PLATE XXXII. 



ANTHOLYZA RINGENS. 



Gaping Antholyza. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 

 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Poinlal. 



GENERIC 



Calyx. Spathae bivalves, alternate, flores dif- 



tinguentes, perfiftentes. 

 Corolla, retalum unicum e tubo fenfim di • 



latatum in faucem compreflam. ringentem. 

 Stamina. Filamenta tria, longa, tenuia, i'ub- 



labio fuperiori. Anthers acutae. 



Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- 

 mis, fitu et longitudine ftaminum luperi- 

 orum. Stigma trifidum, capillare, reflex- 

 um. 



Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda, trilocula- 



ris, trivalvis. 

 Semina plura, triangularia. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalemekt. Sheath of two valves, alternate, 

 dividing the flowers, and abiding. 



Blossom. One petal, widening in the tube, 

 flattened at the mouth, and gaping. 



Chives. Three threads, long, thin, and placed 

 under the upper lip of the blollbm. Tips 

 fharp. 



Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread- 

 fliaped, in the fame place, and of the fame 

 length of the upper chives. Summit cut 

 into three hair-like divifions, which are 

 bent back. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly round, three cells, 

 three valves. 



Seeds many, triangular. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antholyza corolloc labiis divaricatis; fauce com- 

 preffa. 



Antholyza with the lips of the blolTbm in vari- 

 ous dire&ions; the mouth flattened. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the infertion of the Chives. 



3. The Pointal (natural fize). 



Although this fpecies of Antholyza is not new in our gardens, yet has it been feen in flower but by 

 few, as it blows fo feldom; though the roots are by far the largeft of any of the genus. The bulb 

 from which this figure was taken, had received a little afiiftance from heat early in the feafon, and 

 by that means was (apparently) brought into flower. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, has 

 much the appearance of a common flag in the foliage, growing to the height of three feet, or more; 

 requires the fame earth as Ixias, propagates by the root, or feed, and flowers in the month of June; 

 at which time a drawing was made from a plant then in bloom at the Hammerfmith nurfcry. 



