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CON V ALL ARIA oppositifolia, 
Opposite-leaved Solomon! s Seal. 
HEXANDBIA MONOGYNIA.— Nat. Ord. SMILACINEM. 
Gen. Char. — Corolla 6-fida. Bacca maculosa, 3-locularis. — Br. 
Convallaria oppositi/blia ; caule tereti, foliis oppositis oblongis acumina- 
tis nitidis breviter petiolatis, pedunculis umbellatis 3-5 floris, pe- 
rianthiis oblongis. 
C. oppositifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 640. 
Stem about a foot high, erect, curved, cylindrical, glossy, with a few deci- 
duous, distant, qblong, membranaceous scales. Leaves 3-4 inches in 
length, opposite, subsecund, in distant pairs, oblong, very much acumi- 
nated, somewhat waved, very glossy, of a bright and deep green above, 
paler beneath, slightly petiolate, subsecund. 
Flowers verticillate, drooping. Peduncles springing from the axils of the 
leaves, short, pedicels 3-5, jointed just beneath the flower, upper joint 
swollen. Perianth fth of an inch in length, cylindrical or somewhat 
swollen at the base, white, thickish, and slightly coriaceous, with faint 
dotted red lines, mouth with 6 short, somewhat spreading green teeth. 
Stamens 6, alternate with the teeth of the perianth, and inserted near the 
middle. Filaments white, curved, pubescent, running up the back of the 
anthers. Anthers sagittate, yellow. Pistil: Germeti ovate, with three ob- 
tuse angles. Style shorter than the perianth : Stigma trifid, villose. 
First published by Mr Loddiges, having been sent to 
him under the above name by Dr Wallich from Nepaul, in 
1819. It has been received from the same source into the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, v^^here it blossomed in the month of 
April, being plunged in the bark-pit of the stove. It is a plant 
of considerable elegance ; its leaves are peculiarly bright and 
glossy. In character it ranges with the British C. polygona- 
tum and C. multiflorum ; but approaches still more nearly to a 
new species of the genus, of which I have received dried speci- 
mens from my excellent and much-valued friend Dr Wal- 
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