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Perianth -limb li-l^- in. long; tube tinged with green, funnel- 

 shaped in the upper half; segments oblong, pale yellow, i in. long. 

 Stamens as long as the segments ; filaments united in the lower 

 half in a cup, with a bifid tooth between each of them. Style 

 reaching to the tip of the segments. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, Lechler 2138 ! Andes of Bolivia, alt. 10,000 ft., 

 Mandon 1198 ! Described from a living plant flowered by Messrs. Veitch in 

 1871, the bulbs of which were sent home by their collector, Pearce. 



3. S. CROCEUM Herb. Amaryll. 199. Pancratium croceum Savigny ; 

 Ked. Lil. t. 187. S. Ruizianum Kunth. Pancratium flavum Euiz 

 et Pavon, Fl. Peruv. iii. 54, t. 284a. — Bulb globose, 1 in. diam. 

 Leaves linear, a foot long, ^ in. broad. Peduncle slender, a foot 

 long. Flowers 4-6 in an umbel; pedicels |~1 J in. long ; spathe- 

 valves lanceolate. Perianth-limb l-|-2 in. long ; tube slender in 

 the lower half, cylindrical in the upper, suddenly dilated at the 

 middle, pale yellow ; segments oblong, ^ in. long. Stamens as 

 long as or a little longer than the segments ; cup not distinctly 

 toothed at the edge between the filaments. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, Pavon ! Domhey ! Described from specimens in the 

 Smithian Herbarium and at the British Museum, and a living plant that 

 flowered at Kew in May, 1877. 



4. S. FLAVUM Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 2641. Chri/siphiala flava 

 Gawl. in Bot. Keg. t. 978. — Bulb subglobose, 1 in. diam. Leaves 

 oblanceolate, a foot long, an inch broad, obscurely petioled. Pe- 

 duncle slender, a foot long. Flowers 4-6 in an umbel ; pedicels 

 slender, an inch long ; spathe-valves lanceolate. Perianth-limb 

 bright yellow, 1^-2 in. long; tube dilated at the middle, cylindrical 

 in the upper half; segments oblong, i in. long. Stamens just 

 exserted ; staminal cup not distinctly toothed between the filaments. 

 Style overtopping the anthers. 



Var. S. LATiFOLiuM Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 3803. S. vitellinum 

 Lindl. in Bot. Keg. 1843, t. 2. — Edge of the staminal cup with an 

 entire tooth between each filament. 



Var. S. cuRvmENTATUM Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 2640. 8. pauci- 

 florum Herb. Chrysiphiala jjaucijiora Lindl. ; Hook. Exot. Flora, 

 t. 132. — Edge of the staminal cup with a bifid tooth between each 

 of the filaments. 



Hab. Andes of Peru. Introduced into cultivation by Cowan in 1824. Very 

 likely more than one species is here included, but I have not seen any of the 

 forms alive. 



5. S. HUMiLE Baker in Saund. Kef. Bot. sub t. 308. Cobnrgia 

 humilis Herb, in Bot. Keg. 1842, t. 46. Clitanthes humilis Herb.— 

 Bulb ovoid, under 1 in. diam., with brown tunics and a short neck. 

 Leaves linear, bright green, a foot long, developed after the flower. 

 Peduncle very short, bearing one erect flower, with erect mem- 

 branous spathe-valves, connate in the lower half. Perianth orange- 

 red, 21 in. long ; throat of the tube i in. diam. ; segments oblong, 

 1 in. long. Stamens shorter than the segments, united in the 



ower half in a cup, which is not toothed at the edge. Style finally 

 exserted. 



Hab. Andes of Peru; Palcamayo, alt. 10,000 ft., Macleanl Cuzco, 

 12,000 ft., Pearce ! Perhaps only a high mountain form of S. recurvatum. 



