Specicrum Enumeratio. 
1. N.—undulata. Bot. Mag..369. 2. N.—humilis. id.» 
796. 93. N.—flexuosa. Bot. Reg. 172. 4. N.—venusta, 
Bot. Mag. 1090. Varietates duo vel tres extant. 5. N.—sar- 
niensis. Bot.» Mag: 294. vel rectiis venusta, var. sarniensis, 
6. N.—rosea. Supra 2124. 7. N.—corusca. Bot. Mag. 
1089. (Am. humilis. B.) 8. N.—curvifolia. Bot. Mag. 725. 
9. N—lucida? Burchell. Sp. nondum apud nos florida, 
neque flore ecto aut in herbariis inveniendo : foliis angustis 
nitidis, persistentibus. — Hersert Mss. 
“ The genus Nerinz is widely separated from AmaryLuis 
“and Cyrrantuus. It is nearly allied to the bulbs proposed 
to be named Cozureia, but in its cup and seed it approaches 
nearer to CaLostemma‘ and the Pancratiums of the Western 
hemisphere ; the European and Canary Pancratiums forming 
a distinct genus with small black seeds like Narcissus, and the 
Amboyna Pancratium being of an equally different genus, 
which presents the singular phenomenon of a perfect tuni- 
cated bulb formed in the capsule. Nrrinz is probably confined 
to South Africa.. It has the-stigma at first simple, after many 
days trifid when perfect, but sometimes distorted and bifid; 
fimbriated on the top or inside of its lobes with slender tubes. 
Filaments enlarged and gibbous near their base, where they 
are united so as to form a round or yentricose cup, which is ~ 
often full of liquor. Alternate filaments longer, the shortest 
attached to the outer lacinie}. Lacinie radiate, undulated, 
divided quite to the germen, and attached by the middle of 
their base to the filaments, below the point where they coalesce 
into acup. Capsule 3-celled. Seeds green, bursting tlie capsule © 
outwardly, angular by compression, on the outer side rounded, 
and sometimes becoming a litile purple by exposure. Leaves 
bifarious ; in all the known species (unless lucida belongs to — | 
this genus) deciduous, sprouting a little later than, or about 
the same time as the flower stem. I am inclined to think 
lucida will be found to belong to the same genus as falcata 
and coranica.” W. Herzert Mss. 
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+ “Inaddition to the differences of a tapering style, an acute and slightly 
bifid stigma, a 2-celled germen, and shining green seeds, I distinguish 
Calostemma from Pancratium, by the base of the lacinie being continued 
like ribs on the outside of a stamineous tube, and on the germen. It should 
have been mentioned under genus Lycoris, (vide No. 2113. 5.) that the 
nerves of the style of aurea are spirally twisted.” W.H. 
t The filaments of AMARYLLIS regine are of two lengths and_alter- 
nate; their correspondence therefore in that genus is only a specific feature, 
and their definition should stand thus: Filaments of various lengths in. 
the og ent species, corresponding alternately or with their opposites. 
Reticulata may decidedly rank as CopurGiA. W. HL. ‘ 
