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-  EUCROSIA sicotor. 
_ Two-coloured Eucrosia.. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA (rectius MONADELPHIA).—Nar. Orv. 
AMARYLLIDEZ. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cor. supera, sexpartita, tubo declinato, fauce obliqua. Sta- 
mina valde exserta monadelpha mox declinata. Caps. trilocularis. 
Eucrosia bicolor. 
Eucrosia bicolor, Bot. Reg. t. 207.—Hers. in Bot. Mag. t. 2490. 
“ Bulb globose, brown. Leaf petioled, elliptico-lanceolate, slightly undu~ 
late, about 1 foot long, 4 inches broad ; midrib large, succulent, chan- 
nelled in front, and of a paler green than the leaf; petiole about 5 inches 
long, pale glaucous green, succulent, compressed. 
“ Scape nearly two feet long, round, tapering upwards, glaucous. Spatha 
multivalvular, longer than the pedicels (shorter in the pee She mar- 
cescent. Umbel many-flowered ; pedicels spreading, nearly straight, 
about one inch long. Corolla: limb of a nearly uniform —— 
each other for a very little way at the bases only : ‘chore is 0 lntigt, plated 
on the inside of the base of each, yielding much sweet fluid. Anthers 
linear, cleft at one end, attached loosely to the filaments at a little dis- 
tance from their centres, and, with these, of a bright green. Style fur- 
rowed, twisted, especially before it is fully evolved, equal in length to 
the longest filament, and of the same shape and colour ; at first straight, — 
small, somewhat pubescent, ont mati white."—GraHam. 
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