before their full developement. Pentlandia has no connect- 

 ing membrane, and the filaments, when pulled, snap off 

 at the point of insertion. Urceolina has a membrane adhering- 

 to the tube, but partible, and its edge discernible between 

 the filaments ; Stenomesson a free and dentate cup. Pent- 

 landia and Stenomesson in habit and foliage arc closely akin ; 

 Urceolina flowers from between the leaves. Oporanthus (of 

 which I have a two-flowered scape with two ripe capsules) 

 has a naked tube, Chlidanthus a connecting irregularly den- 

 tate membrane adhering to the tube, but partible ; Clitanthes 

 a cup as perfect as that of Stenomesson. Urceolina and Chli- 

 danthus, in which the cup is not manifest, but adhesive and 

 imperfect or rather rudimentary, are therefore points from 

 which the two sections diverge. The only known genera of 

 this section are Pentlandia, Oporanthus, Sternebergia, and 

 Gethyllis. Carpodetes has no immediate connexion with , 

 Stenomesson, with which Mr. Ker wished to unite it, but if it 

 could merge in any other genus, that would be Coburghia, 

 which in that case, having the priority, it would rather 

 supersede." 



For the whole of this article I have to express my obli- 

 gations to the Honourable and Rev. William Herbert. 



December, 1839. 



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