PLATE CCX. 



ANTHOLYZA iETITIOPICA. 



Bf'oad- leaved AnthoJyza, 



CLASS IIL ORDER L 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTXAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap- j! Blossom tubular, irregular, and bent backward 

 lula infera. Cnplule beneath. 



11 See Antholyza ringens. Pi. XXXII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antholyza foliis floribufque dlfiichis; lacinia 

 fumma corolla recla, fpathulata, ball ler- 

 rata; I'pathis rigidis, adpreffis. 



Antholyza with th". leaves as well as the flowers 

 pointing oppofile ways; the- upper fegn^ent 

 of the bloHbm Itraight, fpnhula-lhaped, 

 and lawed at the bale; flieaths harfli and 

 prelFed to the blofToms. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The whole plant, upon a diminilhed icale. 



2. 1 hi- Enipalement. 



3. A Blollom cut open, with the chives remaining. 



4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits. 



This very handfome Antholyza, which is feen fo feldom to flower, in this kingdom, has been long an 

 inhabitant of our girdens. So long ago as 17-59, it is faid to have been cultivated by Miller; and 

 from the tirm and hardly character of the root, we fhould queftton its having been fince that period, 

 e^er, like many others of this natural order, loft to us. The unfrequency of its flowering hns, per- 

 haps, occalioned the inattention, which is in general (hewn to its cultivation, though mnft coljetiors 

 poifels the bulbs, few have feen their flowers. Our figure was taken in the month of July, this year, 

 frnm a [)lant m the colleftion of T. Evans, Efq. Stepney. It is increafed from the roots, «hich 

 fliould be removed from the pots in July, and replanted the end of Oftober. We have not been able 

 to procure any certain dua on which to give diredtions to infure i;s flowering; but the plant in 

 qneliion was planted in a very laige pot, the earth was a compound of light peat one part, liift' loam 

 one part, and old rotten dung one part. It has been thought by fome, that the Antholyza we have 

 figured in the Botanili's Repofitory, Plate XXXI. was the A. jEthiopica of Linnaeus, &c; but, we 

 h.ive given it as a broad-leaved variety of the A ringrns of that author, as we have a drawing of the 

 Narrow leaved Var: taken from a living plant, to which, as well as to our prefent figure, it much 

 affines; and, we are led to think, natural order would not be much violated, if we had treated them 

 all as varieties of one fpecies. 



