off the thick fleshy fibres which will endure through the 

 winter after the bulbs are taken off. They must be put in 

 a box or large pot, and covered with dry sand or earth, and 

 kept quite dry till the following April or May. If Amancaes 

 be set in the stove at the beginning of May, and watered, it 

 will flower immediately, and should be removed into a green- 

 house as soon as the first bud is ready to expand. The sul- 

 phur-coloured mule may be forced as easily. It is a beautiful 

 plant, and has produced flowers in which the expansion of the 

 cup was three and a half inches, and of the limb five and a 

 half. Its ovules, three in a cell, are bold, and its pollen 

 seems fertile. The seed of Ismene is large and round, and 

 vegetates immediately in a remarkable manner, forming a 

 bulb as big as itself (sometimes much bigger) far under 

 ground without pushing any leaf. As soon as the seed rots, 

 the young bulb must be left without water, till the next spring. 

 A person unaware of the peculiarity of this genus and Cho- 

 retis, when he found the seed rotten, would be likely to throw- 

 away the earth without suspecting the formation of the bulb 

 near the bottom of the pot. If the seedlings of Amancaes 

 are grown in loam, I believe they will be twenty years before 

 they attain size to flower ; in pure white sand, or a very 

 sandy compost, I think they may flower the third. I have a 

 mule seedling from Amancaes, from seed of last year, which 

 is now near two feet high with five leaves. The seedling 

 bulbs raised this year from the mule, are larger than the 

 natural Amancaes from seed that was sown at the same time." 



The species now figured is a greenhouse bulb, grows well 

 in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, and flowers from June 

 to August, The leaves wither soon after flowering, when it 

 must be kept perfectly dry until spring. It will then begin 

 to send forth young leaves, and remind the cultivator that it 

 requires a plentiful supply of water to perfect its growth. 



It is easily multiplied by offsets which it produces in 

 abundance. 



