PLATE .CCXCViII. 
AN TRERICUM COSTA TU M. 
Ribbed-leaved Anthericum. 
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CLASS VI. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
ORDER 1... bs 
Six Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx, nullu 
Corou.a. Petala fex, oblonga, obtufa, paten- 
Filaments fex, fubulata, ereéa 
Antherze parve, incumbentes, quadri- 
fi 
Pistittum. Germen obfolete trigonum. Sty- 
lus fimplex, ae ee ftaminum. Stigma 
obtufum, trigonu 
PERICARPIUM, Capal ovata, glabra, trifulea, 
ocularis, triva 
Sauima numerofa, an: 
SPECIFIC 
gates: ae foliis hirfutis, planis, coftatis, li- 
enfifo » fupra medium reflexis ; 
st fimplici, glabro ; floribus albis; ra- 
Fe bulbofo. 
EMPALEMENT, 
Bossom. Six seals oblong, blunt, {preading 
b. 
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Cuives. Six threads, awl-fhaped, upright. 
Tips fmall, laying on the threads, four- 
d. 
Seed-bud bluntly three-fided. sae 
fimple, the length of = chives. Summ 
blunt, and three-cornered. 
SEED-VESS pfule i gee {mooth, 
three- furrowed, three-valve 
SEDs numerous, angulated. 
CHARACTER. 
Anthericum with hairy, flat, leaves, ribbed, li- 
early {word-fhaped, turned back from 
the middie; flower-ftem fimple, fmooth ; 
flowers" ass root bulbous. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, ma 
3. The half of the Seed-bud cut ADP Pa einthed, 
rp 
. 7 is much to be lamented that we, as 
yet, have not horaec~ a mode of treatment by which many 
{pecies of Albuca, rst aes _ & from the 
Gee with us, after the firft y 
and {weet bunch of flowers, which 
their: firft expanfion. 
_ ereafed, nor has it produced any flow 
ait: is ony in the a Colle@tion, 
th e of Good H 
ntheri 
r from their i importation ; ; 
than a few leaves afterw sas se this plant, we fear, 
han 
We can fay a as to she 5 pro 
ince our drawing was made, in Auguft 1801. 
to which it was introduced by Mr. Niven, in 1800, from the 
cum, &c. pe, might be induced to 
fince op & of them never produce more 
is amongft the number. It makes a very 
confiderable deuntioss: oe lefs than a month from 
pagation and culture ; as it has not as yet in- 
We think 
