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CHORETIS GLAUCA. 



(Glaucous-leaved Choretis.) 

 LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. AMARYLLIDACE^E. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Choretis (Herbert). Perianthium tubo subrecto, cylindrico, laciniis et corona patulis ; fila- 

 menta distantia, suberecta, conniventia ; antherce longae, versatiles, callositate quadam supra 

 medium affixae pendula3 ; semina oblongo-rotunda (glaucescentia ?). Herbert. 



Perianth with a tube somewhat straight, cylindrical, divisions and crown spreading ; fila- 

 ments distant, somewhat erect, converging ; anthers long, versatile, attached by a distinct callosity 

 above the middle, pendulous ; seeds oblong, somewhat rounded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



C. Glwxco. ; foliis suberectis, glaucis, plus minus obtusis uncias 2-3 latis sesquipedalibus ; scapo 

 tereti 3-floro ; spathd valvis angustis erectis sejunctis ; germine sessili loculis 1-2 spermis ; tubo 

 longo viridi ; limbo albo, segmentis sepalinis viridi-costatis ; corona alba, rotata margine laciniato ; 

 filamentis subulatis ; seminibus glaucis glabris. 



Leaves somewhat erect, glaucous, more or less obtuse, from 2 to 3 inches broad, a foot and 

 a half long ; scape terete, 3-fiowered ; spathe with narrow, erect, disjointed valves ; germ sessile, 

 with 1-2 seeded cells; tube long, green ; limb white, the sepaline segments ribbed with green ; 

 crown white, rotate, with a laciniated margin ; filaments awl-shaped ; seeds glaucous, smooth. 



Choretis Glauca. — Herbert. Amaryllidacese. 



Descr. — Bulb globose, clothed with black integuments. Leaves remarkably glaucous, erect 

 before flowering, afterwards refiexed. Scape from 15 to 18 inches long, bearing three flowers. 

 Anthers recurved at both ends. 



This beautiful and interesting plant is in the collection of George Barker, 

 Esq., of Springfield, by whom it was imported. It is a native of Mexico, and 

 was found in the province of Oaxaca. It was first described and made the type 

 of a new genus (Choretis) by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, whose intimate 

 acquaintance with the Amaryllidacese has been long known to botanists. It 

 approaches in. habit to Ismene, but in the perianth to Hymenocallis, while it 

 differs from them in certain points of structure, which are thus adverted to by 



