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HYPOXIS Stellipilis. 
Starry-furred Hypoxis. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. Narctsst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IIL, Genera Narcissis non 
omnino affinia. hove 
ASPHODELER. Brown prod. 1. 274. Div. ad calcem ordinis. 
Genera inter Asphodeleas et Amaryllideas media. 
HYPOXIS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 159. 
HH. stellipilis, rhizomate ovato; foliis radicalibus plurimis trifariam fascicu- 
latis triquetro-subulatis, @ pilis brevibus stellatis implexis subtis tomen- 
toso-candicantibus, canaliculo carindque acutis: umbelld pauci-(2) flora. 
Rhizoma bulbiforme, fuscum, bulbiceps. Fol. radicalia, plurima, tri- 
faridm fasciculata late subulata, subsemipedalia latiiudine uncie minore, 
erecto-divergentia, supra atrovirentia, glabra, acute canaliculata, remote 
atque obsolete lineata, infra acute carinata tomento facile solubile 2 pilis 
brevibus stellatis implexé densatis candicantia; se@pe superné undulata. 
Scapus foliis brevior, fulvido-canescens, pube duplici (penicillis longis cum 
flocculis stellatis niveis brevibus commixtis) laxids pilosus. Pedunculi (bint), 
terminales, solidi, teretes, pilosi, flore longiores, bracted pilosissima lineari 
appressé ad basin. Cor. germinis continua, erecta, stellato-partita, diametro 
sesquiunciali, persistens, intds aureo-flavescens, extis flavo-virescens et stellato- 
pilosa ; lacinize equilonge, lateribus denud reflexe, exteriores oblonga, mu- 
cronate, dorso apicis dense barbate, interiores latiores ovales obtuse mutice 
extiis nudiuscule strid angustd pilosd per medium longitudinaliter ductd. 
Stam. flava, corollé fere duplo breviora, erecto-patentia, disco epigyno di- 
stantids inserta: fil. antheris bis terve breviora, conica, subulata, glabra: 
anth. mobiles, lineari-sagittate, introrse, postice filamenti puncto appense. 
Stylus lutescens, columnaris, erectus, tereti-3-gonus, staminibus brevior ; 
stigmata 3 flava lineari-canaliculata fimbriatula, angulos dimidii superioris 
styli adnato-decurrentia. Germ. pedunculi solidi continuum, breve turbi- 
natum, hirsutum, corollé aliquotiés brevius; triloc. loculis superne biseriato- 
polyspermis, inferné cassis: ovula globosa, angulo interiori annexa. 
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1 
An unpublished species, and one of which we have seen 
no sample in any Herbarium. Introduced last summer 
from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Colvill, of the 
Chelsea Nursery. The drawing was taken from a plant 
cultivated in the greenhouse. 
The foliage strikes us as having some resemblance to 
that of certain species of the Bromeliacee. It differs 
in its own genus by the dense woolly snow-white fur (con- 
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