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P L A T E CCCLXIX.
E U C O M I S PURPUREO GAULIS.
Purple-stalked Eucomis.
C L A S S VI. ORDERT.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointai.
COKOLLA infera, 6-partlta, persistens. Filamenta
nectario adnata.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CoKOLLAbeneath, 6-parted, persistent. Chives
conjoined to the base of the corolla,
forming a nectary.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
EUCOMIS, scapo clavato, foliis multifariis
expansis orbiculato-spatulatis.
EUCOMIS, with a clavated scape, leaves pointing
many ways expanded orbicular-spatulashaped.
D E S C R I P T I O . Radic ut in affinibus. Folia 5—7, multifaria, espansa, demum prostrata, orbiculatospatulata,
vel subinde multo angustiora, viridia, obsolete sulcato-lineata et lucida, marginibus minute
cartilagineis, glabriusculis ; subtus pallidiora, lucidiora, magisque sulcata. Scapus claviformis,
perbrevis, crassus, atro-purpureus ; intra flores valde contractus, viridis, purpureoque punctatus.
Flores spicati, conferii, sessiles, saspe adscendentes, unibracteati. Bractecs imae obcuneatse, subrecurvoe,
submembranaceae, et saepe pnrpurascentes ; sensim minores ; summae longiores, linearilanceolatse,
purpureo-marginatae, steriles ; in coronamfoliolorumperelegantem supra flores collectae.
Corolla hexapetaloidea, petalis subaequalibus, lineari-oblongis, vix attenuatis, viridibus. Filamenta 6,
basi petalorum valde connata, subulata, compressa ; superne incurvata. Antheres flavescentes ; post
fiorescentiam fuscae, pendulae, ad apices petalorum vix attingentes, Germen sulcato-triangTilare.
Stylus flexuoso-adscendens, teres, vix subulatus, filamentis multo brevior. Stigma nullum sive
inconspicuum.
REFERENCE TO TFIE PLATE.
1. One of the lower floral leaves.
2. The corolla cut open.
3. The seed-bud and pointal.
WE find no account of this fine plant in any publication we have consulted : it is closely allied to Eucomis
regia, but differs sufficiently from that species in tlie shape of its leaves, and the smoothness of their
margins. It is a green-house plant, and was lately introduced from the Cape by G. Hibbert, Esq.
from a plant in whose collection our drawing was taken in the month of March.