The present plant has "been lately introduced by Mr. 

 Burchell, who considers it an unpublished species, not be- 

 ing prol>ably aware of the one of which we deem it a mem- 

 ber. To lis the two plants seem to differ no otherwise than 

 in the dimension of the foliage, which is rather larger in 

 Jacquin's plant than in ours ; a difference we suspect en- 

 tirely owing to that in the ages of their bulbs : we have 

 recorded however the two as varieties, and others may 

 dispose of them as they think best. 



The drawing was taken in the greenhouse at Mr. Col- 

 viU's Nui-sery, in the King's Road ; from a plant that had 

 been raised two years before from seed obtained £:om Mr. 

 Burchell. The-blossom was fragrant. 



UST ^F SPECIES. 



easLfolia. NobU m'Curtiis magaz. 991. 1 cr .v >. 



umflora. Herb. Banks. ^ S -^«-'^ ««» ''««™=- 



auKustifoUa* Curtu^s magaz. 736. 



undulata. Hart, Kew. ed. 2. 2. 211 ; (pusUla. Herb, Bankg.?) 



ectunata; Bort, Kew. ed. 2. 2. 210. 



pauciflora. Jhyander in Hart. Kew. erf. 2. 2.210. 



scabra. Hart. £eta. ed, 2. 2. 210. pustulata. Nobis in Chrfi^s ma- 



gaz. 642. 

 muricata. Nobis in Cwrti^s magaz\ 659. 

 latifolia. NobiA in Curtis's magaz. 848. saa^inea. Jjic- korL $ch<Jonb. 



4. t 464. 

 coronata. Jacq. loc. cif. 

 obovata. Jacq. loc, cit. 



lonpfoUa, In hco prtE%enH. 

 lanceflefolia. Jacq. loc, cit, 

 cordata* Jacq. loc. dt, 



grandifoUa. Ntms in Chtrtis'smagaz. foh verso 991, ad Jinem jfpec* €f»im. 



latifolia. Jacq. loanU 

 Ob«. Massokia Qodicarpa. C- J. Gartn. sem* 3. 13. t ^9S, Jig. 2.; 

 noil kwjus generis, est MoR££ species. 



The separation of the genus from Hyacinthus is ex- 

 tremely narrow, both in respect to habit and character, the 

 latter being principally confined to the position of the sta- 

 mens, which is deep within the tube of the corolla in Hya- 

 ciNTHUs* while in Massonu it ' 



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