CENT. IV. 55 



very slender and crowded, flowers very small 

 but similar, seed^ minute oboval compr. black, 

 edges white, crowo of 4 or 5 scariose scales 

 ovate ari;»tate. 



396, He/. 4r7cw/af2/7» J^am— Louisiana, the 

 real kind sent me by Riddell with lower leaves 

 pinnatifid, disk ovate, 



397, BiLAMisTA grandijlora Raf. n. fl. f)76 — 

 Louisiana, Arkanzas^nd Texas, beautiful plant 

 very near the Lisiaf^thus russelianus of Hook- 

 er, if rjot the s^me ; but hi^ figure and des,crip- 

 tion^o not agree, find do not express the char- 

 acter of the N. G. nor the fine opposition of sta- 

 mens as in all Gentianides. t 



398, Sabbatia nervosa or Neurala.arkan- 

 zica Raf. n. fl. 975 — fine subg. perhaps^ a Ge* 

 nus, Arkanzas. 



399, Plrienta 5nerma Raf. n. fl. 973— Lou- 

 isiana. 



400, ^l.UifcaMha R, n. fl. 974. Sabatia 

 gracilis nonnqlis non omnes— mar-itimis Nova- 

 ces. ad Florida. 



This Century includes 17 New Gen, whereof 

 8 now first described, with 24 new spefciea. 



OENTURIA V. 



EKD06KN0US OR MONOCOTYLES, 



401, REGGERIA Raf. (hot) perig. 6-8part. 

 persistens, sepalis 3ne^visobl. obt. alt. angustior, 

 sepe omnis ineq. stam. 6-8fllani. ineq. fllif.anth. 

 sabrot. ovar. apice 31obo, stylo trigono clavato^ 

 stigm. obt. Slobo. Bulbosa^ scapis 1-Sfloris 

 bracteis foliosis — Genus mediate hetween Ga- 

 ^ca andv Skilla, singular by'often 7 or 8 stamens, 



Regqeki \ bohemiea (vtL rupestris) Raf. 

 Ornithogalum do W. — Bohemia on rocks,quite 

 peculiar habit, radical leaves filiform^ stem or 



