Mr. Haworth's Botanical Description o/TIermione Cypri. 183 



any two of the four places by the respective two numbers in 

 parentheses, we have 



(12) 3 = (f a - fi)* + Ok - 1i)' 

 (13)*= ( 3 - l )*+(>, 3 ->,,)* 



/ 





The equations (A) (B) (C) (D) contain the data of the ob- 

 servations. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXIII. A Botanical Description of Hermione Cypri. By 

 A. H. HAWORTH, F.L.S. 8?c. fyc. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Annals. 

 Gentlemen, 



TN my last communication to your useful Magazine, N. S. 

 * vol. viii. p. 130, it was stated, under the description of 

 Hermione tenuiflora, that the double and semi-double flowering 

 varieties, hitherto proposed doubtingly under it, were pro- 

 bably of another and distinct species, supposed to come from 

 the Island of Cyprus, which I there designated H. Cypri. 



At that time the flowers, in their single state, had not fallen 

 under my examination. In fact I never could procure or find 

 the plant in that state until the present time ; when the acute 

 eye of my friend Mr. Sweet detected a specimen of it, nearly 

 in full bloom, amongst Mr. ColvilFs forced bulbs, at his noble 

 Nursery in the King's Road ; whither I went to examine it, 

 and there saw along with other bulbous plants, in full bloom, 

 the most showy and best managed collection of Hybrid Amaryl- 

 lidae I ever beheld. 



I had no sooner pronounced the Hermione Cypri new to 

 me, and to be undescribed, by any modern writer at least, in 

 its single state, than Mr. Colvill, with his usual kindness 

 towards helping me to elucidate this beautiful tribe of plants, 

 made me a present of it; although it was the only one in his 

 extensive collection. 



I am the more flattered at this, because it enables me to 

 show that the conjecture I made, as above cited, concerning 

 the distinctness of this species, has not proved incorrect. And 

 I hope to persuade Mr. Sweet to give the botanical world a 

 representation of it, from the pencil of his excellent artist 

 Mr. Smith, in an early Number of his beautiful British Flower 



Garden. 



