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on the branches of a large tree called Zumang de Guere, 
which appears to be the Inga cinerea of Humboldt. It has 
flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin. 
21. EPIDENDRUM marginatum. 
Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Icones plantarum, t. 36. 
This is the Epidendrum radiatum figured at plate 45, of 
our volume for 1844. 
22. SPHÆROTELE coccinea. 
Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Icones plantarum, t. 38. 
This is Stenomesson coccineum. 
23. PHÆDRANASSA chloracra. 
W. Herbert. 
PuxpnaANAssA; Herbert, Amaryllidee; $ Hippeastriformes. Germen 
deflexum trigon® oblongum apice constricto ; tubus crassus decurvus 
latere inferiore breviore sexcostato-compactus profundè sexsulcatus ore 
angustato ; limbus pendulus laciniis spatulatis convolutis, sepalis inferne 
margine fistulæformiter convoluto superne laminä canaliculatè explanatä, 
petalis subcanaliculatis lamina latiore; filamenta complanata inferne 
gradatim latiora infra tubi faucem pariter inserta conspicue decurrentia 
recta, superiora tria breviora, inferiora producta; antheræ breves versa- 
tiles infra medium affixæ ; stylus rectus stigmate simplici clavato. —— 
Plante American® bulbo ovato, scapo tereti crassè carnoso angustè fistu- 
lato; foliis hysteranthiis petiolatis ; ad Stenomesson inter Pancratiformes 
et Pentlandiam a Phycellä vergunt.—W. H. 
P. chloracra ; (Hæmanthus dubius, H. et B. Kunth. 1. 281. Phycella chlo- 
racra, Herb. Am. 155.) caule bipedali, umbellä circiter sexflorä, spathà 
bracteatá marcescente, pedunculis subæqualibus 5-7 unc. viridibus, 
germine +5, unc. viridi, perianthio ultra-vel subbiunciali rubro laminis 
viridibus margine pallido subundulato subacutis, stylo perianthium fila- 
mentis albis stylum album superantibus, antheris pallidé subluteis, foliis 
viridibus subacutis petiolo 1-2-unciali lamina subpedali circiter 22 uncias 
latà.— W. H. 
24. TIGRIDIA lutea. 
Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Icones plantarum, t. 34. 
This is apparently the same as Mr. Herbert’s Hydrotenia 
lobata ; and is a plant of no such beauty as the common 
Tigridias possess. 
