102 nEVlEW OF TIIJD GENUS NARCISSUS. 



V. N. POCULiFORMis (Salisb. Prodr. p. 224).-— Bulb aninch tliick. 

 Leaves 4 or 5 to a scape, flattish, glaucous, |^— | in. broad, rather 

 shorter thaa the scape. Scape a foot_high, Avith two not very promi- 

 nent edges, 1- or 2-flowered, flowering early in April. Pedicel gene- 

 rally equalling, or, if there are two flowers, that of the uppermost 

 exceeding the spathe, which is about an inch long. Flower cernuous, 

 pure white, odorous, 18-21 lines long above the ovary; the tube cy- 

 lindrical, shorter than the divisions (9-10 lines), a line thick in the 

 lower half ; the divisions an inch long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, often 

 slightly twisted, f or even ^ in. broad at the middle ; the crown the 

 same colour as the rest of the flower, | in. deep, uniform in texture 

 throughout, moderately plicate and crenulate at the throat. Stamens 

 subuniseriate from high up in the tube, the filaments scarcely longer 

 than the anthers, the latter exserted from the tube, but standing down 

 deep in the corona. — Queltia motitana, Herb. Kunth. N. montanus, 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 123. Trus poculiformis and T. galantJdfolia, 

 Haw. 



This is a plant which has long been well known in garden cultiva- 

 tion, but which has never been satisfactorily matched with wild speci- 

 mens, and which, as it is said never to produce seed, is, in all proba- 

 bility, a garden product. Judging purely from its characters, the 

 plants most likely to have produced it are those which Herbert sug- 

 gested, N. dnhias and Pseudo-Narcisaus var. moschatus. In both 

 habit and characters it looks a good deal like a white-flowered variety 

 of hicomparabilis, but the leaves are not quite tlie same, the flower is 

 cernuous, and frequently two are produced, and it is sweet-scented. 



VI. N. Macleaii (Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 987).— Bulb an inch or 

 more thick. Leaves 5 or 6 to a scape, 8-10 in. high, bright green, 

 concave on the face, 5-6 lines broad. Scape about a foot high, sub- 

 compressed and slightly two-edged, bearing one or rarely two flowers 

 early in April. Pedicel of the solitary flowers considerably shorter 

 than the spathe, wiiich is 15-18 lines long. Elower ascending as in 

 the Daftbdil, 15-16 lines deep, exclusive of the ovary; the tube cy- 

 lindrical, 7-8 lines long, \ in. thick, white, tinged downwards with 

 green ; the divisions milk-white, spreading at a right angle from the 

 base of the crown, oblong-lanceolate, much imbricated, 8-9 lines long, 

 4|-6 lines broad, bluntish or subacute. Crown 5-6 lines deep, bright 

 yellow, very slightly plicate,^ in. broad at the mouth, slightly lobed. 



