PLATE Cee x. 
EUCOMIS PURPUBSUOCAU LIS. 
‘ Purple-stalked Eucomis. 7 
CLASS .VWe OURDAR FE 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corotta infera, 6-partita, persistens. Fila- Coro.ta beneath, 6-parted, persistent. Chives 
menta nectario adnata. conjoined to the base of the corolla, 
forming a nectary. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Evucomis, scapo clavato, foliis multifariis Evcomtis, with a clavated scape, leaves pointing 
expansis orbiculato-spatulatis. many ways expanded orbicular-spatula- 
shaped 
Descrirtio, Radix ut inaffinibus. Folia 5—7, multifaria, expansa, demum prostrata, orbiculato- 
spatulata, vel subinde multo angustiora, viridia, obsolete sulcato-lineata et lucida, marginibus mi- 
nute cartilagineis, glabriusculis ; subtus pallidiora, lucidiora, magisque sulcata. Scapus claviformis, 
perbrevis, crassus, atro-purpureus ; intra flores valde contractus, viridis, purpureoque punctatus. 
Flores spicati, conferti, sessiles, spe adscendentes, unibracteati. Bracte@ imz obcuneate, subre- 
curve, submembranacez, et szpe purpurascentes; sensim minores ; summz longiores, lineari- 
lanceolate, purpureo-marginatz, steriles ; in coronam foliolorum perelegantem supra flores collectz. 
Corolla hexapetaloidea, petalis nabeequalibus; lineari-oblongis, vix attenuatis, viridibus. Filamenta6, ~ 
basi. petalorum valde connata, subulata, compressa ; superne incurvata. Anther@ flavescentes ; post 
florescentiam fusce, pendula, ad apices petalorum vix attingentes. Germen sulcato-triangulare. 
Stylus flexuoso-adscendens, teres, vix subulatus, filamentis multo brevior. Stigma nullum sive 
inconspicuum. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, One of the lower floral leaves. 
2. The corolla cut open. 
3 3. The seed-bud and pointal. 
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i 
We find no account of this fine plant in any publication we have consulted : it is closely allied to Euco- 
i. mis regia, but differs sufficiently from that species in the shape of its leaves, and the smoothness of their 
i margins. It is a green-house plant, and was lately introduced from the Cape by G. Hibbert, Esq. 
from a cas in whose collection our drawing was taken in the month of March. 
