of successive scapes, and seed also. Habranthus Andersoni 

 flowers and seeds not less abundantly. 



"Bulb ovate, blackish. Leaves- 8 or 9, green, ^th of 

 an inch wide, hardish, channelled, acute. Scape about 

 seven inches long, while the seed is ripening becoming- 

 more than twice as thick as before towards the base, 

 speckled with minute short red streaks, and longer. Pe- 

 duiicle an inch long. Spathe a little longer, either looped 

 at the end, or divided at the point. Corolla about an inch 

 and fths long, the lower half green, the upper white, 

 stained on the outside with red ; the outer petals half an 

 inch wide, the inner narrower ; the style an inch shorter 

 than the limb ; the stigma white, large, deeply 3-lobed ; 

 the outer filaments nearly as long as the style, the inner 

 shorter; the mouth of the tube smooth. The variety with 

 the point of the spathe divided has the peduncle longer." 



For the drawing and information relating to this new 

 species we are indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbiert, 

 by whom they were obligingly communicated in August 

 last. 



J. L. 



