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beautiful glossy blackness, slightly 3-fnrrowed. smooth,
3-sided, about equal with the filaments. Stigma slightly 3-
lobed.
Our drawing of this handsome Ornithogalum was taken,
last Autumn, from fine specimens sent from the collection of
the late Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury-hill, who had received
it from Chile, where it was collected and sent home
by Bridges, who went out there as Collector; it was planted
in a border, in a southern aspect, where it grew very luxuriant,
and produced the present specimen. In the beginning
of October last, when we visited the above collection, we
saw it again in flower, stronger and finer than our specimen.
In the Peruvian and Chile collection of specimens, collected
by the noted travellers Ruiz and Pavon, and now in the possession
of A. B. Lambert, Esq., who obligingly allowed us
to examine the native specimens in their collection, and
where there were several fine specimens of the present plant
in fine preservation, we observed several with 20 flowers in
a corymb.
Bulbs of the same plant we saw, also, in flower, at the
Apothecaries’ Botanic Garden, at Chelsea, which Mr. Anderson
had received from the same Lady that he received
the beautiful Tropceolum tricolorum, the different species of
Cummingia, and several other curious bulbs and seeds; see
the figure 88 of our last number. As Mr. Anderson’s were
grown in pots, in the Greenhouse, they were not so fine as
those in our specimen.
With the greater part of the bulbs from Chile, Peru,
Buenos Ayres, and Mexico, the present one will succeed
well in a warm border in the flower garden, planted about 6
inches deep, with the covering of a mat in severe frosty weather,
but to be always exposed when the weather is mild;
it may be increased by offsets from the root.
For the derivation of the generic name, see folio 42, of the
present series.
1. One of tlie outer leaflets of the Perianthium. 2. One of the inner ones. 3. The 6
Stamens, showing the dilated filaments. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and slightly
3-lobed Stigma.