‘PLATE XXXII. 
ANTHOLYZA RINGENS. 
Gaping Antholyza. 
CLAS: Hil ORDER 1 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pountal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx. Spathze bivalves, alternatze, flores dif- EmpaLemMent. Sheath of two valves, alternate, 
tinguentes, perfiftentes. dividing the flowers, and abiding. 
Corotza. Petalum unicum e tubo fenfim di- Btossom. One petal, widening in the tube, 
Jatatum in faucem compreflam, ringentem. flattened at the mouth, and gaping. 
SraMina. Filamenta tria, Jonga, tenuia, fub- Cuives. Three threads, long, thin, and placed 
labio fuperiori. Antherz acute. under the upper lip of the bloffom. Tips 
fharp. * 
Pistrttum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- Porntat. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread- 
mis, fitu et longitudine ftaminum fuperi- fhaped, in the fame place, and of the fame 
mee orum. Stigma trifidum, capillare, reflex. length of the upper chives. Summit cut 
: = um. into three hair-like divifions, which are — 
bent back. 
‘Pernicarerum. Capfula fubrotunda, trilocula- Szxp-vesseL. Capfule nearly round, three cells, 
ris, trivalvis. three valves. 
Semina plura, triangularia, Szeps many, triangular. 
Pa SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Antholyza corollz Jabiis divaricatis; fauce com- Antholyza with the lips of the bloffom in vari- 
ous direGtions; the mouth flattened. 
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ae 3 REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Bloffom cut open, to thew the infertion of the Chives. 
3. The Pointal (natural fize). ij 
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_ Attuovex this fpecies of Antholyza is not new in our gardens, yet has it been feen in flower but by 
few, as it blows fo feldom; though the roots are by far the largeft of any of the genus. The pe 
from which this figure was taken, had received a little affiftance from heat early in the feafon, 
2 ee .. that means was (apparently) brought into flower. It is a native of the Cape of 9s pao 
a 2 much the appearance of a common flag in the foliage, growing to the height of three feet, or mores 
. eo the fame earth as Ixias, propagates by the root, or feed, and flowers in the month of Junei 
t which time a drawing was made from a plant then in bloom at the Hammerfmith nurfery- : 
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