grown in large patches, as we have seen it at Mr. Griffin's, 

 makes even a gayer and more showy appearance than the 

 Hyacinth or Tuhp planted in the same way. All seem 

 of easy culture, and are propagated abundantly by offsets 

 from their bulbs. A conservatoiy or greenhouse is the situ- 

 ation that suits them best, and a mixture of loam and peat- 

 earth the fittest mould for them . 



We take our plant to be a mere seminal variety of pallida ^ 

 the prototype sample of which has pale blue colour in those 

 parts of the corolla where the present has pale yellow ; and 

 we see nothing to determine their distinction as species . The 

 drawing was made last March at Mr. Griffin's, at South 

 Lambeth, from a plant imported from the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



Bulb tunicated. Leaves two, uprightly recurved, li- 

 nearly oblong, smooth, shining, from 9 inches to about a 

 foot high, half an inch broad or more, convolutely sheathing 

 at the lower part. Scape somewhat shorter than the leaves, 

 glaucous. Raceme many-flowered ; Jiowers rather loosely 

 arranged, horizontal ; j^eiic/e^ several times shorter than the 

 corolk; hractes broadly ovate, short, pointed. Corolla 

 scarcely exceeding f of an inch in length, oblong, cylindri- 

 cally campanulate, slightly urceolate ; 3 outer segfnenfs 

 about T shorter than the others, very obtuse with a greenish 

 subtriangular caruncle on the back a little below the top, 

 one rather longer than the rest, and more conspicuously 

 keeled, 3 inner ones spatulately obovate, pale, thinner, 

 with an obsolete green streak at the upper part of the keel, 

 one of them rather narrower than the rest, with a deep 

 notch at the end. Stamens convergping, nearly equal to 

 the corolla: pollen yeDow. Germen green, oblong, slightly 

 conical rounded hexagonal six-furrowed, with three of the 

 ftuTOws deeper than the othei*s. 



Lachenalia viridis and Scilla serotina, have both been 

 removed from their former places, and transfen*ed to the 

 genus Uropetalon, of which a species has been represented 

 in the 156th article of this publication. 



