species of the Genus, in the structure of the ovarium and 
corona—the cells of the former being furnished with two 
seeds, and the tube-like form of the latter, cut down nearly 
to its base, into almost six distinct segments. 'T'wo years 
afterwards, viz. in 1812, Mr. Sarissury proposed, in a 
paper that appeared in the transactions of the Horticultural 
Society of London, to remove that Amboyna Lily, from its 
then co-ordinates, toa new Genus; to which, without any 
definition of character, he gave the title of Eurycies * :—a 
Genus, (thus submitted for adoption by future botanical 
writers) at that time, limited to the solitary species ; the 
Crinum nervosum of L’Heritier, who had probably relied 
upon the accuracy of the figure of Rumpu. (in the sixth 
volume of the Herbarium Amboinense), being considered 
by botanists identical with it. 
Since that period, however, two very distinct species, 
both natives of New South Wales, and of Mr. CunnineHam’s 
discovery, have been added to the Genus. Of these, the 
one here figured was originally gathered in the year 1824, 
on the banks of the Brisbane River, at Moreton Bay ; where 
it was observed growing in great abundance beneath the 
shade of the Araucariz of the forests of that almost tro- 
pical region, and where, urged by the rains, which fall on 
that coast in the summer months, it frequently puts forth its 
flower-scape before the leaves appear. 
In botanical affinity, Eurycies approaches nearest to 
Catostemma of Mr. Brown, a Genus exclusively Australian, 
and now—rather a remarkable coincidence—also compris- 
ing three species ; of which, one (C. album, an inhabitant 
of the north coast of that continent) has the elliptical nerved 
leaves, so characteristic of the individuals of the Genus of 
our present subject. 
Descr. Bulbs nearly round, tunicated, about the size of 
a walnut, hazel-brown, with a palish-green apex. Leaves 
two to five, long-petioled, elliptical or oblong, acuminate, 
rather cordate at the base, smooth on both sides, strong- 
nerved ; nerves curved and parallel. Scape erect, about 
a foot high, bearing an umbel of from four to six flowers, 
within an involucrum of two or three leaves, of unequal size 
and always shorter than the flowers themselves, when eX- 
panded. 
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_* Derived from edpds, broad, and xatiw to close up: in reference to the 
dilated bases of the filaments, which may be said, partially to close up, the 
orifice of the tube of the flower. - 
