. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . rennial herbaceous plant. Rootstoch fleshy. Radi-cal leaves several, surrounding the stem, the flat side facinginwards, narrowly linear, elongated, scarcely exceeding twolines in breadth, channelled, keeled, ultimately revolutealong the edges, membranously enlarged and half-sheath-ing at the base; cauline ones distant, short. Ste/ti round,simple. Raceme terminal, undivided. Peduncles whileflowerbearing recurved, when fruitbearing upright; hractesat their base double, twice as short, one interior and shorterthan the one at the side. C
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . rennial herbaceous plant. Rootstoch fleshy. Radi-cal leaves several, surrounding the stem, the flat side facinginwards, narrowly linear, elongated, scarcely exceeding twolines in breadth, channelled, keeled, ultimately revolutealong the edges, membranously enlarged and half-sheath-ing at the base; cauline ones distant, short. Ste/ti round,simple. Raceme terminal, undivided. Peduncles whileflowerbearing recurved, when fruitbearing upright; hractesat their base double, twice as short, one interior and shorterthan the one at the side. Corolla tubular, six-lobed at theorifice, withering. Stamens placed on the tube. Anthersfixed on at the conical aperture of the base. Germen pe-dicled. Style subulate. Stigma simple. Capsule prism-^shaped, partable into three, each of which opens at the in-terior angle. Seeds in two rows, inserted at the edges of theseam or suture^ testa or outer coat loose, pubescent. The germen begins to protrude from the mouth cf thdflower^ soon after the flower 287 LACHENALIA pallida. (3. StraiVColom^ed pale-Jlowered Lachenalia. HEXANDRIA MQNOGYNIA, Nat. ord, Asphodeli. Jussien gen. 51. Dh. III. Flores bulbosa. Corolla basi tubulosa. LACHENALIA. Cor. infera, sexdivisa, oblato-v. cylindrico-campa-nulata, laciniis 3 exterioribus brevloribus oblongis calycino-conniventibuscaruncuhi externa infra apicem, interioribus 3 alternis supra rotundato-dilatatis patulis. Fil. basi laciniarum corollae inserta, subassurgentia:anth. incumbentes. Stylus subassurgenter porrectus: stig. simplex. , subtrilobo-trigona, 3-loc., 3-valv. valvis medio septiferis:sem. biseriata, plura in loculo, globosa. Bulbus timicatus; fol. 1-pIurima, ambientia, subcarnosaf teneray lineariaad lato-ovata. Scsi]i\is ^carnosus. Flores erecto-spicati v. racemosiy undique sparsi. In Scilla proxima ^corollarum lacinice conformes atqve cequi-Longce^ organa recta. In Drimia corolla rejlexa et cequali
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