PLATE CCCLXI. 
SANSEMIERA CARNEA. 
Flesh-coloured Sanseviera. 
CLASS VI. ORDERILI. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
CoRoLta infera monopetala, tubo filiformi, Corotta beneath of one petal, with a thread- 
imbo, 6-partito, revoluto. Stamina limbo fhaped tube, and 6-parted revolute limb. 
inferta. Bacca 1-fperma. Threads inferted into the limb. Berry one 
fpeded. <4 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Sc. 
Sanfeviera. Foliis diftichis, lanceolato-enfifor- Sanfeviera. With hey iifo-fanked, lance- 
mibus, carinatis, floribus folitariis feshiiogs. : {word eg, keeled, flowers folitary, 
feffile 
Descriptio. Herba perennis, habitu Hemerocallidis. Radix fabicarbafhs, fibris longiffimis fub- 
mplicibus. Folia radicalia, fubdifticha, effufa, lanceolato-enfiformia, fere pedalia, trinervia, 
(nervo medio carinzeformi) bafin imbricata et profunde caniliculata, marginibus apices verfus 
afperiufculis. Scapus radicalis, et quafi lateralis, palmaris, fubereétus, angulatus, fuperne 
carneus. Flores fpicati, afcendentes, feffiles, alterni, carnei, intus pallidiores. Bractee ovato- 
acuminatz, concave, carnez, flores ampleétentes. Corolla 6-partita, tubo angulato longitudine 
rum; laciniis revolutis fublanceolatis, tubo aliquo longioribus, fuprema paulo majore. 
Filamenta 6 zequalia, alba, bafi laciniarum inferta, laciniis aliquo brevioribus. Anthere erecta, 
utrinque emarginate, fulphurez. Stylus carneus, paulo SB eey he, vix A Stigma 
— obfoletiflime eee 5: 
>. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, te 
1. A floral leaf. ‘ 
2. The flower cut open, witlhede of the tips magnified, 
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Tuis new ipeces, of Thur 
: tik ay bt isa branch of thé Linnean genus 
i auby Ts Evans, Efq. of Stepney; in the year 1792: 
fi plant in the colle&tion of J. Vere, Efq. of 
Anderf derfon, his botanic ganicots, informs us, he has _ 
-Itis propagated - parting the roots. In habit it refembles Hemerocallis 
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_ more then 1 Sanfeviera,, mut a sere) with the “eeg kee Sti ce Sanfeviera zeylanica. With 
ria is sete at variance. 
awood | and Wyhesegin February. 
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