ardent. After their decay, the pot should be left dry, and 
the flower-scape will rise while it is yet unwatered. In 
their native country the leaves rise after the first rains, and 
decay when the heat becomes powerful, and the stems 
appear at uncertain periods during the season of rest. Mr. 
Mactean omitted to state the precise quarter from whence 
this species was obtained. They might be cultivated with 
us in any situation where their leaves were protected from 
snails and from scorching sun, and where the soil could be 
shielded from rain during the winter by some covering 
and kept perfectly dry. The same treatment, with a little 
more warmth, suits Urcroxina, but it is equally impatient 
of sunshine, and, indeed, almost ‘all petiolated Amaryt- 
LIDER are so. GrirrintA and Hymenocatus with fleshy 
seeds have the margin of the young leaf inflexly, Penr- 
tanpiA, Urceouina and Srenomesson with shelled seeds 
reflexly, compressed. W. H. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a Staminal Crown magnified. 
AMARYLLIDACEE; § HippeastTrRiFoRMEs. 
Sprexecia cybister ; scapo forti4d—5-fioro, flore basi rubro superne sub- 
virescente, perianthio laciniis basi latis superne longé angustatis 
teflexis, labio inferiore cum genitalibus basi comprehensis precipt- 
tato, sepalorum margine involuto, petalis duobus superioribus plani- 
oribus apice tortuosé demisso, imo scapum attingente. Hz Bolivia 
Solus hysteranthus, (Sprexei2.§2. Filamento sepalino supe- 
riore elongato, petalino imo abbreviato.) The Tumbler Sprekelia. 
HipPEastRum Organense ; scapo bifloro, perianthio nutante rubro stella 
interna sublutescente radiata, sepalis latioribus, calyptro in fauce 
tenui sepius lacero, foliis ortu suberectis (seepius glaucescentibus) 
bulbo substolonifero. Variat multiim (ex montibus Organ dictis 
Brazilie) colore, magnitudine, styli longitudine, et calyptri barbé. 
| lee potits ie Shale ioe supra 2983, certé non Aulici 
. in quo sepala petalis angustiora, color s é fulgidus, ma- 
cula interna non radiata, Gio artisin. W. H. ees 
