We were favoured with the plant from which our drawing 

 was taken by Edward Barnard., Esq. of the Colonial Depart- 

 ment, who -flowered it in July last, at Bexly in Kent, by 

 setting- tiie pot halfway up in water. The bulb was imported 

 from New South Wales in 1817 It was discovered in the 

 expedition to the south-westward from Port Jackson, beyond 

 the blue mountains, and was sent to Mr. Barnard, together 

 with a drawing- by Mr. Lewin, under the name of Pancratium 

 Macquaria, given to it in honour of the Governor of New 

 South Wales. But Mr. Robert Brown,' had long before found 

 the same species upon Mount Brown, at the head of Spencer's 

 gulf on the south-west side of New Holland, and published it 

 in his Prodromusj as above quoted, under the name which 

 ve have adopted. 



