one flower, which ours had not; but this may be a cir- 

 cumstance incident to culture. We have however noted 

 the two as distinct varieties under proper names, by which 

 they may be recognised and kept distinct as species if they 

 should prove finally different. 



The subject of this article has been now first introduced 

 from China by the Horticultural Society, in whose conser- 

 vatory it flowered in May last, when the present drawing 

 was taken. The flower is elegant, of considerable duration, 

 and delicately fragrant. 



The species comes very near to hiLiuM japonkutn, but in 

 that the corolla is twice larger, of a broad turbinate shape, 

 very shortly tubular at the base, the pollen of a reddish 

 brown, and the scent the reverse of agreeable. 



Stem a foot or more high, smooth. Leaves scattered, 

 wide-set, sessile, spreading, narrowly lanceolate, smooth, 

 3-4 inches long, flat, taper-pointed, narrowed towards 

 the base. Peduncle (in our plant) solitary, terminal, one- 

 flowered, upright, about 3 inches long. Flower white, 

 nodding, elongatedly campanulate, five inches or more in 

 length, sixparted; segments spatulately lengthened, pointed, 

 inner ones rather broader, with an outer prominent mid- 

 rib corresponding with an inner marginate furrow; tube 

 greenish, formed by the long narrow imbricately cohering 

 ungues of the segments, 3-nerved, equal to the limb and 

 with the diameter of a swan-quill, very slightly enlarged 

 upwards ; limb turbinately recurved. Anthers deep yellow, 

 when all the pollen is shed, nearly round. Stigma a 3-lobed 

 fleshy head. 



