Scape, redder spathe, undivided for a greater length, tube 
smooth and not sulcate, smaller sepals, the outer striped 
with red and less uncate, slenderer style and stigma, and — 
filaments shorter than the style. Zepruyrantues Atamasco — 
flowers in England in the open border. Z. tubispatha is 
too tender to succeed out of doors, but perhaps the Mexican 
species may prove hardy. 7%. striata produces many off- 
sets, which form a tuft of leaves, but the bulb from which — 
the drawing was made, had only three leaves. The anthers 
though rather erect, are versatile. The flower of our 
- Specimen closed again completely at night, and reexpanded 
when placed in the sun the next morning. It would, per- 
haps, have opened wider if the weather had not been cold 
and gloomy. W. H. , : | 
a. Represents the style, and two of the filaments shewing their pro- 
portionate length ‘and the position of the anthers, the filaments belonging to 
the outer sepals being the shortest. 
ERRATUM. 
No, 2578. 1. 14 and 15. from the bottom, for Buphane, read’ Buphone. 
