Refugium Botanicum.] (April, 1870. 
TAB. 216. 
Natural Order Lintace#: 
Tribe ANTHERICE. 
Genus CuLoropHytum (Gawl. Bot. Mag. t. 1071). Perianthium 6- 
partitum, corollinum, segmentis oblanceolatis subequalibus per- 
sistentibus flore expanso stellatim patentibus vel recurvatis. 
Stamina 6 hypogyna, filamentis filiformibus subzequalibus glabris, 
antheris oblongis versatilibus. Ovarium sessile, obovoideum, tri- 
loculare, ovulis in loculis plurimis biseriatis; stylus filiformis ; 
stigma capitatum. Capsula membranacea, loculicide-trivalvis, pro- 
funde emarginata, loculis pluriovulatis dorso angulatis. Herb 
radicibus carnoso-fibrosis floribus racemosis vel paniculatis. 
C. eLatum (R. Br. Prodr. El. Nov. Holl. p. 277). Foliis 8—12 loratis 
firmis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus ad apicem acutum sensim 
angustatis, scapis erectis teretibus foliis subequantibus, floribus in 
-paniculis ramis paucis erecto-patentibus racemosis deorsum nudis 
dispositis, pedicellis erecto-patentibus perianthio triplo brevioribus, 
perianthii segmentis albis filamentis multo longioribus. — Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 604. Phalangium elatum, Red. Lal. t. 191. Anthericum 
elatum, Ait. Kew, 1. 448. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Root a fascicle of fleshy fibres. Leaves eight to twelve to a 
root, firm in texture, lorate, clasping the scapes tightly at the 
base, reflexed in the upper half, narrowed gradually to an acute 
point, when fully developed twelve to eighteen inches long by 
twelve to eighteen lines broad, the veining not conspicuous, the 
upper surface bright green, the lower paler. Scapes one to three 
from a root at once, terete, firm, erect, about equalling the 
leaves. Inflorescence an ample panicle composed of a terminal 
raceme sometimes a foot long and several erecto-patent smaller 
lateral ones naked at the base. Upper flowers solitary, the lower 
ones two to four together. Pedicels erecto-patent, a line and a 
half to two lines long, articulated below the middle. Bracts 
minute, deltoid, membranous. Perianth three-eighths to half an 
inch deep, the divisions white, with the keel slightly greenish, 
subequal, oblanceolate, star-like or slightly reflexed when ex- 
panded. tamens subequal, glabrous, the filaments a little 
thickened upwards. Fruit a firm obovate-triquetrous many- 
seeded deeply emarginate capsule about four lines deep. 
