colour brighter in the bud. » Style and filaments white, 
curved. Spathe reddish. Cells about 8-seeded. This 
ies has been confounded, in the nurseries near London, 
with Humilis (supra 726), a very distinct plant, with short 
scape, bright red flowers, and narrow green leaves; but it 
approaches nearer to flexuosa. Its peduncles are much 
ongated as the flowers decay. The whole genus are 
natives of South Africa. The warmer the bulbs are kept 
during their season of rest, when left dry, in the summer, 
the more certainly will they bloom. W. H. 
Reference to the Figure of the Dissection. 
a. Section of the flower, shewing the gibbous union of the filaments, 
which characterises the genus Nerine. 
