EREMURUS spectabilis.
Showy Eremurus.
Natural Order. A s p h o d e l e æ . Brown prodr. p. 274.
E R EM U R U S . Perianthium 6 partitura, post anthesin invo-
lutum. Stamina 6-, im p ú b e r a intra perianthium conduplicata ;
effoeta longissime exserta. Stylus filiformis, fecundatus re-
flexus. Stigma simplex.
E. spectabilis, foliis radicalibus linearibus carinatis glaucescentibus,
scapo racemoso, bracteis lineari-subulatis pedicellis
parum brevioribus.
Eremurus spectabilis. March. Bieh. taur. cauc. 3. p. 2u9. Cent,
t. 61. L in k enum. 1. p . 328. Spreng. syst. veg. 2. p . 83. Swt.
hort. brit. p . 416.
Asphodelus altaicus. Willden. sp. pi. 2. p. 154. Pall. act. pet
1779. p. 260. 1.10. Pers. syn. 1. p. 367. Siut. hort. sub.
lond. p. 71.
Perennial. Leaves from the root, several, radiately
spreading, from a foot to 15 inches in length, linear,
acute, sharply keeled at the hac^ obsoletely striate,
slightly glaucous. Scape from 18 inches to 3 feet high,
without leaves, angular, smooth, terminated in a long
crowded raceme of flowers. Bractes linearly subulate,
or broad at the base, and tapering to a long slender
point, keeled at the back, sheathing the pedicles at the
base. Pedicles smooth, about the length of or a little
longer than the bractes, slenderest at the base, and
thickening upwards. Perianthium 6-parted, nearly to
the hase: segments lanceolate and acute, the three outer
ones nearly double the size of the inner ones, of a light
yellowish green at the base, the points of a pale yellow;
after flowering, the segments all roll inwards. Stamens 6,
inserted in the base of the perianthium, close to the ger-
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