sup2)lementa7'y to Enc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 461 



herbarium, Mr. Sweet remarks, " is a very different plant." Mr. Haworth, 



in his Monograph, assigns to A. albicans the English name of " the greatest 



Spanish white." (^Flower-Garden, June.) 



937. EU^RYCLES. 



Cunningham/i Lindl. Cunningham's tf lAI el 1 mr.ap W N.HoU. 1830. O p.l Bot. rcg. 1506 



A very interesting bulbous plant, of the general appearance of which 

 /femerocallis japonica L., Funkia subcordata .Syj;-., will give a pretty exact 

 idea. The white flowers of the Eurycles are, however, smaller, fewer, and 

 produced in an umbel ; while those of Funk/a subcordata are in a spike or 

 raceme. The flowers of the Eurycles are neat and pretty, and its foliage 

 beautiful ; altogether, it is an elegant plant. It is figured from the nursery 

 of Mr. Knight, who received it from New Holland of Mr. Baxter : at pre- 

 sent it is extremely rare. Mr. Lindley states that Eurycles is derived 

 from " eurys, broad, and Jdeid, to close up ; in allusion to the dilated state 

 of the [filaments of the] stamens, which close up, as it were, the opening 

 of the tube of the perianthium." This etymon is here recorded, on 

 account of its distinctness from that given in Loudon's Encyclopaedia o 

 Plants and Hortus Britdnmcits. 



CCXXXIV. Bromelikcedd. 



957. BILLBE'RG/-^. 

 77520 bicolor^.C. two-coloured ^g E] or f ... Ro.B RioJan. 1829? Sk s.p Bot. cab. 1819 



This species differs from B. nudicaiilis in its obtuse petals, its much nar- 

 rower leaf, and its spines being green in lieu of black ; the leaves also are 

 green at their base. It grows in the forests of Brazil, upon trees, rooting 

 into the rough bark. The luxuriance of vegetation in that immense country 

 is prodigious. In some parts the woods are wholly impenetrable, the verV 

 trunks of the trees almost touching each other, and the number of plants 

 of this order (BromehVxcfts), also of Orchuleae, ferns, and many others, 

 growing upon them, is most astounding. The difficulty of access to them 

 is so great, as almost to preclude the possibility of ever discovering the 

 greater proportion of them. {Bot. Cab., June.) 



CCXXXIX. Iridecs. 



123. TRITO'NIA. 



odorata jS.C". fragrant tf lAJ or J su Y C.G.H. 1829? O s.p Bot. cab. 1820 



This " flowers early in the summer, and is very fragrant." Messrs. 

 Loddiges " have preserved it safely in a narrow border, close to the wall, 

 in the front of a stove, where the ground is scarcely ever frozen in winter, 

 in which this, as well as most of the Cape plants of the same family, 

 flowers, and grows much better than when potted, and kept in a green- 

 house." (Bot. Cab., June.) 



Yris tiiberosa, and intimately related Species. At p. 2.35. we, unneces- 

 sarily perhaps, bespoke the affection of our floricultural readers for that 

 lovely spring flower, the Pr'is tuberosa L., and detailed the means by 

 which it may be readily multiplied, and so cultivated as to blossom with 

 satisfactory freedom every spring. As shown in p. 235., it appears this 

 charming plant grows wild, both near Cork and Plymouth. Mr. Sweet, 

 in his Flower-Garden for June, t. 146., figures another tuberous-rooted 

 species, with quadrangular leaves, and describes a third, and suggests that 

 even more than these exist, but all confounded under the name of Pr'is 

 tuberosa; and that this confusion has arisen from " the leaf four-edged" 

 having hitherto been taken as an absolute characteristic of /^ris tuberosa, 

 and all the irises possessing it having hitherto, in consequence, been re- 

 ferred to this name. That distinguished botanist, Mr. Salisbuiy, many 

 years ago, proposed the restoration of Tournefort's genus Hermodactylus 

 for the reception of the /"ris tuberosa. Hermodactylus, from Hermes, Mer- 

 cury, and daktylos, a finger, expressing the resemblance borne by the tubers 

 of this plant to the human fingers. This genus and generic name 

 Mr. Sweet has adopted, and the one new species which he figures and 



