seylanicum. 6. longiflorum, Roxs. If there be such a) 
lant distinct from the two latter, which is very doubtful, 
it-is not known now at Calcutta. 7. Probably, maximum, 
Forskal. fl. ig. ar. 72. Pancratrom has filaments stiff 
and conniving ; anthers short, attached near the middle; 
ovules flat, attached to the inner corner of the cell, inter- | 
lapping horizontally in two rows; seeds covered with a 
black shell. Hymenocatuis, which belongs to America, 
has filaments lax, anthers long, attached nearer one end, 
ovules fewer, oblong, ovately cylindrical, attached to the 
lower part of the cell, erect; seeds large, oblong, rounded, — 
fleshy, with a green inseparable skin, like an apple. _Is- 
menrE has the tube a little curved; filaments short, three 
- nédding'into’the cup, three conniving and crossing éach 
other; seeds large, green, fleshy, globular. The editor 
of the Botanical Register lately figured Srenomesson flavum 
of our Appendix (Pancratium Ruiz and Pavon) under the 
name Curysopaiata, adding to the genus our CarpopeTEs 
and Lereriza. If our character appeared to limit the ge-_ 
nus’ by an insignificant feature, our name might have been — 
justly rejected; but there is no ground for substituting 
another founded on the same feature with the same mean- 
_ ing and limitation. Stenomesson means narrowest in the 
middle, referring to the form of the tube ; Chrysophiala is : 
explained to mean a gold-coloured hour-glass, with refer- 
ence.to the same feature, a name otherwise objectionable, — 
since phiala is not an hour-glass, and only one of the known 
species is yellow. The editor has not even noted to which 
of the: three genera quoted from our Appendix the plant 
belongs, and adds, that he cannot comprehend our refine- 
ments. The three genera ate, however, named. from three 
important features in. which they differ, and cannot. be, con- 
founded. Stenomesson having the tube constricted and 
narrowest in the middle; Carpodetes having the germet 
and fruit constricted in the middle. Leperiza having nel 
ther of those features, but the bulb scaly like a martagoD. — 
Carpodetes and Leperiza are as much excluded from the — 
genus Chrysophiala, as defined in the Botanical Register, a5 _ 
they were from our Stenomesson, since Chrysophiala’ iS 
there defined as having “the tube above and below broader,’ 
constricted near the middle,” and “ filaments straight and 
erect >’ Carpodetes, as esented by Ruiz and Pavon, 
has the lower part of phe s = chaldor and cylindrical; 
Leperiza has the tube broadest at bottom and narrowest 
at the mouth, and the filaments sinuosely curved. W. H. 
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(a.) Represents one of the cells after the ovules: haa’ béen! some tame 
fertilized, 5, One of the ovules, in an advanced state, magnified. 
