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Flowers 2-4 in an umbel ; pedicels short ; spatlie-valves oblong, 

 greenish, 2-3 in. long. Perianth-tube curved, 2^-3 in. long, pale 

 or bright red, ^ in. diam. at the throat; segments oblong, cuspidate, 

 f-1 in. long, conspicuously keeled with green towards the tip. 

 Stamens as long as the segments ; filaments united towards the 

 base, with a bifid process between each of them. Style sometimes, 

 but not always, exserted beyond the tip of the segments. 



Var. S. ACUTUM Baker, I. c. Coburgia acuta Herb. — Perianth- 

 tube not more than ^ in. diam. at the throat ; segments oblong- 

 lanceolate. 



Hab. Andes of Ecuador, Peru, and BoHvia, alt. 8000—10,000 ft. Not 

 infrequent in cultivation. Of the species described by Herbert and Kunth, 

 I look upon G. splendens (111. Hort. n. s. t. 285), C. trichroma (Bot. Mag. t. 3807), 

 C. variegata {Pancratium variegatum Euiz et Pav.), C. chacapoyensis, C. versi- 

 color, C. fulva (Bot. Mag. t. 3221), C. lata, and C. langensis, as mere forms, 

 differing in the size and colouring of the flower. 



10. S. LUTEoviRiDE Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6508. — Bulb globose, 

 3 in. diam., with brown tunics and a cylindrical neck half a foot 

 long. Leaves 3-4 to a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, lorate, 

 bright green, a foot long, 1-1^ in. broad. Peduncle above a foot 

 long, stout, ancipitous. Flowers 5-6 in an umbel ; pedicels not 

 more than an inch long; spatlie-valves oblong-lanceolate, greenish, 

 2-3 in. long. Perianth-tube curved, primrose-yellow, 2-2^ in. long, 

 ^ in. diam. at the throat ; segments oblong-cuspidate, yellow, with 

 a green tip an inch long. Stamens as long as the segments ; 

 filaments united in the lower half, with a simple or obscurely- 

 toothed deltoid process between each of them. Style exserted 

 beyond the tip of the segments. 



Hab. Andes of Ecuador. Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in 

 the spring of 1879, and another in May, 1887. 



11. S. viRmiFLORUM Benth. Gen. Plant, iii. 733. Pancratmm 

 viridifiorum Ruiz et Pav. Callithauma viridifiorum Herb. ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3866 a. Chrt/siphiala viridifiora Schultes. — Bulb ovoid, l-|-2 in. 

 diam., with brown tunics and a long cylindrical neck. Leaves 

 linear, bright green, f-1 in. broad. Peduncle ancipitous, 1^-2 ft. 

 long. Flowers about 4 in an umbel ; pedicels short ; spathe-valves 

 lanceolate, deciduous. Perianth entirely green ; tube curved, 2 in. 

 long, ^-l in. diam. at the throat ; segments oblong, acute, f in. 

 long. Stamens as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments 

 inserted below the crenate edge of the cup, rather inflexed. Style 

 not exserted beyond the tip of the segments. 



Var. G. ANGUSTiFOLiUM Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 3866b. — Leaves 

 narrower. Stamens shorter than the perianth-segments. Style 

 exserted. 



Var. Elwesii Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, 756. — Staminal cup 

 deeply 6 -cleft, its lobes quadrate and emarginate. 



Hab. Andes of Peru. The type and first variety were introduced into 

 cultivation by Maclean in 1840, and flower in summer. The second variety 

 I had from Mr. Elwes in 1876 and 1878. I know nothing of Herbert's Calli- 

 thauma spathulatum, which is said to have oblong petioled thick coriaceous 

 leaves, a peduncle 3 ft. long, and large green flowers. 



