1361 



ZEPHYRAKTHES* mesochlda. 

 Half-gi'een Zephyranthes. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat.ord. Amaryllidetl R.Br. {Lindley's introduction to the natural 

 system, p. 259.) 



ZEPHYRANTHES.— Supra, vol. 10. fol. 821. 



mesochloa ; bulbo ovato nigficante ; foliis 8-9 viridibus duriusculis 

 canaliculatis acutis ; scapo 7 unciali viridi (in seminando versus basin 

 plus duplo crassiore, rubro minute maculato) pedunculo circiter unciali; 

 spatha apice fenestrata vel divisa ; corolla 1| unciali infra viridi supra 

 alb^ extixs rubro notata ; tubo brevissimo fauce Isevi ; laciniis externis 

 semunciam latis, internis angustioribus ; stylo corolla unciam breviore ; 

 filamentis internis stylum fere adsequantibus, externis brevioribus ; stig- 

 mate albo amplo trilobo. — Herbert's MSS. 



Var. «. spatha fenestrata, 



Var. /3. pedunculo breviore, corolla vix rubro notata. 



Var. y. spatha apice divisa, corolla aliquantulum flavescente. 

 mesochloa. Herbert. Supra, fol. 1345, in textii. 



" This species of Zephyranthes was sent to Mr. Mackay, 

 Nurseryman of Clapton, by his collector Mr. Anderson, in 

 company VN^ith Habranthus Andersoni, from the neighbour- 

 hood of Buenos Ayres. It produced three successive 

 scapes in June and July, in the Greenhouse at SpofForth, 

 and ripened its seed. A variety shorter in the peduncle 

 and corolla, and scarcely stained with red; and another 

 with the point of the spathe divided, and the flower tending 

 a little more to greenish yellow, produced a like number 



* We are not aware that Mr. Herbert has any where explained the 

 meaning of this name. It is evidently derived from Zs^vgo?, the west wind, 

 and «v.%?, a flower; and was possibly so called because all the species are 

 natives of western countries. 



