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Genus CUMMINGIA. 
The typical species on which this genus was founded was first described as Conanthera 
campanulata, and was first introduced into England in 1823 from bulbs and seeds sent 
by me from Chile: it was established as a new genus in 1832 by D. Don, who named it 
in honour of Lady Gordon Cumming. It is very closely allied to Conanthera, and differs 
only in having the segments of the perianth confluent for half their length into a cam- 
panulate tube, and in its stamens not converging to the centre. 
CUMMINGIA, D. Don.— Perianthium petaloideum, tubulosum, tubo imo angustato, dein campanulato, 
limbo 6-partito, segmentis tubo equilongis, estivatione 2-serialiter imbricatis, oblongis, obtusis, 
3 exterioribus apice mucronatis, 3 interioribus apice emarginatis, imo ad margines ciliatis, omnibus 
sensim patentibus. Stamina 6, paulo supra basin tubi affixa, omnino inclusa, segmentis opposita, 
erecta, zequalia; filamenta brevissima, imo dilatata et in annulum brevem ad tubi basin adnatum 
coalita; anthere eis Conanthere similes, sed discrete, summo tubi attingentes. Ovarium globosum, 
semisuperum, 3-loculare; ovula numerosa, ad axin serialiter affixa: stylus filiformis, longitudine 
staminum: stigma tubulosum, truncatum, fere obsoletum. Capsula subglobosa, subtrigona, semi- 
supera, et hinc cicatrice transversim cincta, 3-locularis, apice loculicide 3-valvis, valvis medio septi- 
feris. Semina plurima, ovata, intus angulata, apice strophiolata; testa scrobiculato-rugosa, fu sca, 
crassiuscula, raphe longitudinali signata; embryo teres, in albumine subcarnoso 2-plo longiore hilum 
versus inclusus, radicula clavata, ad strophiolum spectante, cotyledone attenuata.—H erbze Chilenses ; 
bulbus £uberosus, tegete crassa e fibris numerosissimis intricatis amictus; caulis erectus, simplex vel 
pauciramosus, ramis laxe paniculatis; folia radicalia 2-3, lineari-ensiformia, parallelim nervosa, sub- 
membranacea, basi vaginantia; flores pedicellati, cernui, dense purpurei, segmentis interdum violaceo 
maculatis, ramis pedicellisque imo bracteatis. 
1, CUMMINGIA CAMPANULATA, D. Don, in Sw. Fl. Gard. t. 257; Kth. Enum. iv. 632. 
Conanthera campanulata, Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. vi. 283; Bot. Reg. t. 1193 ; Hook. 
Ex. Fl. iii. t. 214. Conanthera bifolia, Sims (non R. & P.) Bot. Mag. t. 2496.— Foliis 
radicalibus, lineari-ensiformibus, longe mucronatis, canaliculatis, imo vaginantibus ; 
panicula laxa, ramis pedicellisque imo bracteatis; floribus cernuis, dense ceeruleis ; 
segmentis tubo campanulato sequilongis, exterioribus apice mucronatis, 3 interioribus 
apice subemarginatis imo ad margines ciliatis et variegato-maculatis; staminibus 
discretis, tubo inclusis.—In Chile centrali: v. v. ad Concon. 
The semiglobose, solid bulb, 1 inch in diameter, aswell as its submerged collar, 4inches 
long, are covered with a cylindrical, thick, fibrous envelope like that described in Conan- 
thera: the radical leaves are 2 to 6 inches long, 2 to 3 lines broad; the stem is slightly 
flexuose, the branches alternate, the first being a little above the ground; they are 2 to 4 
inches long, bracteated at base, as are also the secondary branchlets, which bear one or 
two pedicellated flowers, the whole forming a somewhat lax panicle 4 to 7 inches high ; 
the acute membranaceous bracts are 14 to 3 lines long, the pedicels 2 lines, the perianth 
7 lines long, and 6 lines in diameter when expanded, the segments 4 lines long, 24 lines 
broad ; the stamens, 8 lines long, originate in a thick ring 4 line above the bottom of the 
tube; the ovary is 1 line in diameter, the style 23 lines long. The capsule is globose, 3 lines | 
in diameter, 3-grooved, with a cicatrical line about midway across, above which it opens 
