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the pressure becoming’ inseparably united with the 
two weaker ovules, forming one large pear-shaped 
mass, with three irregular furrows and a sharp- 
pointed trifid base. 
Va r. 3. Anomalum. — Herb. App. Bot. Mag. 47. 2121. 
p. 5. Plicatum. Bot. Mag. 56. 2908. This plant 
is a native of China. It is very remarkable, be- 
cause it differs from the whole genus in having the 
leaves split on opposite sides alternately to the base 
of the bulb, so that the bulb is imperfect in all its 
coats. It approximates in the inflorescence to 
Toxicarium and Bracteatum. The leaves have a 
strange disease, being, as far as I have seen, always 
more or less plicate, the plication being sometimes 
quite monstrous. This will of course be more 
conspicuous in some seedlings than in others, and 
it is less observable in the growth of some seasons 
than of others in the same individual. The tube is 
usually 1^ inch long, limb 2|, filaments about an 
inch shorter; style ^-li inch longer than the tube. 
The leaves are acute. The name Anomalum has 
the priority. 
Var. 4. Declinatum. — Bot. Mag. 48. 2231. This plant 
has also cells with one ovule, and is closely allied 
to Toxicarium, but remarkable for the singular 
manner in which the peduncles detach themselves 
successively from the cluster and become horizontal, 
and for the bud nodding, which contravenes the 
habit of the section, and shews that the division of 
the inclined and the nodding buds is not decisive. 
It is a large plant, native of Silhet, with the tube 
and limb longer than Toxicarium, the outside of 
the sepals mottled with red. 
2. Sinicum. — Roxburgh. Bot. Mag. 47. 2121. p. 7. 
Foliis 3i pedalibus saturate viridibus 5 unc. latis 
margine undulatissimo, scapo tripedali, germine 
unciali breviter pedunculato, tubo 4-4! unc. limbo 
4 unc. albo, filamentis stylo longioribus limbo bre- 
vioribus. Native of China, from whence it was 
received by Dr. Roxburgh in 1809. 
Subvar. (fortuita) Variegata; foliis pulcherrime varie- 
gatis. This variety, with beautifully variegated 
