Liriogame. Cl. 2. Coronaria, ORD. 2. LACHENALEX. 23 
to the (genes and Southern Hemispheres in cold latitudes. Lache- 
nalee all grow wild at the Cape of Good Hope, and differ from other 
raiet in eg peculiar obliquity of their floral Envelope at its 
confluence with the Pedicel, or if less manifestly oblique there, it is 
irre in some other part; which two characters joined with their 
locality confirm the propriety of separating them from Hyacinthee, 
enr as their Organs of Reproduction are far too discordant 
to remain in one Genus. The Delphic Oracle itself might - vain 
pve to reconcile the junction of Himas wit va for 
the present I divide them as above. Their Seeds freque si agree 
in one point with those of Hypowidee, what appears in an early 
stat a Funiculus, becoming afterw lack and indurated 
like their Coat, of which it faet tio not 
is in fact a continuation. It does 
follow, however, from this conformity that Lachenalew and Hypoaidee 
have any affinity, and a Student of Natural Orders ought to look 
with a jealous eye " every resemblance however striking, which is 
unaecompani ers; for instances have been given, and I 
eould add more, mu exactly parallel structures in some one part 
among Veget s which differ so widely that they do not even 
belong to the same primary divisions. One useful corollary to be 
deduced geret from such facts is, that the Deity has ordained few 
universal laws, as incompatible with that wondrous variety, which 
if it occasionally puzzles, still delights those who study his works. 
In the first Section of Zachenalee the Corolla remains withered 
round the mature Capsule, and Himas from its similitude to Sugil- 
laree takes the lead; it has Petals only oe at their base, 
spreading widely out, and hardly irre ; 3 oblong melliferous 
Pores below the middle of its dissepimental sinuses; Seeds stamped 
like a Bottle gourd; and n Vv Platyestes has a 
more campanulate Corolla then Himas, only two broad 
Monoestes is known directly by its under Petal stretched out beyond 
he rest, and solitary Leaf beautifully colo 
and its Filaments are approxi The Flowers of Orchiops are 
erect, — — - most irregular of all in this Order. In Lache- 
ia they a cernuous, as well as tubular or funnel-sha 
the ti cus eran "Petals coalescing higher or lower as in sie and 
its whole Receptacle or Torus below the Pericarpium is m 
» the second Section the Corolla is pushed off when the Pocapan 
wells; here Veltheimia is an insulated Genus in many 8, 
kaika a large conical Bulb, a little ringed at the bottom with the 
scars a its decayed Coats, like that of Eucomis, green or glaucous 
large oval waved Leaves; a thick cylindrical Peduncle, very close 
Spike of cernuous Flowers; a long tubular Corolla approaching to 
that of Lachenalia, with the Receptacle melliferous asin that Genus ; 
and sometimes three but most commonly only two sessile an near 
the middle of each cell; its ited always remains wen 
becoming somewhat in with e y comprest emp 
though it splits at the top is ded: one autumn I found mee 
blown to the distance of about a mile from the terrace where the 
