approach of winter the leaves perished, when the pots were 
set dry in the greenhouse. Early in the spring both the 
bulbs flowered, the spathe having appeared while the bulbs 
were dry. One of them flowered again at the end of Oc- 
tober, very shortly after the pot had been set dry. The 
plant has considerable affinity in the form of its flower, and 
the abrupt curvature of the tube, to Carpoperes recurvata, 
but the enlarged part of the flower of that plant is supposed 
to be a portion of the limb. It is, however, very probable 
that it will be found to conform with this plant, in which 
case it will form a section with this plant, if not a separate 
Genus. There is a race of plants, of which Mr. Macrean 
sent bulbs and dry specimens to Spofforth in 1840, which 
appear to form a link between Copureia and CLinANTHUS. 
By Mr. Martuews’s drawings it appears that the tube of 
C. variegata is little curved or attenuated, and more erect 
than usual in this Genus, while that of C. incarnata is very 
slender in the lower part, and exceedingly curved down- 
wards, approaching nearer to the form of coccinea than 
fulva, variegata, and trichroma, and the germen of varie- 
gata is somewhat triangular. Mr. Macrean has sent spe- 
cimens of another remarkable Copureia. Copureia acuta, 
Hersert ; foliis sensim attenuatis, umbellé decemflora spa- 
tha 24-unciali valvis 3-latis, pedunculis brevibus, perian- 
thio triunciali fulvo, filamentis semunciain stylo brevioribus 
corona longioribus, stylo limbum vix uncialem superante, 
limbi foliolis angustis acutis, corone dentibus, ni fallor in 
sicco, indivisis. Mr. Maciean has sent to Spofforth two 
bulbs, which have flowered, of a species of Eusrerusa, with 
long leaves, erect, with the upper part hanging down to the 
ground, Evusrerura Macleanica, Hersert. The singular 
construction of the filaments and the asserted pits under 
them had thrown discredit on the Genus. There are no pits 
in this, but the filaments are winged, and the wings termi- 
nate in long setiform teeth. W. H. 
ll. Reticulatus ; M. v. Bieb. Perperam Susianus, supra 652. Flore 
__Verno ; cormi tunica vaginacea interiore depereunte, foliaceis reticu- 
latis exteriore cribrosi prope basim affixi, basi inferne apiculate 
circumsciss4, proxima supra medium, ceteris gradatim altius, foliis 
costa dorsali ciliata canaliculis angustis latiore marginibus cras- 
sis reflexis, scapo elongato, spatham bractei tubati sub aequan- 
te, limbi fauce levi, filamentis dorso non canaliculatis Javibus orl 
ipsi insertis stigmatibus conduplicatis inzequalibus integris. . fs 4 
ar. 1. 
Vide infra ad calcem 3866. 
