mon about Lima in fields and hedges, flowering in January 
and February, and that it is called Hamance de Antibo, 
which means. satiny Hamanca. We have wild specimens 
gathered near Lima by Mr. Mathews (No. 400). 
There is no doubt of its being the Amaryllis aurea of the 
Flora Peruviana, notwithstanding its smaller size, which is 
owing to cultivation, its longer style, which it may be sup- 
posed is more fully formed than the Perianth, and some dis- 
crepancies between it and the figure given by Ruiz and 
Pavon. The latter appears to have been made from a dried 
specimen, and is very inaccurate in many respects. Inthe 
first place, the flower is represented as stalked ; certainly it 
is sessile; secondly, the stamens are said to arise from 
scales in the mouth of the tube ; there are no such scales ; 
and finally, all that concerns the form of the tube of the 
flower and the ovary is a mere caricature. 
Whether or not the genus Pyrolirion is a good one, we 
have not the means at hand of determining to our satisfac- 
tion; as it has not any such campanulate flower as has been 
represented by Ruiz and Pavon, the most prominent feature 
in its supposed character is done away with, and then it 
becomes difficult to separate it from Zephyranthes; it differs, 
however, from that genus in its sessile flowers, which we 
incline to consider a character of much importance, and in 
the dilatation of the points of its stigma into little spoons. 
From Oporanthus, which is totally different from Sternbergia, 
it is chiefly its stigma and the reflexed points of its perianth 
which distinguish it, unless the seeds should prove different, 
as the form of the ovules renders probable. 
In the mean while, until the remainder of the structure 
of this plant shall have been ascertained, we adopt Mr. 
Herbert's name, without however attempting to define the 
species, for we do not see what are the distinctive characters 
of either P. flavum or flammeum. 
