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RHINOPÉTALUM Karelini.
ilfr. Kareline’s Rhinopetalum.
Linnean Class and Order. H E X A N D R I A M O N O G Y N I A .
Na tu ra l Order. CW A N C YM . Brown prodr. \ .p . 295, in notâ.
R H IN O P E T A L U M . Perianthium 6 - p h y llu m , c o lo r a tum , d e c id u u r a , d em ùm
r e c u r v a to - p a te n s : fo lio lis b a s i fo v e a n e c ta r if e r à n u d a a u c ti s ; supremo
p r o f u n d iù s fo v e o la to p o s ti c è q u e c o rn u to ! Stamina 6 , s u b æ q u a lia : fila menta
c o n n iv e n tia , b a r b a t a ; antheræ b a s i in se rt® , e re c t® . Ovarium 3 -
g o n um , 3 - lo c u l a r e : valvis m e d io 's e p t i f e r is . Ovula p lu r a , o b o v a t a ,y e n -
t r i c o s a , læ v ia , d u p l ic i o rd in e d is p o s ila . S ty lu s s u b f ilifo rm is . Stigma
in d iv is um , t r u n c a tu m . C a p s u la .................................
P i a n t a ( u r a l e n s i s ) bulbosa, habitu F r itilla r ia e , bulbo e squamis crassis paucis-
simis composito. F o l l a lanceolata, subconvoluta. F lo s terminahs, soli-
tarius, pallide lilacinus. . ,
O b s . G e n u s a b om n ib u s f a c ilè d i s t in g u i tu r s tigm a te in d iv is o o v u lis q u e s u b r
o tu n d i s .
R . K a r e l i i i i . Fisch. MSS.
Plant With, the habit of Fritillaria pyrenaica, and like it of a glaucous
hue. Bulb orbicular, depressed, composed of two or three broad,
thick fleshy scales. Stem erect, simple, flexuose, cylindrical, slightly
purplish, clothed with minute, papillose pubescence three inches
ligh, and about the thickness of packthread. Leaves alternate, stem-
clasping, lanceolate, acute, concave above, convex and obscurely
nerved below, the edges rather convolute, fleshy, glaucous, slightly
waved and twisted, copiously and minutely pubescent on both sides
hut especially beneath, an inch and a half long ; uppermost almost
linear and more pointed ; the primordial ones broad, lanceolate,
straight, stalked, and attenuated a t the hase. Flower terminal, solitary,
drooping, ahout double the size of those oi Gagealutea. P y i-
anthium hexapetaloid. Sepals equal, linear-oblong, blunt at hrst
connivent, afterwards spreading, with recurved points, pale
marked with rounded deeper coloured dots, the hase callous and furnished
with a broad, yellow, nectariferous pit, spotted with brown,
the uppermost one broadest, and furnished a t the base with a deeper
pit, which projects behind into a short, thick, blunt, helmet-shaped
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