especially about Antequera and Cordova, flowering in 
January and February. 
It produces its blossoms in this country a little later; 
my specimens were obligingly communicated by the Honour- 
able W. F. Strangways, from the garden of the Dowager 
Countess of Ilchester, at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire, where 
the plant was growing in a terrace border, with no more pro- 
tection than a mat-screen would afford. Its flowers have a 
pleasant smell, between that of the Hyacinth and the Elder. 
