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A Californian bulbous plant, sent to the Horticultural 
Society by R. B. Hindes, Esq. It has large oblong bulbs, 
covered with coarse brown scales; the leaves are very long, 
undulated, narrow and channelled, of a dull grey colour, and, 
being too weak to support their own weight, they lie prostrate. 
The flowering stem is erect, about two feet high, panicled 
from the base, with straggling branches bearing slender 
racemes of distant flowers. The latter are white, with a green 
stripe along the back of each division; when they expand 
they first adhere at the points and separate at the sides, so 
as to give the flower the form of a balloon; eventually they 
spread flat; and then in withering rise up again and cover 
over the ovary. ‘The habit is not that of Ornithogalum, and, 
the fruit being unknown, it may not belong to the genus ; 
especially as the ovary has only two ascending ovules in each 
cell. Still there is hardly evidence enough to justify the 
formation of a new genus. It is certainly not a Camassia or 
Cyanotris. 
112. HELLEBORUS orientalis. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1337. 
At last this rare and interesting species, the genuine 
€AAeBopos peAas of the ancients, has been obtained for our 
ardens. It was received by the Horticultural Society from 
r. Sandison, H. M. Consul at Brusa, through the good - 
offices of the Hon. W. F. Strangways. It proves very diffe- 
rent from the Helleborus niger or Christmas rose, producing 
large blush flowers upon a leafy stem. It flowered in a green- 
house in February last, but is probably hardy; should it 
prove so it will be a valuable herbaceous plant. 
113. HELLEBORUS olympieus 3 foliis radicalibus palmatisectis : segmentis 
oblongo-linearibus serratis basi integris, caule bifloro, foliis floralibus 
subsessilibus, sepalis ovatis obtusis herbaceis. 
This was received by the Horticultural Society with the 
last, to which it bears some resemblance ; but the leaves are 
much smaller and narrower, and not pedate ; moreover the 
flowers are green. It is nearer to H. purpurascens, but the 
segments of the leaves never appear to be lobed. 
