within the tropics, and Delagoa Bay eleven degrees to the 
South, it is probably different in constitution. A bulb sent 
to Spofforth by Messrs. Loppices, which has lately flow- 
ered, proves to be a scarlet-flowered variety of Hamanruus 
puniceus (v. magnifica) witha very crowded umbel. Ano- 
ther bulb in the stove at Spofforth, imported by Mr. Tare, 
of the Sloane Street nursery from Para, in Brazil, appears 
to be the Mozambic plant, but has not yet flowered. Hav- 
ing learned from my son that the bulbs of H. mudéiflorus 
which he had seen in the islands on the West coast of 
Africa grew chiefly on old crumbling walls, I have culti- 
vated these successfully by filling the pot to a considerable 
height with old bricks and pots pounded, putting light 
loam above, and keeping the round bulb above ground, 
with its prolonged base under gound. Hamanrnus Abysst- 
nicus, brought by a traveller from Abyssinia, flowered very 
beautifully at the garden of Mr. Lirriz in the King’s Road, 
Chelsea, two years ago ; but no drawing, or careful exami- 
nation, was made. A strong offset from it is thriving vigor- 
ously in the greenhouse at Spofforth, and may be expected 
to flower with its next shoot. W. H. 
aa, 
-1—2-flora, sepalis pallidé nigro-ceruleis feré albicantibus (i. €. 
griseo-ceruleis) petala alba superantibus, stigmatibus apice laceris 
seu plumeis, seminibus parvis rotundis obscuris, foliis 3—4 (in 
Anglia cultis autumno tarditis excrescentibus) ; teste Parkinson de 
C. Byzantino. Sepalis lilacinis, petalis albis minoribus lanceolatis ; 
teste Reichenb. de Specioso perperam dicto et prope Krassoviam 
(Krajova) in Banatu et Wallachia lecto. Tunicis paucis, vagina- 
ceis demum in fibras liberas solutis, foliaceis subtiliter reticulatm 
nervatis, foliis hysteranthiis omnibus supra medium tuber affixis, 
spatha ebracteata, stigmatibus multifidis, perianthio violaceo au- 
tumnali ; teste Gay, qui ex Banatu et Transylvania affinem Pyre- 
neo et medio esse monet. B. d. F. 25. 220. C. Banaticum eun- 
dem esse ac Speciosum Reich. et iridifolium R. et H. monet im 
literé. cl. Gay, ideoque ad Byzantinum proculdubio referendum 
censeo. Campestri affinis miht videtur. 
8. Versicolor ; Ker ; supra 1110. Flore verno, c. tun. vagin. duabus 
_ interioribus infra non circumscissis fibris duris confertis parallelis 
- acuté confluentibus prope basim, foliac. exter. nitida membranacea | 
_ infra medium affix, involucro apiculato spatha dimidio breviore, - 
o M Siga biflora exserta bracteam loratam angustam equante, perian- 
__ thii fauce levi seepius sublutescente, filamentis levibus non cana- 
~ liculatis t-unc. infra faucem insertis, antheris stigmata subtruncata _ 
_ feré equantibus, foliis canaliculis nervatis cost4 dorsali latiorib 
_ -Marginibus vix reflexis (seepe obsoleté) subscabris. 
Be vee? 
Vide infra ad calcem 3871. | 
