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filaments ; those also occur in L. anceps, but very slightly.
Stamens 3, inserted in the throat : Jilaments smooth, attached
to the back of the anthers : anthers linear, sagittate at the
base, purple. Gemew smooth, bluntly 3-sided, % /e smooth,
about the height of the stamens, a little exserted. Stigmas
3, bifid, spreading, fimbriate, the points of the segments
again slightly cloven.
This very curious and pretty plant, which, as far as we
can trace, has hitherto been undescribed, is a native of the
Cape of Cood Hope, from whence it was brought to this
country by Mr. Synnot, who we believe introduced more
new and rare bulbs from that country at one time, than was
ever done by any other individual ; and if a little pains was
taken with them, to grow them in beds in the open air, as
we have already recommended in some former numbers, and
also in our Botanical Cultivator, where a full account of the
treatment of the whole tribe is given at full length ; we
should by that means have them in great perfection, and
nothing can produce a more elegant and pleasing an appearance,
than a bed of the different genera and species of this
tribe : the best soil for them is an equal quantity of light
turfy loam,peat, and sand, or if peat cannot be easily procured,
decayed leaves or very rotten dung that has been well exposed
and dried in the sun will answer the same purpose, so
that it be quite free from caterpillars, or any other sort of
insect that is likely to destroy them ; the soil must be quite
light, that the shoots may come readily through it; they may
either be taken up after flowering, and kept dry till the end
of October, or if the ground should not beconie too hard,
they may continue in the same situation, requiring nothing
but the covering of a mat or some sort of litter in severe
frost; they may be increased by offsets from the root, or by
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he genus was first named by Pourret, in compliment
to Picot de La Peyrouse, author of “ Figures de la Flore
de Pyrenées,” also “ Histoire abrégée des plantes des P y rénées;”
we have therefore adopted the name as given by
Pourret, to distinguish it from Lapeyrousia of Thunberg,
who applied it to a genus of Compositæ, in compliment to
the noted traveller La Peyrouse.
1. Inner valve of the Spathe. 2. Perianthium, the tube laid open to show the insertion
of the three Stamens, and the appendages on the lower segments. 3. utyle tenninatea
by tlie 3 bifid Stigmas, tliat are again cloven at the points and fimbriate.
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