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EUCROSIA BicoLOR. 
Two-coloured Eucrosia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA (rectius MONADELPHIA).— Nat. Ord. 
AMARYLLIDEM. 
Gen. Char. — Cor. supera^ sexpartita, tubo declinato, fauce obliqua. Sta- 
mina valde exserta monadelpha mox declinata. Caps, trilocularis. 
Eucrosia bicolor. 
Eucrosia bicolor, Bot. Reg. t. 207-— Herb, m Bot. Mag. t. 2490. 
" Bulb globose, brown. Leaf petioled, elliptico-lanceolate, slightly undu- 
late, about 1 foot long, 4 inches broad ; midrib large, succulent, chanr- 
nelled in front, and of a paler green than the leaf; petide about 5 inches 
long, pale glaucous green, succulent, compressed. 
" Scape nearly two feet long, round, tapering upwards, glaucous. Spatha 
multivalvular, longer than the pedicels (shorter in the drawing), mar- 
cescent. Umbel many-flowered ; pedicels spreading, nearly straight, 
about one inch long. Corolla: limb of a nearly uniform deep red colour, 
with a few green stains ; 3 inner segments obovato-lanceolate, 3 outer 
narrower, lanceolate, all compressed laterally and rigid, one inch long, 
tube rather more than \ of an inch in length. Germen trigonous, shorter 
than the tube of the corolla, and like it and the pedicel and the whole 
bud, of a deep uniform glaucous green. Filaments awl-shaped, unequal, 
in pairs, the longest nearly 5 inches long, hanging out from the bottom 
of the flower, at first straight, afterwards gracefully curved upwards 
for about one-third of their length from the extremity, connected with 
each other for a very little way at the bases only : there is a large gland 
on the inside of the base of each, yielding much sweet fluid. Anthers 
linear, cleft at one end, attached loosely to the filaments at a little dis- 
tance from their centres, and, with these, of a bright green. Sti/le fur- 
rowed, twisted, especially before it is fully evolved, equal in length to 
the longest filament, and of the same shape and colour ; at first straight, 
then curved downwards, and, lastly, bent up Hke the filaments. Stigma 
small, somewhat pubescent, and nearly white." — Graham. 
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