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ANTHERICUM canaliculatum. — @. rufum. 
Rufous Hairy Anthericum. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELER, ; 
ANTHERICUM. Supra vol. 7. fol. 564. 
A, canaliculatum ; foliis subcarnosis pilosis ensiformi-triquetris latere an- 
Sustiore canaliculatis, scapo simplice. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. 1.448. 
-Canaliculatum., Willd. sp. pl. 2.141. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2,269. 
lalangium canaliculatum. Pers. syn. 1.369. 
*rufum; floribus rufo-vittatis pedicellisque pilosis. 
Anthericum canaliculatum. Bot. mag. 1124. 
_ Scapus teres, pilosus. Racemus multiflorus ; pedunculi teretes, glabri, 
Ue unciales. Bractex lanceolate, acuminate, sub anthesi pedunculo bre- 
lores, glabre. Petala patula, alba, dorso sordide virescentia, semiuncialia. 
F ilamenta subulata, alba, petalis breviora, hispidiuscula, tria alterna minus 
hispida. Stylus longitudine staminum. Hort. Kew. |. c. 
_ Obs. Tn varietate nostri scapus humilior, sepala dorso rufa pilosa, nec 
Sordidé viridia, pedicelli pilosi, filamenta glabra, 
We were not aware, that the subject of this article had 
been already published in the Botanical Magazine, until 
after our plate was in the hands of the colourers. As 
the drawing was made several years since by Mr. Syderr- 
am Edwards, representing the plant in a more perfect 
manner, and in a different state from the figure in the 
Otanical Magazine, we hope to stand excused for the 
Oversight. \ 
Prom the original state of the species this variety differs, 
as has been already remarked by Mr. Ker, in the pedicels 
and interior of the flower being hairy, and marked with a 
rufous, not green stripe. We have therefore separated if, 
as a variety of which the characters are so distinct as to 
Make it advisable that it should be permanently distin- 
Suished, 1 ge ae 
It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was 
roduced, upon the authority of the Hortus Kewensis, in 
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