flowered laft January ; and, as far as we can find, for the flrfl 

 time in any European garden. G. 



NOTE. 

 No. 991. For u Massonia corymbosa," read "Scilla 



CORYMBOSA." 



Upon reviewing the two genera, we think that this fpecies 

 mould have been placed under that of Scilla, rather than the 

 clofely adjoining one of Massonia, an amended Generic 

 Character of which is fubjoined. 



Massonia. 



Inflor. feorfim brafteata, bra&eis folitariis, exiguis mem- 

 branaceis, foliaceifve ac flores aequantibus. Cal. o. Cor. infera, 

 perfiftens, ereQa, e tubo variae longitudinis patens limbo regu- 

 [ari, fexpartito, aequali, rotato, recurvo, refra£tove. Stam. tubo 

 adnata, filiformi-fubulata, ereclo-incurvefcentia, raro divergentia, 

 longius exferta inclufave, sequalia vel alterne fublongiora, ferto 

 fauciali membranaceo angufte cupulato utplurimum neftarifero 

 plerumque connexa. Stylus fetaceo-elongatus. Stig. pun&um 

 hirtulum, nunc apertum, obfoletiufve triplex. Cap/, fcariofo- 

 membranacea, fubdiaphana, a parva fubovata lobato-trigona 

 lobis anguftis devexe compreffis ad magnam turbinatam lobis 

 alato-extenuatis, 3-loc, 3-valv., valvis medio feptigeris, repli- 

 candis. Sem. in loculamento plura numerofave, biferialia, parva, 

 globofa interna difTepimenti margini funiculatim annexa; tejia 

 nigra. G. 



Obs. Bulbus f urticatus integumentis membranojis ; fcapus itna foliorum 

 parte involutus terra haret, vel Jublnde emergit humilis ; folia vttlgo btna, 

 a piano obverfa y (raro unicum), carnqfa, coriaceo-craj)'a> Vmearia lanceo- 

 latave eretla ad ovato-orbiculata tranfverfe latiora apprejfa burnt; racemus 

 a corymbofo congejio ad laxum atque thyrjoidco-fplcatum ; llos fetnel folitarnis. 

 Collineat ad diver/a puncla EucOMIN, SciLLAM, BRUNSVIGIAM, 

 ^pHlMANTHUM. G. 



