Volume 3 — PLATE CLXXIV. ANTHOLYZA TUBULOSA. Var. flore variegato. Tubular Antholyza. Striped flowered Var.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla tubulosa, irregularis, recurvata, Capsula infera.

Blossom tubular, irregular, and bent backward. Capsule beneath.

See Antholyza ringens, Pl. XXXII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Antholyza floribus tubulosis, subcylindraceis; scapo disticho, foliis lanceolato-ensiformibus, breviore.

Antholyza with tubular, nearly cylindrical flowers; flower-stem with the blossoms pointing two opposite ways, leaves between lance and sword shaped, shorter.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Blossom of a variety, differing in the paleness, and size of the flowers, and without variegation.

2. The Empalement.

3. A flower cut open, with the Chives attached.

4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, one Summit magnified.

This fine species of Antholyza was received by Messrs. Grimwood and Wykes, Kensington, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1796; they possess three varieties, and we should have been happy to have given a blossom of the third, but, it was out of flower before our drawing was taken, which was, in the end of June, this year. It is a hardy bulb, and increases freely, either by the seed, or from the root, and should be planted in sandy peat, with a small mixture of loam.