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MASSONIA longifolia: @; candida. 
Oblong-leaved Massonia. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELE®. Brown prod. 1. 274. sails” 
MASSONIA. Cor. infera, erecta, tubulosa, persistens, limbo 6-par- 
tito equali rotato, plerimque refracto. Jil. exserta, rard inclusa,’ sub- 
ulato-filiformia, -summo tubo inserta, erecta plerdmque incurvescentia, 
sepits zqualia et basi membrana brevi angusta connexa. Germ. poris 3 ma- 
dentibus' prope apicem inter angulos (anne constantér?). Stylus setaceo- 
elongatus, curvulus: stig. punctum puberulum, rard triplex. Caps. scarioso- 
membranacea, subdiaphana, triloba, 3-loc., 3-valy., valvis septiferis, tur- 
binata ampla lobis profundis cuneato-attenuatis, rarids subovata parva lobis 
brevibus carinatis : seme. plura ---numerosa, parva, globosa, internis septorum 
marginibus funiculatim annexa, test@ nigra. — 
Bulbus tunicatus. Scapus nanus reconditus, rard externus: corym- 
bus capitato-congestus foliaceo-bracteatus, modd in thyrsum-brevem laxum 
extensus ‘bracteis diminutis membranaceis. Fol. carnosula, bifaria, subge- 
mina, erecta vel reflexa et humi appressa, -ovato-orbiculata, v. linearia, lan- 
ceolatave.. Semina vix triplo Sinapeos majoras Genus Hy acintuo diffi- 
cilé dirimendum, sed in illo filamenta tubo inferne, nec summo ora, inserta: 
Evcomin collineat, aliundé BRUNSVIGIAM et HaMANTHUM, 
RU CATR oe Me . licet germen 
in Q-ultimis inferum. “Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 1468; in notd fol. versi. 
M. longifolia, foliis lanceolato-oblongis acuminat 
29. t. 457. ; 
(8) candida. Burchell MSS. & 
Bulbus ovatus magnitudine ovi columbint. Fol. 2 divaricato-bifaria, humi 
appresse recumbentia, glabra, lineata, oblonga, acuminata, majus sesunciale 
vel ultra, latitudine 4-unciali. Flores candicantes, gratissimé odori. Sca-. 
pus inclusus: corymbus plurimus, congestus, Valeaceoshrdeteatus : pedicelli 
1-flori, albi, robusti, clavati, tubo breviores: bractex ovato-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, tubo breviores, introrsim descrescentes. Cor. 1% unc. v. circa longa, 
hypocrateriformis: tubus erectus cylindricus, longitudine staminum, basi. 
cuneatus: limbus sexpartitus, tenuior, arcté deflexus, tubo § brevior, laciniis 
ligulato-acuminatis, concavis, superne virescentibus, basi plicd transversé ar- 
cuata refleais. Stam. erecto-patentia, incurvescentia, equalia, limbo % feré 
altiora, alba; fil. robustits setacea, ort tubi inserta, laciniis opposita, bast 
membrané brevi angustissima connexa; anth. parvule, versatiles, incumbentes, 
oblonga, polline stramineo-pallente. Germ. viride, oblongum, prismaticum, 
scrobiculis tribus cum poro viridissimo madente in.fundo juxta apicem impres-, 
sum, loculis biseriato-polyspermis: stylus albus, filamentis equalis et nisi 
gracilior omnino similis; stigma punctum puberulwm inconspicuum, 
is, Jacg. hort. schoenb. 4. 
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A genus apparently confined to southern Africa, no 
‘species having been yet discovered but in the colony and 
adjoining districts of the Cape of Good Hope. 
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