** whether any one has (viz. in 1810) ever been introduced 
* into the English gardens, at least so as to bear flowers ; 
* for be thinks the figure in * Paradisus Londinensis' was 
“ done from a dried specimen. On this subject we have no 
* particular information. Several drawings of this genus 
“and its allies, made in New Holland, have passed under 
* our inspection, and display a degree of elegance which 
“ renders the plants highly desirable. 
* Of the twenty-one species, seventeen are hexandrous, 
“ four triandrous.” Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loc. 
The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered 
in the greenhouse of the Horticultural Society, by which it 
is now first introduced into this country. 
Native of the southern coast of New Holland and of 
Van Diemen’s island ; where the species was first observed 
by Mr. Ferdinand Bauer. 
Distinguished among its congeners, by a root of clus- 
tered bulbs, radical leaves about even with the round 
smooth generally branchless stem, 4-5-flowered umbels, 
and anthers of the same length. 
.We had no opportunity of examining the plant for de- 
scription, after it had been drawn. 
