flowers of two colours are always on the same umbel, as repre- 

 sented by Jacquin. The figures in the Register were taken 

 at too early a period for a just representation, before the ex- 

 pansion of the flowers. Mr. Ker considers Am. revoluta 

 (Bot. Mag. 1178) to be this plant. The plant ofl'ered at Mr. 

 Woodford's sale, which Mr. Wykes, his gardener, asserted 

 to be the one from which the figure was made, was not dis- 

 tinguishable from a common glaucous-leaved C. capense ; and 

 I observe in Mr. Ker's description, he says of the leaves 

 rather glaucous, which is not the case with any bulb I ever 

 saw of variabile, which has the green very bright ; and if the 

 plant had been variabile, the two decaying flowers in the 

 figure would have been intensely red. The figure, therefore, 

 if intended for C. variabile is quite incorrect, but it agrees 

 better with some plants that I have of C. capense. Mr. Ker 

 draws a peremptory distinction, that in variabile the tube is 

 shorter than the limb, and in capense longer ; but in his own 

 fig. of Capense (Am. longifolia, Bot. Mag. 18. 661.) it is 

 shorter. Usually, however, the tube is shorter than the limb 

 in Capense, but it is a very variable plant, and in some seed- 

 ling varieties its flowers change to red, as in variabile, which 

 I consider to be much more akin to it than to revolutum. It 

 is, therefore, best to discard all consideration of that plate, 

 and of Mr. Ker's description accompanying it, as far as it dis- 

 agrees with his amended description in the Bot. Reg. 8. 6 15.'* 



