from shooting’ so early in the spring, which will probably 
be effected without difficulty. The bulbs of Ismene need 
not be set till May, and notwithstanding the want of 
warmth in the summer of 1839, I. amancaes had. ripened 
seed out of doors at the commencement of July, and,some 
of the bulbs continued flowering till August. _E. longv- 
petala has completely the aspect of an Ismene. The form 
of Ismene deflexa, which has the cup reclining on the lower 
petals, and the upper filaments too long to fall into the cup, 
and therefore lying like bars across its mouth, brings the 
two genera nearer together, and makes it a question. whe- 
ther Exisena may not be rather a section of Ismene. It 
differs in having the filaments long, almost fasciculate, 
declined with the points curved upwards, and the cup 
narrowly cylindrical, flattened as if by pressure from above, 
and the tube very short. If the bulb sent to Spofforth from 
Lima for E. ringens be correct, it has also a long column 
to the leaves, and the aspect of an Ismenr, and the figure in 
the Flora Peruv. is quite incorrect, but, as the plant has not 
flowered, it may perhaps not be correct. There seems to 
be a third species amongst Mr. Macrean’s specimens from 
Caxamarquilla on the East side of the Andes, (alt. 10,000 
feet,) which differs from ringens in having a longer spathe, 
and filaments only half the length. The leaves also differ 
in being blunt, if the right leaves, which are detached, have 
been placed with the flowers. It will be desirable that live 
specimens of the three species should be inspected before 
any decision is made as to the question, whether Ex1sena 
should be considered as a section of Ismenz, which seems 
robable. The cup of E. longipetala properly leans on the 
ower petal, but the flower is apt to takea little twist, which 
throws it on the lower petal and one of the lateral sepals. 
The three species agree in a similar short bent tube, unlike 
that of Ismzne. The fibres of both Ismenz and Extsena are 
very thick, fleshy, and permanent, continuing as sound as 
the bulb itself when kept through the winter in dry sand. 
The seed of E. longipetala is large, round, and green, like 
that of Ismene. 1. deflexa flowered finely in the open border 
at Spofforth at the end of July and in August, and bore 
the cold wet season of 1840 better than amancaes. W. H. 
AMARYLLIDACES. 
ELIsENnasublimis; scapo dodrantali, spatha triuncialisexflora pedunculis 
‘func. tubo $-unc., limbo albescente biunciali filamenta j-unc- 
oa mag C paone cire. 4-une. acuté pluridentata, stylo limbum sub- 
uante vel semunciam demum superante stigmate minuto. Spect- 
men in Andibus Caxamarquille a dom. J. Maclean lectum. W. H. 
