ORNITHOGALUM corymbosuiu. 
Peruvian Orntthogalum, 
HEXANDRIA ilfO.VOGFJV/^. 
Nat. ord. Asphodeleje. 
ORNITHOGALUM, SupriiVoL2.tab.l68. 
O. corymhosum; scapo terete, floribus corymW^S, cotoM mi^&, germine 
atro. Flora Peruviana 3.68. t. 300. Lindley in Hort. Trani. 6.86. 
Bulbus semi-subterraneus, supra terram vestigiis foliorum cicatricc^us. 
Folia Ij^pedalifi, lirjulatn, canaliculata, camosa, delnlMfi htm\fiua,^laber- 
Ttma, virtdia. Scapus 2-pedalis, teres, pennce cygnececrassitudine. Kacemus 
corymbosus, decussatus, 6-Jlorus. Bractese acuminates, cordata;, membra- 
nacece, pedicello diiplo breviores subdentatee, eiqite appressce, apicem verstis 
virides Jirmiores. Flores albi, adore Iceto Oxyacanthce. Sepala pnmum 
cyathiformia, dein patentAssima, imbricata, hitc ovata, subundidata, venosa, 
(Rqiialia, carnoaa, apice quandoquc paululum divisa. .Stamina 6, petnlii 
duplo breviora, erecta, sepalis inserta; filameuta subulata; anthera; oyafff, 
demum verticales. Ovarium obowUumf mgro-viride. Stylus ^li/ormis, 
simplex, basi viridis. 
We extract the following remarks upon this plant from 
the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, in whose 
garden at Chiswick our drawing was made. 
" A bulb from Chili proved, upon flowering, to be the 
species described and figured under this name, (O. corym- 
bosum,) in the Flora Peruviana. It is very like O. Arabi- 
cum, of which it is perhaps a mere variety; remarkable, 
however, for being a native of a country far distant from 
any in which O. Arabicum has yet been found. That it 
is wild in Chili, cannot be doubted, bo'th from the bulbs 
in question having been sent with other wild plants 
indiscriminately collected, and because, although it is 
cultivated in the gardens of Peru, the authors of the Flora 
Peruviana expressly state their plant to be commonly wild 
in- the provinces of Chancay, Cercado, and Huanuco. 
