Liriogame., C1. 6. Spathacee. ORD. 5. AMARYLLIDER. 125 
Flowers of Hemanthus in OrpENLAND's herbarium; but I suspect 
that to be my Diacles Ciliaris, described by the name of Haemanthus 
cds sive Tulipa Africana flore albo, in Tower s Catalogue of 
Plants which Orpentanp and Hanroe collected; a point w which may 
badiy now be ascertained at Paris as that He rbarium is in Mons. 
DrrEssERT's possession. Amar iryllis was established by LixwÉ, as 
appears in Hortus Cliffortianus ica Bolladinum of the Italians, ‘and 
I cannot agree with t on. Ww. to change his name ; 
Leaves decay here soon aft Midsummer, e of the next year not 
appearing till Spring in our cold climate, ‘long after it has blossomed 
in September; the Petals ses into a short obpyramidal Tube, 
above which they diverge into a Funnel and are nearly regular, with 
reclinated Filaments and e western was very justly esta- 
blis Hester, one if not two more Species being now discovered, 
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has an Si Lene Capsule on a long Pedicel, in my opinion ay 
mistakes its essential character; this I hold to consist in the pe 
ai of its floral Envelope, swelling out boldly in front at cui 
base, but gracefully recurved towards the ‘top ; ; and its strict confor- 
mity in the 3 Species hitherto known, if two really exist with lorate 
Leaves, will unquestionably keep them separate under that balas 
name from all.other Amaryllidee ; the Capsule of that called Jose- 
phinie by Repovré has rounded lobes, — ue compres adis and many 
Seeds in each cell, exactly like — n Pea ne of which I found 
pyramidal Tube without any coronary pro s, beyond Which 5 or 
sometimes all 6 are curved towards the diete side ; while the Fila- 
ments.are closely approximated round the Style in a contrary direc- 
tion; both the Leaves and Capsules of this Genus differ as remark- 
ably as in Brunswigia, and its Seeds likewise occasio nally contain 2 
mbryos. Orexis approaches so closely to Lowanthes, that its Tube 
projecting into a winding Ring behind the Filaments, joined to their 
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I trust solely to their solid Peduncle. stri s has been detached 
by the Hon. Wm. HxRszRT, and I gladly adopt his name, instead of 
one in my paper read at the Hortieultural bodete meeting of March 
1812; neither is it a jot more fanciful than Andromeda of LiwwÉ, 
but every way worthy of Helga's bard, for 
Botanicis ** atque Poetis 
* Quidlibet audendi semper fuit equa potestas 
* Hoc opus, hoc studium, agen properemus et ampli.” 
The whole Flower serves to remind us of the grinning jaws of a 
Wolf, and his description of its Stigma, as that usually coheres in 
our climate, redit; but the more essential eye 
its 6 retuse Lobes, which form a coronary process behind the Fila- 
