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in the perianth -tube below and between the points from which the 

 filaments spring. 



^' Genus Eustephia, Cav. Icon., vol. iii. p. 20, tab. 238. 

 Perianth regular, tubular, erect in bud, drooping when ex^oanded, 

 with a short campanulate tube above the ovary and six oblanceolate 

 obtuse segments, with a close-ribbed central keel, which are 

 slightly cucullate and pilose at the tip, and spread only a little 

 in the upper thu-d when fully expanded. Stamens six, inserted 

 equally at the throat of the tube ; filaments about as long as the 

 perianth-segments, straight, parallel, narrowly flattened in the 

 lower two-thirds, and there furnished with two conspicuous linear 

 erecto-patent teeth — one on each side of the central filiform 

 process, which bears the rather small oblong versatile anther. 

 Ovary three-celled ; ovules many in a cell ; style protruded a little 

 beyond the perianth-segments, straight, very slender ; stigma 

 capitate, puberulent, subentire. Fruit not known. 



E. cocciNEA, Cav. loc. cit. ; Kunth Eniim., vol. v. p. 514. 

 Phcedranassa {Odontopiis) ruhrociridls, Baker in Gard. Chron. 

 1875, part 2, p. 7. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter, the 

 brown membranous tunics produced 3-4 inches up its neck. 

 Leaves not develojDed till after the flowers fade (in May in English 

 gardens), 3-4 to a bulb, sessile, linear, bright green, a foot or 

 more long, l-\ inch broad. Flowers j)roduced from February 

 to May. Scape a foot long, slightly ancipitous. Umbel 6-8- 

 flowered. Bracts numerous, membranous, reflexed, linear, 1-|~2 

 inches long. Pedicels 1-1 1- inch long. Perianth 18-21 lines long; 

 ovary oblong-trigonous, | inch ; tube as long as the ovary ; 

 segments above an inch long, green at the tip, the rest bright red, 

 i inch broad, narrowed very little to the base from three-quarters 

 of the way up, obtuse. Anthers ^ inch long ; pollen yellow. Style 

 finally protruded ^ inch beyond the tip of the perianth- segments. 



- ON SALIX TREVIRANI, Spren,i. 

 By the PiEV. J. E. Leefe, F.L.S. 



In a packet of specimens of Willows sent to me for exammation 

 in November last, by Dr. Eraser, of Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton, 

 was one named 8. Trevirani, of which it seems deskable to give 

 some account. Dr. Eraser considers ,S. Trevirani to be wild. He 

 met with it by the side of a brook at Bilbrook, in Staffordshire, and 

 has observed it there for several years. It forms a large shrub, or 

 small tree about fifteen feet high, and only one plant has been 

 noticed, and a young one near it. From the beautiful pink catkins, 

 in the early spring, it was referred at first to S. rubra, Huds. ; but 

 on being shown, as I understand, to Dr. Boswell, it was named by 

 him S. Trevirani. Though it has only been seen as yet in one 

 spot, it is to be hoped that by th-awing attention to it the Willow will 



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