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AGAPAN’THUS UMBELLATUS. 
WHITE-FLOWERED AGAPANTHUS. 
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GENUS. Acapantuus. L’Heririer. Periconium ae tubulosum 
tubo brevi, limbosexpartito, equali, patente. Sramrna sex, basi limbi Zreekttiey: 
filamenta inequalia, subdeclinata. Ovartum triloculare. a plurima, bise- 
riata, adscendentia, anatropa. Styuuvs filifurmis, declinatus; stigma subtrigo- 
num, leve. Capsuia oblongo-trigona, trilocularis, septicido-trivalvis. Semina 
plurima, adscendentia, plano-compressa; testa membranacea, spadicea, superne 
in alam producta. carat ane a in basi albuminis umbillico proximus. 
HERB capenses, scap dice i i i 
rum umbella snealantl elaine EnpiicuEr. Genera Planta- 
rum, p. 142 
SPECIES. Acaranrnus umpexiatus. L’nerririer. Scapo foliis lineari- 
bus longiore, floribus umbellatis, tubo brevissimé. WaizipENow. Species 
Plantarum, v. II, p. 4 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, AGAPANTHUS. PERIGONE of the 
nature of a corolla, tubular, the tube short, the limb divided into six 
- equal spreading divisions. Stamina six, inserted in the base of the 
limb, filaments unequal in length, tending downwards. Ovary of three 
. cells. “Ovuta several, placed in two rows, ascending, anatropous. 
Sty.e filiform, tending downwards, stigma somewhat three-angled, 
smooth. Capsu Le oblong, three-angled, three-celled, splitting in the 
middle of the cells into three valves. SEEDS several, ascending, flat ; 
testa membranaceous, brown, extending on the upper side into a wing. 
EMBRYO minute, situated at the base of the albumen next the hilum. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUS. Root 
consisting of a bunch of thick fleshy fibres. Leaves folded at the 
base, and somewhat bifarious, about a foot long, somewhat obtuse, 
flat towards the extremity, and varying from half an inch to an inch in 
breadth in the different varieties. Scape erect, shorter, or more fre- 
quently longer than the leaves, cylindrical, smooth, bearing at the 
apex a large umbel of fifteen to forty flowers, enclosed when young in 
an ovate convolute membranous spatha, which splits into two valves 
