it is its name, which was given in a page at the end of Mr. 
Miers’s ‘Travels in Chili. By the kindness of this gentleman 
I am now able to present the readers of the Register with a 
figure taken by himself from the fresh plant, and a generic 
character ; to which I am allowed to add the following note. 
“ This very elegant plant was found by me in the year 
1824, in one of the lateral branches of the lofty chain of the 
Andes that jut into the plain of Aconcagua. The scape, rising 
to the height of nine inches, bears a head of four to seven 
flowers, upon pedicels from two to three inches long, or rarely 
by abortion it is one-flowered. The marcescent linear spathe 
bears within it as many membranaceous bracts as there are 
flowers. The separation of the two lower segments appears 
at first sight as if two of them had been torn away. The 
flowers externally are snow-white, the colour of the brilliant 
vermilion lines being in no degree distinguishable on the 
back of the segments, where they are also pure white and 
striated longitudinally. The filaments are of a pale crimson, 
and the anthers, somewhat emarginate at base, are versatile. 
The stamens and corona originate outside of a raised epigy- 
nous disc, together with the perianthium. The style is some- 
what longer than the stamens, and more declinate, but the 
apex is curved upwards to meet the anthers, as in the genus 
Amaryllis. | gathered a number of the bulbs of this beautiful 
plant, which I regret were all lost by shipwreck, together 
with the greater part of my collections.” 
Mr. Miers has also given me a dried specimen, which 
enables me to confirm the general accuracy of the figure and 
technical character, as published. I am however inclined to 
think that the coronet js not composed of six distinct lobes, 
but that they are united into a cup about one-fourth of their 
whole length ; at least such appears to be the structure of the 
only flower I have been able to examine. In the opinion of 
the Dean of Manchester, the genus is most nearly allied to 
Eucrosia. 
