Wliether our plant is a modification of the species for 

 which we give it, or founds another, the safest course in all 

 such ambiguous relations still seems to us to be, to deposit, 

 while the confirmation of experience is awaited, the objects 

 under a same specific head, noting each apart and duly 

 expressing their mutual differences. The record of their 

 existence is thus distinctly preserved in the system, while 

 the risk of adding to the mass of iterated and fallacioi|S 

 species is diminished. 



The figure was drawn from a flower produced by a bulb 

 brought by Mr. Burchell from South Africa; and found in 

 a tract of country till then untraversed by any Europeati^, 

 Mr. Burchell's memorandum concerning the plant is in the 

 following words: " I met with it in large bunches on the 

 " banks of the Nu-gariep or Black-river, at the place which 

 " I have distinguished in my map by the words * Amaryllis 

 " Station,* in lat. 29^ 30' S. and long, 24^ 48' E. It grows 

 " in situations similar to those occupied by the Common 

 " Yellow Flag (Iris Pseud-Acorus) along the rivers of this 

 " country, and is frequently under water whenever the river 

 *^ rises a little above its ordinary level." 



The present is the smallest of the three presumptive va- 

 rieties already comprehended under this specific head; of 

 which having already treated generally in the 303d article 

 of this publication, we shall refer to that place. 



NOTE. 



Id the 2121st article of Curtis's Botanical Magazine (page 5), it is 

 asserted by Mr. Herbert, thSt the plant figured in the 1178tli plate of that 

 work (for the annexed account of which we are responsible) is not Ama- 

 ryllis revoluta, for which we have given it, but Amaryllis langifolia; 

 and that he knows the fact by having 'seen the very plant from which the 

 drawing was taken at Mr. Woodford's. An assertion certainly grounded in 

 error, the plant from which that drawing was done being clearly the Ama- 

 ryllis revoluta of the Hortus Kewensis and L'Heritier, the prototype 

 sample of which is preserved in the Banksian Jlerbarium, where we com- 

 pared our plant when we gave that account. It differs from longifolia by 

 having a tube shorter, instead of longer, than the limb. There is also a 

 drawing of the Kew plant by Mr. Bauer in the Banksian Museum, now the 

 property of Mr. Brown, and with this we also compared it. The corolla is sel- 

 dom conspicuously revolute except in weakly flowered samples, or when the 

 flower is fading. The very plant from which the drawing was made, or else 

 one of its offsets, is now in the possession of Mr. GrifBn, at South Lambeth. 

 WheUier it is Mr. Herbert's revoluta or not, we do not pretend to know, but 

 are clear it is of the species intended by the propounderi. 



