636 ASPHODELEAE (Cyanella.) 



tuberoso-bulbosa. Folia radicalia lanceolato-elliptica y lan- 

 ceolata vel linearia^ striato-nervosa^ basi vaginantia. Caii- 

 lis erectus , scapiformis^ plerumque paniculato-ramosus ; 

 ramis alternis, simplicibus^ bractea faltis. Flores longe 

 pedicellati, solitarii^ in apice caulis et in ramis racemosi^ 

 cernui^ violacei^ rosei\ albi vel fiavi\pedicellis bractea stipa- 

 tis, versus medium unibracteolatis. Genus clubiae affinita- 

 tis. (Endl.) 



1. C. CAPENSIS Linn. Spec. 443. Linn.fi. Suppi. 201. Thunb. 

 in Act. Holm. 1794. p 196. Ej.Prod. 65. Ej. Fl. Cap. 330. Willd. 

 Spec. 2. 131. Bot. Mag. t. 568. Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 141. Jacq. Hort. 

 Vind. 3- t. 35. Red. Lil. i. 373. Roem. et SchuU. Syst. 7. 492. 

 1696. Caule superne flcxuoso, paniculato-ramoso ; foliis an- 

 guste lanceolatis, undatis, subtus in ncrvis robustioribus mar- 

 gineque ciliolato-scabris; scpalis violaceis ; interioribus 3-, exte- 

 rioribus latcralibus 5-nerviis, infimo 7-nervio ; staminc infimo 

 robustiore, deflexo. C. cacrnlca Eckl. Topogr. Verz. 4. Ej. herb. 

 Union. it. n. 227. (Jide^Schult. fd.) — Cap. b. spci. 2|« — Cau- 

 lis basim versus foliatus, supernc flexuosus ct paniculato-ramo- 

 sus, tcres, lacvis, glabcr; ramis simplicibus, patulis, bractca se- 

 miamplcxicauli concava oblongo-lanccolata acutata stipatis. Fo- 

 lia lincari-lanceolata, basi vaginantia, superne angustata, striato- 

 ucrvosa, margine undata, supra glabra, subtus in ncrvis ro- 

 bustioribus prominentibus margineqne ciliolato-scabra, rigidula. 

 Florcs longe pedicellati , solitarii, in apicc caulis et ramorum 

 remote racemoso-dispositi, cernui, magnitudinc floris Phalangii 

 ramosi; pedicellis patentibus, apice curvato-adsccndentibns, basi 

 unibracteatis, infra mcdium bracteola subulata instructis, 9-10 

 lincas longis; bractea mox descriptis simillima, sed multo minore, 

 pcdicello quadruplo breviore- Calyx 6-scpalus, per imam ba- 

 sim ovarii basi adnatus, tardius ubi libcr evadit circumscissus, 

 roseo-violaceus, glaber; sepala patcntissiiuo-subrettexa? ; tria 

 cxteriora majora, ovata , acuiata: lateralia 5-ncrvia, infimum 

 (impar) vix majus, 7-nervium ; tria intcriora paulo minora, el- 

 liptica, acuta , trinervia , inter se aequalia, nisi lateralia levis- 

 sime obliqua. Stamina 6, basi calvcis inserta, quinque crccto- 

 conniventia?, calyce triplo breviora, sextnm (sepaio exteriori im- 

 pari oppositum) omnium robustius et deflcxum. Filamenta bre- 

 via, monadelpha, apice libera ct linearia, glabra, infimum longius?. 

 Antherae biloculares, introrsae, oblongo-lincares, apice cmargi- 

 natae, subcurvatae, dorso supra basim adnatac, poro tcrminali 

 parum extus hiantes, iuteae, quinque subconformes (cx his tres 

 intermediae tamcn paulo minores), sexta omiiium longior et ro- 

 bustior. Ovarium ovaio-oblongum, pcr basim calyci adnatum, 

 trigastrum, apice rotundato - dcprcssum , trilocularc, glabrum; 

 ovula in loculis 12, subbiseriata, adscendcntia, oblique oblonga, 



