Hzxantnus, as at present defined, has no spontaneous 
species without the continent of Africa; and there only 
within or near the tropics. Its nearest kindred in the cor- 
responding сјићајев of Asia and America are comprized 
under Crinum. In Europe one or two yellow species of Амл- 
BYLLIS are its nearest relatives in that quarter of the world. 
HxwaNTHUS dubius of Humboldt and Bonpland is an 
evident anomaly in the group; and a plant we suspect 
not reducible. to any established genus, without compli- 
tating the character of the same, so as to perplex more 
than an additional new name will encumber. We believe it 
to Ъе а congener of the Crinum urceolatum of the Flora 
Peruviana, another heterogeneously assorted species. 
` Coarctatus was introduced from the Cape of Good 
Hope by Mr, Masson, in 1795. 
Bulb oblong-ovate, compressed, bifariously tunicated, 
laminas in two opposite compactly imbricated series, 
broad, fleshy, truncated, outermost shortest. Leaves 
2-3, posterior to the inflorescence, broadly lorate, wide 
pointed, smooth-edged, spotless, nearly flat, divergent, a 
t or more in length. Stipules 2, radical, one on each 
side next the scape, broad as the foliage but very short, 
party-coloured, haying the appearance of nascent leaves, 
but are membranous, and decay without elongating. Scape 
much compressed, green, thickly speckled with crimson 
dots, 6-9 inches high. Leaflets of the spathe 6-8, large, 
upright, of a dark orange-scarlet colour, oblong, of unequal 
breadth, veined, obtuse, even with the numerous-flowered 
icled crowded umbel, Corolla narrow-funnelform, white 
elow, раје vermilion above; tube short, dilated upwards 
with six small protuberant corners; base of the limb con- 
tracted and narrower than the mouth of the tube; segments 
linear, turbinately connivent, obtuse, concave at the upper 
part, equal, nearly an inch long. Filaments subulate, up- 
Tight, ef the same colour as-the border or limb, which they 
overtop by the distance of about one third of their whole 
length. Style upright, equal to the stamens, and of the 
same colour: stigma obtuse. 
The drawing was taken last autumn from a plant in 
Mr. Griffin's conservatory at South Lambeth. By no means 
‘common in our collections. Does not require any peculiar 
care, and will thrive in a greenhouse. Te ny pe 
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