Pp LAT E CCX. 
-ANTHOLYZA SraUrica 
_ Broad-leaved Antholyza. | 
CLASS Ill. ORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
‘Corotta tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- Bossom tubular, irregular, and bent backward: 
infera. Capfule beneath. 
See ANTHOLYZA RINGENS, Pl. XXXII. Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
ee: — “gage mir cenn, lacinia Antholyza with the leaves as well as the flowers 
orolla » i » bai fe 
ae pathula er- Spe oppofite ways; the upper fegment 
ee on ata, foathis rigidis, adpreflis. of the bloffom ftraight, fpathula-thaped, 
3 _and fawed at. the pe fheaths harfh and 
oe preffed to the bloffom 
RE ca en 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
: 1. The whole piney apee a diminithed {cale. 
8 2. The Empalem 
3. A Bloffom on ook , with the died a epeining. 
4, The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits 
|e a SRA 
d long a 
inhabitant e our as So oe ago as 1759; it is faid to have been cultivated by Miller; oad 
from the firm and hardy charaéter of the root, we fhould queftion its having been fince that perio 
ever, like many others of this natural order, lor tous. The unfrequency of its flowering has, per- 
h: » occafioned the inattention, which is in general thewn to its cultivation; though moft collectors 
3 the bulbs, few have feen their flowers. Our figure was taken in the month of July, this year, 
ae a plant in the colle@tion of T. Evans, Efq. Stepney. It is increafed from the roots, which 
be removed from the pots in J bee and Seyree the end of O&tober. We have not been able 
to pro any certain data on which t e direGtions to infure its flowering; but the plant in 
quettion, was planted in a very large pot, “the ‘earth was a compound of light peat one part, ftiff loam 
aa Narrow-leaved Var: taken — a stele plant, to which, as well as to our garg: ‘Agure, it | 
ee afl hetagledies of one Pei 
