. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . a common pen, dilated intoan oblong foliaceous lamina, from an inch and a half totwo inches in breadth and about six in length, traversedlongitudinally by a midrib branching into parallel side-nerves, armed at the angles of the indentations with pencilsof minute prickles scarcely visible to the naked eye andimbedded in short white wool. Flowers in the indentationsof the branches, solitary, 4 inches long, funnelform, slightlycurved, squarrosely patent without, within converging cylin-drically. Germen oblong, several times shorter than
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . a common pen, dilated intoan oblong foliaceous lamina, from an inch and a half totwo inches in breadth and about six in length, traversedlongitudinally by a midrib branching into parallel side-nerves, armed at the angles of the indentations with pencilsof minute prickles scarcely visible to the naked eye andimbedded in short white wool. Flowers in the indentationsof the branches, solitary, 4 inches long, funnelform, slightlycurved, squarrosely patent without, within converging cylin-drically. Germen oblong, several times shorter than thetube of the calyx. Calyx oblong, cylindrical, with a palegTcen tube beset with blackish purple reflected scales andshorter than the segments of the limb. Corolla of a finerose-colour, a little longer than the calyx; petals elongatedlyoblong, with a small point at the end, inner ones tubularlycampanulate. Stamens numerous, equal to the corolla:filaments of an almost capillary fineness, tender, white,Style equal to the stamens, filiform. Stigmas 5 or 305 ORNITHOGALUM tliyrsoides; yellow thyrse-Jlowering Star-of-Bethlehem. HEXAXDRIA MOXOGYXIA. Nat. ord, Asphodeli. Jussieu ge?i. 53. AspiioDELEiE. Brown i)rod. UM. Supra vol. 158. O. tliyrsoides, corymbis multifloris racemiformibus, filamentis alternis fur- catis, foliis laiiceolatis. Ilort. Keiv. 1. thyrsoides. Jacq. hort. vindob. 3. 17. t. 28; (mala). Syst, veg. Murr. 328. Thiinh. -prod. 62. Curtis*s magaz. 1164. Hort. Kerv. ed. 2. 2. 261. Redoute liliac. 333. Willd. sji. pi. 2. 124; (quoad,/?.)Ornithogalum arabicum. Redoide liliac. 63; (nec aliorum licet male pro 60 in edit, secuiida Hort. Kew. citatum sit).Ornithogalum aethiopicum. Clus. cur. post. 21. Parle, par. 138.(/3)floribus nondum apertis aurantiis, inde aureum. y, Willd. sp. pi. 2. flavescens. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. t. 437. coll. 3. 233. Bulbus tunicatus, subrotund
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