fcape three feet high, about an inch in diameter towards the 

 bafe ; flowers produced in ]une and July, about four inches 

 long, white fading to a blufh or pale rofe-colour, but not in 

 ftreaks ; we did not perceive that they had any fcent. On 

 turning back to the article in No. 733 of this work, where the 

 plant had on the authority of Miller in his " Icones" been 

 added as variety j3 to Belladonna, it will be feen that we then 

 fufpe&ed it to be a diftincl: fpecies ; whkh conjefture an 

 infpe&ion of the growing fpecimen has made a certainty. It 

 would be fuperfluous to particularize differences, which a 

 comparifon of the figures and defcriptions of the two plants 

 will fo eafily fhew. In Belladonna the fegments of the corolla 

 do not cohere at all beyond their bafe, but converge in fuch 

 way as to give the appearance of their fo doing ; the leaves are 

 of a dark dingy green, fcarcely more than half an inch broad, 

 and never attain a length in any way equalling the fcape ; which 

 circumftances are here mentioned, becaufe they were omitted in 

 our account of that fpecies. Blanda. is a native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, where it was gathered by Sir Joseph Banks. 

 Was fen t to Miller in 1754 by Van Roykn from Holland, 

 and flowered in the Chelfea garden. Our drawing was made 

 from a fpecimen that bloomed laft June in the very fine col- 

 lection of rare and beautiful Cape bulbs at Mr. Griffin's, 

 South- Lambeth, a fource from which the liberality of its 

 pofleflor entitles us to hope that many other curious and new 

 fubjefts may be obtained for our work. A fpace of nearly 

 fix months was fou *id to intervene between the flowering of 

 this fpecies and the full growth of its foliage. G. 



NOTE. 



Amaryllis formosissima ; fupra No. 47. At the bot- 

 tom of the margin of page 157 of Clusius's " Hiftoria 

 Plantarum," this plant is recorded by the denomination of 

 " Narciffus indicus jacobaeus ;" the author telling us in the 

 text, that " the furname" had fuggefted itfelf to his friend 

 Dr. Simon Tovar, feeing the great refemblance its flower 

 bore to the crimfon fword worn as a badge by the knights of 

 the Spanifh order of St. James. We have added this note in 

 confequence of having been frequently afked by cultivators, 

 whence that fpecies had acquired the appellation of the 

 " Jacobaea Lily," by which it is fo generally known among 

 them. Q. 



