Jigurcd in the Botanical Periodicals. 233 



worth, who restricts the old generic title iV^arcissus to the poets' narcissus 

 group. Of these he describes twelve species, besides varieties. The N. stel- 

 laris, above, is one of the rarest of these, and was observed, in May last, 

 in flower, in the Apothecaries' Company's garden, at Chelsea, and from spe- 

 cunens which then flowered there the figure published was derived. 



-A"arcissus gracilis of our Hurt. Brit., No. 7563., is a species of Mr. 

 Haworth's genus Helena, and is figured by the name of Helena gracilis by 

 Mr. Sweet in his Flower-Garden for March, t. 136. 



CCXXXIX. IridecB. 



i22. SPARA'XIS. 



XincUa. Swt. rerf-ljned ? lAl or J sp W.Pk C.G.H. ... Os.pl. Sw.fl.gar.2. s.131 



Drawn from Colvill's, where several plants of this species flowered in 

 the spring of 1831. They were neat and pretty, and appeared to flower 

 freely. Mr. Sweet's researches have not enabled him to find a recorded 

 description which will agree with them, and he has consequently constituted 

 them a species, and applied to it the epithet lineata, in expression of a 

 pink-coloured line or stripe, with which every segment of the whitish 

 perianth is marked down its centre. (Sweet's Flower- Garde)i, Feb.) 



CCXL. Orchidece. 



2532. ZYGOPE'TALUM. 



maxiliaris B. C. jawed ^ E] or 1 au V. spot. Rio Jan. 1829. D p.r.w Bot. cab. 1776 



The lip is very broad, and on its disk, surrounding the column, is a fleshy 

 production resembling the lower jaw, beset with teeth, which has suggested 

 the name. Almost every importation from South America contains 

 something new in this increasingly interesting family. A few years since 

 only two or three species were in cultivation, and now they are almost 

 innumerable; while each newly discovered kind is as diversified from every 

 other, and as marvellous in its form, as the very first. (Bot. Cab., Feb.) 



CCXL I. Sdtaminece. 



6. HEDY'CHIUM. 

 urophyllum Wal. ? tailed-lvd. £ El fra 5 s Y India 1829 ? D, r.l Bot. cab. 1785 



A showy species. The blossoms are pretty large, and the yellow ground 

 is, according to the drawing, here and there streaked and tinted with 

 orange. 



CCXLVII. Asphodelecs. 



*1073a GEITONOPLE^SIUM C«». (Geitore, a neighbour, p/e«on, near ; to Efistrephus.) 6.1. 



cymbsum R. Br. cyme-Jtwd. $. i | cu 1 ... G N. S.W. 1825. C p.l Bot. mag. 3131 



Luzurikga cvmbsa Brown in Prod. 1. 282., and Loudon's Hort. Brit. No. 8966. 

 montanum R. Br. mountain if tAl or 1 ... G N. HoU. 1820. C s.p 



Luzuriiga montina Brown in Prod., Loudon's ifori. Brit. No. 8967. 

 asperum Gun. rough-angled £ tAJ cu N. HoU. 1831. 



In Lo2ulorCs Hort. Brit. (p. 137.), two species of New Holland plants 

 will be found referred, after Mr. Brown, to the Peruvian genus Luzuriaga. 

 With this genus they do not agree, and they are now to constitute the 

 genus named above. Mr. Cunningham, who has devised the word Geito- 

 noplesium, designs by it to express, not only the intimate affinity of the 

 plants composing it to the genus Eustrephus, but also to express the fact 

 that plants of both genera occupy the same habitat. He observes, " The 

 greatest quantity of Geitonoplesium cymosum I have ever seen in New 

 South Wales, where it is, comparatively speaking, a rare plant, was in the 

 same dark shaded wood where Eustrephus latifolius was equally abun- 

 dant, and where they were to be seen climbing up the same tree." 



Geitonoplesium differs from Eustrephus, the " orange vine of the 

 colonists," in having its sepals equal and beardless ; but more especially in 

 its indehiscent fruit, which is a berry, containing sometunes but a single 

 seed; while the fruit of Eustrephus (which has its three inner sepals 

 bearded) is distinctly a three-celled, hard, baccate capsule, which, when 

 bursted, exhibits many large black seeds. 



