This beautiful plant was found by Mr. Burcuetz on the 
banks of the Nu-gariep, or Black-river, lat. 29° 30’ S. 
long. 24° 48 E. growing im situations similar to those 
occupied by the common yellow flag (Iris Pseudacorus), 
and frequently under water when the river rises above its 
usual level. We considered it at first to be distinct from 
C. Capense, the imported plant having fewer-seeded cells 
and a trifid stigma ; but in our specimen, a seedling raised 
from it, we find the obtuse dilated stigma, and we have 
seen a seedling from C. capense, «, in which the ovules were 
much less numerous than usual. C. capense has generally 
about thirty ovules in each cell, var. riparia not above four- 
teen. Riparia, if not a distinct species, is a permanent 
local variety, reproducing itself by seed. It is called minor 
in the Bot. Reg. from a weak specimen ; but our plant, 
though a seedling, flowering for the first time, has leaves 
near four inches wide, the scape near a yard high, and pe- 
duncles three times as long as there represented. It flow- 
ered in the open border at Spofforth in June, and again in 
July. 7 
| aside longifolia (supra 661) is indubitably a Crinum, 
and interbreeds freely with the various individuals of that 
extensive genus, but with no other plant. The statement 
p. 661, that its seeds resemble those of A. vittata is quite 
unfounded ; they are similar to those of other Crina. The 
name longifolia was not intended for this plant by Linnzus, — 
and had been applied to an oriental Crinum by Dr. Rox- 
BURGH ; we therefore adopted Mizter’s name, Capense. It 
is very hardy ; we have seen the water frozen three inches 
thick for a fortnight, in a shallow pond, round the neck of 
the bulb, without materially injuring it. The mules which 
will be probably soon obtained, between this fine variety 
and pedunculatum, will much resemble amabile, and will 
flower in the open ground. W. H. | 
