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OPHIOPOGON spicatus. 
Blue-flowered Snakesheard. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELER. Brown prod. 1. 274. 
OPHIOPOGON. Cor. semisupera limbo 6-partito rotato equali per- 
sistente. Stam. inclusa, wqualia, conniventia, filamentis brevibus imo co- 
roll limbo insertis: anth. introrse, erect, sagittato-lineares, exths prope 
basin insert. Germ. semiinferum, 3-loc. loculis di-poly (6) spermis, ovulis 
adscendentibus: stylus robustus, triquetro-subulatus; stig. apex trigonus con- 
tinuus. ; 
Herbe perennes humiliores, radice repente, fibris carnosis sepiis tube- 
roso-nodosis. Fol. graminea, radicalia, sempervirentia? numerosa, linearia, 
fasciculato-ambientia, inferné semivaginose compacta incrassato-rigentia 
ochreataque vel membrand tenui sphacelatd utringue aucta. Racemus 
laxus, scapi simplicis rigidt flexuost tereti-angulost continuus. Flores firmi. 
v. rigentes, ex albidis obsoletius conspicuiusve cerulescentes, minusculi, cum 
pedicello articulati, aggregatt, raro solitarit : fasciculi pauct-pluriflori, plures 
v: numerosi, laxits sparsi, singuli bractea communi subfoliaced subtenst par- 
tialibusque tenuibus sphacelatis interstincti. Staminum situs pre immerso 
germine epigynum comparens: anth. ea brevitate filamentorum subsessiles. 
Germinis loculamenta in spicato parallelo-disperma, in japonico (ex Richard) 
hexasperma., Fructus in japonico (ex dicto aut.) bacca cerulea subgloboso- 
ovoidea apice areolata, 3-loc. seminibus paucis v. interdim solitariis; in spi- 
cato verd (monente D. Brown) semen (sepée 2-3) nudum baccatum de ovulo 
mox post pseu conceptum aucti precociori cetera illidente exque ger- 
minis vertice erumpente excretum;. bast cum exuto germine coherens. 
O. spicatus, scapo foliis subzequali y. longiore, fasciculorum racemo laxius- 
culo numeroso longo, germinis loculamentis dispermis. 
Ophiopogon spicatus. Nobis in Curtis’s magaz. 1063: in lined penultima 
folit versi. 
Conyallaria spicata. Thunb. jap.141. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 161. 
Liriope spicata. Loureiro cochin. 200; ( monente D. Brown ab autopsia 
edocto exemplaris archetypi in Herb. Parisiano asservati. ) 
Fol. plurima, inequalia, lonyiora nune pedalia, latitudine subbilineari, 
striata, extima brevia dura vaginas radicales emulantia. Scapus aphyllus, 
tercti-angulosus, rigidus, violaceo-virescens, crassitudine; via penne corvine. 
Fasciculi 2-4-flori: pedicelli raré solitarit parum longiores flore, stricti erecti, 
1-jlori, cum flore articulati: bractee partiales squame breves fusce oblonge 
obtuse subsquarroso-imbricate ; communes subherbacee, acuminate, ex imis 
fasciculo sublongioribus surstim decrescentes. Flores diametro subtrilineares 
dilutits violacei, nitidi, inodori, laciniis oblongis obtusis basi pallentibus,. 
3 interioribus latioribus ovatis. Stam. corolla % breviora: fil. antheris fere 
equalia, filiformia, firma, distanti-incurvescentia: anth. lutee, ad dorso 
juata basin infixe, erecto-conniventes, indé demisso polline vibratiles. Germ. 
supra depresso-orbiculatum trigibbum; loculamentis replete dispermis, ovulis 
arallelis, imo angulo annexis, adscendentibus, obovato-oblongis. Stylus 
obsolete violaceus, staminibus equalis, filamentis ter crassior v. ultra, puncto 
stigmatoso pallido glanduloso triangularé apiculatus. 
