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* ZEPHYRÁNTHES Spofforthiána. 
Spofforth Zephyranthes. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AmarYLLIDEA, R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System 
ef Botany, p. 259.) 
GARDEN VARIETY. 
ZEPHYRANTHES SPOFFORTHIANA. _ Herbert MSS. 
* Scape yellowish green, 53 inches high. Spathe brown- 
ish green. Peduncles green, an inch long. Germ deep 
green. Tube green. Limb rose-coloured, lined with white 
in the form of a star. Style very much declined, white and 
much longer than the filaments. Leaves not 4 of an inch 
wide, acute, keeled, deep green. Pollen abundant, and an- 
thers quite perfect and apparently fertile.” 
“ The pretty flower which is the subject of this article, is 
an hybrid production from the tropical Z. tubispatha, which 
has white flowers, fertilized by the pollen of the Mexican 
Z. carinata with large red flowers. It is in every respect in- 
termediate, having the leaves wider than those of Z. tubispa- 
tha, and distinguishable by the keel, which is conspicuous on 
the back of those of the male parent. The flower is also of 
intermediate dimensions and colour, resembling the male 
parent most both in form and hue, and in the posture of the 
* See folio 1361. 
