standing its great resemblance in habit to Phycella; for 
reasons that we shall be able to explain more clearly when 
we publish another most beautiful scarlet-flowered plant, 
named by Mr. Herbert Habranthus Phycelloides. 
Mr. Herbert requests us to add, on this occasion, that 
“ the particles of pollen: in. the genus Habranthus are 
smaller by more than one half than in the bulbs that form 
the genus Hippiastrum ;” that is, the red-flowered Ama- 
ryllises of tropical America. 
AR 
