54 On». 6. Bvrsocopgx. Cl.3. Tetra. Liriogame. 
is pretty common now in our gardens, from Bulbs which I, distri- 
buted plentifully many years since; it differs from Merendera in 
having auric Ww. i 
by the 3 outer Filaments holding the sides of the three inner Petals 
fast behind them ; and its Style is simple. Merendera grows wild 
on the high downs of the Pyrenees; and has lanceolate Petals with 
distinct claws, 3 separate Styles, and according to Ramonp — 
Anthers to the other Genera; but I have never seen this Plant my- 
self. Colchicum blossoms in autumn, its Leaves not aser till 
and it has 3 separate Styles. All these Plants delight in a ealea- 
reous soil, and probably differ very little in the violently purgative 
as well as sedative qualities of their Bulbs; at least l can speak 
from my own experience, that those of our in die specles are 
quite as efficacious in removing a fit of the Gout, as Ad Pyle of that 
— — Leaves, which is supposed to be the principal drug 
i usson, and I have no "o the Hosius of the 
beds. for there is a strong etween its Bulbs when 
dried up as sold in the s! ti pae the Seeds of lone Dactylifera. 
Ord. T. CYMBANTHEÆ. 
Petala 6, nune coalita, regularia, varie mellifera, in cunis approxi- 
mata yes seepe involutis, a kaka vel decidua. Fila- 
menta 6, receptaculo petalisve inserta, nune dum Petala manent 
lege plane inusitatà decidua, Antheræ oblongæ, vacillantes, extror- 
en : : 
Sierra Leone, Promontorio Bons Spei, Hindostan et Nova Hollandiá, 
3-10-pedales. Radix tuberosa ; vel sepius bulbosa, uno latere basis 
, Tunicis paucis; apice vetuste mox periture quotannis 
nascens, Folia radicalia vel caulina, alterna, Sigurd varia, nune apice 
cirrhosa, estate evanida. Flores fere omnium colorum preter cæru- 
leum, erecti cernuive, spicati vel parum paniculati, | Pedunculus caule 
continuatus. Pedicelli sepe brevissimi vel nulli. Bractee 1-rie. 
Cymbanthes. Hort. TR. Melanthium Eucomoides Jace. dc. 
Wurmbea. Tous 
. P. L. Lichtensteinia W. 
Bæometra. Hort. Tr. Tulipa Breyniana L. ge. 
Dipidax. Hort. Tr. Melanthium Junceum Jace. ge. 
Anguillara. R. Br. A. Dioica, ejus Prodr. 
Burchardia. R. Br. 
Methonica. J. Herm. Gloriosa, L. 
Notocles. Melanthium Indicum. L. 
An Order differing from Bulbocodec in its more succulent Pepe, 
rolled in laterally during sestivation, or if imbricated having a 
