Purdieane. N. O. Burmanniacez. 
TAB. DCLX., 
APTERIA seTacea, Nutt. 
Caule gracili ramoso, foliis paucis squamiformibus acutis erecto- 
patentibus, perianthio urceolato-tubuloso, laciniis exterioribus 
3 late ovatis obtusiusculis, interioribus 3 ligulatis obtusissimis, 
Apteria setacea. Nutt. Journ. Acad. N. Sc. Philad, 7, p. 64, t.9, 
J. 1. Miers, in Linn. Trans. v. 18, p. 546. 
8. mayor ; triplo quadruplo major, subsexflora. A. setacea, Benth. 
Pl. Hartw. p. 67, n. 495. 
Has. Florida, Nuttall. Savannas, interior of Manchester 
County, Jamaica, Mr. Purdie.—B. Among decayed leaves, 
— Teotoleingo, in the mountains of Chinantla, Mexico. 
weg. 
I must confess that while preparing the analysis of this species, 
I did not at first Tecognize it as the original Apteria of Nuttall; 
but after a most careful comparison with that author’s original 
specimens, I am satisfied of its identity, Its structure con- 
firms the correctness of Mr, Miers’s figure of a second species of 
this genus, A. lilacina, Miers, in a most admirable and profound 
paper on a new group of Burmanniacee, published by that gen- 
tleman in the 18th vol. of the Transactions of the Linnean . 
uniting his genus Dictyostegia with Apteria, (in this Work, Tas. 
CcLiv.) which I should never have done, had I then under- 
stood the structure of Apteria. A. lilacina, of Mr. Miers, 
inches high, and bear as many as 6 flowers upon a stem ; and 
they are thrice as large as in the usual state of the plant, but 
different in no other respect, 
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Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. The same, with the perianth laid open, 
showing the style and stigmas, and the 3 hollow sacs in which 
the curious stamens are lodged, f. 3. Sac and stamen :—more 
or less magnified, 
