. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . red. Stem round,from six to twelve feet high, about as thick as a crow-quillat the base. Leaves alternate, distant, broadly cordate,three-lobed, 2-4 inches long, lobes pointed, middle onelarger and farther tapered. Peduncles axillary, solitary,about the length of the petioles, 2-3-flowered. Bracteslinear. Calyx more roughly furred than any other part ofthe plant, 3 times shorter than the corolla or more, leafletsupright, lanceolate with a long narrow subulate point, ofone length, two inner ones narrower than the rest. Flowerslarge, o
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . red. Stem round,from six to twelve feet high, about as thick as a crow-quillat the base. Leaves alternate, distant, broadly cordate,three-lobed, 2-4 inches long, lobes pointed, middle onelarger and farther tapered. Peduncles axillary, solitary,about the length of the petioles, 2-3-flowered. Bracteslinear. Calyx more roughly furred than any other part ofthe plant, 3 times shorter than the corolla or more, leafletsupright, lanceolate with a long narrow subulate point, ofone length, two inner ones narrower than the rest. Flowerslarge, of a bright pale blue colour. Corolla nearly fun-nelform; tube equal to the calyx, more than twice shorterthan Xhefaux, which is white; limh subrotately expanded,twice shorter than the tube reckoned together with the faux,segments rounded mucronately notched or even with the faux, of unequal lengths; filaments furred below; anthers cream-coloured. Stigma agranulated head, slightly and obscurely three-lobed. Cellsof the capsule 277 ALBUCA Alhuca, HEXANDRIA MOXOGYNIA. Kat. ord, Aspkodeli. Jussieu gen. 51. Div. IV. Flores spicati. Radix bulbosa. Corolla sexpartita, basi ^:. Brorvn prod. Cor. sexpartita, laciniis 3 interioribus ssepe erecto-conni-ventibus, rarius omnibus stellato-patentibus, apice semper triqueter, crassus v. robustus. Stigma hirtum. Sem. plana, alata,nigra. Differt Ornithogalo laciniis coroUce alternis apice Jornicato-inciirvisatque incrassatis ; stylo triquetro quasi ex tribiis coadiinatis ; stigmate glandu-loso-pubescente; Antherico oh radicem solido-bidbosayn^ Nob. in foil. 871 et 1016. T>iv. Staminibus omnibus fastigiata, petalis interioribus apice fornicatis, foliis glabris, pedunculis longissimis. Drijander Act. holm. 1784. fastigiata. Thunb. prod. 65. Hort. Keiv. 1. 436. ed. 2. 2. 250. Willd. sp. pi. 2. 101. An
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