Liriogame. Cl. 6. Spathacee. ORD. 4. PaxcRATEX. 113 
Section of Eie ees the Seeds are bulbiform, with a whitish fleshy 
coat changing to green when exposed to the air and light, as well 
as às generally v without didnt. Calostemma is a iuf olland 2o 
ith ric carpi 
one or two of its cells, their dissepiments being pressed to the side ; 
and in his character of its Crown “ dentibus alternis — "he 
makes a double blunder, for 1st in a physiological sense, the Fila- 
ments of all Pancratec are opposed to the Petals and MM M 
the interstices or sinusses of the Crown, not to the lobes, though 
when the lobes are em arginated or run up the Filaments, the js 
stices are the highest; this is very evident in Calostemma but m 
especially in Ismene, where the Filaments are often detached a little 
below the interstices: 2ndly the Crown of both Species already 
introduced projects into two teeth, not one, between each Filament : 
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mbryos. Huwrycles has rather a different Habit to the rest: its 
Leaves are of a yellow green, petiolated, broadly heart-shaped with 
p el ribs, rolled in at their sides before they unfold, like those of 
Niobe, and in our Stoves they continue to decay through December 
to Februari y sooner or later according to the temperature of the Stove, 
fresh ones not succeeding till May or June: the Peduncle pushes 
in i ountry is the end o 
usque ad vec though I have never found it so; and what he 
means by “ habitu Calostemmate accedit” to say nothing of his Latin, 
I cannot guess, for no Plants ts o t rder are more discordant either 
split into tees especially in a moist atmosphere, or if the Peduncle 
either Ma tural bend, or the weight of its Fruits, touches the 
earth ; its ubere is partly immersed in a Cap of yellowish fleshy 
Albumen, and the Bulb swells to a = aran bere the rer Leaf 
appears, see Tah. fig. Ismene is a no us, and as ill 
produce Seeds here, if the Stigma be fæcnndated when -— To 
Len and the Honey care fally drawn off from the Tube, I hope to 
the Leaves are sheathing. beg the lowest rather 
a s ipak Flowers white or gold colour, more or less nodding, fra- 
wid connects its Filam ents. Many Species have lately been intro- 
duced from different parts of South America, the Leaves of which 
