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CYPEL’LA HERBERTI. 
“MR. HERBERT'S CYPELLA. 
ENDOGENZ OR MONOCOTYLEDONEZ. 
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GENUS, Cyr LEA: Hersert. PeRIcontom corollinum superum, hexa- 
ee apesrcahe ci s basi concavis, Dries ita patentibus ; in- 
rioribus m ec ae s, apice reflexis. Sramuina tria, perigonii laciniis 
Se tiortbk ts inserta, — ere coalita subulata; anthere ob- 
longa, basifixe, | Ovarium faloean oblon- 
go-prismaticum, triloculare. Ovuna plurima, in loculorum augulo Geiitrall 
biseriata. TyLus brevis, filiformis; stizma dilatatum, trilobum, lobis erectis, 
trifidis, basi transverse appendiculatis. CapsuLta membranacea, ite Se dass 
matica, trilocularis, soee gene taser yee seats plarims, sn che aTeaas 
perennes,in America t bu 8 
so-tuberoso caule, ena: folioso, apice famoso, foliis late lined eari-lanceolatis, 
plicato-nervosis, floribus laxe posers is, magnis, speciosis, spathis diphyllis, 
. 166. ; 
EPIGYNOSE, 7, MONADELPHIA, 
OP y TRIANDRIA, 
LINDLEY. OF LINNEUS. 
unifloris. ENDLICH HER ; Gen kee 
SPECIES, Cyrsu te 3 (HERBERT) — linearibus plicatis 
ramoso multifiori aap ae inflata flore multo 0 brevioribus, 
capo 
Tnciniis. perigonii exterioribus tortis apice caudatis, foterionibte exiguis ab- 
rupte-incurvo-revolutis purpureo.penicellatis. SPRENGEL 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CYPELLA. Peiidos resembling a 
corolla, superior, formed of six Mee ee concave at the 
exterior larger, spreading ; the interior ones small, convolute, reflexed 
at the point. SrTamens three, siete at the base of the exterior foli- 
oles, filaments very slightly united, subulate ; anthers sas , attached 
um. O 
. at the base; the cells forming a margin to ‘the connecti 
inferior, oblongo- prismatical, chee celled OvuLes numer ar- 
ranged in a double series in the tral angle of the cells, Styze 
short, filiform; stigma dilated, Pie Re lobes ee three-cleft, 
transversely furnished with an appendix at the base. CAPSULE mem- 
branaceous, oblongo-prismatical, three-celled, splitting by a loculici- 
dal dehiscence into three valves. EEDS numerous, angular. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, CypeLtta HERBERTI. Permanent 
stem a solid bulb, about an inch in length, and acutely-ovate ; sending 
up annually leaves and a flower stem. Rapicat Leaves, broadly- 
linear-lanceolate, plaited. FLower stem about two feet high, flexuose, 
subglaucous, regularly dichotomous, and furnished with two unequally- 
sized bracts at the point of bifurcation. FLOweErs in a loose panicle, 
the peduncles from three to six in number, each about four inches Jong, 
exceeding the spathes in length, and bearing a single orange-coloured 
flower. Perricone of six folioles, having a singularly cup-shaped 
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