it is its name, which was given in a page at the end of Mr. 

 Miers's Travels in Chili. By the kindness of this gentleman 

 I am now able to present the readers of the Register with a 

 figure taken by himself from the fresh plant, and a generic 

 character ; to which I am allowed to add the following note. 



" This very elegant plant was found by me in the year 

 18 c 24, in one of the lateral branches of the lofty chain of the 

 Andes that jut into the plain of Aconcagua. The scape, rising 

 to the height of nine inches, bears a head of four to seven 

 flowers, upon pedicels from two to three inches long, or rarely 

 by abortion it is one-flowered. The marcescent linear spathe 

 bears within it as many membranaceous bracts as there are 

 flowers. The separation of the two lower segments appears 

 at first sight as if two of them had been torn away. The 

 flowers externally are snow-white, the colour of the brilliant 

 vermilion lines being in no degree distinguishable on the 

 back of the segments, where they are also pure white and 

 striated longitudinally. The filaments are of a pale crimson, 

 and the anthers, somewhat emarginate at base, are versatile. 

 The stamens and corona originate outside of a raised epigy- 

 nous disc, together with the perianthium. The style is some- 

 what longer than the stamens, and more declinate, but the 

 apex is curved upwards to meet the anthers, as in the genus 

 Amaryllis. I gathered a number of the bulbs of this beautiful 

 plant, which I regret were all lost by shipwreck, together 

 with the greater part of my collections." 



Mr. Miers has also given me a dried specimen, which 

 enables me to confirm the general accuracy of the figure and 

 technical character, as published. I am however inclined to 

 think that the coronet is not composed of six distinct lobes, 

 but that they are united into a cup about one-fourth of their 

 whole length ; at least such appears to be the structure of the 

 only flower I have been able to examine. In the opinion of 

 the Dean of Manchester, the genus is most nearly allied to 

 Eucrosia. 



