nearly 3 inches broad, of a darkish green, clouded by a 

 powdery bloom which overspreads the upper side, shin- 

 ing and paler on the under side. Scape about IJ foot 

 high, cylindrical, glaucous, purple at the base. Umbel of 

 4 nodding flowers, about 5 inches long ; peduncles up- 

 right, robust, about an inch long, bluntly 3-cornered. 

 Germen green, oblong, with three rounded corners ; ovula 

 numerous, in two rows in every cell, flattishly compressed, 

 horizontally piled. Tube of the corolla about half an inch 

 long, unspotted : faux with a greener star than in Julgida, 

 with which the species agrees pretty closely in other parts of 

 the corolla. 



NOTE. 



While defining some of the genera in Amaryllidecet speaking of the bulbi- 

 spennous capsule, which is incidental to several, for the sake of a term in 

 description, we presumed the curious enlai^ment of its seed to be a modifi- 

 catioD of the albumen; but Mr. Brown has long since appUed himself to tbe 

 investigation of this point, and though,with that laudable caution and precision 

 with which he accompanies all scientific communications, he yet hesitates to 

 decide absolutely on its nature and origin, he is however convinced from the 

 texture of its substance that it can be no modification of the albumen. His 

 view of the structure and parts of a true seed are to be found in the masterly 

 description given in the character of Gripfinia in the present volume. 



