ON THE REDISCOVERY OF THE GENUS EUSTEPHIA. 39 



slightly exceeding the calyx, 3-veiiied, not contiguous, 

 deciduous ; style long, subulate ; stigma tongue-shaped ; 

 receptacle globular ; carpels obovatc, inflated, rounded at the 

 end. — Ft. tripartitus, DeCand. Icon. PL Gall. Ear., ]). 15, 

 tab. 49 (1808); Koch in Sturm. Deutschl. Fl. 67, 12; 

 Eeichenb. Icon. Fl. Germ. iii. t. 2, f. 4574 ; Billot, Fl. 

 Gall, et Germ. Exsic. 2403 (sp.) ; Lloyd, Fl. de I'Ouest de 

 la France, ed. 3, p. 5 ; Boreau Fl. Centre Fr. ed. 3, p. 9. 



The floating leaves are nearly, but not quite, tripartite ; the 

 base of the outer segments is straight. The divisions of the sub- 

 mersed leaves spread in a divaricate manner in the water, and 

 when a deposit takes place upon them they continue spreading 

 when taken out of the water ; otherwise they collapse into the 

 tassel-shaxDe under those circumstances. Stipules large, rounded, 

 but slightly attached to the petiole. Buds subglobular. Flowers 

 star-like. Stamens few, short. Style slender, usually bent at 

 about the middle, terminal on the full-grown, obovoid, much- 

 inflated carpels ; its base persistent. 



This is undoubtedly the plant of DeCandoUe, and is an inte- 

 resting, but not unexpected, addition to our flora. 



ON THE EEDISCOVEEY OF THE GENUS EVSTEPHIA 

 OF CAVANILLES. 



By J. G. Bakek, F.L.S. 



In the third volume of his well-known ' Icones et Descriptiones 

 Plantarum,' published at Madi'id in 1794, CavaniUes describes and 

 figures, from a specimen of unknown origin, which flowered in 

 May, 1794, in the Eoyal garden at Madrid, anew genus of Amaryl- 

 lidacecB which he calls Fyustephia. The plant resembles closely in 

 leafage and general habit Cyrtanthus of the Cape and Vhcedranassa of 

 the Andes, but is marked principally by its very j)eculiar ctamens, 

 which present a type then entirely unknown in the order, the 

 six filaments being equally tricuspidate, like three out of the six 

 are in Ornithogalmn nutans and Allium Porruw and Ampeloprasum, 

 flattened in the lower two- thirds, with a sharp tooth projecting at 

 the top of the flattened part on each side of the subulate central 

 fork which bears the anther. When Dean Herbert monographed 

 the Order he expressed, with characteristic energy and positive- 

 ness, an entire disbelief in the existence of this plant. At page 68 

 of his * Amaryllidace^ ' he writes : — 



*^ Eustephia, Cavanilles, must be expunged: no such plant wiU 

 be found. It seems to be a species of Phycella, of which the 

 description is unintelligible and the accompanying figure repugnant 

 to all i)robability ;" and again at page 71: — ' ' Eustephia delendsi, 

 utpote falso delineatur, diagnosi pessima. Nunquam talis 

 invenietur. Procul dubio Phycellce species mendosissime depicta et 

 descripta." 



