eights shorter than the limb. Pollen orange. Style purple 

 towards the extremity, half an inch longer than the limb. 

 Stigma triangularly round, large, with long white fimbriae 

 Buds nodding completely before expansion. Flowers with 

 very little fragrance. 



Bulbs of this species of Crinum were collected on the 

 expedition to survey the coasts of Australia, in Water 

 island on the N. W. coast, lat. 14°, 3' S. and long. 125°, E. 

 of Greenwich, at the entrance of Montagu's sound. The 

 bulbs were growing about eight or nine inches below the 

 surface of a barren sandy soil ; the thermometer stood at 

 94 in the shade, a sea breeze blowing upon it ; the ball of 

 the thermometer being placed in the sand, it rose rapidly 

 to 130, when it was necessary to remove it to prevent its 

 bursting, as the scale went no higher than 133. 



The bud represented in the figure, nodded completely 

 the day before its expansion, which took place late in the 

 evening ; the flower retained the next morning the posture 

 of tube, limb, and filaments, resembling that of C. america- 

 num; but before noon the base of the petals began to 

 contract round the corresponding filaments. The same 

 change takes place in the flowers of C. dejixum when they 

 begin to fade. The specimen was sent at the end ef May 

 from Lord Carnarvon's stove at Highclere. Bulbs appa- 

 rently of the same species have been since collected at 

 Cape Flinders, lat. 14°, 10' S. long. 144°, 18' E. W. H. 



Erratum in last Number. 

 Page 2343, line 1 and 12, for tuberosa read tuberosum. 



