crocata, and others, should undoubtedly be reduced to 
a single species, of which A. equestris must be taken 
as the type. The whole of these varieties are, in our 
judgment, mere sports of nature; in all essential points 
analogous to the variations of a bed of tulips. 
A native of the Organ Mountains of Brazil, at about 
sixty miles from the coast. 
J. L. 
