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GLORIOSA. superba. 
‘Superb Gloriosa. 
“HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GLORIOSA. Cor. infera, 6-partita, xqualis, regularis, Jaciniis 
undulatis, longissimis, reflexis. Stam. imis laciniis inserta, stylo (obli- 
quo) breviora. Caps. ovalis, 3-loc., 3-valv., polysperma; sem. in ge- 
mino ordine disposita in singulo loculo, globosa. Caulis herbaceus, 
scandens, ramosus ; folia apice cirrhosa; pedunculi 1-flori, axillares et 
terminales; radix tuberosa. Jussieu. gen. 48; sub METHONICA. 
G. superba, foliis cirrhiferis. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 437. 
Gloriosa superba. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. Hort. Kew. 1. 434. ed. 2. 
2.247. Gaertn. sem. 1. 69. t. 18. f.1. Willd. sp. pl. 2.95. I. G. 
Miller sp. pl. Schneevoogt ic. 35. Andrews’s reposit. 129, - 
Methonica superba. Desfont: ann. du’ Muséum. 1. 127. Redouté 
- liltac. 26. © 
Methonica-‘malabarorum. Herm: lugdb. 688.t. 689. Pluk. alm. 249. 
Phyt. t. 116. f. 3. 
Lilium zeylanicum superbum. Comm. hort. 1. 69. t. 35. Rudb. elys, 
2.178. f. 7. 
Mendoni.' Rheéd. mal. 7. 107. t.'57. T uly “bs 
Radix perennis, fragili-carnosa, compresso-elongata, gnomonic? curvata. 
cruribus demissis, digitum circitér crassa, promens gemmam 2 summa frexura. 
Caulis herbaceus, orgyalis et ultra; teres crassitudine calami scriptorit; glaber, 
JSoliosus, debilis, ope pater, apice  cirrhato-prehensilium sustentandus ; 
ramosus ramis simplicibus, 2 oppositis, 3~ 4ve verticillatis. Folia sparsa, dis 
tantia, ovato-lanceolata, longiis caudato-acuminata, cirrho spirali prefixa. 
Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, 1-flort. Flores 2-3-unciales, cernut, denud 
miniato-coccinei. Corolle lacinie elongato-lanceolat@, de prope basin tote 
reflexo-arrecte, undulata. Fil. subulato-elongata, LD aa laciniis 
uarum basi inserta breviora ; anth. vibratiles. Germ. oblongum. Stylus 
horizontaliter assurgens, ad basin defracto-obliquatus et angulum rectum cum 
germine efficiens, virens, striatus: stig. 3, gracilia, patula. 
es erento ene one eee 
The extravagance of the present generic name, its being 
accompanied by a specific one little less exaggerated, its 
being an adjective, and more worthy of the whim of 
a dutch florist than of the taste of Linneus, have pro- 
voked several attempts to get rid of it for that of Mrrno- 
Nica, an appellation the plant is known by in Malabar. 
But we see no defect in any name by which a genus is ge- 
nerally and rightly known, of which the inconvenience 
cau ever equal that infallibly cansed by the change of it; 
VOL. I, xX ; 
