from some of the inner districts of which colony it was 

 probably procured. The plant from which our drawing 

 was made, flowered for the second time in July last, in 

 the princely Garden of his Grace the Duke of Northum- 

 berland, at Syon House, and was communicated to us 

 by Mr. Forrest, to whom we are indebted for several 

 observations upon its habit and characters. 



At first sight it has so much the appearance of a 

 Cyrtanthus that it may easily be mistaken for one, espe- 

 cially if the detached flowers only are seen. But upon a 

 more minute examination, it will be found that it is not 

 only not referable to that genus, but that it is actually 

 doubtful whether it does not belong to a distinct natural 

 order. In the first place, it does not form a bulb, an 

 almost indispensable character of Amaryllidese, from which 

 there is but one other variation hitherto known, namely 

 in Doryanthes. In the second place, the fruit is not a 

 dehiscent dry capsule, but fleshy and indehiscent; and, 

 thirdly, the seeds are not numerous, compressed, and 

 membranous, but solitary, round, and fleshy. It is, there- 

 fore, obviously distinct from Cyrtanthus; and there is 

 no other Amaryllideous genus to compare with it, except 

 Eustephia, the fruit of which is still unknown, but which 

 is peculiarly characterised by its 3-toothed filaments, and 

 which is probably not far removed from Phycella. 



Perhaps the real affinity of this plant cannot at present 

 be determined : to us it appears most closely allied to 

 Hsemanthus, the bulbs of which are very imperfect. 



A greenhouse plant, not appearing to require particular 

 care in its cultivation, and propagating either by seeds or 

 suckers. 



Roots fleshy, fascicled. Leaves distichous, coriaceous, 

 dark green, strap-shaped, sheathing at the base, retuse 

 and oblique at the apex, rough at the margin. Scape 

 erect, plano-convex, bordered, furrowed towards the sum- 

 mit. Flower's from 48 to 50, on long stalks, pendulous, 

 arranged in an umbel. Perianth tubular, clavate, de- 

 ciduous ; the segments yellowish scarlet, greenish at the 

 apex, obtuse, imbricated in a double row, cohering towards 

 the base, the outer rather shorter than the inner, like 

 those of a Lachenalia. Stamens 6, inserted in the orifice 



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