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HAYLOCKIA pusiILua, 
Native of Uruguay. 
Nat. Ord. AmaryLLIpaAcE&.—Tribe AMARYLLER. 
Genus Hayrtocxia, Herb.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 723.) 
Haytockta pusilla; herba pusilla, bulbo globoso tunicato, tunicis fuscis 
appressis, foliis serotinis solitariis paucisve angustissime linearibus sub- 
acutis flaccidis viridibus supra concavis, floribus bulbo solitariis sub- 
sessilibus erectis, basi spatha bifida instructis, perianthii tubo 14-pollicari 
gracili cylindrico, limbi infundibulari-campanulati segmentis patenti- 
recurvis oblongis subacutis albis pallide roseis v. primulinis basin versus 
rubro striolatis, staminibus brevibus fauci perianthii insertis, filamentis 
subulatis, antheris lineari-oblongis versatilibus aureis, ovario spatho 
occluso brevi, stylo filiformi, stigmatibus 3 linearibus obtusis ore 
perianthii breviter exsertis, capsula parva trigona trisulca trivalvi, 
seminibus dorso convexis, testa nigra. 
H, pusilla, Herb. in Bot. Reg. t. 1371; Amaryjllid. pp. 59, 72, 182. Kunth 
Eawm. Pi. vol. v. p. 480. 
SteryBERGIA Americana, Hoffmgg. Verz. Pf. p.197 cum ic. Gibert, Enum. Pl. 
Agr. Montevid. p. 107. 
ZEPHYRANTHES pusilla, Dietr. Syn. Pl. vol. ii, p. 1176, 
. 
Haylockia is a monotypic genus, established by the late 
Dean Herbert of Manchester, upon a little bulbous plant, 
-a@ native of the neighbourhood of Monte Video and Mal- 
donado, which flowered in his garden at Spofforth in 1830. 
It is closely allied to Zephyranthes. Herbert says of it, 
** with bulb, foliage, capsule, and seed that are scarcely 
distinguishable from Zephyranthes, it has a flower which 
is nearly that of a Colchicum.” The only distinction 
between Zephyranthes and Haylockia appears to me to 
be, the almost total absence of a scape in Haylockia, 
the ovary being, with the spathe, sunk in the very short 
neck of the bulb. Two varieties of it are described, 
found growing together, one with straw-coloured, the 
other with pale rose flowers. The generic name com- 
-memorates the valuable services of Mr. Matthew Haylock, 
who had for twenty-two years the charge of the Spofforth 
collection of plants, and “who brought no small number, 
especially of this natural order, to blossom for the first 
time in this country,” 
January Ist, 1900, 
