814° 
ORNITHOGALUM virens. 
Green Ornithogalum. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELER. Br. prodr. ; 
ORNITHOGALUM. L. Supra vol. 2. fol. 158. 
O. virens; racemo spicato multifloro, foliis lineari-lanceolatis debilibus ad 
_ apicem breviter teretibus acuminatis, sepalis patentibus, staminibus al- 
ternis bidentatis, bracteis floribus longioribus. 3% 
Folia longa, 13 pedalia, debilia, ligulata, versus apicem sensim attenu- 
ata, demum in acumine terete, brevi, desinentia, pallide viridia, subcanali- 
culata. Scapus foliorum longitudine, erectus, teres, viridis, glaber. Race- 
mus laaus, rectus, cylindraceus, 5 pedalis. Bractee subulate, sphacelate, 
oribus inexpansis longiores. Pedicelli leves, floris patentes, fructus erecti. 
Flores virides. Sepala patentia, plana, oblonga, obtusa, interioribus paulo 
erectioribus. Stamina 6, cired pistillum erecta, sepalis breviora, inter bases 
sepalorum et ovarti inserta. Filamenta 2-formia, ea sepalis interioribus op- 
posita dilatata bidentata, exterioribus subulata. Anthere parve, oblonge, 
_versatiles. Ovarium triquetrum, oblongum, angulis sepalis exterioribus op- 
positis. Stylus subulatus. Stigma simplex. 
Oss. Aistivatio floris duplici serie valvata. 
A new species of Ornithogalum, related, on the one 
hand, to O. caudatum, from which it differs’ in being a 
smaller plant, in having shorter acuminated ends to the 
Jeaves, in its green flowers, and in having the alternate fila- 
ments bidentate ; on the other side, it approaches the O. odo- 
ratum of Jacquin, from which it may be distinguished by 
the flowers of O. odoratum being larger, the leaves shorter, 
and the bracts shorter than the ftlower-stalks. 
It is a pretty plant, remaining a long time in flower, 
and cultivated without difficulty in pots filled with light 
sandy loam. 
Bulbs were sent, in 1823, by the late Mr. Forbes, from 
Delagoa Bay, in Southern Africa, to the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, where our drawing was made in 
March last. 
Leaves long, weak, ligulate, narrowed’ by degrees to the 
end, where they are terminated by a rounded acuminate 
point, pale green, channelled, a foot and half to two feet 
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