elliptic, concave, acute. Racemes terminal, sometimes 

 panicled, few-flowered. Bractes oblongly lanceolate, 

 concave, acute, keeled at the back, smooth and glau- 

 cous. Pedicles smooth, about the length of the calyx, 

 more or less tinged with red, not transparent, and 3 

 times the length of the calyx as in H. tuberaria, 

 nodding before flowering, erect when in bloom, after- 

 wards reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, which are smooth 

 and glaucous, 2 outer ones very small, subulate ; the 

 inner ones broadly ovate, concave, acute, tipped with 

 red, their margins scariose and membranaceous. Pe- 

 tals 5, obovate, with rounded points, distinct or 

 slightly imbricate at the base, much spreading. Sta- 

 mens from 40 to 50, spreading, the outer ones shortest : 

 filaments smooth and slender, pale yellow : pollen 

 orange-coloured. Germen downy. Style very short, 

 hid by the large stigma. Stigma capitate, granular. 



Our drawing of this curious plant was made from 

 one at the Garden belonging to the Apothecaries' Com- 

 pany at Chelsea, where it was first raised from seeds 

 given to Mr. Anderson by Mr. George Don, who in- 

 forms us that it was cultivated in his father's garden at 

 Forfar, a great many years back, as H. tuber aria, but 

 he is not certain from whence he first obtained his 

 seeds : it is rather tender, requiring the protection of 

 a frame or Greenhouse in Winter, succeeding well in 

 a mixture of sandy loam and peat, and is readily in- 

 creased by seeds, which ripen plentifully. 



