eae 6° ATE XLI. 
LACHENALIA PENDULA. 
. Drooping: flowered Lachenalia. 
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SS . Gr hce VL ORDER -L — 
|" HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ae GENERIC CHARACTER. 
EMPALEMENT, none. | 
Sais aaw. cylindracea, fexpartita; || Bxossom one leaf, cylindrical, divided into fix; 
hh: laciniis tribus exterioribus tube gouty; the three outer divifions the 
fhorteft. - 
- Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine Caives. Threads fix, awl-fhaped, the length of 
corollie, , inferta bafi laciniarum corollz. the bloffom, fixed into the bafe of the divi- 
Athen — incumbentes. fions of the bloflom. Tips oblong, laying 
: on the threads. : 
Geren trigonum, trifulcum. Sty- Pointat. Seed-bud three-fided, thres-ferrawed: 
lex, etrene paulo = Stigma Shaft fimple, a little longer than the blof- 
btufum. fom. Summit blunt. 
: ARerUM. Capfala ‘initia, trilocularis, SzEp-vessEL. Capfule three-fided, three cells, 
trivalvis, os . three valves. 
| plurima, globofa. _SeEeps many, globular. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
ile oni ee eis im- 
Lachenalia with very long tice oblong ; 
leaves, without fpots; bloffoms very fhewy, 
large, three-coloured, having fot-falks, 
and nodding. 
OF es croet  e 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Flower fpread open, to fhew the infertion of the Chives. 5 | ie 
2. The fame, exhibiting the character of the outer Petals. ae 
ee - The Pointal, natural fize. | 
Nits eels co 
chen, ia is Suey an linn sacst on Hyacinthus; the {mall diftin&tion on which this Zé 
; foanded-can, at moft, be confidered but of fufficient confequence to form a fpecificcha- 
i Linneus: the fon of Profeffor Jacquin has thought otherwife, having called it after” 
: the name of De la Chenal; and under which it is now generally known; therefore we 
placed it under its old title, though we have authority of fuch weight to corroborate our 
The Lachenalias are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, yet are of fo hardy a nature as Bn 
" Protection than fhelter from the fevere frofts. Our fpecies is the handfomedt yet 
about September; was, according to the Kew catalogue, introduced there by M¥- 
2 It was 8 from om a plant in the extenfive collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. bee 
id Co ations the author acknowledges himfelf much indebted), that 
September this year. No plant is more eafy or certain to i 
offsets are ¢ produced i in fuch abundance from the old bulb, which de 
its — is not fo certain, : 
