Plate 1046 - Dingy-flowered Albuca

Plate 1046

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Native Region: Cape of Good Hope

Description:  [ 1046 ]
ALBUCA PHYSODES. ALBUCA. DINGY-FLOWERED

Class and Order
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character
.-Vide Num. 871. OBS. Differt ORNITHOGALO alternis laciniis apice fornicato-inflexulis incraffatifque; stylo triquetro quafi ex tribus concretis ; stigmate glan- duloso pubescente; ANTHERICO per radicem solido-bulbofam. G.

Specific Character and Synonyms
. ALBUCA physodes; bulbo subtunicato-solido; soliis lanceolato- oblongis, diu poft emarcidam inflorefcentiam pro- venientibus; racemo pyramidato-oblongo, con- fertiufculo; pedicellis horizontaliter porrectis ; tota corolla stellato-patente; filamentis bafi extus. glanduloso-pubescentibus ; stigmate parum con- fpicuo, deprefso, glanduloso-hirtulo. G. ANTHERICUM physodes. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 2. t. 418. Coll. Suppl. 94. Willd. sp. Pl. 2. 147.-rejecto Thun- bergii synonymo nimis dubio. G.

Description:
Root subtunicate, nearly solid, of a very close texture and firm substance, ovate-pyramidal, of a pinkish hue on the outside, covered with very fine cuticles; leaves 5-6, 6-9 inches long, 1-1 broad, appearing long after the entire decay of the inflorefcence, several, ambient, from up- right diverging, oblong-lanceolate, channelled-concave, con- twolute at the base, entire, streaked, shining; scape naked, upright, round, purplifh; raceme upright, sparse, from oblong- pyramidate, many-flowered, not close; pedicles filiform, several times longer than the diameter of the corolla, horizontally patent, at right angles with the rachis; bracts small, concave, bluntifh; bluntifh; corolla of a very pale yellow-brown, stellately patent, hexapetalously parted; segments linear-oblong, inwards concave, bluntifh, with their summits fornicately incurved for a very short space, outwards traverfed longitudinally by a subcarinate streak; filaments about a third shorter than segments, equal, subulate, narrowed at their base, where they are slightly glandular-pubescent; anthers oblong, short, incumbent, yellow- green; style rather longer than germen, higher than stamens, about even with the corolla, upright, triquetral-filiform; stigmat a depressed termination or point, pencil-wife and glandularly pubescent; germen pyramidal-ovate, streaked-fulcate. The magnisied filaments are represented in JACQUIN's figure as covered with cryftalline papillæ; but we could not perceive such in the magnisier we used, and suspect that the painter has been deceived by the pollen that generally adheres to the fila- ments when difcharged by the anthers. We do not know how WILLDENOW will contrive to shew that ANTHERICUM margi- natum of THUNBERG'S PRODROMUS, is a synonym of the present species. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Drawn at Meffrs. LE and KENNEDY'S. G.


Raw OCR Text (Original)

Rby TG SeaGresunt Sept 1, 1807 Edwards. et E. Sansom Feel N-1046

[ 1046 ] ALBUCA PHYSODES. ALBUCA. *** DINGY-FLOWERED Class and Order. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.-Vide Num. 871. OBS. Differt ORNITHOGALO alternis laciniis apice fornicato-inflexulis incraffatifque; ftylo triquetro quafi ex tribus concretis ; stigmate glan- duloso pubescente; ANTHERICO per radicem solido-bulbofam. G. specific Character and synonyms. ALBUCA physodes; bulbo fubtunicato-solido; soliis lanceolato- oblongis, diu poft emarcidam inflorefcentiam pro- venientibus; racemo pyramidato-oblongo, con- fertiufculo; pedicellis horizontaliter porrectis ; tota corolla ftellato-patente; filamentis bafi extus. glanduloso-pubescentibus ; stigmate parum con- fpicuo, deprefso, glanduloso-hirtulo. G. ANTHERICUM physodes. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 2. t. 418. Coll. Suppl. 94. Willd. sp. Pl. 2. 147.-rejecto Thun- bergii synonymo nimis dubio. G. DEsCR. Root fubtunicate, nearly solid, of a very close texture and firm substance, ovate-pyramidal, of a pinkish hue on the outside, covered with very fine cuticles; leaves 5-6, 6-9 inches long, 1-1 broad, appearing long after the entire decay of the inflorefcence, several, ambient, from up- right diverging, oblong-lanceolate, channelled-concave, con- twolute at the base, entire, streaked, shining; scape naked, upright, round, purplifh; raceme upright, fparfe, from oblong- pyramidate, many-flowered, not close; pedicles filiform, several times longer than the diameter of the corolla, horizontally patent, at right angles with the rachis; bracts small, concave, bluntifh;

bluntifh; corolla of a very pale yellow-brown, ftellately patent, hexapetalously parted; Jegments linear-oblong, inwards concave, bluntifh, with their summits fornicately incurved for a very short space, outwards traverfed longitudinally by a fubcarinate streak; filaments about a third shorter than segments, equal, subulate, narrowed at their base, where they are slightly glandular-pubescent; anthers oblong, short, incumbent, yellow- green; style rather longer than germen, higher than stamens, about even with the corolla, upright, triquetral-filiform; stigmat a depressed termination or point, pencil-wife and glandularly pubescent; germen pyramidal-ovate, streaked-fulcate. The magnisied filaments are represented in JACQUIN's figure as covered with cryftalline papillæ; but we could not perceive such in the magnisier we used, and suspect that the painter has been deceived by the pollen that generally adheres to the fila- ments when difcharged by the anthers. We do not know how WILLDENOW will contrive to shew that ANTHERICUM margi- natum of THUNBERG'S PRODROMUS, is a synonym of the present species. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Drawn at Meffrs. LE and KENNEDY'S. G.

Original botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine