Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

TAB. 6508.
STENOMESSON LUTEOVIBIDE.
Native of Ecuador.
Nat. Ord. AMAEYLLIDACE/E.•Tribe PANCEATIE^E.
Genus STENOSIESSON, Herb.; (Baker in Ref. Bot. sub t. 308.)
KTENOMESSON (Coburgia) luteo-viride; bulbo globoso tunicis membranaeeis
brunneis collo elongato cylindrico semipedali, foliis synanthiis lineari-loratis
viridibus, scapo aneipiti terminali sesquipedali, umbellis 5-G-floris pedicellis
brevibus, spatbse valvis magnis ovato-lanceolatis, perianthio luteo-viridi 4-
pollicari, ovario oblongo, tubo subcyliiidrico, segmentis oblongis cuspidatis tubo
2-3-plo brevioribus, filamentis dimidio inferiori in coronara coalitis margine
inter filamentorum partem liberam dentibus deltoideis integris vel obsjure
dentatis prsedito, antheris fulvis lineari-oblongis, stylo exserto.
This is a new species from the high Andes of Ecuador,
which flowered for the first time in the spring of 1879 with
Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson and Son, of the Pine Apple
nurseries, M aida Vale. It is nearly allied to the well-known
Coburgia trichroma of Herbert (Bot. Mag. tab. 3867), and
quite similar to it in its cultural and climatic requirements.
The present plant differs from trichroma in the colour of its
flowers and by its longer corona and more acute green
leaves. There does not appear to be any valid character to
separate Coburgia as a genus from Stenom-esson, and the
latter has the claim of priority. I do not think we can
properly regard the first six species of Coburgia as admitted
in Kunth's Synopsis as more than mere varieties of the
plant that was first described by Ruiz and Pavon in 1802
under the name of Pancratium variegatum.
HESCE. Bulb globose, two or three inches in diameter,
with thin brown membranous tunics, which extend up the
cylindrical neck to a length of six or eight inches. Leaves
about four, contemporary with the flowers in spring, linear-
lorate, fleshy, bright green, glabrous, a foot long at the
flowering-time, an inch broad, narrowed gradually to the
AUGUST 1ST, 1880.