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HOOKERA PULCHELLA. : 
Neat Hookera. 
Ordinem Naturalem, Characterem Generis necnon Speciei videsub No. 98. 
Sponte nascentem in California, legit A. Menzizs. 
Floret apud nos Maio. 
This plant is the second of those two reported by Dr. J. E. Smrru in his Introduction to Botany 
to have “ beautiful liliaceous flowers like an Agapanthus with 6 internal petals besides.” So strange an 
anomaly in a monocotyledonous genus immediately led me to doubt that lecturer’s ac ‘y, 
and upon carefully examining the specimens in Str JosepH Banxs’s Herbarium, I found this doubt 
not only confirmed, but that one of them had actually flowered at Mill Hill the preceding June, 
when I described and named it Hookera, after the botanic painter of this work. Accordingly in 
March last, a figure of that species was published. 
When Dr. J. E, Smrri came to London in May following, at a meeting of the Linnean Society, 
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Mr. 
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Drvyawper, and Mr. ROWN, the flowers are 6-androus; but as the alternate filaments in this 
ithogalum. I believe it will be met with also in 
LL’s Onion, and figured in the 1037th plate of the Botanical Magazine, but there erroneously 
referred by Mr. Ker (late GAWLER) to Allium Striatum. 
Root pale brown, like that of Narcissus Triandrus. Leaves similar to those of Hookera Coronaria, 
except that they are longer and rather broader. Flowers from 6 to 11 in a fasciculus, succeedi 
each other slowly, so that the first blown flower was in fruit before the last opened, nearly without 
smell, Peduncle longer than the leaves, erect, round, smooth, very finely striated. Outer 
broad, withering soon: inner Bractes whitish, very narrow and gradually shorter. Pedicels green, 
very short, round, smooth, Corolla blue like our Harebells, from 8 to 6 lines in length : Tube some- 
what pitcher-shaped, marked with 6 deeper lines: Limb shorter than the tube, divided to the base : 
divisions recurved, semi-lanceolate, very entire, the claw at the top of the 3 outer ones not so con- 
spicuous as in the other species. Filaments white ; those 3 which are opposite to the outer divisions 
of the limb, considerably longer and deeply emarginated. Anthers long and narrow. Torus abun- 
_dantly melliterous so that the tube is halt full of honey. Style reaching to the middle of the higher 
curved, 
anthers. Stigma 3-lobed, but its lobes scarcely recury 
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Corolla spread open. 2. Pistillum. 3, Transverse section of the young Fruit magnified, 
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