of an offset of var. 1; the full grown leaf, usually, if not 
always, solitary, would have been too long for the plate; its 
width is 11-16ths of an inch. It is distinguished from v. 2. 
by a slenderer tube, constricted towards the lower extremity 
of the ventricose part, and by remarkable round pits, which 
appear in the inside like knobs, mostly two to each flower 
in the spaces between the insertion of the filaments. V. 2. 
was sketched and described by Mr. Booth, the intelligent 
gardener of Sir C. Lemon, from a specimen sent to him by 
Mrs. Sulivan from Flushing, near Falmouth, with another 
from Miss Warren of the same place, as the produce of bulbs 
procured by Commodore Sulivan during his command on 
the W. coast of S. America in 1837. Both varieties flowered 
in August, 1839; v. 2. with four, v. 1. with six flowers, not 
long after the decay of the leaf. A second bulb of v. 1. 
shewed flower towards the end of September. The scape 
was about a foot high ; the circumference of the tube of 
v. 2. measured an inch and half. The anthers are oblong, 
and attached near the middle. The narrow part of the tube 
is of a dirty colour, between green and red; the rest of the 
flower of v. 1. is precisely of the colour of red lead, of v. 2. 
according to Mr. Booth's drawing, darker. When the sketch 
of Stenomesson croceum, Bot. Mag. 3615, was shewn to me, 
I was asked whether it was not Pancratium coccineum of 
Ruiz, and I answered that its form agreed better with Dom- 
bey's croceum, understanding from the question that the 
flower had been ascertained to have the cup of Pancratiform 
plants, and thinking that I saw a six-toothed cup iu the 
figure. Since the discovery of an allied genus without cup, 
on examining the figure, I believe the artist did not mean to 
represent any cup, but merely six ribs to the limb with 
oblique margins, and I suspect that the plant was P. miniata, 
if so, very incorrectly sketched. The section with solid 
scape, shelly seeds, and tube without a cup, slides into the 
cup-bearing Pancratiform section by the affinity of Pentlandia 
to Urceolina and Stenomesson, and of Oporanthus to Chli- 
danthus and Clinanthus, (a name for which I propose to sub- 
stitute Clitanthes) the three latter with linear, the three former 
with petiolated leaves, marginally compressed backwards* 
* The leaves of Griffinia are compressed forwards. 
