colour of the flowers, give it the appearance of a Phycella. 
It flowered for the first time at Spofforth, in October, the 
pot standing in the open air. 
“It had been sent to Spofforth by R. Gowen, Esq., 
who received it from Chili. About twenty-five years ago 
some bulbs ofthis species were brought to England by a 
ship's steward, who said they were taken in to use as onions 
in the South sea ; but having been kept in too high a tem- 
perature at Spofforth, they dwindled and were lost. Bulbs, 
apparently of this plant, have been just imported by Mr. 
Tate from Chili. 
“ The close affinity of this species to Phycella ignea 
makes it apparent that, after a careful re-examination of 
the several species, it will be necessary so to reform the 
genus Habranthus, as to admit the Phycelle, or to throw 
out the polyanthous Habranthi, which do not expand in 
sunshine like the others, into the genus Phycella." 
For the foregoing account of this fine plant we are 
indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, by whom the 
drawing was also communicated in the autumn of 1830. 
J. L. 
“a The germen and flower of the exact natural size, the petals 
having been broken off from the tube, to shew the interior.” 
