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attenuated and not swelled as in Strumaria, triangular, smooth. s 
“emarginated overed with a glandular pubescence. Seeds Pte green, and rema’ nies oa 
LXIIL. 
CARPOLYZA SPIRALIS. 
Spiral Carpolyxa. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Narcissi. Juss. Gen. p. 54. 
Sect. II. Pericarpium inferum. 
seta 6-partitus. Filamenta ore tubi inserta, regularia basibus erectis. mina pauca 
in singulis loculis, bulbiformia, marginibus septorum una cum valvis ab apice pear 
diu adherentia. Bulbus ovatus. Folia perangusta, linearia. Pedunculus ab uno latere 
foliorum qutbus crasstor, Atte , basi spiralis. Bractew interiores ramentacee. Differt a Crino 
tubo brevi infundibuliformt, ab cer ves a seminibus bulbiformibus, a = Strath figura genita- 
lium, ab Hemantho pericarpio membranaceo, et ab omnibus sud facie. Nomen a vocibus 
xaptos et Avtw, ob singularem rictum fructus. 
C. foliis glabris, parum tortuosis. 
Amaryllis spiralis. L’Herit. Sert. Angl. p. 10. ¢. 13. mala. Crinum —— Jacq. Ic. 
Collect. Suppl. p. 43. Hamanthus Spiralis. Linn, fil. in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 1. p. 405. 
Hemanthus Spiralis. Thunb. Prodr. p. 58. 
Sponte nascentem prope Cape Town, legit F. Masson. 
Floret apud nos Decembri, Januarto. 
hen a plant has been removed to various genera by eminent botanists, among whom L’ Heri- 
bei cay the younger Linné and Thunberg must ever be ranked, it will generally constitute 
: this is unquestionably the case with that now figured. 
y was caren to me many years ago, by the late Mr. Aiton, and will live in the open air under 
a south wall, if covered in severe frost ; but to produce plenty of seeds, it should be placed on 
the front flue of a stove. 
Bulb the size of a Spanish nut, brown but its fibres white and large. Leaves 5 or 6, bright 
green, scarcely half a line in breadt h, from two to four inches long, spreading flat upon the 
ground in every direction, somewhat —— ear, 3 y half round Beet J entire, obtuse, 
the base where it is dark shining purple and spiral like a cork verew, towards the bra ctes green 
and thicker, erect, round, smooth and yery tough. Bractes withering after the first flower 
expands. Fascicle of 3 or 4 flowers, succeeding each other in our climate very say 
that _ seeds of the first are often ripe before the aa is faded. Pedicels very sid 
gr round, smooth. Pericarpium green or tinged | with dull red while young, somewhat 
cee ‘lobed, ‘afterwards knobbed by the gona se heme white with a dull rose- 
coloured tinge and yellowish tube, its segments late, the out tern ‘ 
point, the te eh more erect, all erg: eal in breadth. Filaments inserted in the orifice 
of the tube, erect at their base, sh and a _Anthers very pale yellow, waar 
emarginated with a bifid base, after the "Pollen i is  dischabged almost round. Style white, regu ly 
and c 
attached to the margin. of the dissepiments for some some after they are sep 
sgoanaeres TO THE PLATE. 
2. The Pistillum 
3. A transverse section of the Fruit. 
' naturally with ce he ei 
Stigma trifid, the divisions 
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