immi. a iari i. — = 
508 : MR. J. MIERS ON THE CONANTHEREZX. 
loculicidally by three erect valves; each cell contains about eight seeds, 1 line long, col- 
laterally and horizontally attached in pairs at the inner angle. ! 
The Cummingia tenella of Don appears to me only a stunted variety of the above. 
9. CUMMINGIA TRIMACULATA, D. Don, in Sw. Fl. Gard. 2nd ser. t. 88; Paxton, Mag. ii. 
` t. 127; Kth. Enum. iv. 632. Foliis radicalibus, linearibus, recurvato-patentibus, 
canaliculatis, imo vaginantibus, apice subulato-mucronatis; panicula e basi ramosa, 
ramis pedicellisque bracteolatis; floribus cernuis, violaceo-ceeruleis ; segmentis tubo 
longioribus, 3 interioribus imo ad margines ciliatis et macula magna atro-violacea 
pictis, antheris semiexsertis. In Chile: v.s. Valparaiso (Bridges, n. 156). 
This plant is scarcely distinguishable from the preceding, the flower of which is often 
spotted in the same manner; the only difference that I can perceive in Bridges's speci- 
mens is that the tube of the perianth is a little more cleft, which causes the anthers to 
be somewhat exserted. 
Genus CYANELLA. 
This well-known genus was established by Linnzeus 100 years ago. Its relation to 
the Conantheree, which is complete, does not appear to have been recognized by botanists 
until it was pointed out by me (Seem. Journ. i. 93). It has the same kind of solid 
tuberose root covered by a fibrous envelope, similar radical leaves spathaceously vaginant 
about its branching panicular stem, small blue pedicellated flowers divided biserially into 
six oblong segments, very short filaments united into an annular ring, which is fixed near 
the base of the short tube of the perianth, one fertile stamen, placed anteriorly, and five 
substerile anthers, sometimes differently coloured, as in Tecophilea, and the mode of 
dehiscence like that of Conanthera. This genus, peculiar to Southern Africa, adds 
another example to the many remarkable analogies that exist in the floras of Chile and 
the Cape of Good Hope. As its species have been long ago described and figured, it is 
only necessary to give a list of them with their references; but I add a more complete 
diagnosis of the genus. 
CYANELLA, Linn.— Perianthium petaloideum, 6-partitum, tubo brevissimo, segmentis patenti-reflexis, 
3 exterioribus latioribus, apice mucronatis, 3-nerviis (infimo adhuc latiore et 5-nervio), 3 interioribus 
alternis, angustioribus et l-nerviis. Stamina 6, quorum 1 fertile et valde robustius et insigniter 
deflexum, segmento antico opposito, reliqua minora, erecta, substerilia: filamenta brevia, membra- 
Naceo-dilatată, in annulum brevem summo liberum imo tubo adnatum coalita: anthere lineari- 
oblongæ, T truncato-calearate, paulo supra basin dorso fixe, 2-loculares, loculis collateraliter 
adnatis, apice rima obliqua transversali 2-valvatim dehiscentibus, valvis emarginatis. Ovarium semi- 
tuper, 3-gonum, trigastro-lobatum, 3-loculare ; ovula anatropa in quoque loculo 6-12, biseriatim 
sursum imbricata. Stylus filiformis, versus stamen fertile horizontaliter deflexus. Stigma obsolete 
Vimus E ee membranacea, torulosa,3-locularis, apice loculicide oe ae 
à . , angulata, nigro-fusca, rugosa; embryo teres, leviter curvatlls, 
in memi carnoso 2-plo longiore, umbilico proximus.— Herbze tubcroso-bulbose, Capenses, tubere 
— tunica reticulatim fibrosa tecto; folia radicalia, lanceolata vel linearia, parallelim nervosa, jej 
E ; Caulis erectus, scapiformis, plerumque paniculato-racemosus, ramis alternis, simplicibus, 
bracteatis; flores pedicellati, apice caulis ramorumque enati, cernui, colorati. 
