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N A R C I S S U S Cypri.
Cyprus Narcissus.
Linnean Class and Order. H E X A N D R I A M O N O G Y N I A .
Natural Order. A M A R Y L L I D E Æ . Brown p rodr. 1. p . 298.
S e c t . I . R a d ix b u l b o s a . Flores s p a t h a c e i , u m b e l l a t i , r a r ò s o l i t a r i i .
N A R C I S SU S . NpaiAa monophylla, follicularis, latere dehiscens, 1-mul-
tillora. Perianthium, superum, petaloideum, tubulosum : tubus subcylin-
dricus aut plus minusve angulatis : limbo sexpartito, patens, aut reflexo.
Corona faucis campanulata v. cupularis, aut rotata ; integra, vel lobata, aut
subdivisa. Stamina 6 tubo inserta, intrà coronam, ipsâ breviora. Antherce
incumbentes. Stylus subtrigonus. Stigma trilobum v. trifldum.
S e c t . V i l i . H e r m i o n e . NjjaiAa 3-multiflora. Perianthii foliolis \n
stellam patentes, coronâ parva caliciformi 3-5-plo longiores. Tubus gracilis
angulato-cylindricus corollæ laciniis longior, viridis. Fiiamenta toto tubo
adnata apice solum semilineam libera; tria tubo longe breviora, tria ejus
longitudine. Antherce parvulæ trigona-ovatæ erectæ, très tubo inclusæ, très
eum semisuperantes. Stylus rectus inclusus. Stigma plus minus trilobato-
trifidura, lobis rotundatis. Haworth. Narciss. Revis, in Supp. plant, suce,
p. 137.
T r i b u s I I . TazZETTA. F o l i a p l a n a e l e v a t o - s t r i a t a g l a u c a v . g l a u c
e s c e n t i a . S c a p i e l e v a t o - s t r i a t i m u l t i f l o r i . T u b u s a n g u l a t o - c y l i n d r i c u s , e l o n -
g a t u s . C o r o n a c y a t h i f o r m i s v . c u p u l a r i s a u t r o t a t i s , i n t e g r a a u t s u b l o b a t a .
N . Cypri, scapo subquadrifloro gracili, foliolis perianthii obovatis mucronatis
subimbricantibus semireflexis corona cupulari luteâ truncatâ sesqui-
duplo longioribus.
Hermione Cypri. Hatcorthin P h il. Mag. N. S. VILI. 133-4. P h il. Mag.
and Ann. March, 1831.
0 semipiena. Park. Parad. 85. f. 2 .—Semi-double Cyprus Narcissus.
7 plena. Park. Parad. 85. f. 3. 4 .—Double Cyprus Narcissus.
Bulb tunicate, clothed with brown, shelly scales. Plant
about a foot in height. Leaves erect, lorate, about half an
inch broad, and a foot in length ; upper side flat, blunt, pale
green, scarcely glaucescent, strongly striated at the back,
after flowering becoming longer, and obliquely bent. Scape
slenderer than in many of its allied species, strongly striated,
green, almost solid, particularly in the lower part, nearly
cylindrical at the base, upwards becoming a little more and
more compressed, and 2-edged : when in flower, about the
height of the foliage, afterwards somewhat shorter, and the
upper part hollow. Spathe membranaceous, bursting on one
side, i n our specimen bearing 4 flowers, erect, about the length
of the shortest peduncles. Peduncles erect, unequal in leng th,
1 to 2 inches long, slender, acutely triangular, pale green,
prominently striated. Ovarium (at the time of flowering)
small, oblong, bluntly triangular, slightly striated, and of a