TAB. I.
ANTHOLYZA CUNONIA.
CHARACTER GENERICUS.
CAL. Spatke bivalves, alternatic, imbrlcatíE, flores diftinguentes, peififtentes.
COR. Petalum unicum e tubo fenfim dilatatum in faucem compreflam, ringentem. Labium
fupertus reélum, tenue, longiffimum : laciniis duabus brevibus ad bafin inílmílum.
L. inferius brevius, trifidum.
STAM. Filatmnta tria longa, tenuia, fub labio fuperiori. Antherie acuta:.
PiST. Germen inferum. Stylus filiformis, fitu et longitudine ftaminum fuperiorum. Stigma
trifidum, capillare, refiexum.
PER. Capfula fubrotunda, trigona, trilocularis, trivalvis.
SEM. plura, triangularía. TRIANDRIA Monogynia.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Antholyza corollis reñís, labii quinquepartiti lobis duobus extimis latioribus adfcendentibus.
L I N . SP. pi. P.54.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CAL. Spathes bivalve, alternate, imbricate, feparating the flowers, permanent.
CoR. Petal fingle, gradually dilating from a tube into a comprefled ringent mouth. Upper-lip
ftrait, flender, very long: furnifhed with two fliort divifions at the bafe. Lower-hp
fliorter, trifid.
STAM. Filaments three; long, under the upper-lip. Anthers (harp.
PisT. Germ inferior. Style thread-form, of the length and fituation of the upper ftamina.
Stigma trifid, capillary, reflex.
PER. Capfule roundifh, three-cornered, three-celled, three-valved.
SEEDS many, triangular.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c.
Antholyza with ftrait corols, the two outward lobes of the five-cleft lip wider than the reft,
and afcending.
Scarlet-flowered Antholyza. HORT. KEW.
THE natural afl^ortment to which the plants of this genus belong approaches very nearly to the
liliaceous tribe, but differs in the number of ftamina, as well as in feme particulars relative to
habit or general appearance. In the fragments of a natural method, given by Linnaeus at the
end of the Genera Plantarum, this genus ranks under the Enlatit, or plants furniflied with fword-
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