NATURAL ORDER AMARYLLIDACEZ. 
Tribe—AMARYLLEA. 
Puate XXI.—Leucoium hiemale. Woods. De Candolle, variety a. 
Ruminia hiemalis. Parlatore. 
GENERIC.—Stigma simple, stamens 6, having short filaments inserted 
on an epigynous disc. Anthers bilocular, either cell opening from above 
by a longitudinal slit. Perianth campanulate, not narrowed into a long 
tube. 
Speciric.—Stigma papillose, obtuse. Style erect, filiform. Capsule 
pear-shaped. Seeds shiny-black, having a white caruncle extending 
along from the hilum to the opposite extremity. Stamens equal, con- 
nivent, having their filaments bent angularly and inserted on the 6-lobed 
epigynous disc. <Anthers oblong, introrse, opening at the top, adhering 
to one another by their bases. Divisions of perianth white, the inner 
segments rather shorter and obtuse, the outer pointed with thickened 
tips. Spathe of two valves longer than the pedicels. Peduncle strong, 
generally but one from each bulb, sometimes two. Leaves broadly 
linear, sometimes appearing long before the flowers. 
EXPLANATION OF Puate XXI.—Plate XXI. is, I believe, the first 
published drawing of Leucoium hiemale. Fig. 1 shows the filiform 
style. Fig. 2,a seed with its caruncle. Fig. 3, a stamen, showing the 
angle in the filament and turned outwards so as to bring the dehiscence 
into view. Fig. 4, a flower with the three nearest divisions of the peri- 
anth taken away, displaying the connivent anthers with their filaments 
inserted on the curiously-lobed disc. 
Remarks.—Among the mysteries which surround the origin of all 
vegetable life, that of the limitation of species to certain districts seems 
not the least incomprehensible. Here, for instance, is a species of 
Leucoium which is believed to have but one habitat on the face of the 
earth, claiming only a small strip of rocky shore reaching from Nice to 
about two miles east of Mentone. Leucoium hiemale grows in a stony 
soil, and out of the cracks of the hardest limestone rocks at Pont St. 
Louis, Capo Veglio on the way to Monaco, and at some height on the 
Aggel Mountain, besides other less abundant localities. Neither Galan- 
