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* ZI:PHVRAi\TI1KS Spofroithiana. 

 Spofforth Zephyr anthes. 



HKXANURIA MONOGY}<lA. 



Nut. urd. Amahvllide^, R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural Si/stem 

 >f Bo f tiny, p. 259.) 



Garden Variety. 

 ZEPHYRANTHES SPOFFORTHIANA. Herbert MSS. 



^* Scape yellowish green, 5f inches high. Spathe brown- 

 ish green. Peduncles green, an inch long. Germ deep 

 green. Tube green. Limb rose-coloured, lined with white 

 in the form of a star. Style very much declined, white and 

 much longer than the filaments. Leaves not I of an inch 

 wide, acute, keeled, deep green. Pollen abundant, and an- 

 thers quite perfect and apparently fertile." 



'^ The pretty flower which is the subject of this article, is 

 an hybrid production from the tropical Z. tubispatha, which 

 has white flowers, fertilized by the pollen of the Mexican 

 Z. carinata with large red flowers. It is in every respect in- 

 termediate, having the leaves wider than those of Z. tubispa- 

 tha, and distinguishable by the keel, which is conspicuous on 

 the back of those of the male parent. The flower is also of 

 intermediate dimensions and colour, resembling the male 

 parent most both in form and hue, and in the posture of the 



* See folio 1361, 



