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tail which terminates the latter longer still. It is very hand- 

 some, as well as very singular, and when well managed will 

 be one of the most extraordinary exotic productions to be 

 seen in our stoves. The flowers have a strong unpleasant 

 smell of old Tobacco. 



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54. SIEVERSIA elata. 



Royle Illustrations, fyc. p. 207. t. 39. f. 1. 





Rather a handsome, hardy herbaceous plant, raised in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society from seeds from Nepal, 

 presented by the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India 

 Company. It has deep green pinnated leaves, with roundish 

 coarsely crenated lobes, gradually diminishing in size to the 

 base, and occasionally interrupted by small entire lobes. The 

 flowers are large, handsome, deep yellow, in three or four 

 flowered panicles. The number of carpels is about fifteen. 



THE SPECIES OF COBURGIA. 



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We are indebted to the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of 

 Manchester for the following enumeration of the species 

 known to him of this nobis, genus of Amaryllidaceous bulbs. 



1 . C. incarnata ; fol. glaucis unc. latis obtusis, scapo sub 4-floro, 



germine ovali, tubo decurvo 3-4-unc. inferne tenui su- 

 perne subventricose ampliato, perianthio rubro tristi ful- 

 vescente, macula magna in limbi laciniis viridi. 



Var. 1. Quitensis ; per. sub 5-unc. stylo stamina subse- 

 quante. Humb. 



Var. 2. Peruviana; spatha decidua; per. circ. 4-unc. stylo 

 limbum superante. Ex icone a Matthews pictd. 



2. C. trichromat foliis glaucis biped. § unc. latis obtusis, 



scapo sub-5-floro, germine ovali, per. 2J-3 unc. tubo su- 

 perne sub ventricoso pallide miniato, limbo ejusdem coloris 

 margine pallido, macula angusta semunc. viridi. coron. 

 dent, viridi apiculatis. In Andibus lath diffusa. 

 2*. C. acuta : (specimina sicca duo ex Peruvia, ambo) scapo 



17-unc. 10-floro, fol. subsesquipedalibus vix semunc. latis 

 superne valde attenuatis, spatha persistente 2J unc. pe- 

 dunc. brevibus, per. (fulvo?) vix 2J-3 unc. tubo superne 

 (in sicco) \ vix £ lato, corona brevi dentibus subintegris 





