ÀJAX albicans.
Greatest Spanish White.
Linnean Class and Order. H E X A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA .
Natural Order. A M A R Y L L ID EÆ . Brown p rodr. 1. p . 296.
D iv . I . R a d ix bulbosa. Flores spatbacei, umbellati, rarò solitarii.
S e c t .V . N a r c i s s i n æ . Radix bulbosa. Spatha monophylla. Flores
umbellati aut solitarii, pluri aut multiflori, aurei, lutei, sulphurei, albescen-
tes, albi, nivei et viridescenti. Perianthium tubulosum petaloideum, 6-partitum,
coronatum.
A J A X . Spatha uniflora. Perianthium 6-partitum patens : tubo turbinato
; coronà grandi poculiformi perianthii lacinii subæquanti, lobata, crenata,
serratave, fere v el plus longitudine laciniarum sæpissimè imbricatarum
perianthii laciniæ. Ovarium triloculare, trivalve ; valvis biseptiferis. Ovulæ
in valvis bifariam raro 4-fariam insertæ. StaminaS : filamentis basi perianthii
insertis, filiformibus strictis, æqualibus ; antheræ posticæ.—Herbæ (Europæ
e t Orientali) 6«?èosoe; bulbis tunicatis inferne rotundatis; superne conicis;
foliis semper bifariis loratis vel ensiformibus obtusis sæpè infernè carinatis
grosse nervoso-striatulis, supra plano-eanaliculatisplus minusve glaucis, ante
anthesin fe r e semper erectis. Scapis semper unijioris.
D iv .* * * . A L B I F L O R E S . Floribus mediocribus seu majusculis, primo
sulphureis demum coronâ longissima.
A . albicans, foliis erectis loratis obtusiusculis glaucis striatis : subtus carinatis
: supra concavis : marginibus crassiusculis, spatha tubo multo breviori,
perianthii laciniis ovato-lanceolatis patentibus tubo coronum brevioribus,
corona lobulato-crenata sulphurascente.
A ja x albicans. Haworth Monog. Narciss. in Sw t. brit. flo r. gar. n. 25.
ser. 2. p . 2 . edit. 2. p . 8.
Pseudo-Narcissus hispanicus maxirausalbidus. P a rk . par. p . 1 0 0 .1.1 0 1 ./. 1.
Bulb obversely top-shaped, producing numerous roots
from the base. Stems 3 from the same bulb, two of them producing
flowers ; main stem 4-leaved, the other two 3-leaved ;
all inclosed in a white sheath at the base. Leaves from the
sheath to the point, from 9 to 10 inches in height, upright,
or a little spreading, ending in a bluntish point, considerably
glaucous ; and striated with deep lines at the back, which is
also keeled ; the upper side somewhat concave, and the margins
rather thickened. Scape somewhat flattened, striated
with various stripes, and somewhat ancipitous, tapering upwards,
and becoming slender just at the spathe. Spathe membranaceous,
connected at the base, inclosing the lower part
of the peduncle, considerably shorter than the tube, ovate,
scarcely acute, but bluntish. Peduncle about 10 lines in
length, or probably sometimes less. Ovarium glossy. Perianthium
corollaceum, tubular, with a long tubular crown ; tube
about 9 lines long, top-shaped, tapering to rather a slen-
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