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their upper surface, keeled below, blunt. Scape {i-J> inches high) erect, 

 glabrous, green, very slightly compressed. Spathe bidentate, segments 

 connivent, rather unequal in length, and the division extending farther 

 down on one side than the other. Peduncle generally longer than the 

 spathe, nearly cylindrical, green. Corolla (1^ inch across when expand, 

 ed) C-cleft, marked i'rom the base of the tube to the apex of the segments 

 with six dark lines, which are purplish-green behind, lilac in front ; tube 

 clavate, naked ; segments of the limb ratner longer than the tube, spread- 

 ing, ovate, acute, their sides involute at the apex, imbricated, the inner 

 segments the narrowest. Stamens six, of uneiiual length, adhering to the 

 tube to imequal heights, subcompressed ; anthers yellow, oblong bifid at 

 both ends, lobes acute; pollen yellow, granules minute. Stigma capitate, 

 small, white, pubescent. Style included, grooved. Germen superior, ra- 

 ther shorter than the style, oblong, 6-furrowed, 3-locular. Ovules nume- 

 rous, green, placenta central. Capsule clavate, depressed at the apex. 



The bulbs of this very pretty plant, every part of which emits the smell of 

 onions when bruised, were procured by Mr Neill from Mr Tweedie at 

 Buenos Ayres, in June last, and flowered in the greenhouse at Canon- 

 mills. A few plants were also raised from seeds, communicated by the 

 same valuable correspondent. 



I have had some hesitation in considering it distinct from Milla Uflora of 

 Cavanilles; but as the plants, of which Mr Neill possesses a considerable 

 number, are vigorous and healthy, have been in flower during a great 

 part of the season, and have never shown the least tendency to divide 

 the scape in a single instance, I have been led to consider them specifi- 

 cally different. Perhaps the difference of the station of this plant and 

 that of Cavanilles, may add to the probabilities against their identity ; 

 but we know that there are species common to the Floras of Mexico and 

 La Plata. 



Nicrembergia intermedia. 



N. intermedia; erecta, glanduloso-pubescens ; ramis patulis ; foHis oblongo- 

 sj)athulatis, sessilibus ; corolla subregulari, infundibuliformi, fauce di- 

 latata, calyce duplo longiori. 



Description. — Plant herbaceous, perennial, the whole, excepting the in- 

 side of the corolla, minutely but densely glanduloso-pubescent. Stem (in 

 a young plant about a foot high) erect, much branched, branches spread- 

 ing, ascending. Leaves (I ^ inch long, 4 lines broad) scattered, numerous, 

 spreading or reflected, oblongo-spathulate, subavenous, with a distinct 

 middle rib behind, somewhat keeled near the base, concave or flat above. 

 Peduncles (1 inch long) solitary, filiform, from the side of the clefts in the 

 branches. Calyx persisting, 5-parted, angular ; segments spreading, fo- 

 liaceous, linear, blunt. Corolla (9 lines long, and 9 lines across) funnel- 

 shaped, twice the length of the calyx, rich purple, darker and dotted to- 

 wards the throat, which is dilated, yellow, paler on the outside ; limb 

 nearly regular, 5-lobed, lobes blunt, the upper ones reflected rather more 

 than the lower ; tube inflated, clavate, about equal in length to the ca- 

 lyx. Stamens 5, of unequal length, the longest as long as the tube of the 

 corolla ; anthers short, oblong, lobes much divaricated, bent back, and ap- 

 proaching each other below, yellow ; pollen-granules minute, round, yel- 

 low. Seeds brown, angled, muricated on the outer edge. 



Seeds of this plant, which is exceedingly pretty, and very well deserving of 

 cultivation, were received by Mr Neill from Mr Tweedie at Buenos Ayres 

 in 1832, and the first specimen brought into flower in the stove at Ca- 

 nonmills in the end of September. It seemed to be about to flower very 

 freely, but probably, on account of the season, all the buds dropped ex- 

 cepting one, which perfected its flower and seeds. It strikes very readily 

 by cuttings, and will probably thrive well in a dry light greenhouse. 



A better example than this plant cannot be wished by Mr David Don, in 

 confirmation of his opinion expressed in the last Number of this Journal, 

 and in Sweet's British Flower Garden, fol. 172., of the generic identity 

 of Nierembergia and Petunia. The habit of this plant is wholly that of 



