1967 
* HABRÁNTHUS gracilifolius; 8. Boothianus. 
Mr. Booth’s Slender-leaved Habranthus. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARXLLIDACEZ. 
HABRANTHUS. Suprà, vol. 16. fol. 1345. 
H. gracilifolius, B. Boothianus ; spathá pedunculo et germine erubescentibus, 
germine et pedunculo magis elongatis, filamentorum quaternà diserepantià 
obsoletiore, stigmate majore. Herbert Amaryllid. p. 165. 
. I some time since received a drawing of this plant from 
Sir Charles Lemon, with the following memoranda from 
Mr. Booth, the gardener at Carclew. 
** Bulbs of this pretty little species of Habranthus were, 
last year, presented to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. M.P., by 
Capt. Thomas Ball Sulivan, C.B., to whom they had been 
forwarded from Maldonado, where they were collected by 
Lieut. James Sulivan, R.N., of H. M. ship Beagle, now en- 
gaged in the extensive survey of that part of the South 
. American coast.” 
“ Bulb about the size of a pigeon’s egg, and of a dark 
brown colour. Leaves not produced until after the flowers 
decay; linear, narrow, and twisted; of a glaucous green, 
with a deep groove running from the base to the point, which 
is round and blunt. Scape erect,.7 inches high, round and 
smooth, purplish at the base, from which it upwards assumes 
a pale glaucous green. Flowers solitary, nodding, on a 
round, and somewhat bent, purplish-coloured peduncle, 
about two inches long at the time the flower opens, increas- 
ing to three inches long, and becoming pale green. Spatha 
tubular below, bifid upwards, 13 inch long, and of a pale 
* See folio 1345. 
