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which he has long observed with care; and having been 
favoured with his manuscript on the subject, we eladly em- y 
brace this opportunity of laying his observations Befiie the 
public, which we doubt not will be highly acceptable to all - 
botanists. 
*« The genus AMaryuuis, as at present constituted, includes 
several species of Crinums, and is otherwise divisible into 
certain distinct genera, which appear to be in a great measure, 
if not absolutely, peculiar to different parts of the globe. The 
genus Brunsvieta seems to have been separated from it with- 
out due consideration, by the single distinction of a turbinate 
elongated capsule, which excludes coranica, while it includes 
falcata, though these two plants are not distinguishable from 
each other in bulb or leaf, and agree also in a remarkable 
peculiarity, that the same leaves which have died back one 
season, sprout again the next with a broken point. The 
error is further apparent on reference to the descriptions 
of multiflora and Josephine, the former of which is said to 
have the capsule long and turbinate, the latter short and’ 
ovately-oblong ; so that Josephine as well as coranica would 
be excluded by the definition. In truth the length and out- 
ward form of the mature capsule furnishes a specific, but not 
a generic distinction. There is quite as much difference 
between the ripe capsules of A. vittata and rutila, which are 
decidedly of one genus and will breed together. 
“* AMARYLLIS proper seems to be confined to the. western 
hemisphere, if pittata is a Mexican or at least an Occidentah 
plant, as there is great reason to believe, for it has certainly: 
not been found indigenous at the Cape. Amary.us has the 
stigma at first appearing simple, afterwards becoming trifid or 
triangularly 3-lobed ; fimbriated on the top or inside of the 
lobes: fimbrie thereon long and slender, Tube of. tha 
corolla outwardly a funnel-shaped continuation of the limb, 
and short in comparison with the tube of Crinum. Filaments 
inserted at the mouth of the tube ; [corresponding, not 
alternately, but with their opposites ; in ida and rutila, 
and probably in the whole genus, of three lengths ; the two 
longest attached to the two upper internal lacinie ;. the two 
shortest to the two lower external lacini ; and the two of 
intermediate length to the upper external and lowest of the 
internal laciniz. The correspondence of the upper and lower 
segments with each other, and of the laterals with those oppe- 
site, is obvious in the general appearance of the =< 
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