circle of satellites round it, as if the plant were stoloniferous, 
which is not however the case, instead of making a close 
tuft like striata, tubispatha, &c, , Its leaves, are also much 
broader, and strongly nerved, so as to form a sort of keel 
on the back. Mr.» Linprzy:has quoted A. minuta as a 
synonym to Z. grandiflora, but we conceive it impossible 
that the name mznuta should have been. applied to a species 
a foot high, with a flower three inches long, especially as it 
was given with reference to the associated bulb, A. nervosa. 
“. carinata differs from Z. grandiflora Bot. Reg. 902. in 
having much broader leaves, not smooth on both sides, but 
strongly nerved or keeled underneath, a spathe longer than 
the peduncle, and the corolla divided two-thirds of itslength, 
which in that species is ‘said to be divided less than half its 
length. In that article the flower of grandiflora has a long 
peduncle exceeding the spathe, but the capsule is described 
as nearly sessile, and covered by the spathe like that of 
cunda and striata. We hear from Mr. Linpuey, that 
the figure of grandiflora was made from Sir A. Hume's 
plant, the description of the seed and capsule from a bulb 
I ng to the Horticultural Society, which perfected 
its seed from a flower of which the corolla had been injured 
and abortive, to which circumstance he attributed the short- 
ness seer esa It remains to be ascertained, whether 
those two bulbs were actually of one species ; which we 
doubt. The foliage of that which produced the seed, 18 
spirally twisted, and similar to that of verecunda and striata. 
It is the habit of Amaryllidee to elongate the peduncle, 
and we have never seen an instance from any accident of a 
pedunculated species in that natural order producing @ 
subsessile capsule. Our Z. carinata may be at once recog- 
on by the breadth of its foliage, strongly ribbed under- 
neath. | | 
After our sketch had been made the flower expanded 
wider in the sun and became less erect. . 
The dissection represents the filaments and style with 
the inside of the tube. W. H. 
Since this article was prepared, we | ity of observing 
another specimen of Z. Cutuatl in rete es sabia Bt the pot 
ing moved so as to affect the attitude of the flower ; and we find the co! 
quite as much deelined as that of Z. rosea No. 2537. It continued several 
days beautifully expanded, with the points ofthe petals reflex, the lower pat 
of the petals drawing closer together at night. The three lower petals were 
‘Yather protruded, and during the first day the lowest inner petal ren 
and more ereet. The point of the spathe was in this specimen 
fenestrate or looped, not bifid. W. H. = 
