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CALOSTEMMA luteum. 
Yellow Calostemma. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEA. 
CALOSTEMMA. Botanical Register, vol. 5. fol. 421. 
C. luteum ; foliis contemporaneis flaccidis ensiformibus viridibus scapi longi- 
tudine, tubo perianthii limbo breviore, coronze dentibus interjectis bifidis 
filamentis brevioribus, umbellis densis, pedicellis inarticulatis subæ- . 
qualibus. 
C. luteum. Bot. Mag. t. 2101. Supra t. 421. 
Although a figure of this species has already been given 
in an early volume of the present work, yet it seems desirable 
to reproduce it, partly for the sake of showing more correctly 
its exact structure, and partly because of its rarity. 
It, and all the species, of which five are now on record, 
is an inhabitant of New Holland, whence bulbs are from time 
to time imported. They differ not only in the colour of the 
flowers, which are yellow, red, pink, and white, but in the 
relative length of the pedicels, in the presence or absence of 
an articulation in those parts, and in the form of the tooth- 
ings found between the stamens. 
One of them at least, C. candidum, is said to be fragrant. 
That now figured, which flowered in September, 1839, in the 
garden of the Horticultural Society, from bulbs collected upon 
the plains of the Lachlan in April, 1836, by Major Sir 
Thomas Mitchell, had a strong smell of mint. 
It is not quite so hardy as bulbs from the Cape of Good 
Hope, being liable to be injured in a cold frame by the frost 
and damp in winter; and therefore the best plan of cultiva- 
tion is either to plant it out in the border of a conservatory, 
or to grow it in a pot in the greenhouse. It is by no means 
difficult to make it grow freely, but there is considerable 
difficulty in inducing it to flower. This can only. be done by 
April, 1840.. H 
