to the public. In the present instance we are iortunately 
relieved from responsibility on the ground of unnecessary 
repetition, both from the circumstances we have alluded to, 
and from the necessity of making an indispensable alteration 
in the name which has been published in the Bota]||cal 
Magazine. 
We beg to declare our perfect innocence of referring 
this plant to l^igridiu, to which we think it bears as little 
affinity as from its belonging to the same Natural Order it 
well can bear. In the colour of its flower, indeed, and in 
the general appearance of the foliage, a resemblance may 
be easily observed with Tigridia, but in all the essential 
parts of fructification the differences are so great as to place 
the two plant"^ in different tribes of the same order. There 
can be no doubt that it is a genuine species of Moraea, a 
genus well distinguished from the Cipura of Aublet, or 
Marica of our gardens, by the stamens being opposite the 
stigmas, and not alternate with them. From Iris, indeed, 
Moraea scarcely differs, as Mr. Ker has long ago shewn, 
except in having bulbous roots, a natural character in 
wl^ich it agrees with Tigridia. We scarcely need remark, 
that the latter is at once distinguished from Moraea by 
its stamens^ which are united in a long column, by its 
bifid, slender, convolute stigmas, and sagittate sepals. 
• Mor<Ea gladioloides of M. Kunth is the most nearly 
reJated to this, but appears distinct in the solitary branches 
of its inflorescence. It is found in a much hotter country, 
near Caxamarca, a city of Upper Peru, more than 25 geo- 
graphical degrees to the north of the station of our species. 
A native of the temperate regions of South America, 
and probably hardy enough to thrive very well in a green - 
h6use. For ourselves, we have only seen it cultivated in 
a stove. It was originally imported from Buenos Ayres, 
by the Right Honourable the Earl of Caernarvon. Mr. W. 
Herbert informs us he has raised it from Brazilian seeds ; 
And we possess fine specimens collected by our friend 
I^r. John Gillies, on the high ground about Mendoza, in 
Chili. Our native specimens are far more luxnriatit than 
any we have seen in cultivation. 
A bulbous-rooted plant; its bulb covered with the 
remains of the leaves. leaves linear, acuminate, iyrkce 
