This very remarkable plant, though its flower is delicate 
and beautiful, disappoints the expectation by producing, 
as far as I have seen, on its strong and tall stem only one 
blossom, which expands before sunrise, even in a dark 
room, and passes away ere noon. Some bulbs of this plant 
have been raised in England from Mexican seeds, and others 
have been received by Mr. Anpgrson of the Chelsea Garden, 
from Mr. Orro at Berlin. The specimen here represented 
flowered in the autumn at Spofforth, being of the latter 
importation. The pot had stood out of doors all the sum- 
mer, but the flower-buds appeared so late, owing to the 
unusual coldness of the season, that it was removed into 
the stove to promote the blossom. There was a consider- 
able interval between the flowering of the bulbs. It will 
probably be found to succeed well under a South wall in 
the open ground. Dr. Linptey has referred it to the Genus 
Cyretia; but on mature consideration, it does not appear 
that it can be properly united with it ; and, although it 
seeds readily if the true stigma be touched with its own 
pollen, it refuses to cross with Cypeiia Herbertiana. On 
careful examination of the Natural Order to which it be- 
longs, it appears that the crests of the stigmas or style and 
the dehiscence of the capsule are very material points, and 
and it disagrees with Cyretxa, in having the true stigma 
consisting of short two-lobed, transverse, tender lobes like 
those of Iris, (whereas those of Cypenca are long’, acute, . 
horny, and fringed on their upper surface,) and the outer 
crests petaloid, which in Cypetia are horny; the inner 
crests soft and almost obsolete and imperceptible, whereas 
those of Cypetxa are stiff and erect. It has also a capsule 
without any prominent opercle, except a minute point, 
and has ripened its seed here without any dehiscence, 
the coat of the capsule being very thin and perishable ; 
whereas the capsule of CypeLia opens at the end by the 
sutures of a very prominent opercle. The seeds of PHato- 
cALLIs are nearly flat, with a thin margin, while those of 
Cypetta are angular, and its whole fruit more like that of 
Ticriia. The generic name is given from the delicacy of 
the cone formed by the crests. The proper generic charac- 
ter of Cypretza will be,—‘ Perianthium et filamenta ut in 
Phalocallide. Anthere \oculis latere dehiscentibus basi 
latiores superne angustiores et styli lobis agglutinate. Sty- 
lus trigono-cyathiformis infra gracili-cylindricus superne 
trilobus. Stigmata distincté biloba acuta porrecta cornea 
superne fimbriata, cristis acutis corneis, externis dudbus 
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