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S A N S E V I E R A CARNEA.
Flesh-coloured Sanseviera.
C L A S S VI. ORDER L
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA infera monopetala, tubo filiformi,
limbo, 6-partito, revoluto. Stamina limbo
inferta. Bacca 1-fperma.
CoKOLLA beneath of one petal, with a thread-
Ihaped tube, and 6-parted revolute limb.
Threads inferted into the limb. Berry one
feeded.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER, &C.
Sanfeviera. Foliis diflicliis, lanceolato-enliformibus,
cariuatis, floribus folitariis feflilibus.
Sanfeviera. With leaves two-ranked, lancefword
fliaped, keeled, flowers folitary,
feffile.
DESCRIPTIO. Herba perennis, habitu Hemerocallidis. Radix fubcarnofus, fibris longiffimis fubfimplicibus.
Folia radicalia, fubdifticha, effufa, lanceolato-enfiformia, fere pedalia, trinervia,
(nervo medio carinaeformi) bafin imbricata et profunde caniliculata, marginibus apices verfus
afpei-iufcuüs. Scapus radicalis, et quafi lateralis, palmaris, fubereéhis, angulatus, fuperne
carneus. Flores fpicati, afcendentes, feffiles, alterni, carnei, intus pallidiores. Bractece ovatoacuminat:
e, concavae, carneae, flores ampleaentes. Corolla 6-partita, tubo angulato longitudine
braftearum; laciniis revolutis fublanceolatis, tubo aliquo longioribus, fupremà paulo majore.
Filamenta 6 aequalia, alba, bafi laciniarum inferta, laciniis aliquo brevioribus. Anthene eredae,
utrinque emarginats, fulphureie. Stylus carneus, paulo declinatus, antheris vix fuperans. Stigma
obtulum album, obfoletifiime trilobatum.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A floral leaf.
2. The flower cut open, with one of the tips magnified.
3. The Pointal and Seed-bud, and the fummit magnified.
T H I S new fpecies, of Thunberg's new genus Sanfeviera, which is a branch of the Linnaean genua
Aletris; was introduced into this country from China, by T. Evans, Efq, of Stepney; in;the year 1792:
but is ftill very rare. Our drawing was made from a fine plant in the colledion of J. Vere, Efq. of
Kenfington Gore, in the month of March •. Mr. Anderfon, his botanic gardener, informs us, he has
treated it as a hothoufe plant? but it will probably be found to fucceed better in the greenhoufe,
like other Chinefe plants. It is propagated by parting the roots. In habit it refembles Hemerocallis
more than Sanfeviera, but agrees with the generical chara£ters of Sanfeviera zeylanica. With
Aletris fragrans it alfo agrees in many particulars; but with Aletris farinofa is quite at variance.
• A root of it, (lately parted from the individual here figured,} flowered at MeiTrs, Grimwood and Wykes's, in February.