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ORNITHOGALUM thyrsoides; 6. flavescens, 
Pale yellow thyrse-flowering Star-of- Bethlehem. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. AspHopent. Jussieu gen. 53. 
AsPHODELER. Brown prod. 274, 
ORNITHOGALUM. Supra vol. 2. fol. 158. 
O. thyrsoides, corymbis multifloris racemiformibus, filamentis alternis fur- 
catis, foliis lanceolatis. Hort. Kew. 1. 442. 
Ornithogalum thyrsoides. Jacq. hort. vindob. 3. 17. t. 28; (mala). Syst. 
veg. Murr. 328. Thunb. prod. 62, Curtis’s magaz. 1164. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2.2.261. Redouté liliac. 333. Willd. sp. pl, 2. 124; (quoad B.) 
Ornithogalum arabicum. Redouté liliac. 63; (nec aliorum licét malé pro 
eo in edit. secundd Hort. Kew. citatum sit). ; 
Ornithogalum ethiopicum. Clus. cur. post, 21. Park. par. 138, 
(2)floribus nondum apertis aurantiis, indé albo-flavescentibus, 
Ornithogalum aureum. y. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 124. 
Ornithogalum flavescens. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. t. 437. coll. 3. 233, 
Bulbus tunicatus, subrotundus. Fol. plura (62) ambientia, recurvo-re- 
cumbentia, lorato-acuminata, planiuscula, lucida, lanugine subtilr ciliata, 
subbuncialia, basi convoluto-compleca. Scapus teres, glaucus, sesquipedalis v. 
ultra, flexuoso-erectus. Racemus multiflorus, corymboso-fastigians, semi- 
edalis v. ultra, primd aurantius indé fiavo-pallescens. Bractew singulares, 
convoluto-ovate cuspide elongata, duplo v. ultra breviores pedicellis subses- 
guiuncialibus. Cor. rotato-campanulata, cititts post anthesin connivens, nec un- 
quam explanata, vie sesquiunciam transversa; laciniis elliptico-oblongis, suba- 
gualibus, concavis, utrinque invicém imbricato-contiguis. Stam. 3-plo breviora 
corolla, erecto-patentia, supra incurvata, cinerascentia; fil. subulata, inferne 
alata, alis alternorum latioribus profundioribus et utrinque unidentatis dentibus 
conniventibus. Germ. cinerascens, oblongum, obtusé trigonum, subsexsul- 
cum; stylus continuus, brevis, crassiusculus, triqueter: stigma trilobo-capi- 
tatum, puberulum, brevius stylo. _ 
a 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Differs from aureum 
in having segments of the corolla that lap over each other at 
the sides, and with ends more shortly pointed; from revolu- 
dum in haying the same not divaricately outspread, and with 
sides which do not become revolute; from lacteum by hav- 
ing a corymbosely fastigiate inflorescence. The white 
variety was received by Clusius out of a Dutch ship from 
the Cape; and was cultivated by that learned naturalist, in 
the Low Countries, as long ago as 1605. The present va- 
riety was originally introduced by Mr. Masson. ‘The speci- 
men which afforded our drawing was imported by Mr. Grif- 
fin; and flowered in his conservatory at South Lambeth in 
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