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CYRTANTHUS collinus, 
Narrow glaucous-leaved Cyrtanthus. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nanrcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen in 
ferum. "asi 
Amarytuiper. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. 
CYRTANTHUS. Cal.0. Cor. supera, nutans ad cernuam, tu- 
bulosa, clayata, curva, regularis, subzqualis : /ac. limbi ovato-oblonge 
tubo cum fauce triplo -breviores v. ultra. Jv/. fauci tubi inserta apice 
conniventia, inclusa. ; ' : 
Bulbus ef habitus omnino AMaRryuutinis. Folia bifaria, 3-plurima, 
angustits latidsve lorata: Spatha communis bivalvis, multiflora. Um- 
bella pedunculata, bracteattm interstincta. AMARYLUIDIS conjunctissi- 
mum genus, at limbus corolle plurimim brevior tubo. Fructum mas 
turum non vidimus ;. sed.germen triloculare atque ovula plura biseriata 
in loculis. 
C. collinus, foliis subtrinis, linearibus, glaucis; _pedunculis flore aliquo= 
tiés brevioribus, laciniis limbi apice rotundatis; staminibus os tubi non 
excedentibus. cgapebe. cheat , 
Bulbus globoso-ovatus, integumentis fuscescentibus. Folia 3, inferné ver- 
sis attenuata, canaliculato-involuta, subpurpurascentia, supra explicatiora, vix 
tertiam uncie lata, acumine obtusulo. Scapus cylindraceus, aa crassi« 
tudine penne scriptorie mediocris, foliis denud subbrevior. Spatha multi(10)- 
flora, lanceolata, rubido-sphacelata, pedicellos exsuperans. Umbella cernua 
miniato-coccinea. Cor. subbiuncialis, lineis senis pallelicn ges hexangularts 
striata, aliquotiés longior pedicello, tubus gracilis in faucem plurimam 
ampliorem cylindraceam dilatescens ; limbus campanulato-patens, tubo cum 
auce quater brevior, laciniis oblongis obtusatis, interioribus tantulitm latiori= 
bus, exterioribus mucronulatis. Stylus adscendens ; stig. 3, brevia, replicata, 
ore tubi emicantia. Stam. brevissima, nec excedentia basin limbi, conniventia, 
alterné subbreviora ; anth. incymbentes. Germ. glabrum, brevé oblongum, 
rotundaté trigonum, striis 6 albis notatum; 3-loc, polyspermum; ovula 
2-seriata. ; ' 
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An undescribed species, very recently introduced by. 
Mr. Burchell, by whom it was found on the hills near Ge- 
nadendal, about 100 miles distant from the chief town at 
the Cape of Good Hope, It is about the size of, and near 
akin to angustifolius, but differs from that, in having leaves 
which are glaucous, and not bright green; a germen with 
six whitish lines that are continued throughout the co- 
rolla, which inclines more to a poppy-colour than in 
gngustifolius; in having the segments of the limb of an 
