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CYRTANTHUS uniflorus, 
One-flowered Cyrtanthus, 
HEXANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. III. Germen in- 
ferum. 2 
Amaryiiipex. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. Radix 
bulbosa. Flores spathacei, raro solitarii. 
CYRTANTHUS. Supra fol. 167. 
C. uniflorus ; folio solitario, lineari, glauco: limbo subaquante fauceni. 
Amaryllis clavata. L’ Heritier sert. angl. 11. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 52. 
Folium erectiusculum, equans vel superans scapum cum flore, vic lineam 
latum. Scapus teres, erectus, culmum triticeum crassus, subspithameus, glaucus 
Hi pai rubescens. Spatha foliolis duobus lineari-attenuatis, duplo longioribus 
ultrave pedicello fusco-virente. Germen oblongum, lineare, obtusé trigonum, 
Cor. horizontali-nutans albida, eaxtus strits sex equidistantibus lateritits v, 
puniceis per omnem longitudinem hecanguloso-notata, intits lineis totidem sangui- 
neis brevibus & fundo tubi alterné cum striis extimis ductis radiata, biuncialis, 
rectiuscula, ubi latior diametro digitiv. circitér ; tubus fusco-rubens, subequalis 
germini, angustus, ampliatus in faucem ventricositis cylindricam limbo equalem: 
Timbus patulus, laciniis ovatis acutulis nervo medio intiis prominulo, exteriori- 
bus 3 mucronatis. Filamenta brevia faucem vix exsuperantia, incurvo-conni= 
ventia : anthera incumbentes, lutee. Stylus ruber partim eacedens antheras ; 
stig. 3, rubra, patentia. _ 
A species wavering between Cyrranruus and Ama- 
RYLUIS; but agreeing with the former, in having filaments 
which are inserted into the faux above the tube, and a 
regularly patent limb, as short as the faux or shorter; and 
we have enrolled it there. Indeed the two genera are in 
all else so close, that we can detect no other marks to 
keep them clear. Our plant was recorded by L’Heritier 
as an Amaryvuiis, and called clavata, before the present 
genus had been instituted. Several bulbs of it have been 
now first brought into this country by Mr. Burchell, 
three or four of which produced their blossom; of these 
the one figured here had by far the largest and brightest 
coloured flower, that of the others was of much smaller 
calibre, with less widely expanded segments, and with 
the six external stripes of a dingy tile-red, not of a 
bright carmine, as in that of the present. It grows 
spontaneously at the Cepeg en Good Hope, near Cam- 
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