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narrower as it extends to the p oint: inne?- leaflets much smaller,
refiexed from about the middle, the sides folded inwards,
oblongly lanceolate when spread out, and terminating regularly
in a sharp point, marked with a light patch in the centre,
round which it is striped and spotted with purple. Stamens
3, erect, inserted in the base of the perianthium, and
slightly connected at the base : Jilaments flat, broad at the
base and tapering upwards, where they are inserted into the
base of the anthers : anthers erect, rather broadest at the base,
two-lobed, bursting longitudinally at the sides for the exclusion
of the pollen, which is of a yellowish green. Ovarium
green, obovately oblong, scarcely angular. filiform,
smooth. Stigma erect, 3-lobed; the segments trifid, erect,
with a spreading purple appendage on each side, two side
ones longest, subulate, dark purple, with yellow points ; the
middle one shorter, blunter, and notched at the point. Capsule
brown and hard, 3-celled, 3-valved, many seeded. Seeds
small, more or less compressed, angular and of a pale brown
colour.
For the bulb that produced the specimen from which the
present figure was made, we are indebted to the Honourable
and Reverend W. Herbert, of Spofibrth, Yorkshire, who was
so kind as give us a bulb and seeds of it, which we planted
in a border of light soil, by the side of a wall in a southern
aspect, where it attained the height of two feet, and produced
a great number of flowers, which expanded in succession
a great part of the Summer, and some of them produced seeds;
the only protection we have ever given it, is, the covering of
a single mat in very severe weather, the same as we use for
the bulbs from Peru, Mexico, and the Cape; but we believe
the present would succeed without the least protection if
planted about four inches deep in the ground ; it is a native
of B uenos Ayres, and flowered for the first time in this country
in the Autumn of 1824, in the conservatory of the late Hon.
and Rev. George Herbert, at Burghclere, in memory of
whom the species is named.
The generic name is derived from kutteXXov, a cup, from
the hollow at the base of the flower.
1. One of the inner leaflets of the Perianthium, spread open to show its form. 2. The
3 Stamens slightly connected at tlie base, dilated below and tapering to a slender point,
where they are inserted into the base of the anthers, which are burst at the sides and show
the pollen. 3. Ovarium terminated by the Style and Stigma.
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