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CONANTHERA* campanulata. 
Beil-flowered Conanthera. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELEE. 
CONANTHERA F\. Peruv.— Perianthium semisuperum, laciniis pa- 
tentibus v. reflexis, alternis ciliatis. Stamina basi perianthii inserta, antheris 
apice appendiculatis in cono conniyentibus. Ovarium semi-inferum, 
3-loculare, oligospermum; ovulis placentes carnosee affixis ascendentibus. 
Capsula pisiformis, 3-locularis, 3-valvis ; seminibus paucis rotundis. 
C. campanulata; foliis lineari-lanceolatis humifusis, perianthio campanu- 
lato: laciniis obtusis patentibus, alternis minoribus. 
C. bifolia. Sims in Bot. mag. fol. 2496, not of the Flora Peruviana. 
C. campanulata. Lindley in Hort. trans. 6. 283 (1826). Hooker's exot. 
flora, 3. ¢. 214 (1827). 
Cummingia campanulata. .D. Don. 
Herba bulbosa, palmaris, glaber. Folia linearia, acuminata, diffusa, 
scapi longitudine. Scapus teres, laxus, paniculatus. Bractece subulate. 
Flores nutantes, pedicellis inarticulatis. Perianthium campanulatum, semi- 
superum, limbo patente 6-partito, lacinizs oblongis, obtusis, alternis minoribus, 
ciliatis, post anthesin spiraliter tortis. Stamina 6, base tubi iseria, 
filamentis brevibus, glabris, antheris conniventibus, rostratis, 2-locularibus, 
longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium semisuperum, triloculare, ovulis 
circiter novem cuique loculo, placente carnose affixis, ascendentibus: Stylus 
subulatus. Stigma simplex. 
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A native of the higher range of the Cordilleras, where 
it seems to be far from uncommon, appearing among the 
earliest of the vernal flowers with which the green-sward 
is adorned upon the first melting of the snow. Mr. M‘Rae 
found it at Cumbre, one of the passes of the Andes, 
flowering in November 1825. The roots from which the 
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* So called in consequence of the conical arrangement of the anther. 
