124 ORD. 5. AMARYLLIDER. Cl. 6. Spathacec. Liriogame. 
sterdam, and from another gathered by Dr. Rrcmanpsox in the same 
; ru um, t 0 j 
of Roxsuren and Rumer, which -ancient name ought surely to be 
retained: the 4th is Belatta Pola Taly of Rugepn, and — a 
true Crinum, Asiaticum of Roxpuren; nor can I follow Mr. J. B. 
Ker either in changing this to Detitum. My next enn, iioi 
moist grounds and by the side of Rivers; the Tube of its Corolla is 
a little curved and often very long, as well as slightly widened to- 
wards the top; Limb nearly regular, but its upper Segments a little 
more recurved, and the inner ones broader; Filaments inserted in 
two very close series, and a little decurrent in which they differ 
and so finely attenuated as to dangle on the ground in all directions, 
n decaying at the top. In the 2nd Section of Amar; — dis- 
— -— Leaves shone disappear as soon as the heats of Sum- 
alinetes contains two Speci own immediately 
iF their mies Need en erenulated Leaves ; ane all wither down 
to the Bulb at their appointed season; but the inner ones, the points 
of which were perfect and entire, s oot out again ud ollowing au- 
with a truncated end, then b 
tumn and decay- 
md Mese to their base the sueceeding Su E C Whieh v curious 
nomy has suggested my name. Besphons i is so ealled, because 
its de fürs are dreadfully poisonous to the Ove» and Cows of the 
Farmers in the districts where it grows; and unfortunately those 
way out of the Ground, like a Leek ; its Petals coalesce into a pretty 
long slender Tube, beyond which they roll back and are hardly irre- 
, with diverging Filaments; I have never found more than 1 
Seed in each Cell of a great many specimens examined — — 
ts are often in different rosca even on 3* e same 
rds its top, o i i 
cies; its Vines are very sim of pod eg and on 
divergi is so S 
as Congeners: Lixw£'s son in the Supplementum says that this Plant 
is his father's Hamanthus Ciliaris, determined in the 2nd edition of 
his Species Plantarum, from a Leaf pasted on the same paper wi 
