one another at their bafes, fo as to form a fpotted flalk, rifing 

 feveral inches above the ground ; in all which circumfiances it 

 agrees "with H.emantiius puniceits. 



Being a native of fo warm a climate as the Coaft of Guinea, 

 the bark-ttove is necefiary to its prcfervation ; and even there 

 few have been fo fuccefsful as to flower the fame plant repeat- 

 edly ; though imported bulbs will blow without the aid of 

 artificial heat. 



Introduced into the Paris garden more than two hundred 

 years ago by M. Robin, Jim. and figured at the time by 

 Vallet in his Jardin du Roy Henry IV. Of this inaccurate 

 figure, thofe of De Bry, Swf.ertius, Rudbeck., and Mo- 

 rison, are more or lefs mutilated copies ; Seba's is different 

 and better; Nodder's is excellent, and was drawn in 1795 

 from a plant which flowered at Mr. Parker's, at South- 

 Lambeth, among the lirli received from Sierra-Leone ; ours was 

 taken about the fame time, from a bulb which {lowered very 

 weakly, but on account of its fize appeared better fuited to 

 our work. The umbel frequently contains from forty to fixty 

 bloffoms. 



Willdenow, without having feen the plant, has defcribed 

 the peduncles to be jointed, as they are reprefented in Val- 

 let's figure, and this would undoubtedly be an excellent 

 diftinguifhing character, but unfortunately nothing of the kind 

 exifls. 



