the whole natural order; the’ figure is good and the defcrip- 
tion very intelligible. We have retained his trivial name in — 
preference to’ Jacquin’s, both on account of :priority and of 
its not being taken from colour, which in this natural family 
fhould be avoided as -much as poflible, a name without 
any meaning being greatly preferable to fuch; yet where Z 
we have found them already given we have never changed — 
them. It is clofely allied to the Granto.us Jongiflorus of the 
Cotrecranea, and the firft variety of the fame of the Icones — 
‘Rarrores, differing cliiefly’in the fpathe, which in the laft © 
is blunt and dentate. Our fpecimen has no claim to the title | 
of rofeus, though’ the fame bulb may ‘produce one that has 
next feafon. This fpecies is alfo clofely allied to TRiroNia 
(GiapioLus) lineata, no 487 of this work: 7 : 
Above we have quoted bath the Dutch and Contnn sis 
tions of Hourruyn’s Natural Hiftory, but-in general our — 
quotation refers to the German tranflation only, printed at — 
different periods in -Nuremburg and tranflated by different 
hands. This very rare plant was introduced amongft us from — 
the Cape, by, the way of Holland,, by Meffrs. Cosvietae | 
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