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broad, furnished with a distinct green keel. Longest stamens 

 finally equaUing the perianth ; anthers minute, oblong. Declinate 

 style f inch long. Capsule globose, the size of a pea. 



Persia, between Nischapur and Medsched, 22nd June, 1858. 

 Top of raceme in flower, base in fruit. Bunge LiL, 2 ! 



14t\ Eremurus (Henningia) pauciflorus, Baker, n. sp. Leaves 

 cotemporary with the flowers, above a foot long, erect, linear, firm 

 in texture, channelled down the face, ^f inch broad, minutely 

 cihated at the edge. Scape a foot long, stout, terete, pubescent. 

 Raceme lax, few-flowered for the genus, nearly a foot long when 

 fully expanded ; axis stout, sulcate, pubescent. Pedicels ascend- 

 ing^ ^_^ inch long, articulated a little below the tip. Bracts 

 lanceolate, \-^ inch long, pubescent, white with a brown keel. 

 Perianth tubular, 5 hues long ; segments ligulate, a line broad, 

 whitish with a brown keel, not reflexing. Longer stamens finally 

 equalling the perianth. Style exserted, finally f inch long. Capsule 

 globose, one third of an inch in diameter. 



Persia, near Eschrebad, 7th May, 1859, in full flower. Bunge 

 LiL, G ! 



18*. Eremurus (Henningia) luteus. Baker, n. sp. Root-fibres 

 cylindrical, the crown of the root surrounded by fibrous and 

 membranous relics of old leaves. Leaves numerous, cotemporary 

 with the flowers, linear, glabrous, erect, a foot long, ^\ inch broad, 

 firm in texture, channelled down the glabrous face, minutely 

 ciliated at the edge. Scape stout, terete, glabrous, a foot long. 

 Flower-raceme moderately dense, 3-4 inches long, 2 inches in 

 diameter when exjDanded. Pedicels erecto-pateut, ^-^ inch long, 

 articulated at the tip. Bracts lanceolate, white with a brown keel, 

 acuminate, f-1 inch long, densely ciliated. Perianth bright yellow, 

 f inch long ; segments oblong-spathulate, reflexing fi'om near the 

 base, ^ inch broad, furnished with a distinct brown keel. Longest 

 stamens distinctly shorter than the perianth- segments ; anthers 

 bright yellow, oblong, under a line long. Declinate style finally 

 f inch long. 



Persia, near Sser-Tschah, 1-lth March, 1859, in full flower. 

 Bunge LiL, 4 ! 



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SciRPus PARvuLus, 7i. r(' S., IN S. Devon. — I Write to correct 

 an error in my paper on the Flora of the extreme south of Devon, 

 inserted in tlie number of ' Journal of Botany ' for October last 

 (vol. vii. N. S. p. 298). After giving Scirpns Savii as a plant of 

 the district I went on to say: "Another species, S. aciculans,we 

 did not find anywhere in the tract about Kingsbridge, but 

 discovered growing plentifully in pools and pits in a salt-marsh 

 by the Avon, at Aveton Giftbrd." I recently sent Mr. Watson a 

 specimen of this Scirjnis, and he has just called my attention to the 

 fact of its being parndus, not acicularis. The latter does not grow 

 anywhere about Plymouth, and, from not being famiUar with its 



