3 PLATE CCCXCV. 
ANTHERICUM PANICULATUM. 
Pancled Anthericum. 
C2, AS 8-¥8. GRDES tf. 
“HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIAZ. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Ca.yx patens aut connivens. Stamina fila- E panding converging, Chives 
mentis filiformibus hirsutis. Stigma 1. thread-shaped hairy. Summit1. Seeds 
Semina angulata, Juss. Gen. Pl. 52. angulated. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
AnTHERICUM, foliis canaliculato-ensiformi- ANTHERICUM, with channel-sword-shaped 
bus gramineis, scapo paniculato diffuso, grassy leaves, diffuse panicled flower-stem, 
radice tuberosa. and a tuberous root. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
4 1. A leaf, 
2. The chives and pointal. 
3. The. pointal and seed-bud, the summit magnified. 
4. The seed-bud magnified. 
Tue Anthericum paniculatum isa native of New Holland, and was lately introduced from that 
country to this. In its tuberous root and woolly filaments, it accords very well with the genus Anthe- 
ricum, as defined by Jussieu, in his celebrated Genera Plantarum ; yet recedes from it in wanting thick 
and fleshy leaves; which all the African species of that genus have: hence it approximates, in habit 
at least, the genus Phalangium of Jussieu, which Willdenow makes a division only of Anthericum. 
But there is nothing peculiarly remarkable in the present species differing a little from its African 
congeners, because most of the Australasian plants differ in some very striking particular or other from 
_ their nearest affinities in all other parts of the world; and very often constitute new genera. 
It succeeds with the treatment of the Cape species, loves water, when in active growth ; continues 
in flower several of the summer months, and is propagated by parting its roots in autumn, and by seeds, 
which it sometimes perfects in this country. 
