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Encyclopedia Britannica



GLORIOSA

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 124 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GLORIOSA , in botany, a small genus of
plants
  belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, native of tropical
Asia
  and Africa. They are bulbous
plants
 , the slender stems of which support themselves. by tendril-like prolongations of the tips of some of the narrow generally lanceolate leaves. The
flowers
 , which are borne in the
leaf
 -axils at the ends of the
stem
 , are very handsome, the six, generally narrow, petals are bent back and stand erect, and are a
rich
  orange yellow or red in colour; the six stamens project more or less horizontally from the
place
  of insertion of the petals. They are generally grown in cultivation as stove-plants.


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