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GRIFFINIA. intermedia. 
Mr. William Harrison's Griffinia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLA. - 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER. 
GRIFFINIA.—Supra, vol. 6. fol. 511. 
G. intermedia; foliis ovalibus in petiolum canaliculatum attenuatis, scapo 
ancipite, floribus breviter petiolatis, laciniis oblongis obtusis planis 
subeequalibus. ' ty 
Folia omnind Griffintarum quoad texturam; formd autem intermedia, 
circumscriptione ovalt in petiolum subalatum canaliculatum attenuata. 
Scapus compressus, obtuse anceps, dodrantalis. Spatha erecta, persistens, 
pedicellis longior, non sub anthesi marcescens. Flores pallidé amethystini, 
unicolores, in umbella coarctata multiflora congesti, post anthesin. nutantes. 
Lacinie subequales oblonga, obtuse, regulariter patentes, exterioribus pau- 
lulum angustioribus, apice appendiculatis, ut mos est. Stamina laciniis 
breviora; quinque declinatis inequalibus, sexto assurgente. Ovula duo 
cuique loculo, erecta, collateralia. aS 
This interesting addition to the genus Griffinia is, as 
it were, exactly intermediate between the two species 
already known. From G. hyacinthina it is distinguished 
by its smaller flowers, with equal obtuse segments, which 
have a regular expansion; from G. parviflora it is equally 
different, not only in the greater size of its flowers, and in 
the form of their segments, which are never acuminate, but 
also in the compactness of the umbel, and in the channelled 
somewhat margined petiole of the leaves. In the foliage, 
indeed, the present species offers obvious marks of dif- 
ference from both the two former species. The leaves are 
shorter, much more oval, and more decidedly tapered into 
the footstalk than in G. hyacinthina; they are larger, and 
more obtuse, and have a very differently formed petiole 
from those of G. parviflora. 
