saiil through Sternbergia colchiciflora, to which genus our 

 plant has considerable affinity. It is necessary to premise, 

 that we consider Amaryllis lutea to be quite distinct from 

 Sternbergia. It is distinguished by an erect solid scape, 

 an oval flattened germen, a tube and limb continuously 

 funnel-shaped, and filaments conniving and inserted at 

 equal height in the tube. It constitutes the genus Opor- 

 anthus {Bot. Mag. 2606,* and 2636 in mtd,) to which 

 A. exigua and citrina probably belong. To those our 

 present plant has little affinity, having no scape, the ger- 

 men concealed in the bulb, the capsule extruded on a 

 short peduncle, 3-lobed and 3-furrowed, the tube cylindri- 

 cal with a widened mouth, the filaments inserted at alter- 

 nate heights without the tube, and the style concealed in 

 the tube. Sternbergia, including Clusiana with Colchici- 

 flora, which is Kitaibel's type of the genus, has no scape, 

 the tube of the flower being partly subterraneous, the 

 stamens erect, the anthers, according to him, 4-locular 

 (though it is difficult to credit that), the capsule oblong, 

 subtriangular, pushed out of the ground, the seeds round 

 and black. Never having seen the plant, we cannot state 

 what is the insertion of the filaments, &c. From this genus, 

 to which our plant is evidently allied, it differs in having a 

 short, rounded, 3-lobed capsule, seeds flattened like those 

 of Zephyranthes, and probably also in the insertion of the 

 filaments, and other particulars which we know not at 

 present accurately in Sternbergia. It belongs to a dif- 

 ferent hemisphere, and does not flower like Sternbergia 

 at a difi'erent season from the leaves, but its flower just 

 precedes the leaves ; the bulbs, which do not flower, having 

 leaves an inch and a half long at the time of flowering. 

 Sternbergia flowers in the autumn, and pushes its leaves 

 in spring. The stigma of Haylockia pusilla is concealed in 

 the enlarged mouth of the tube." — Herbert. 



The foregoing observations have been communicated by 

 the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert. We are ourselves unac- 

 quainted with the species. 



J. L. 



a Tlie spatlie. 



b Section shewing the inside of half the flower, the style and 



stigma, and the insertion of the filaments. 

 c An outer petal and stamen, coloured. 

 d The seed-vessel. 

 e A seed. 



