Liriogame. Cl. 6. Spathacee. ORD. 5. AMARYLLIDEX. 119 
Carpolyza P. L. Foren miri 3-lobum, ab apice 
dehiscens. Petala in Tub ubum bre infundibuliformem coalita, 
argin e gularia, 
ceolata, latitudine vix inequalia. Filamenta 2 seriebus, decurrentia, 
petalis breviora, erecto-patentia, ig wie Stylus erectus, filamen- 
tis demissior. Stigma artitum, laciniis emarginulatis. Semina 
4-6 in singulis loculis, diu adherentia. Herba i in Pr omontorio Bond 
b 
S. HU 
sima, basi bifaria, MEA glabra. Flores carnei, erecti, inodori. 
Pedunculus cum foliis novis sero autumno, gracilis, basi spiralis, teres, 
ucidus, 3—5-florus. "Pedicelli longi, tarde exeuntes. ies 1. 
Hemanthus spiralis L. rrr. in Arr. Hort. Kew. 1. 
put one in mind of the verses at the beginning of Horacr’s Poem de 
Arte rp bre by substituting Vegetables for Animals may be 
arodied a 
nd bulbo, caulem si pictor Eric 
Jungere nune velit et varias inducere frondes 
Undique collatis ramis, ut turpiter Ari 
Desinat in caudam Orini formosa coro 
Spectatum admissi, risum teneatis amici ? 
maryllis for instance in WittpENow’s work forms a Groupe n 
a less absurd for a single Genus, than the Vegetable Vas 
above imagined. Plants belonging to two other Classes are not only 
there SY GEE A but among those referable to Spathacee, we find 
indiscriminately jumbled together Bulbs like a Nut or the decayed 
ump of a 
stump ost; Leaves constantly gro ppearing for half 
the ; Peduncles slender and hollow as a Straw, or having the 
thickness "and solidity of a Footman’s Ca owers smelling nau- 
seously, or exhaling the perfumes of uec ; Petals quite Cipro 
cal or irregular as possibl blac winged or whitish 
lumps resembling young Potatoes. The Order of or pitas: asI 
limit it, till our ina was confined to Amaryllis and Crinum, LINNÉ 
from an unworthy pique, refusing to acknowledge Brunswigia of 
STER ; but i in 1789 by DnvaxDpEE's persuasion Sir JOSEPH s 
permitted sert of the younger LrwwÉ to ee detached I 
Crinum st edition of Hortus Kewens 
elapsed, when pen e of KrrarsEn being Aoba on the Con- 
tinent, it made the Botanists frequenting the Banksian School 
about them ; and at last Mr. J. B. Ker adopted wigia in the 
ently joining to its very irregular Flowers soon of Crinum Faleatum 
Jaca. Two years before this, Mr. in his Prodromus, had 
called a larger parcel Amaryllidee, aist paaie as I do, 
every Species the Seeds of which have a black crustaceous coat: but 
he adds that they are “ albwminosa” and what is still more para- 
doxical, that they have a “ Perianthium regulare”; for the floral 
Envelope is irregular both in Lixwf's type of Targi, and every 
