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LACHENALIA pallida. p. 
Straw-coloured pale-flowered Lachenalia. 
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. HEXANDRIA J/0NOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Aspuoprtt. Jussieu gen. 51. Div. III. Flores spicati. 
Radix bulbosa. Corolla basi tubulosa. 
LACHENALIA, Cor. infera, sexdivisa, oblato-v. cylindrico-campa- 
nulata, laciniis 3 exterioribus brevioribus oblongis calycino-conniventibus 
carunculd externa infra apicem, interioribus 3 alternis supra. rotundato- 
dilatatis patulis. Fi. basi laciniarum corolle inserta, subassurgentia: 
anth. incumbentes. Stylus subassurgentér porrectus: si7g. simplex. Caps. 
membranosa, subtrilobo-trigona, 3-loc., $-valv. valvis medio septiferis: 
sem. biseriata, plura.in loculo, globosa. 
Bulbus’ tuntcatus; fol. 1-plurima, ambientia, subcarnosa, tenera, linearia 
ad lato-ovata. Scapus,carnosus. Flores erecto-spicati v. racemosi, undi- 
gus sparst. In SciLuA proximé ,corollarum lacinia conformes atque @qui- 
onge, organa recta. In Drimia corolla reflexa et equalis, stamina recta. 
Collineat Masson1aM 4 pusilla sud. 7 
L. pallida, corollis campanulatis, petalis 3 interioribus longioribus, floribus ° 
-brevissimé pedunculatis horizontalibus, foliis lineari-oblongis scapo 
longioribus. Hort. Kew. 1. 460. ai 
Lachenalia pallida. Thunb. prod. 64.  Redouté iliac. 22. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 
172. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 285. 
Lachenalia mediana. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. t. 392. coll. 3. 242. 
te flore pallido subczerulescente. 
&) flore pallido sublutescente. 
_ Fol. bina, 9-uncialia v. pedalia, erecto-recurva, glabra, lucida, semunciam 
v. ultra lutiora, inferné convoluto-vaginosa. Scapus glaucescens. Racemus 
mulliflorus, laxiusculus ; floribus horizontalibus, pedicellis pluriés brevioribus 
corolla, bracteis laté ovato-acuminatis, brevibus. Cor. % uncie paulo ex- 
superans, oblonga, cylindraceo-campanulata, suburceolata; lac. 3 exteriores 
5 circitér breviores, obtusissime carunculd externa viridi infra apicem, sub- 
carinale@, una summa sublongior conspicuius carinata, $ interiores spathulato- 
obovate, pallidiores, tenuiores, carina supra obsolete virente, una subangustior 
emarginata, Stam. conniventia, subequalia corolle: pollen luteum. Germ. 
viride, oblongum, subconicum, rotundaté hexagonum sulcis 3 alternis pro- 
JSundiis impressis. 
A genus closely akin to Scitxa: differing chiefly in 
having the three alternate outer segments of the corolla. 
shorter than the three inner, which last have also a dilated. 
blade, and by the stamens and style being slightly bowed, 
asin Atoz. About 30 species are known, all natives of the 
Cape of Good Hope. Some of them are very ornamental: 
indeed we do not know a handsomer plant than the spotted 
leaved variety of Lacuenatia guadricolor, which, when. 
