Tab, 6605. 
ZEPHYRANTHES cirrina. 
Native of Tropical America, 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEXZ.—Tribe AMARYLLIDER, 
Genus ZepHyRANTHES, Serbert ; (Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 480.) 
ZEPHYRANTHES (Argyropsis) ci¢rina ; balbo magno globoso stolonifero, foliis 3-4 
synauthiis anguste linearibus viridibus subpedalibus facie profunde canaliculatis 
dorso rotundatis, scapo ancipiti vix semipedali, spathd brevi tubulosa, pedicello 
producto, perianthii tubo infundibulari ovario longiori, limbi citrini segmentis 
oblongis acutis, staminibus exquilongis erectis filamentis brevibus, stylo 
perianthio subduplo breviore, lobis stigmatosis subglobosis, 
This is an interesting new Zephyranthes, well marked 
botanically by the rounded lobes of its stigma, and a 
valuable acquisition horticulturally because all the species 
of the genus which are in cultivation already have either 
white or more or less decidedly red flowers. It was 
brought to us for the first time from Messrs. Veitch last 
August, when it was in flower. They believe that they 
received it from Demerara, but its nearest ally as regards 
the structure of its stigma is the well-known Mexican 
4. candida of Herbert (Bot. Mag., Tab. 2607), and we 
have lately received from Mexico a second yellow-flowered 
Species. This was found by Dr. Palmer on the banks of 
the Rio Grande, and has a similar tube, but a very much 
smaller perianth-limb. 
Descr. Bulb globose, with brown membranous tunics, 
an inch and a half in diameter, copiously stoloniferous. 
Leaves three or four, developed in autumn simultaneously 
with the flower, narrow linear, bright green, about a foot 
long, deeply channelled down the face, rounded on the 
back, a sixth of an inch broad, tinged with red-brown 
towards the base. Scape ancipitous, four or five inches 
long, green, tinged with red-brown towards the base. 
FEBRUARY Isr, 1882. 
