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CALLIPSYCHE eucrosioides. 
Two-coloured Fairy bloom. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACE. 
CALLIPSYCHE. Flores declinati a latere compressi. Sepala $ Pe- 
tala in tubum brevem connata, regularia. Sepala cymbiformia petalis 
latiora, apice subreflexa ; petalo imo depresso genitalia amplexo. Filamenta 
libera, basi tuberculo munita, ori tubi inserta, teretia, prælonga ; antheræ 
versatiles, medio affixæ. Ovarium 3-loculare, ovulis plurimis biseriatis ; 
stylus cum filamentis primum deflexus mox sursüm curvatus ; stigma capi- 
tatum.— Herbert in Bot. Reg. 1842. misc. no. 49. 
C. eucrosioides, Herbert, l. c. 
This very curious bulb is only known to us from the 
preceding character, a specimen without leaves sent us from 
Spofforth in April 1844, and now figured, and a short Latin 
description published in the place above quoted. 
The Dean of Manchester states that it is a plant with a 
roundish bulb, which was brought from St. Blas or S. Felipe 
on the west coast of Mexico, and that a similar plant, from 
Guatemala, is in his collection. It seems to like shade and 
heat, and flowered without leaves in the month of March. 
Mr. Herbert thus describes the plant. ** Leaves few in 
number, green, with a blade a foot long, and about four 
inches wide, a good deal tessellated and pitted. The scape 
with ten flowers, glaucous, tapering, smaller upwards, about 
28 inches long. Spathe and bracts withering. Peduncles 
green, equal, about an inch long. Ovary oblong, 3-cornered, 
with 3 furrows, green ; cells with about 23 ovules in each. 
Tube green, curved downwards, scarcely i-inch long, full of 
honey. Limb of the flowers somewhat scarlet, scarcely an 
inch long, with obtuse petals. Stamens pale green ; style 
43 inches long; filaments about 43 inches long, unequal, the 
lowest the most extended. 
