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ORNITHOGALUM revolutum. 
Revolute-flowered Star-of-Bethlehem. 
ne 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AspHopEnt. Jussieu gen. 53. 
ASPHODELER®. “Brown prod. 274. 
ORNITHOGALUM. Supra vol. 2. fol. 158. 
O. revolutum, racemo paucifloro, petalis lineari-oblongis obliqué flexis 
Sees) filamentis lanceolato-subulatis, foliis linearibus. Willd. sp. 
pl. 2.118. . 
Ornithogalum revolutum. Jacq. hort. scheend. 1. 46. t. 89. Curtis’s magar. 
658. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 258. ‘ 
Lotum glabrum. Bulbus subrotundus, tunicatus, albidus; avellane muge 
nitudine. Folia sepé tria, sublinearia, integerrima, obtusula, inferné canali- 
culata, ceterim planiuscula, erectiuscula, plus minus semipedalia. Scapus 
' teres, calamo gracilior, plus minus octo uncias longus, ears erectus, 
racemosus, multiflorus. edunculi crassuli, unciales.  Bractez lanceolate, 
acuminate, conniventes et amplexantes, scariose, inferne albide, superné 
JSuscescentes, pedunculis duplo eter Corolle lacinie obversé ovate, ob 
tusule, ad oras revolute, convexule, patentissine, subequales, feré unciales, 
alba cum base sola utringue virente. Fil. subulata, planiuscula, erecta, brevia, 
alba, tria alterna basi latiora. Anth. oblonge, subincumbentes, fave. Germ. 
ovatum, 3-sulcatum. Stylus crassus, brevis. Stigma capitatum, subrotun- 
dum, flavescens. Jacq. loc. cit. 
We are obliged to Mr. Griffin for the specimen from 
which the drawing of this rare species was taken. The 
bulb had been imported from the Cape of Good Hope, 
where it is native, and had been first observed by Mr. 
Masson, who introduced it in 1795. Not having had an 
opportunity of describing it from the present plant, we shall 
subjoin a description which we have given in another work 
from another specimen. 
Bulb tunicated. Leaves 3-6 inches long, ambient, re- 
curvedly patent, linearly lanceolate, thickish, nearly flat 
upwards, channelled downwards, edged with a very slender 
minutely ciliate white cartilage. Scape about eight inches 
high, upright, round, flexuose. Raceme conically oblong ; 
flowers white, with a round darkish stain at the base, scent- 
less; bracées acuminately lanceolate, convolute, some of the 
lower ones equal to the peduncles, upper ones gradually 
shortened, greenly or sphacelately membranous. Corolla 
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