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and seeds have been sent from the Swan River, by favor of 
Mr. Manetes, after whom the species is named, and from 
Mr. Drummonp. For a specimen of the plant, and for the 
drawing here figured, we are indebted to Mrs. Wray of 
Oakfield, near Cheltenham. 
Descr. Root perennial, formed of thickish, fasciculated 
fibres. The rest of the plant is herbaceous. The leaves 
are mostly confined to the base of the stem, and are equi- 
tant at the base, distichous, linear, elongated, and gradu- 
ally acuminated, sometimes ciliated, but these hairs are 
deciduous, and when present inconspicuous : the leaves of 
the stem or scape, small, linear-acuminate. Scape, or stem, 
terete, simple, everywhere, as well as the pedicels and the 
ovarium, clothed with feathery hairs or long tomentum, 
below greenish, the rest a deep full red. Bracteas of the 
same colour, tinged with green. Perianth three to four 
inches long, velvety, rich green, tubular, split open on the 
underside for the whole length, pale green within: the 
limb cleft, the laciniz secund and reflexed, often more or 
less combined. Stamens six, inserted near the top of the 
tube. Anthers linear, yellowish. Ovary inferior, three- 
celled, cells many-seeded. Style exserted ; stigma clubbed, 
obscurely bifid. 
Fig. 1. Apex ofthe Tube of the Perianth, with the Stamens. 2. Section 
of the lower part of the Tube, with the Ovary. 3. Transverse section of 
the Ovary :—magnijied. 
ic. 138. eodem loco cit. circa Massiliam et alibi nullus est, neque 
autumnalem ullum prope Massiliam indigenam reperirl pro com~- 
perto habetur. Descr. ex sativo et Pyreneo conflata. 
Ozs. Croci ebracteati indigenze omnes involucrati. Bracteati 1. 
bractea lorataé. 2. bractea involvente. 3. bractedé tubaté. Bractea 
tubata aliquando casu in cultis dimidiata. C. dageneflorus cultus m- 
clementia coli septentrionalis sepe ebracteatus. Que de foliis Croco- 
rum predicantur, ad folia recentia, flore quoad vernos nondum effcto, 
pertinent. W. H. 
ERRATA. 
3864. 2. C. cancellatus, pro “ strictd,” lege “ striatd. 
3865. Pro “ conniventi,” lege “ conniventia.” 
—— Pro “ subovalibus,” lege “ laciniis subovalibus.” 
