Liriogame. Cl. 6. Spathacee. ORD. 8. ZEPHYRANTHEX. 137 
unthankful however for having been permitted to tread within the 
borders of that vegetable land of Promise, which to use the honied 
words of Correa DE Serra, Linné like Moses from the top of Mount 
i i Th Section o 
Zephyranthee is distinguished by Seeds which have a black Coat 
often winged, and a hollow Peduncle. Here Coburgia by its petio- 
Genus has been joined by the Hon. W. Herserr to LixNÉ's type of 
Amaryllis, changing the latter to Coburgia; though he was not 
without a suspicion that it might prove distinct, and in that case 
Leopolda ; 
an 
Aschamia only differ in the coronary Appendage at the mouth of the 
Tube of the latter; but I deem it sufficient to separate them ; this 
consists in 6 bearded Scales placed more between the Filaments than 
em, and —Ó alternating with the Petals; and 
the Bulbs of Aschamia are never without Leaves here, new ones 
pushing up before the older deny about the Equinoxes, though they 
only a = the vernal one. iphalissa agrees with Lais, and 
hes acd : tse 
hilosophic argument 
appears on the first blush; for both in Amaryllidee and Dye 
thew, as in a vast many more natural Orders, the Genera are ies 
determined by characters independant of their male and female 
gans; and provided that there is a similarity in these last, I have 
gin a doubt that Plants far more distantly related than these, > 
ogether. Chonais has a Corolla almost regular, funn 
ap: S 6 bearded pee placed behind the Filaments pas 
Lea 
to the Petals; and its es decay here in autumn, those of the 
wing year no dioec Spring when it blossoms; this plant 
is pro indigenous in South America, but in t part remains 
; . J. B. Ker 
erroneously inserted it in his 5th Section of Amaryllidee ** Tubo 
mudo." In Myostemma, the Tube is so oblique that the front is Pes 
half as long as the back, and its orifice quite élosed by a frin 
ring. Sprekelia of Hersrer, the old Jacobea imd of our gardens 
has a most singular Flower, exceedingly different from all in the 
Order, and it does little credit to Lixwf's jollemont, not to have 
admitted it. Arviela bce iine i of Jamaica, 
