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many -flowered, before flowering reflected, afterwards 

 erect. Spatha acute. Three exterior petals shorter, 

 ovate, subcarinate, rather obtuse, interior petals oblon- 

 gated. Stamina subulate, simple. Capsule turbinate, 

 triquetrous, angles bidentate above, cells 5-seeded. 7. 

 triflorum. Ph. Described by Mr. Rafinesque under the 

 same name in the New York Medical Repository, 2. p. 362. 

 No. 39. in 1808. 8. caimdense. 9. tvicoccon. In this 

 species the flowers only appear after the decay of the 

 leaves. 



This vast genus of more than 60 species is almost ex- 

 clusively European, extending, however, into Siberia and 

 northern Africa, many of the species are alpine, or sub- 

 alpine. Several have ranked amongst condiments or arti- 

 cles of diet from the remotest antiquity. 



313. B ROT) LEA. Smith. 



Corolla inferior, campanulate, 6-parted. Fila- 

 ments of the stamina inserted around the orifice. 

 Germ pedicellate. Capsule 3-celled^ cells many- 

 seeded. 



Habit somewhat similar to AUium,' umbell many-flow- 

 ered. 



Species. l.'B. grandlfora. On the plains of the Co- 

 lumbia and Missouri. M. Lewis. The only species of 

 the genus, 



314. HYPOXIS. L, 



Spatha 2-valved. Corolla superior, 6-parted, 

 persistent. Capsule eh)ngated, narrower at the 

 base, 3-celled, many- seeded. Seeds roundish, 

 naked. 



Root fibrous; leaves gramineous; scapes 1 or few- 

 flowered. 



Species. l.Vi.erecta. 2. grarniv.ect. o. juiicea. 



The rest of this genus of 14 species, with the excep- 

 tion of //. (Ieciunbe7if< of Jamaica, is exclusively indigenous 

 to the Cape of Good Hope. 



315. PONTEDERIA. L, 



Corolla inferior, 6-cleft, bilabiate; under side 

 of the tube perforated with 3 longitudinal fora- 

 mina, lower part persistent, calicine. Stamina 



