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_ CALOSTEMMA purpureum. 
Purple-flowered Calostemma. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. = 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. J. Radix bulbosa. 
Flores spathacei, unibellati, raro solitarii. 
CALOSTEMMA. Supra fol. 421. 
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C. purpureum, scapo florido foliis (lorato-lineatibus) pracociore, corone 
dentibus sterilibus triangularibus. Brown prod. 1. 298. ‘ 
Calostemma purpureum. Curtis’s magaz. 2100. 
Bulbus tunicatus, subrotundus magnitudine pugni. Scapus sesqui-bipe- 
dalis, strictus, subangulari-compressus, folia preveniens, proportione florum 
robustus. Umbella multiflora: pedicelli graciles, flextles, compressiusculi, 
@quales corolle wel longiores: corolla infundibuliformis roseo-punicans, 3 
partes uncie longa vel circa; tubus pallescens, sexstriato-angulatus, duplo 
erme brevior limbo; limbus sexpartztus, turbinato-campanulatus, laciniis. 
spathulato-obovatis, concavis, mucronatis:. corona § brevior limbo, angusté 
turbinata, viridis, membranis interstamineis purpurets angustissimis bidentatis 
haud rard medio fissili-partitis quando filamenta alata utrinque unidentata 
uti ORNITHOGALORUM ALLIORUMQUE plurimorum evadunt. fil (vel rectiis 
horum portiones que pa corone membranam) viridia subulata conniven- 
tia duplo breviora corond: anth. versatiles, oblonga, bis breviores filamentis, 
JSulvo-flavicantes. Stylus compresso-filiformis, virescens, equalis corolla: 
stigma simplex: germen subglobosum, \-loculare, magnitudine via dupla 
grant sinapeos. 
Native of New Holland, where the species was origi- 
nally observed by Mr. Brown. Introduced about a year 
ago. We saw fine plants of it at the nursery of Messrs. 
Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, among other bulb- 
ous species from the same country. 
Scape from a foot and a half to two feet high, stiff, — 
somewhat angularly compressed, stout in proportion to 
the size of the flowers, forerunning the foliage. Umbel 
many-flowered: pedicles slender, flexile, slightly compressed, _ 
equal to the corolla or longer: corolla funnelform, of a 
rosy purple colour, about three fourths of an inch long: tube 
pale, scored and angular, nearly twice shorter than the 
limb; limb sixparted, turbinately campanulate, segments’ 
spatulately obovate, concave, mucronate; crown (or mona- 
delphous portion of the stamens) a third shorter than the 
limb, narrowly turbinate or cucullate, green, insterstami- 
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