For this beautiful flower we are indebted to our friends 

 Me firs. Lod dices and Sons, who received it from a gentle- 

 man, who informed them tint he brought it from Monte-Video, 

 and that being hung up in the cabin without earth, it continued 

 to flower great part of the voyage home. It feems however 

 hardly probable that it fhould be a native of fo temperate a 

 climate ; and it has been fuggefted that the fhip may have touched 

 at the Brazils, and that this plant was procured there. 



It feems to propagate readily by the bulbs, and promifes to 

 be a great ornament to our ftoves. Flowered in July laft. 



