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* HABRANTHUS gracilifolius; |8. Boothianus. 

 Mr. Booth's Slender-leaved Habranthus. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGySU. 



Nat. ord. Amaryllidacex. 

 HABRANTHUS. Supr^.vol. ]6.fol. 1345. 



H. gracilifolius, /3. Boothianus ; spatha pedunculo et gcrmine erubescentibus, 

 germine et pedunculo magis elongatis, filamentorum quaternii discrepantia 

 obsoletiore, stigmate majore. Herbert Amaryllid. p. 165. 



I some time since received a drawing of this plant from 

 Sir Charles Lemon, with the following- memoranda from 

 Mr. Booth, the gardener at Carclew. 



" Bulbs of this pretty little species of Habranthus were, 

 last year, presented to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. M.P., by 

 Capt. Thomas Ball Sulivan, C.B., to whom they had been 

 forwarded from Maldonado, where they were collected by 

 Lieut. James Sulivan, R.N., of H. M. ship Beagle, now en- 

 gaged in the extensive survey of that part of the South 

 American coast." 



" Bidh about the size of a pigeon's egg, and of a dark 

 brown colour. Leaves not produced until after the flowers 

 decay ; linear, narrow, and twisted ; of a glaucous green, 

 with a deep groove rvmning from the base to the point, which 

 is round and blunt. Scape erect, 7 inches high, round and 

 smooth, purplish at the base, from which it upwards assumes 

 a pale glaucous green. Flowers solitary, nodding, on a 

 round, and somewhat bent, purplish-coloured peduncle, 

 about two inches long at the time the flower opens, increas- 

 ing to three inches long, and becoming pale green. Spatha 

 tubular below, bifid upwards, li inch long, and of a pale 



* See folio 1 345. 



