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Side of which is deeply furrowed. The filaments are inserted with their flat broad base just 
above the little cavity at the base of each petal and continue closely applied for about half 
their length to the furrow which proceeds from thence, forming a nectariferous canal, 
which leads to the above mentioned cavity. A aempfer's figure is a tolerable represen¬ 
tation of mv plant before its flowers expand ; but it is impossible for me to say, if it is 
actually intended for the same species. M y ever-to-be-lamented beiiefuctor and patron, 
the late Sir Joseph Hanks, observes in the above quotation, that Thuuberg refers 
this figure to Tj . candidum ; but this last is a widely different species. I have ventur¬ 
ed to quote Thunberg’s plant, because the extraordinary length, which he ascribes 
to its flower seems to indicate, at least, that it cannot be the same as Linneus's L. candi - 
dam. The root is at first very small, consisting almost of a solid mass; a number of leaves 
soon spring up from thence and it is the very thick and fleshy bases ol these, which af* 
terwards constitute the large bulbs. A number ol these are often found surrounding the 
base of the stem, the whole forming a mass as large as an infants head. Although I have 
repeatedly procured its roots l have never been able to succeed in making them shoot 
out any plant, or even survive one season in the Honorable Company a botanic gai den. 
llOLBOELLIA, Wall 
Flores monoici. Pevianthium hexapliyllum; foliolis duplici serie, online ternario, 
alternatim dispositis. JMasculi : Stamina sex parallela, distincta; anthens adnatis, 
extrorsis. Glandule e sex ovata?, filamentorum basibus opposita?, iisdemque adnata?. 
Rudiment a pistillorum centralia. Foeminei: Ovavia tria, distincta, oblonga, attenuata. 
Styli nulli. Stigmata simplicia, sulcata, evanida. Stamina sex sterilia, nana, rumple- 
ta, pistillorum bases ambientia. Baccce stepius tribus paueiores, divaricuta?, oblongie, 
carnosse, sessili.s, corticatse, follicularcs, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes, uniloculares, 
polyspernite. Semina nidulantia, oblongo-ovatu v. reniformia; perispermo copioso ; cm- 
bri/one minuto, radicula inf era vel ccntrifaga. 
Classis Linneana: Monoeiia hexandria. 
Ordo naturalist Menisper niece verce; ab hisce tanien nonnihil abludens directione ra¬ 
dicals?, inf era Vcl centrifuga. A generibus tribus, sectionem harum foliis composi- 
tis insignitam constituentibus, distinguitur sequentibus. A Lardizabala Ruiz et 
Pavon, floribus liexaphyllis, staminibus liberis, stigmatibus sulcatis, evanidis, baccis 
fullicularibus, imilocularibus, pul pit polvsperma. A Stavnloma , Dc Candolle, d i fieri 
staminibus baud coalitis nec aristatis; a Burmia , du Petit Tnouars absentia corolla; 
(periantbii nempe foliola in nostris plantis uniformia, petaloidea vel sepaloidea) fila- 
mentoruin basibus distinctis, ct fructus fabric*! baud drupaeca nee inouospermA. 
Abludit prseterea floribus monuveis, qui in illis dioici vel polygami. Habitus geueralis 
JLardizabalce liternatce (in Itiuere Perousii, tab. 0, 7, et 8 uptime delineate) inagis ad- 
huc, quoad folia, St a an Ionia accedens. 
Habitus : Frutiees magnse, extense volubilcs, geinmifei’SC, glaberrinia?. Folia al- 
terna, peltatim digitata, foliolis integerrimis, coriaceis, trinerviis, petiolis omnibus utra- 
que extremitate intumescentihus et articulatis. Jiacemi faseiculati, subcorymhdsi, 
midi, laxi, axil I ares vel ad basin ramidorum, pauciflori. Flores albi, extus paruin ptir- 
purescentes, fragrantes. Baccm inagnae, tuumhe, purpureas, abortione saepias tribus 
paueiores, esculent*. Genus consecration amico et prteceptori carissimo, Frederico Lu¬ 
dovico liolboel, Horti Botanici Regii Hafnieusis liurtulano dexterrimo, botanico pe- 
ritissimo, open Hornemanni Flora Vania 1 Oeeonomica nuncupate aliiisquc contributori, 
quique hortiun Calcutta ditavit thesauris seminum frequentibus, amplissimis, owniurn- 
que fertilissimis. 
