Kew with a living 
plant, from Wick our drawing and dencriphcter were made. 
D. a. -(. a ve hic ; Paradisea minor, H. C. Wright, in 
Kew Bulletin, 1895, ae | 
WEsTERN CHINA: Seven: Yunnan, at 6,000 feet, W. Hancock, 94. 
The characters upon once this genus is founded may seem rather 
slight, but nad J. G, Baker, whose knowle edge of the Liliacex is 
probably unsurpassed, agrees s that it is as distinct as many others, and 
that it saaid be difficult, as an alternative, to decide what existing 
