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AMARYLLIDACE.E. 
menta subaequalia sunt; in Alstrcemeriaeformibus, et in Ama- 
ryllideis, ubi non subsequalia, petalina, in Narcisseis sepalina 
semper praestantiora sunt. Folia plerumque sunt paralelo- 
venia; sed in late ovalibus (ex. gr. in Crino petiolato, Grifti- 
nia, Urceolina) partim semipennivenia sunt, uti etiam in 
genere Costo inter scitamineas, venis multis a costa media 
oriundis; et Tamus cum Dioscoreis plerisque (sed non om- 
nibus) venis bifidis confluentibus distinguitur. Plicatio 
foliorum vix, nisi inter Hypoxidiformes, invenitur, lusu 
naturae excepto in Crino anomalo ; Galanthi plicati non 
vera est plicatio, sed margo, uti in Amaryllideis quibusdam, 
magis verb conspicue, retroflexus. Antherae biloculares sunt; 
petalinae et sepalinae minuta quadam diversitate affiguntur. 
Antherae praestantioris positio a me potissimum designatur. 
AMARYLLID ACEiE. 
Character. — Not-spadiceous, corolliform, not-gynandrous, 
hexapetaloid, epigynous, hexandrous. 
Stalk or scape without a spadix (meaning thereby flowers , 
which have not the semblance of petals, set round a stalk, and 
when perfect having an involucre below ) ; germen inferior, and, 
unless by defect, 3-celled ; perianth simple ( that is, as con- 
trasted with the scitamineous plants), having the semblance of 
six petals; stamens six, rarely numerous by superfluity; styles 
three, not bearing the stamens (as contrasted with the gynan- 
drous plants), mostly consolidated, sometimes partibly adnate 
to each other, rarely separate. 
Observations. — The anthers, I believe, in all the genera 
are 2 celled, and face inwards. The bases of the styles, and 
consequently the lobes of the stigma, if strait, and of the 
opercle on the summit of the germen, are opposite the ribs 
of the sepals ; the sutures of the valves of the seed-vessel are 
continuations of the line of the sepaline, the dissepiments of 
the petaline, ribs. The valve, which bears the dissepiments 
between the lines of two sepaline ribs, being taken oft", half of 
two cells is exposed, the ovules, when they are heaped, 
diverging; the portion of the pericarp between the line of 
two petaline ribs being taken off, an entire cell is exposed, 
the ovules converging. Unless I am deceived, in the seeds 
of all Amaryllidaceous plants the foramen is opposite to the 
chalaza or summit ; the radicle of the embryo points to the 
