in each fafcicle, bifarious, convolute, fterile, outermoft gra- 

 dually fhorter ; from an upright, rigid, channelled fomewhat 

 petiol-like bale, they gradually flatten into a lanceolate la- 

 mina, flightly channelled and keeled, with the fides more or 

 lefs deflefted ; lucid, quite fmooth, nerved, inner furface 

 darker coloured ; the full grown ones are nearly three times 

 higher than the fcape j thofe figured in the plate had fcarcely 

 attained one-third of their height ; in this ftate are not 

 unlike thofe of the Lily of the Valley. Scape extrafo- 

 liaceous, riling from its peculiar bud in the runner of the root, 

 together with the rachis not more than 5 — 6 inches high, to 

 the rachis from the ground about one and a half, graci- 

 leleent, upwards interruptedly angled and coloured, with 

 longifh excifions or niches, at the bafe of which fits the 

 flower. Spike roundifh, flowers many, 14 — 17, feffile, irre- 

 gularly fparfe, fragrant, of a dull flefh or pink colour, removed 

 from each other about the diirance of their own length ; 

 fupported by broad-ovate membranous brades, clofely fitted 

 to the tube. Corolla peruftent, upright, adprefled, tubular, 

 with a limb about equal to the tube, fix-parted and recurvedly 

 refleaed ; tube obfeurely angled, flightly tumid at the bafe ; 

 fegments hnear-oblong, flat, rather pointed, outer fomewhat 

 broader, longer, and more obtufe. Filaments filiform {bring- 

 ing from the mouth of the tube, upright, fcarcely divergent, 

 about equal to the limb; anthers fhort, linear-oblong, ereB. 

 Germen luper.or, ovate, obloletely trigonal, pinkifh ; ftyle 

 lubperfiitent foarply triquetral, thicker than the filaments, 

 clavately enlarged upwards, into a trialatelv three-lobed ftigma, 

 fomewhat crell-fliapcd. In our fpecimen's, the piltils on the 

 upper two-thirds of the fpike were abortive; poffibly owing 

 to the feeblenels of the plant. The corolla has a ftrong 

 prima frae rekmhhnce to that of the oriental Hyacinth. 



I he Ipecies is quite new to us. Was introduced by iMr. 

 Lvans of Stepney, who received it from China. 



Our drawing was taken at Mcfirs. Grim wood and Wykes's, 

 kenungton, where it flowered for the firtt time, in the tan-pit 

 of their ftove, aft January. Seems as if it would ripen the 

 reeds ; but at all events will be eafily propagated by dividing 

 tRe roots. An excellent account and figure of Sansevi 

 vyLimca ■ m\\ be found in the eniuing number of the C 

 niaudcl Plants. G. 



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