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Amart/llidacese. 



960. HJEMA'NTHUS [Mozambique 1839. D rub.s.l Bot. iiiag. 3870. 



tenuiflbrus var. mozambicus IV. Herb, slender-flowered, Mozambique variety 5 E] or 1 ap Bri 



This is a variety of a species of Haemanthus from Delagoa Bay, which has 

 not yet been introduced in a living state, though dried specimens have been 

 sent to this country. It is very handsome ; and it is grown in a pot filled " to 

 a considerable height with old bricks and pots pounded, putting light loam 

 above ; and keeping the round bulb above ground, with its prolonged base 

 under ground." (Bot. Mag., May.) 



979. ALSTRCEME^R/^i 28592 acutifblia. Synonyme : Bomarea acutifdlia Mirb. 

 var. puncUlta W. H. Bot. Mag. J87. 



Bomarea is a genus divided by Professor Mirbel of Paris from Alstroe- 

 mena ; and this is a variety of A. acutifolia from the Caraccas, which has 

 the petals spotted inside. {Bot. Mag., May.) 



SPREKEX/.4 Heister. (In honour of Br. Sprelcel, a German botanist) 



cybister W. Herb, tumbler S E) cu ap W Bolivia 1839. D r.l Bot. mag. 3872. 



A variety of this curious species was figured in the Botanical Register for 

 1840 ; and was noticed in the Gard. Mag., vol. xvi. p. 346., where it 

 was wrongly stated that Sprekeha was one of Mr. Herbert's names. The 

 genus was founded on the old Jacobea lily by Heister, a German botanist ; 

 and it contains the present species, S. formosissima (the Jacobea lily), S. 

 glauca, and S. cinnabarina, all of which have flowered at SpofForth. (Bot. 

 Mag., May.) 



ELISE'NA H'. i/erS. (Derivation not given.) [3873. 



longipetala Lindl. long-petaled 5 El or 3 mr W Lima 1837. O s.l Bot. mag. 



This genus was founded by Mr. Herbert on the Pancratium ringens of the 

 Flora Peruviana ; but he considers the present plant to have completely the 

 aspect of an Ismene. The plant " flowered at SpofForth in the greenhouse, at 

 the end of March, in a 6-inch pot of white sand, with a very small admixture of 

 loam, and produced eight leaves, with a scape above a yard high, and six 

 flowers." (Bot. Mag., May.) 



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