instituted a new genus, and one that relieves LACHENALIA 
and Sciuta, each of an heterogeneous associate, by receiv- 
ing the viridis of the former and the serotina of the latter. 
It consists at present of; 
glaucum. The subject of this article. 
viride. LacHENALIA viridis, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 986. 
crispum. Burchell MSS. 
serotinum, SciLLA serotina, Curt. mag. 859, 1185. 
L. viridis had already been made the foundation of a 
separate genus, by the title of Zuccacnia; this was not 
however adopted, and the name has been applied to another 
family of plants. S. serotina had likewise suggested a new 
genus, by the name of Dircani; this was also neglected. 
To us the present genus appears a most useful one, and 
adapted to receive some of the species which do not con- 
veniently fall into the ranks of either ScILLA, LACHENALIA, 
or ALBUCA, yet partake of the features of each. 
Bulb tunicate, ovately globular. Leaves about seven, 
from six inches to about a foot high, 2-3 times shorter than 
the scape, upright, lorately oblong, lanceolate, glaucous 
like the rest of the plant, flat, convolute, and sheathing at 
their base, oufer ones the broadest and reflectent at the sides. 
Scape upright, scarcely flexuose, 2-3 feet high, abont as 
thick as a large pen. Raceme long, spiked, many-flow- 
ered, irregularly and distantly scattered, spreading hori- 
zontally; peduncles straight, two or three times longer than 
the flower, from upright to divaricate, with a linear-lanceo- 
late sphacelately membranous bracte at their base. Corolla 
of a greenish tawny colour, glaucous or clouded with a grey 
bloom or hoar on the outside, almost an inch in length, 
tubularly campanulate; segments oblong, obtuse, smooth 
and shining at the inner surface, cohering half way up, 
then separated, those forming the outer limb reflectent, pro- 
truding from beneath the apex of the interior coat a thick 
subulate compressed appendage half as long as the whole 
segment, those forming the inner limb straighter, converg- 
ing more narrowly, slightly patent, without the appendage, 
much shorter. Filaments very short, inclosed, inserted be- 
low the mouth of the tube. Anthers mucronate. Stigmas 
3, enclosed. Germen three-furrowed. Bloom scentless. 
greenhouse plant. The drawing was made from one 
A 
that flowered in August last, in the collection of Mr 
Burchell, at Fulham. 
