The genus StenomEsson was detached by us (Appendix, 
— p. 40,) from Pancratium, being named from, and distin- 
guished by, the constriction of the tube a little below the 
middle. The species here represented was figured, in 1824, — 
in the Botanical Register, of which the editor, without — 
cause, substituted for our name, which had been published E 
in 1821, that of Chrysophiala, founded upon the same con- 
striction of the tube. The name thus substituted for that 
which has the priority, is objectionable in itself, as it refers 
to the golden colour of this species, which does not prevail 
throughout the genus, of which two known species are 
red. When we first defined this genus from dried speci 
‘mens and the figures of Ruiz and Pavon, we took the tube — 
to be straight. We find from the living specimens, that — 
it is more or less curved in the narrow part. Our figure 
is made from the same identical bulb, from which a drawing — 
where it flowered again in November, 1825. The leaf re- 
resented in our sketch was produced after its first flower- 
_ ing. In 1825 it bore two leaves, fairer, and more oval 
and flowered in the stove soon after their decay. The bul 
is too large in the figure in the Bot. Reg.; and one of th 
flowers, which the depression of the style shews to be not 
full blown, is erroneously given with reflex petals, perhaps 
in consequence of the flower having been pulled open 
examine it. The genus is distinguished by very mark 
features, besides that from which it receives its name; the 
lance-oval leaves with a compressed margin; the scape pro 
duced after their decay, the straightness of the filaments 
and of the utyles which last is bent downwards before i 
maturity, and the ovate capsule. This species is erroneous! 
figured by Ruiz and Pavon, with a four-leaved e: its 
ry is two-leaved, and not furnished even with bractes 
- N. B. This article was intended to have preceded No. 2640. 
