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STRUMARIA filifolia. 
Fine-leaved Strumaria. 
ee 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord, Narcissi. Jussieu gen. Div. II. 
AMARYLLIDE®. Brown prod. 1.296. Sect. I. 
STRUMARIA. Spatha a-valvis, brevior umbellé bracteata. Cor. su- 
pera, erecta y. nutans, regularis, subzqualis, 6-petalo-partita, turbinata ad 
stellato-divaricatam, laciniis lanceolatis, nunc in tubum ad basin connexis. 
Fil. disco corolle inserta, haud rard exserta, distincta y. monadelpha v, 
alterna 3 inter se concreta 3 altera gynandricé cum stylo: anth. oblonge, 
plurimim breviores filamentis, versatiles. Stylus strictissimus, polymorphus, 
nunc fusiformis triquetro-sulcatus, nunc alatus, nunc inferné strum’ varia 
protuberans: stig. 3, attenuata, replicata vel in cuspidem coadunata. Caps. 
membranacea, trigibba, 3-valv. valvis medio septigeris: sem. biserialia, in 
loculamentis singulis pauca, y. unicum bulboso-laxatum albumine herbaceo- 
emollito. Bulbus tunicatus. Fol. 2-plura é vagind radicali, filiformia ad 
lorato-oblonga, a plano bifaria, nunc tardiora scapo. Umbella parca laxa ad 
congesto-multiradiatam. In quibusdam corpuscula 3 strumosa inter stylum 
et stamina videnda. Differt HeMANTHO, tam ob spatham non multivalvem 
quam ob capsulam non baccatam; &@ Luvcoso 0b spatham non follicularem 
ob antheras breviores filamento, necnon haud inversas neque apice hiantes. 
Nob. in Curtis’s magaz. 1963. 
§. filifolia, foliis filiformibus, corollis stellato-divaricatis : stylo strumé inflatt 
anguloso-plicata infra medium protuberante. 
Strumaria filifolia, Jacq. ic. rar. 2.14. Willd. sp. pl. 2.32. Hort. Kew. ed. 
2. 2, 213. 
Leucojum strumosum. Solander in Hort. Kew. 1. 407. t. 5. Jacq. coll. 3. 
222. ic. rar. t. 3613 (in ipsd icone non vero in textu.) Thunb. prod. 68. 
Crinum tenellum. Lin. suppl. 194; (excl. synonymo). “4 ™ 
Bulbus ovatus magnitudine ovt passerini. Fol. plura, plurimim longiora — 
scapo, procumbentia, subtus convexa, supra canaliculata. Scapus 3-4-uncia- 
lis pennd corvind duplo gracilior, fleauosus, nunc infra sanguineo-rubens. 
Umbella pluri(6-10-)-flora, laa: pedune. patentes, unciales v. ultra, fili- 
formes, strictiusculi, supra subtriquetri. ores inodort. Germ. subglobo- 
sum, 3-gibbum. Cor. erecta, micans, intds candicans, extis cinamomeo- 
“punicans, semunciam transversa v. circa, laciniis 3-plo latitudine angustiori- — 
bus, subunguiculatis, concavis, ad basin usque distantibus. Fil: distineta, & ~ 
breviora corolle, basi ovato-dilatata contigua, indé setaceo-subulata patentia: | 
anth. cinnamomeo-rubentes. Stylus albus, inferné struma obovato-turbinaté 
angulari-plicatd micante extumescens, indé triquetro-subulatus, 3-sulcus: 
stig’. obsoleté trina. oan i 
— 
This genus, comprising a very naturally assorted group, 
is remarkable in its ordinal section, for the strange incon- 
stancy in the configuration of the style, a part of almost un- 
deviating uniformity throughout the rest of the section. 
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