of an offset of var. 1 ; the full grown leaf, usually, if not 

 always, solitary, would have been too long for the plate ; its 

 width is 11-lGths of an inch. It is distinguished from v. 2. 

 by a slenderer tube, constricted towards the lower extremity 

 of tlie ventricose part, and by remarkable round pits, which 

 appear in the inside like knobs, mostly two to each flower 

 in the spaces between the insertion of the filaments. V. 2. 

 was sketched and described by Mr. Booth, the intelligent 

 gardener of Sir C. Lemon, from a specimen sent to him by 

 Mrs. Sulivan from Flushing, near Falmouth, with another 

 from Miss Warren of the same place, as the produce of bulbs 

 procured by Commodore Sulivan during his command on 

 the W. coast of S. America in 1837. Both varieties flowered 

 in August, 1839 ; v. 2. with four, v. 1. with six flowers, not 

 long after the decay of the leaf. A second bulb of v. 1. 

 shewed flower towards the end of September. The scape 

 was about a foot high ; the circumference of the tube of 

 V. 2. measured an inch and half. The anthers are oblong, 

 and attached near the middle. The narrow^ part of the tube 

 is of a dirty colour, between green and red ; the rest of the 

 flower of V. 1. is precisely of the colour of red lead, of v. 2. 

 according to Mr. Booth's drawing, darker. When the sketch 

 of Stenomesson croceum, Bot. Mag. 3615, was shewn to me, 

 I was asked whether it was not Pancratium coccineum of 

 Ruiz, and I answered that its form agreed better with Dom- 

 bey's croceum, understanding from the question that the 

 flower had been ascertained to have the cup of Pancratiform 

 plants, and thinking that I saw a six-toothed cup in the 

 figure. Since the discovery of an allied genus without cup, 

 on examining the figure, I believe the artist did not mean to 

 represent any cup, but merely six ribs to the limb with 

 oblique margins, and I suspect that the plant was P. miniata, 

 if so, very incorrectly sketched. The section with solid 

 scape, shelly seeds, and tube without a cup, slides into the 

 cup-bearing Pancratiform section by the affinity of Pentlandia 

 to Urceolina and Stenomesson, and of Oporanthus to Chli- 

 danthus and Clinanthus, (a name for which I propose to sub- 

 stitute Clitanlhes) the three latter with linear, the three former 

 with petiolated leaves, marginally compressed backwards* 



The leaves of Griffinia are compressed forwards. 



