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ASPIDISTRA lurida. 
Dingy flowered Aspidistra. 
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OCTANDRIA (HEXANDRIA?) MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELEZ. Brown prod. 1. 274. 
‘ ASPIDISTRA. Cor. infera, 1-petala, 6-fida, wqualis. Anthere 
corollz tubo inferné adnate, biloculares, introrsiim dehiscentes: pollen 
pulvereo-granulosum. Stylus clavato-stipitiformis exsulcus; stigma clypea- 
tum latum carnosum solidum. Germ. repleto-4-(3?)-loculare, loculis 1-sper- 
mis. Herba perennis, tropica? rhizomate multicipitt, scapo squamoso late- 
rali. Folia (estivatione convoluté subcolorata) radicalia petiolata, gemme 
single, sepius singulum, é vagina radicali convoluto-imbricante, bi-trifolia, 
coloratd. 
Aspidistra lurida. 
Folia erecto-patentia, membranacea, leté virentia, 6-9-uncialia latitu- 
dine subbiunciali, petiolata; lamina elongato-lanceolata, acuminata, lineato- 
nervosa, margine subtili cartilagineo-scabra, ints sects medium canaliculata, 
extis carinata, inferne in petiolum linearem erectum rigidum canaliculatum 
attenuata: vagina radicalis é foliolis 2-3 alternis convoluto-equitantibus acu- 
minatis rigidis lividé purpureis inequalibus. Scapus lateralis, declinatus, 
rhizomatosus, assurgens, uniflorus, cum flore simul unciam vix excedens, 
bracteis ovatis sordidé rubentibus (summis corolle bast appressis) squamatus. 
Cor. lurido-purpurascens, firma, cupulato-campanulata, nutans, hinc hume 
accumbens, extus levis, inits papilloso-scabra cum fundo ochroleuco purpureo 
punctato; tubus cupulatus: limbus 6-partitus tubo 3-plo brevior, laciniis 
oblato-ovatis acuminatis subequalibus patulis. STAMINA: anthere 8 (62) 
sessiles, tubo inferné in eodem plano adnate, parallele, contigue, equales, 
oblato-ovate?, mutice: pollen flavescens copiosum é granulis sphericis pul- 
vureum. Pist. tubo equale ochroleucum: stylus clavato-stipitiformis, ger- 
minis isoperimetricée continuus triploque altior, teres, estriatus: stigma car- 
nosum, crassum, latum, peltato-pileatum, orbiculatum, convexum, obsolete 
- 4-(32)-lobum, cicatriculd centrali levitér 4-(32)-radiaté notatum, lineo- 
lisque senis prominulis (pressione suturarum corolle estivantis proveni- 
_ entibus?) equidistantibus radiatum: germ. oblato-cylindricum, purpureo- 
 punctatum, exsulcum, lave, farcte 4-(32)-loculare, loculis monospermis: 
omlasir atin ; 
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da, imo loculo adnata? 
e do not know of any mention of this very curious 
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d believe it to be unrecorded. We are indebted 
n for the suggestion of its affinity with Tu- 
genus established some years ago by ourselves 
“Botanical Magazine (No. 1655), and known 
to us only by a single sample. On recurring, however, to 
the description and figure, it does not appear to us that 
the plant of this article can be well included in the same 
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