these parts undivided, it becomes necessary to add the term 
lanceolate to the character of the former.* The president 
refers this genus to the first section of Jussiev’s Narcissi, the 
Asphodelee of Brown ; with which family it agrees, in 
having the leaflets of the corona opposite to the inner 
lacinie. 
Our plant was communicated by Joun. Wanker, Esq. 
from his collection at Arno’s Grove, Southgate. Native of 
Chili, in South America. Flowers in October. 
* The three known species ofthis genus may be now thus characterized = 
1. B. grandiflora; coronz foliolis lanceolatis indivisis. 
2. B. congesta; coronz foliolis bifidis. 
3. B. ixiotdes ; coronz foliolis subulatis. 
