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BARNARDIA scilloides. 
Chinese Barnardia. 
ett See 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELER. 
BARNARDIA. — Perianthium hexapetalo-partitum, patens, quale, 
persistens. Stamina 6, filamentis basi dilatatis. Ovarium triloculare, 
3-spermum: oyulis solitariis erectis. Stylus subulatus, continuus. Stzgma 
simplex. Fructus..........- Herba Chinensis. Bulbus. tunicatus. 
Folia linearia, canaliculata. Flores carnet, racemosi. Hujus certé conge- 
neres Ornithogalum japonicum Thunbergii, et Ornithogalum chinense Lou- 
reir, si non omnind conspecifica. j 
Barnardia scilloides. 
Bulbus ovatus, tunicatus, ovt columbini magnitudine. Folia debilia, 
duriuscula, linearia, canaliculata, cuspidata, extis subangulata, scapi longi- 
tudine vel longiora. Scapus erectus, 6-angularis, glaber, 14-2-pedalis. 
Racemus simplex, conicus. Pedicelli filiformes, subhorizontales, basi brac- 
teola minima suffulti. Perianthium 6-phyllum, erecto-patens, carneum, 
lacintis oblongis, concavis, bast angustatis, dorso viridibus: exterioribus 
latioribus. Stamina 6, equalia, patentia, basi sepalorum inserta, basi laté 
Jimbriaté carned. Antheree antice, oblonge. Ovarium ovatum, substipt- 
tatum, obtuse triquetrum, inflatum, 3-loculare, loculis monospermis; ovulo 
solitario, erecto, in fundo cujusvis locult, vix tertiam partem cavitatis replente. 
Stylus rectus, continuus, subulatus. Stigma semplex. 
This very interesting plant was sent from China to the 
Horticultural Society, by Mr. J. D. Parks, in 1824, by 
whom it had been collected in the neighbourhood of Macao. 
Having suffered injury during its voyage, it did not pro- 
duce its flowers till September of the present year, when 
it blossomed in a stove. 
We entertain no doubt of the generic identity of the 
Ornithogalum chinense of Loureiro, and the O. japonicum of 
Thunberg, with this plant, if they be not all the very same 
species, as seems probable. 
In the natural assemblage of plants to which this 
belongs, the characters by which the genera are distin- 
