brown colour, tipped with green. Perianth campanulate, an 

 inch and a half in length, and expanding to about the same 

 width ; of a bright pink on both sides, with darker coloured 

 veins. The tube is shallow and of a pale shining green, with 

 the throat almost filled by the fleshy membrane at the base 

 of the petal, to which the filaments are attached. Segments 

 ovate-acuminate, each about half an inch broad, nearly 

 equal, and striated with green at the base. The three outer 

 divisions overlap the three inner ones, the former of which 

 have each a small greenish tip. Stamens declinate, three 

 long and three short ; the longest being rather more than 

 half the length of the perianth. Anthers very large, deep 

 yellow, versatile. Ovary oblong, three-sided, thickest towards 

 the base of the flower, three-celled with numerous seeds in 

 each cell. Ovules apparently flat, laid over one another, and 

 attached to the placenta opposite the angular part of the 

 ovary ; the three dissepiments being alternate with the three 

 angles. Style filiform, the same colour as the segments and 

 exceeding half their length. Stigma 3-lobed,each lobe being 

 one-fourth of an inch long, clavate, round, and recurved. 



" From the little knowledge we have of this plant, we are 

 inclined to consider it as half hardy, requiring only protec- 

 tion from frost. The soil around the bulbs, when received, 

 was of a very sandy nature. We have, therefore, grown it 

 in a similar mixture of loam, peat, and sand, in which it 

 seems to thrive pretty well, although we have not been able 

 to increase it. Its flowering; season is October. The flowers 

 remain in perfection for eight or ten days. 



" Fig. 1. represents the scape three days before the flower 

 expanded. 2. The flower when open. 3. The same when 

 shut, or when the sun is not shining upon it. 4. An ovary 

 with the base of the perianth. 5. A section of the same." 



Mr. Booth considered it a distinct species, but Mr. Her- 

 bert has referred it without any doubt to his H. gracilifolius 

 as a variety. 



