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1825. Stem leafless. 



Stems long, blunt-edged, silky-cottony towards the summit ; 

 leaves elongated, linear, pointed, flat, beset with short 

 somewhat cottony vestiture on the edge ; outer bracts 

 rigid, acute, streaked, also somewhat invested ; calyx-tube 

 very slender, enclosed ; summit of style soon turned 

 downward ; fruit narrowly trigonous-ellipsoid, somewhat 

 beset with vestiture ; seeds numerous, dark-brown, short- 

 cylindrical, streaked. P. sericea. 



Stem leafy below the middle. 



Stem somewhat compressed; leaves in two rows, but spread- 

 ing, flexile, elongated, narrow -linear, flat, very imperfectly 

 beset with silky-cottony vestiture ; outer bract rigid, 

 much pointed, narrow in proportion to its length, slightly 

 beset with silky-cottony vestiture ; summit of style soon 

 turned downward ; fruit gradually attenuated at the base 

 and apex ; seeds numerous, rhomboid -ovate, angular, light- 

 brown. P. glabrata. 



DXPX.A.RRHENA. 



1826. Flowers large, unsymmetrical. 



Comparatively tall ; stem compressed, occasionally branched; 

 perfect leaves mostly basal, narrow-ensate ; flowers on 

 conspicuous stalklets ; lobes of the calyx petaloid, from 

 orbicular- to cuneate-ovate, somewhat inflexed at the 

 margin, the upper larger and more concave ; petals about 

 half as long as the calyx-lobes, not rarely violet-venuled 

 and yellow towards the summit ; stamen disconnected ; 

 third filament unprovided with an anther ; fruit trigonous- 

 ellipsoid ; seeds brown, orbicular. D. Moraea. 



AMARYLLIDEAE. 



CALOSTEItfMA. 



1827. Flowers pink or purplish. 



Seldom tall ; bulb nearly globular ; stem leafless, rather 

 robust ; leaves developed later than the flowers, few, 

 broad-linear, of thick and somewhat succulent texture ; 

 flowers on conspicuous stalklets ; calyx-tube narrowed 

 downward, dilated again around the ovulary ; calyx - 

 lobes and petals cuneata-elliptical, deciduous ; connecting 

 membrane of the stamens ending often in denticles between 

 the filaments ; style capillary ; stigma undivided ; fruit 

 small globular. C. purpureum. 



