panding more in the sun ; petals of alternate width, the 
outer half an inch, the inner less, pale purplish pink, with 
a green eye’; tube and membrane green ; membrane about _ 
one-twelfth of an inch thick ; style of the same colour as_ 
the petals, longer than the filaments, shorter than the 
limb; pollen deep yellow. | 
This elegant:little plant was imported from Maldonado, 
in S. America. The leaves having decayed in the summer, © 
it produced one scape at Spofforth in September, and a 
second at the beginning of November. It is a hardy green- 
house bulb, and may perhaps succeed out of doors with — 
us in a favourable situation. It agrees with no genus here- 
tofore described. Hasranruus in general appearance 
approaches to Zephyranthes, from which it is distinguished _ 
by filaments of four lengths, fasciculate, declined, not 
inserted, as in Zephyranthes, at the base of the petals with- 
out the mouth of the tube; but connected with its sides 
by a very thick fleshy membrane which fills up the wholé 
tube. Species will perhaps be found hereafter in which 
the membrane may be less massive, in which case the union 
of the filaments with the corolla would be just within the — 
mouth of the tube. It differs from Oporanthus, or Sterne-_ 
bergia, in having the germ pedunculated and declined, 
not oval or compressed, the filainents of four lengths and 
declined, and, doubtless, also in the seed; from Hippeas-_ 
trum, in having the petals of alternate width; the imb 
campanulate, the mouth of the tube not: abbreviated, the 
filaments equally inserted, with a different fourfold diver- 
sity of length; from Amaryllis, by a hollow scape which 
implies a difference of seed, peduncles erect, germ declined, 
and filaments of four lengths equally inserted. Chlidanthus— 
differs from Habranthus in having a cylindrical tube, fila- 
ments erect, attached to the base of the petals, and of | 
alternate length; anthers erect, attached at their base. 
The scape of Habranthus being hollow, its seeds are pro" _ 
bably shelly. W. H. 
— 
“a. The style, filaments, and membrane. 8: The upper petal and filament, 
shewing a section of the membrane, c. Aleaf. d. An offset with thel eal. 
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