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affix® yersatiles, stigma rotundate dilatatum. Bulbus foliis petiolatis. 

 Eucrosiae affinis tuberculis pro corona. W. H. 

 C. eucrosioides ; bulbo subrotundo, foliis paucis viridibus lamina pedali 

 arc. 4-unc. lata tessellato-lacunosa, scapo 10-floro glauco tereti superne 

 mmore circ. 28 nnc. spatha, et bracteis marcescentibus, pedunculis viri- 



loculis circ. 23-spermis, tubo viridi declinato vix £-unc. mellifluo, limbo 

 subcoccineo vix unciali petalis obtusis, genitalibus pallide viridibus, 

 stylo 4| unc. filamentis circ. 4£ unc. insequalibus imo producto. W. H. 



The bulbs were brought from S. Bias or S. Felipe, on the 

 West Coast of Mexico. They appear to like shade and heat. 

 At Spofforth they flowered without leaves, in the month of 





March. Mr. Herbert thinks that he has the same bulb 

 from Guatemala. 



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50. PIERIS ovalifolia. 



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Don gen. syst. 3. 832. JDeCand. Prodr. r jf. 599. 



A fine evergreen shrub, native of the North of India, 

 where it was found by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton and afterwards 

 by Dr. Wallich's people. It has short-stalked, oval, toothless, 

 taper-pointed leaves, firm in texture, and glossy on both sides, 

 but a little hairy on the underside. The flowers are white, 

 tinged with pink, and appear in one-sided racemes, at the end 

 of short lateral branches. The corolla is almost cylindrical, 

 a little angular, and slightly contracted in the middle. It is 

 reported that the shoots of this species are poisonous to the 

 goats that browse upon them, on which account it was originally 

 called Andromeda capricida, a name which ought to have 

 been retained. We are not aware that it has flowered before 

 m this country: the specimen now described was sent by S. F. 

 -Phelps, Esq. of Warminster, whose plant is 12 feet high in a 

 -ot, branching out very gracefully. It may be expected to be 

 ardy. In Nepal it is reported'to form a tree 30 or 40 feet 

 high.-— -It is to be regretted that the contrivers of Botanical 

 names should have so little skill, to say the least of it, in de- 

 vising them. The author of Pieris, fancied it to be the name 

 of one ot the Muses ! not having remained long enough at 

 school to learn that they were called Pierides, because they 

 were born in Plena. As DeCandolle truly says, the name as 

 it stands is nonsense J J 



