colour of the flowers, give it the appearance of a Phycella. 

 It flowered for the first time at Spoffbrth, in October, the 

 pot standing in the open air. 



" It had been sent to Spoflbrth by R. Gowen, Esq., 

 who received it from Chili. About twenty-five years ago 

 some bulbs of this species were brought to England by a 

 ship's steward, who said they were taken in to use as onions 

 in the South sea ; but having been kept in too high a tem- 

 perature at Spofi'orth, they dwindled and were lost. Bulbs, 

 apparently of this plant, have been just imported by Mr. 

 Tate from Chili. 



*' The close affinity of this species to Phycella ignea 

 makes it apparent that, after a careful re-examination of 

 the several species, it will be necessary so to reform the 

 genus Habranthus, as to admit the Phycellse, or to throw 

 out the polyanthous Habranthi, which do not expand in 

 sunshine like the others, into the genus Phycella." 



For the foregoing account of this fine plant we are 

 indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, by whom the 

 drawing was also communicated in the autumn of 1830. 



J. L. 



" a The germen and flower of the exact natural size, the petals 

 having been broken off" from the tube, to shew the interior." 



