upon a succession of flower-stems forming a constantly 
increasing tuft from the same root. ' 
_ Drawn at the Nursery of ‘Messrs. Colyill, in the King’s 
Road, where the plants were raised from seed, and are cul- 
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tivated in the greenhouse. 
A tufted-growing perennial herbaceous plant with a 
fibrous root. Stems rushy, ashen-green, obscurely streaked, 
subcorymbosely branched, a foot or more high and about 
as thick as a crow-quill; branches alternate, wide apart, 
guarded by two opposite leaflets at the base. Leaves 
stiff, linearly-subulate, semicylindric, channelled on the 
inside ; radical ones few, upright, from an inch to two 
inches long; stem ones still shorter, and fewer, situated 
on the lower part of the stem. Umbels terminal, several 
(5-6-) flowered; peduncles growing out in succession, 
shorter than the flower, round, jointed below the middle, 
each joint of a different green; bractes at the foot.of each 
peduncle ovate pointed, mucronate, with scariose edges, 
shorter than the lower joint of the peduncle, close- pressed. 
Corolla hexapetalously parted, rotate, more than an inch in 
diameter, shortly contracted at the bottom: segments of 
one length, 3 alternate exterior ones several times the nar- 
rowest linear mucronate recurvedly spreading, green on the 
outside, converging permanently over the fruit, inner ones 
oval with a deep fringe of close-jointed hairs of the same co- 
lour, and a midrib of deeper colour green and raised on the 
outside, these fade by rolling themselves up and in a manner 
melting away. Three alternate stamens; “interior longer 
pointing downwards, about + shorter than the corolla, 3 
outer pointing upwards; filaments equal, hypogynous, green, 
compressedly round, thickish, smooth, shorter than the 
anthers ; ané/ ers brownish. purple, facing inwards, bilocu- 
lar, pointlessly subsagittate at the base, loculaments grown 
to the pale-coloured flat-backed receptacle which is conti- 
nuous with the filament, shedding the pollen inwards at the 
top by a double-beaked process formed by the involute 
sides of the inner and longer portion of the valves; inner 
part of the valves shorter and deeper coloured: inner anthers 
more than twice the length of the outer, linearly subulate. 
Style white, filiform, pointing downwards, curved, equal 
to the inner stamens, several times longer than the germen: 
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stigma a continuous subpubescent point. 
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