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Stamens subuniseriate from above the middle of the tube, just reaching 

 into the corona. Style f-|- in. long, included in the corona. — Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2588. Queltia Macleana, Herb. Kunth. Diomedes minor, 

 Haw. 



This also, like the last, is known only in cultivation. It flowered 

 well at Kew this year, both in No. 4 house and in the borders, and our 

 description is taken from the living specimens. It resembles most the 

 hicolor variety of Pseudo-Narcisstis, from which it may be known by 

 its smaller size, bright green leaves, and crown not more than \ in. 

 long. Is it a hybrid between Tazetta and some of the varieties of the 

 Daffodil ? The N. super-Pseiido-Narcisso-poeticus of Grenier (Fl. 

 France, 3, p. 255) corresponds with it, judging from the description, 

 but we have not seen specimens. 



VII. N. iNCOMPARABiLis (Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 121). — Bulb ovoid, 

 12-18 lines thick. Leaves 3 or 4 to a scape, about a foot long, 

 bluntly keeled, 6-7 lines broad, slightly glaucous. Scape a foot or 

 sometimes 15-18 in. high, compressed and distinctly two-edged. 

 Flower always solitary, produced about London late in March or early 

 in April, more or less distinctly ascending. Pedicel 6-9 lines long, 

 always considerably exceeded by the spathe. Expanded flower 'i\-^\ 

 in. broad, not sweet-scented, the tube nearly or quite an inch deep, 

 cylindrical, 1|— 2 lines thick at the middle, 3 lines at the throat, the 

 divisions spreading, slightly imbricated, an inch long, generally a rather 

 paler yellow than the crown, oblong-lanceolate, 6-8 lines broad. 

 Crown 6-7 lines deep, orange-yellow, nearly erect, much plaited at the 

 throat, and furnished with six deep imbricated lobes ; the mouth 8-9 

 lines across. Stamens subuniseriate, inserted about the middle of the 

 tube, the filaments and anthers each 3 lines long, the filaments reach- 

 ing to the top of the tube. Style 13-14 lines long, reaching about 

 halfway up the crown. — Reich. Fl. Germ. t. 819. Queltia incompara- 

 biliSylLixw. Q. fcetida, Herb. Am. p. 311 ; Kunth, Enum. 5, p. 723. 

 Q. ampla, Salisb. N. Gouani, Iloth. Q. semipartita, Haw. (form 

 with a more spreading and more deeply-lobed crown). Q. concolor, 

 Haw. 



Var. 1, aurantias. — A robust form with the crown orange, but the 

 divisions a pale (sulphur) yellow.— iV. aurautius, Schult. Syst. 7, p. 

 948. N. Gouani, Redoutc, Lil. t. 220. Qnellia Gouani and Q. aii- 

 rantia, Haw. Mon. p. 5. Flore-pleno forms of this are the " Non- 



