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BRUNSVIGIA toxicaria. 
Fan-leaved Brunsvigia. Potson-bulb. 
oe 
pent 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu 54. Div. I. Germen inferum. 
AMARYLLIDE®. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. L Radix 
bulbosa. Flores ‘spathacei umbellati, raro solitaril. 
BRUNSVIGIA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 192; (ubt pro “ filamenta in- 
clusa,” legendum ‘ filamenta inclusa vel exserta”). 
B. toxicaria, umbella crebra, florifera hemispherica conferta; fructifera 
spherica laxa scapum subexcedente; corollA infundibuliformi regulari; 
foliis plurimis erectis lorato-elongatis acuminatis obliquis glaucis margine 
levi: staminibus erecto-divaricatis subexsertis. 
Brunsvigia toxicaria. Nobis supra vol. 2. fol. 189, pag. 3, in notd; et vol. 3. 
fol. 192, pag. 4. in spec. enum. 
Hemanthus toxicarius. Hort. Kew. 1. 405. ed, 2. 2.208. Thunb. prod. 59. 
Willd. sp. pl. 2.27. Jacq. fragm. 36. n. 116. tabb. 39 et 40. fig. 1.; 
(figg: & speciminibus spontaneis siccatis desumpte ). Nobis in Curtis's 
magaz. 1217. Lichtenstein reise in sudl. afr. 2. 321, 
Amaryllis disticha. Linn. suppl. 195. Paterson's travels 51; cum icone 
pessimd. Burchell cat. geogr. 4194.” 
Bulbus tunicatus, ovato-oblongus, integumentis innumeris tenuibus fibroso- 
membranaceis corticato-compactis vestitus, diametro nunc brachii vel duplo 
majore, scapo altior. Folia bifaria, plurina, erecto-divergentia, lorato- 
elongata, lanceolato-acuminata, glauca, obliquata, flore tardiora. Scapus 
folits precocior, robustus, vix umbella longior, tereti-compressus hincque 
planior, glauco-pallescens. Spatha numerosiflora, bivalvis, pedunculis 
equalis, valvis ovato-oblongis, acuminatis, recurvandis : peduneuli bracteis 
tenuissimis distincti, triquetro-filiformes, pennd passerind pauld crassiores, 
virentes, nitidi, cum germine clavato-continut, floriferi 2unciales v. parum 
longiores, fructiferi 4-G-unciales. Flores carneo-pallentes, fonum recens 
grate redolentes: cor. 14 uncie pariim exsuperans, revoluto-infundibuli- 
formis, regularis; tubus strictus, rectus, crassus (diametro fere penne scrip- 
torie medie magnitudinis), chloroleucus, germint subequalis, limbo plus 
duplo brevior; limbus 6-partitus, turbinato-revolutus, laciniis stellato-distan- 
tibus, anguste ligulatis, equilongis, acutis, exter. 3 subangustioribus convo-’ 
luto-canaliculatis, hamato-mucronatis mucrone basi subpubente, inter. plani- 
oribus obsolete mucronatis. Stam. exserta, equalia, erecto-patentia, curvula, 
fil. alba, subulato-filiformia, tubum prominentér decurrentia: anth. versatili- 
incumbentes, angusto-oblongate, primo carneo-rubentes, defloratis purpureo- 
fuscescentibus ; pollen ochroleucum. Stylus staminibus equilongus, sesquiun- 
cialis, 5 longior corolla, albicans, inclinato-erectus, gracilis, triquetro-jili- 
formis; stigma apex inconspicuus simplicissimus. Germ. anguste turbina- 
tum v. trigono-clavatum angulis acute compressis, estriutum, ter quaterve 
pedunculo brevius, loculamentis collaterali-(biseriato-)dispermis ovulis albis 
rotundis. Caps. bulbisperma, seminibus tuberoso-laxatis subrotundis albidis 
magnitudine feré Pist. 
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