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ORNITHOGALUM corymbosum. 
Peruvian Ornithogalum. 
— aS 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Aspnoprtem. . 
ORNITHOGALUM. Supra, vol. 2. tab. 158. 
pa a A CN Oy TM 
O. corymbosum ; scapo terete, floribus corymbosis, corollA magna, germine 
atro. Flora Peruviana 3.68. t. 300. Lindley in Hort. Trans. 6.86. 
Bulbus semi-subterraneus, supra terram vestigiis foliorum cicatricatus. 
Folia 13 pedalia, ligulata, canaliculata, carnosa, debilia, humifusa, glaber- 
rina, viridid. Scapus 2-pedalis, teres, penne cygnee@ crassitudine. Racemus 
corymbosus, decussatus, 6-florus. Bractece acuminate, cordate, membra- 
nacee, pedicello duplo breviores subdentate, eique appresse, apicem versits 
virides firmiores. Flores albi, odore leto Oxyacanthe. Sepala primim 
cyathiformia, dein patentissima, umbricata, late ovata, subundulata, venosa, 
equalia, carnosa, apice quandoque paululum divisa. Stamina 6, petalis 
duplo breviora, erecta, sepalis inserta; filamenta subulata;: antherce ovate, 
demim verticales. Ovarium obovatum, “nigro-viride. Stylus jfiliformis, 
simplex, bast viridis. 
We extract the following remarks upon this plant from 
the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, in whose 
garden at Chiswick our drawing was made. 
“A bulb from Chili proved, upon flowering, to be the 
species described and figured under this name, (O. corym- 
bosum,) in the Flora Peruviana. It is very like O. Arabi- 
cum, of which it is perhaps a mere variety; remarkable, 
however, for being a native of a country far distant from 
any in which O. Arabicum has yet been found. That it 
is wild in Chili, cannot be doubted, both from the bulbs 
in question having been sent with other wild plants 
indiscriminately collected, and because, although it is 
cultivated in the gardens of Peru, the authors of the Flora 
Peruviana expressly state their plant to be commonly wild 
in the provinces of Chancay, Cercado, and Huanuco. 
