lower ah of the three inner segments, which are greenish white, 
strongly streaked, and blotched with deep purplish red, expand- 
ing little, but with the ends of the petals revolute, or reflex. 
The two lower inner segments more channelled and extended 
straight to a greater length, the lowest outer segment channelled, 
and pushed apart downwards by the curvature of the filaments. 
Filaments purplish red, whitish below, broader, and flattened at 
the base, inserted without the tube, near the base of the segments, 
a little lower on the outer segments. Style of the same colour. 
a simple. - Anthers purple; pollen whitish. i 
his variety of Brunsviaia Josephine, differing a little in 
colour from those already known, was imported by Mr. Tate, of 
the Sloane Street Nursery, from the Cape. The known species of 
Brunsviaia are,—l. multiflora. 2. Josephine. 3. striata. 
4. Radula. 5. lucida. A sixth small species, imported by the 
late Mr. Lex, under the erroneous name of CyrtTantTHus veniri- 
cosus, has not yet been observed in flower. 
Amaryuuts Belladonna was the type of the Linnean genus 
AmARYLLIs, and, as he assigned his reason for the name, it must 
remain to that species; though it is singular, that, out of the num- 
ber of species since added, it has but one real congener, A. blanda, 
which is perhaps only a gigantic variety. This, however, occa 
sions no great inconvenience, as it gives its name to the whole 
ee Amaryllidee. Amanyuuis has a regular funnel-shaped 
corolla; Brunsvieta is separated from it 3 an irregular, not 
funnel-shaped corolla, curved upwards, and as far as we have 
seen, by petals not undulated. Nerine is separated from Barons ) 
viata by the gibbous union of the filaments before their inset 
tion, Ammocuaris ; viz. falcata and coranica, forms a link be- 
tween Amaryllis and Crinum, to which it approximates in seve 
points. Bupuane (Boophane, Appendix) forms a link betwee — 
Amaryllis and Hemanthus. Of Buphane there are three know? 
species.—1. toxicaria (supra 1217). 2. ciliaris. 3. disticha 
(Amary.uis disticha, Patterson.) Disticha has the bulb harder, 
rounder, and much larger than toxicaria, and, as appears 
PatTTERson’s engraving, flowers fewer and larger; he does not 
mention the colour. Gigantic bulbs of disticha have been lately 
imported by Mr. Tats. All the above-mentioned genera have 
the scape solid, the seeds fleshy, the mouth of the tube closed; 
by which features, the group of Amaryllidee should peer be 
limited. The genera with the scape hollow, the seeds $ elly, ‘ 
the capsule oval, and the mouth of the tube open, might ee 
called Cyrtanthee ; those with the scape hollow, the seeds shelly; 
the capsule three-lobed, and the mouth of the tube closed, Hipp 
“astree. W.H. | 
; on fe mas represents the whole plant in miniature. The head of 
— in oured drawing is diminished to one-third its natural size : 
